Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-26


they have 40 right to ask a question not
mooted in the canvass. Why did not my COM
petitor, Colonel Kellar, ask Mr.. Johnson 10
state publicly in his speech at Memphis,
whether he was for me or Colonel Kellar? Did
he do this2 MOI Why? Because he and his
paper knew that Mr.. johnson would AVE
treated the impertinent question with con
tempt. Mr.. Johnson did not say in his speech
at Memphis OF anywhere else whether he was
for me or any Of my competitors.
Would General Cheatham eondescend to
declare which candidate he is for in all the
local districts in the State? His sense OF self
respect and personal dignity would impelhim
TO spurn with contempt the discussion OF such
matters. / am not willing TO degrade my
canvass into
A SCRAMBLE BETWEEN MEN,
between Mr.. Johnson and General Chatham.
/ am for principles, not men. These two gen
tleInen are aspiring 10 represent those frac-
tons of the various districts which are sufti-
ctent 10 make up the ratio for one member of
Congress. The Ninth district of Tennessee.
with the first commercial city of the state in
IL, IS certainly worthy of as high consideration
as the fractional districts lying promiscu-
ously around through the stale. / go for my
district, my people, and Landon G.. Haynes for
Congress, and am unwilling, in a quarrel
among my friends or foes, to lose the election
in the glorious Ninth. Besides this, l do not
wish 70 humble myself beyond what is de-
manded by principle and reason. l have
studied
THE CONSTITUTION OF MY COUNTRY
for years. 1 have read ftin the light of contem-
poraneous history. Ihave read it in the light
of the debates of the convention that formed
1t. a read IL in the light of the great
commentaries which nave been written in
explanation of its meaning. have read its
grant OF power in the light of the decisions Of
the supreme Court of the United States for
years, and 1 trust I may say, without any ego
t1sm, that my knowledge OF the constitution
and the government approaches, at least in
some point Of emulation, that of the two dis
ttngulshed gentlemen now running for Con-
gress for the State at Large. l cannot under
take, in this canvass, TO play second-iddle in
the war ofthe various candidates.
think, with all due respect to those who
differ, that IL would be equally as proper to
call on General Cheatham, or Mr.. Johnson,
whether they are for me in this race. They
have both made speeches at Memphis; neither
said whether he was for me or my cOmpeti-
tors IN the race, and L shall be equally as
COURTEOUS AND PRUDEST,
and decline TO answer Colonel KeIlar, the
AUdIdHche and the old Republican, Banner the
question which they so anxiously PROFOUND.
The poor old r publican Banner is roubled
about my canvass. l doubt not the old woman
would prefer n Radical to me. Let ii be so.
That old political Rymph de pare has become
not less reckless than shameless. / hire no
one to urge on this old woman Of the town.
In the language of genius, / would say OF her,
that her yellow cheek, her hoary head, her
dry palm, her moist eye, her increasing
stomach, her decreasing leg, her lettering
steps, her old dim eyes, her toOthleSs gums,
breath have lost TO her forever the former
wages Of her shame, while now, with
SKINNY HANDS UPLIFTED,
she appeals to the pity OF the world for aims
to feed hertn the dOtage and antiquity of a
m ending. The old "hag" now works
for butter and bread, and those who control
her butter and bread control her win. l alike
defy her malice and her meanness. Let us all
remember that we ave turned our backs on
the dreadful past. Let us all face to the front.
Let us look to the future and strive 10 make II
glorious for ourselves and our children.
While we bury the animosities of section and
rnana lat ng nnf FQNfNn II hnfuTaap nrTrza1vas
Let US stand together as one man and go for
the Radicals, until the government is once
more a government OF
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY ANDPURITY
In all its departments,
In reply to the of Judge Lewis he
said that he forgot the past-he had forgotten
that long ago. II is not with us what Greeley
was, but what he Is now not Ii he said in
the past, but what he says now; not what he
did in the past, but what he does now not
what he believed in the past, but what he
breaches now, lCheers.l We remember with
gratitude that Greeley was the first man to
suggest and offer amnesty to ths South he
vas the first man 20 call Back the wandering
statesmen OF the North within constitutional
boundaries. He says now that these states
men shall not work outside OF their constitu-
tional sphere. Jefferson said there were only
FIVE CRIMES AGAINST THE CONsTITU-
FlOA,
making counterfeit money, piracy on the
high seas, numbering within the government
dock-yards, and so-forth; but how is it now?
Here you have been dragging people to pre-
tended justice from all these counties in West
Tennessee, and ACCUSING tham OF thousands OF
various sorts of crimes. fCheers1 Colonel
Haynes denounced Radicalism in a speech of
remarkable vigor and e~loquence, and as being
a party that fed and prospered IN fraud-a
fraud worse than that of the monster which
was pictured BY Dahte as the representation
of human duplicity. 1t was by this fraud
that the cOlored people were led away into
paths of errOr-a Misrepresentation which
made them believe that the carpetbagger was
the only friend Of the negro, and thet the
Southern people were their NATURAL enemies.
How, asked Colonel Haynes, can We be enc
mics of the
CoLoRED PEOPLE?
Since the days of my infancy they nave fol-
lowed my path they famed me when Islept;
they smoothed the tears of trouble from my
infant Oheeki they fed me when l was hun
CRY; they helped to smooth my path through
life as well as they could. How can l be the
enemy Of the eolored man? MayuarG himself
says that II was the F0bels freed the negro.
II the rebels freed the negroes; why don't you
let it be so turning to Lewis, and not try to
take all the credit to yourselves? Why pre-
tend TO think that Grant did anything for
them? Why, Grant was an old lanyard DEM
ocrat, He voted far buchanan in lS&. He
the hardest Of hardshell Democrats when
Greeley and sumner were fighting for the ne
gro. What did Grant ever do for the colored
Why, nothing. [Cries of .'That's so.'l
Colonel Haynes then turned his attention to
the consideration of
GRANTS GIFT-TAKING,
and said that sine Washington, Grant is the I
only man who retirSs frlm Office a very rich
man, and who went into office poor. Why
the stencil Of his political immortality stinks
in the nostrils of the nation, and imagine
that the Man in the Moon holds his nose as he
passes over the White House TO save his olfac-
from the horrible stencil that arises
from it. t~Laughter.l The speaker then paid
his compliments to the nepotism of Grant, a !
man who was piling all his relatives on the
and letting them feed out of it i g !
lot of hungry iacfasSes arQund IA corn-crib. |
The vast expenses of The government came in |
FOR a proper eXcoriation at the hands of the
eloquent speaker. He Shove that the civil
list had gone up from
s6,oCO,OO IN 1856 TO sls,0e0,GO0 IN 1871,
both years OF profound peace. The
White House in 1860 cost $4,000, and under
Grant 1t rose to $4,000. All expenses seem to
be tripled. There is 10 demand, no need for
L. No necessity for maintaining an army of
1000, at a cost of S5,G00,000. The citizen SOL
of the United States must al ways con-
'titute her defense. The late war has proved
hat they make the hravest army In the
world. Why not cut down those vast expenses
% one-third their present magnitude? If
ireeley gets in, he viii cut these things down
% their proper and normal magnitude; he
will cut down the civil list, the nepotent ex-
the burdensome army and navy eX-
Denses. He viii appoint honest men in office,
md Congress VIII cease 70 he . school of cor
and BECOME a body OF patriotic states
men once more. That is
WHY 1 AN FOR GREELEY.
am against Grant because all these enor.
expenses have been established under
him, and all those o~erruptiops are nursed as
IN exotic in the hOt-bed Of Washington. I'm
Ter him, boards Of Carpetbaggers went into
he South and showed into office there for the
purpose of robbtpg the people by heapiRg up
he State debt on an average OF fifteen times
than they were. The taxes, every
where, have been trebled, and they would be
worse than they are, had not some OF the
hieving officials fled from Justice. No Won
.er the radical, Grant party, hate Greeley,
ecause he has said more severe things Of
hose carpetbaggers and eprruptipnists than
e ever said against us. No wonder they hate
ireeley and fear him, for he will wipe out all
orruptions and
TOP ALL THIEVING AND CARPET
BAGGERY.
He admonished them all to 90 to the polls
rally round the right. He could carry
-ellar as a SquaW carries her papoose, and
1uld drive the Radical candidate before him
Ike chat before the wind,
Colonel Haynes finished his speech amid
Of applause,
THE REJOINDERs.
There was a half-hour allowed each gentle
ian for a rejoInder, and Judge Lewis availed ,
imself OF the arrangement with alacrity.
JUDGE LEWIS,
he hour being halfSpast four, rose to make q
i0tnder TO the onslaught of Colonel Haynes.
Is reioinder consisted entirely of an attempt
show that what had been said for Greeley
~ tAaAa AAdA 1tNA4 4 CaAh We
ad better not brag until the battle is over. 1t
bad policy for a man to count his chickens
sfore they are Matched. He does not know
| am going to I in this canvass. l am {
,cused of banding the black nan against the ,
man. l band 10 class together as a
ass. l always attempt and try the best 1 can
band all Republicans together. l do not
them together as black men, as red men,
yellow men, hut as fellow-oitizens. make
distinction between citizens of this coun- l
Colonel Haynes ~ipsinuates that /
AM A CARPETBAGGER, 1
he classes as earpethaggers all men
no belpng Ia the Republican party, and who ,
lppen to have been born in the North as J
have lived in the South for
7enty years. 1 buried my wife in the South. e,
expect to be buried here myself, and yet L
n q c-arpetbaggerl And II We're born IN the
ruth I'd be a soalawag. The eloquent Judge
EN- went over the principal parts of his Zion j.
all speech, and took up his half-hour very I
to himself. b
REJOINDER OF MR.. HAYNES. =
Haynes said in substance; Gentlemen, :
will OCCUPY YOUR time but q few minutes III
ply to Judge Lewis, The great difficulty. as
~ all see, is to find something in the gentle
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