Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-24
CONKLING.
Makes a very Funny Speech, in
which he DenOunees his own
Sect, the Political
SehemeFs.
- 49, ral
e ~ 49, ~
He Furnishes the Shield of the
Imperturbable Dog and Pony
Faneier until it Becomes
Too Thin.
He Lets his Temper Get the Bet
ter Of his Discretion, and
Abuses the Philosopher,
Horace Greeley, who
Made him.
A Bad Speech Made in Bad Tenn
per and Worse Spirit-Can
Grant Survive this Sort
Of Friendship!

4 Grant Survive this Sort
Of Friendship!
New YORK, July 23.-SenatOr Roscoe
| Conkling addressed large and enthusi-
\ astic Republican meeting this evening at
Cooper Institute, upon the subject:
"GRANT AND HIS DETANIERs-DEEDs
! AGAINST WORDS"
The hall was handsomely decorated
with flags and appropriate emblems.
/ J. s. Schultz presided, assisted by 81.
NJ. Van Mort, Postmaster Jones, H. N.
! Sherwood, and ex-senator Morgan, with
about one hundred and fifty other Vice
I Presidents, and one hundred secretaries.
SENATOR CONKLIEG SAID:
/ For twenty years it has been my priv
! ilege TO address my neighbOTs upon pO-
! lftical issues. Too much ardOr has, per-
! haps. been among my faults, yet no can
vass has ever stirred me so deeply as the
present: no election has ever appealed so
/ strongly 10 my sense of fair play; no
canvass within my memory has ever
been 50 full Of foul play, injustice and
malice; none has ever more strongly
tested the common sense and generosity
Of the American people. Eleven years
! service in Congress has made me a close
observer of four Presidents and many
/ public men. IfamOng them all there is
one, living or dead, who never Knowing
ly failed in his duty, that one is
/ ULYSSES SIDNEY GRANT.
There was forecast in giving him the
name Of Sidney, for his greatest quality
is his magnanimity. If there has been
a high official ever ready 10 admit a
/ correct errOr--if there has been one who
4 did wisely, firmly and well the things
given him in charge, that one is the sol
dieP in war and the quiet patriot in
peace, who has been named again by
every other township in forty-six States
and Territories for the great trust he now
holds; yet this man, honest, brave, mod
est, and proved by his transcendant
deeds, has been endowed with genius,
i common sense and moral qualities ade-
quate to the greatest affairs-this man,
? who saved his country, who snatched
our nationality and our cause from des-
pair and bore them on his shield
! through the fame of battle, in which,
! but for him, they would have peTished-
\ this man, under whose administrator
OUR COUNTRY HAS FhOURIsHED,
as no one dare epredict-this man to whom
a nations gratitude and benediction is
! due, is made q mark for ribald Tests,
odiOus and grOundless ISLANDERS. Why
is all this? Simply because he stands in
! the way of the greed and ambition of
J political schemers. A war Of mud and
missiles has been waged for months
| against the President and his family,
| and nearly all associated with him have
been bespattered. Truth and deeency
have been driven far away. Every thief,
cormOrant and drOne, who has been
| driven out-eveTy baffled mouser for
place or plunder-every man with grie-
vance or grudge-an who have some
thing to make by a change-seem to
WEAR AN UNBRIDLED TONGUE,
or drive q foul pen. The President cam
not enter the lists Of controversy and
/ defend himself The pr0prieties Of his
stetion forbid it. His chief competitor,
I manager behind the curtain of news
paper from which he pretends to have
retired, is free to defend and puff him
self-free TO fill his paper with base and
scurrilous falsehOOd, In the hope of
/ blackening a name which will be the
pride of pOsterity. All this pollution
will, in the end, disgrace only its au-
| thOrs. 1t will not disgrace Grant or the
nation, because the nation will spurn it..
Disgusting personalities emptied upon
GENERAL JACKSON, tE
secured his reelection. An offended
| people struck back, aud they viii strike
back again. Had the cool veterans of
Democracy formed or selected the Issues
1 which have been presented they would
| have been wise enough to 50 frame them
that the people could decide it in their
favor without fixing a stigma upon Cen
/ eral Grant, without blasting his name
or doing him wrong. But the Demo-
/ cratic statesmen leaders in hundred
/ fights have been mere lockers on
I The leadership has been assumed by
REPUBLICAN RENEGADEs
and outsmen so eaten up with envy, or
/ 50 maddened with loss or refusal ofplace
and patronage that nothing would satisfy
them short of rancorous, revengeful per-
sonal raid. When a man turns Turk he
spits on the cross, aud when wide
throated, ultra Republicans clandestine-
ly trade with the enemy then open trait
ors TO their party they 'bec0me the
meanest, fefcest Of opponents, JUS as
the Yankee slave OYerscer from New
England was always more brutal than
those born I'm the South. When men
whose vanity was hurt, Others, gnawed
by ambition and cupidity, went out TO
ruin the party which they could not
rule; madness drove them on; they had
no polar star except
HATRED TO GRANT.
and his supporters. These lusty patriots,
who modestly assumed the name of
ssReformers,u - would not have al orli-
nary Presidential canvass for a fair
discussion Of political questions; sucha|
proceeding would have been too tame
and insipid for them. Their stomachs
craved stronger and more game favored
meat. Hard names must be called;
veDqeance must be satisfied: the Presi-
DENT must be cOurt-martialed or dragged
before the national assiZe and be tried
a. q naalefactOr. In the Senate the
Democrats proper kept silent, or talked
about business. give them credit for
wasting 50 little time; but half Of last
session., eight months in length, was
worn out and wasted by
sT.ANDFROt's ELECTIOSEERtSG HA-
RANGUEs, ED =
ahmed Al the administration and It's
friends by men badly IN need OF being
reformed themselves. The self-riotous
noisy oraeles pitched the key IN which
the anti-Grant chorus was 10 be sung;
Hence comes the absence OF polllicai
questions, in the presence OF personal
and scandalous issues. Public Journals,
newspaper correspondence from Wash-
ingtOn, controlled by these Liberals
liberal in nothing 50 mucn Is ia deianll DS
honest men, praising and helping them
selves-tOOk hue from beart-buTnlngs,
distempers and ambitions, which SET
them on.
ANYTHING TO BEAT GRANT
was their motto. 1t satisfied their heat
and spite TO assail the President person.
ally-to heap malignant charges up0nl
him. Thus his character, his integrity,
bis standing as a man has been uart in
issue. The people are compelled to pass
up0n his guilt or innocence. The case
has been 50 put that the question isI
not whether Grant shall be President,
but whether Grant shall be pronounced
by the nation fool lInaVe, imposter, and
enemy TO his country. Had the issue
been taken upon public measures, the
public question would have been raised
whether new questions or those which
have diyided parties heretofore, the