Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-05

I towns Of twenty thousand inhabitants, enC
| ATTEMPTED 10 extend II az the last session &
/ every civil district in the United states. WhC
/ ever heard OF a more awful stride toward des
/ pOtismf We shall see whether they wiz az
tempt to take possession OF the balloC-boxes In
the approaching election
They passed the kuklux law without
constitutional authority, converted the Presi'
dent into a despot, vested him with the power
to suspend the writ OF hotbeds aOTptes, and tC
declare martial law. This he has done. They
attempted 10 extend IL at the last session, but
fortunately failed His record for the past Il
his pledge for the future. The Grant platform
says: This glorious record of the past Is the
party's best pledge for the future" The writ
Of h0beds c0Tplfsfs the bulwark OF English and
American liberty.
Mr.. Greeley stands pledged TO the supremacy
OF the civil over the military power.
Mr. Greeley also stands pledged to the union
OF the States, to local self-government, and
against Capitalization OF unconstitutional
power in the national government.
What Is the Union7 answer, the States
united. HOW9 By the constitution. / go for
this principle with all my heart, and the
equality Of the rights OF all the States within
the Union, zone and lnseparable, now and
forever"
The symbolic stars that have been. set on the
azure field Of the American hag do not revOlve
about the general government Ike the planets
around the sun, 70 be governed and ruled in
their local and domestic affairs BY the central
power. MOL They are the fixed stars in the
hrmament Of this nation, placed there by the
creative Will OF the sovereign people, speaking
In their original power and capacity, instinct
existing glory, and are entitled, under
the constitution, 10 the inestimable right
OF local selfgovernment; and while the
general government shall occupy its consti-
tutional sphere as a great orb within their
midst; our system VIII not only continue the
wisest ever devised by the wit OF man, but all
the members Of the embodied Union shall
eO-exist evermOre in their appointed places
with the beautiful concord and harmony Of
the sphere.
This inestimable principle. declared In the
Cincinnati and Baltimore Platform, gives US
the rainbow that now arches the cloud OF that
central and military despotlsm which frowns
over the land, and that not only shows Us
where the storm now RACES, but holds out to
the states and the Union the promise of fair
the people thereof, be eO-equaI In dignity and
rights within the Union, and the general gov
ernment supreme within the sphere assigned
TO Il BY the constitution, and liberty shall be
safe for the future.
SPEECH BIZ COLONEL A. J. KELLAR.
Colonel a ]. KeIlar was the next sreaker.
Addressing his fellOw-citiZens of the county
OF Upton, he said that they had been bored at
the beginning Of the campaign with a labored,
set speech, but he had no set speech 10 offer
them, as he had come there to listen To what
his opponent Colonel Haynes )had TO say 70
them, and to see them face to face. He could
point with pride 70 the publications he had
made OF hfs sentiments since Is6s. He was
then
DENOUNCED AS A RADICAL,
and ruled out Of the Democratic party. Colo
mel lsHayneshad, however, now got on his Colo
uel kellar's) platform, and therefore he would
not kick BIN on, as he wes glad as sell
A asIOnished to see him there ad-
dressing his fellow-citizens Of Upton
in favor OF the principles he Colonel KelIarj
had 20 long advocated. Colonel Haynes was
backed by all the XII
MACHINERY OF A CONVENTION,
after two days wrsngIing, 70 promote har-
Those who called him Colonel KeIlarl out.
in numbers and respectability were fully the
equals Of those who composed the convention
that nominated Mr.. Haynes in Cochran Han.
There was a time when conventions were not
what they are now, but that was before the
war; but now the convention, whether Radi-
cal or Democratic, compelled the people to
take their nominees, and If IL was Democrat
and any one wished to vote as he pleased, he
was called Radical and driven out of the
party. A greater than he Colonel Kellar) had
said he was right about conventions That
was
ANDREW JOHNSON,
who was now doing all in his power to do
away with conventions. In this respect he
might mention speech he had made In that
very same room a few weeks after Senter's
election, as the words he then uttered were the
same as he uttered to-day. He had to tell
them that he had been invited 70 come out as
q Congressional candidate by men Of influence
and power, and he had come out, 10 some ex-
tent against his own will He, however, con-
sidered his merits and qualifications equal to
those Of Mr.. Haynes to discharge the duties Of
a member Of Congress. He then contended
that diSorganizers had
NOMINATED Mr.. GREELEY,
He was for Horace Greeley, heart and soul.
and before he was nominated. In 1858 he ac-
eepted, as accomplished facts, the thirteenth
and fifteenth amendments. and
stood on the same platform as Mr.. Greeley.
He Col. Kellar) had recommended general
amnesty and universal suffrage, and for that
had been denounced as Radical by the DEM
10 Tnu hat arfxy had
ed the amendments as accomplished facts.
This was as far back as l56S. He (Col. Kellary
was in favor OF sending a young man to Con-
gress, who would be In position to affiliate |
with the
LIBERAL REPUBLICANS
n order to procure the passage of good meas |
1res. II, by the election of Greeley, the DEM
1eratfc. party hoped to be restored to power 4
hen he Colonel Kellarj must say that If |
Mr.. Greeley thought for one moment that /
such was their expectations he would not re L
main a candidate single hour, and General 1
3rant would receive larger majority than
he got over HOratio Seymour in 1858. They
must not suppose for one instant that the /
American people had 50 little virtue left as to
% I
INCAPABLE OF sELF-GovERNMENT.
Although his opponent had told them that the
government was fast drifting toward a mon
lrchy, the people had lately proved wiser
han their rulers, and that was what caused
Horace Greeley 20 be nominated at Cincin-
iati. He again advocated the election of
I
With the Liberal Republicans. He cared very
little for the emOluments OF the Office, as II
vas really more pleasant to
MAKE AND UNMAKE CONGRESSMEN,
S he had been doing for the past few years.
}ut he did not like 20 see one who might be
lis grandfather elected to COLgreSs. One who
lad been in ONCE more or less for the last
hirty years. Colonel Keliar said he did not in-
end to discuss the tariff question, or the Ku-
-lux bill at The present time, but he said that
feOrgta would soon be more eager than Penn
ylvania in regard to protection, as in a very /
hort time she would wish her cotton factors
PROTECTED BY A TARIFF.
If they wanted 70 do any good to the South
hey must have power to do so. Therefore, in
rider to do so they must not send party men to
congress, but men must go as American citi-
ems. These were the sentiments OF Carl
'churz and Trumbull, and others. They had
AIKEN or the shaekles OF one party, and would
hey be expected to put on those Of
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY9
Colonel KeIlar elaborated this point, and
lOsed his speech of an hour alter thanking
us audience for their patient hearing by ex-
,ressing q hope that such pSlicy would be
dOpted as would insure prosperity to the /
'Outh, and retired amid applause. L