Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-24
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June Is, 1871.
EDITORS APPEAL-The weather Is
beautiful and the crops are growing
rapidly. Theba with the grass and
weeds is coming to crisis, and victory
is about declaring itself on the side OF
the hoe-handle. The crop prospects are
fine. This is all about the crops. 1t is
not worth while to spoil news so good
by spreading it out too much, so 1 will
leave this just as my feverish, trembling
hand writes it. This is probably the
best thing have to write, yet cannot
resist the impulse to amplify a little on
another theme. In Presidential year
events crowd rapidly. We all grow
eventful-full Of events or expectancy.
We become equal to the Athenians or
any other qsIid nURcs. Yesterdays news
grows old by the ravenous demand for
what we hope tomorrow. Sometimes
We fail fully to recognize the Importance
of single event in our eagerness to
watch for the next. Is there not some
dangerlestwe maydo this concerning Mr..
Summers speech? tits scarcely possible
that any other document of the campaign
will have the force of this. 1t is not
pertinent or necessary to ask who or
what Mr.. Sumner is, to estimate the
force of this remarkable speech. There
is the speech. Say it gotitself delivered
in some mysterious way, without any
voice, or presence, or personality. There
are the facts. There are the proofs.
There are the illustrations. There are
the authorities. They come from law.
from history, from the world, of the
fathers, from eloquence, from poetry.
These are what must be met and what
will be irresistible. Mr.. Sumner NAV
be pigmy, but this is a giants work.
Mr.. Sumner may have a vein of fanati-
cism in his mind about civil rights, but
it does not show itself here. 1t would
be a very poor argument against the
MULTIPLICATION table to show that it is
the work of some poor scholar
who often went ragged and hungry
And yet Carpenters and Logan's frOth-
ings were even more ridiculous than
this. Grant takes gifts, and rewards the
doners. Sumner shows the pernicious
effects of this. But all Carpenter can
reply is: Well, say he does" He ap-
points relatives TO office more numer-
Ously than all other Presidents, with
Washington, Adams, Jefferson con-
demning the practice. Small busi-
ness" says Mat Carpenter, and he
ought to know. Pity that Washington
and the early Presidents had not had
the benefit of his advice. Grant orders
a feet into the waters of a neighboring
republic with which we were at peace,
and intimates that certain things must
be done, and the presence of this fleet
prevents them. But this fleet only
threw up a sky-rocket, "and call YOU
that q hostile act?" says the pettifog-
ing Senator. Then you can point as
many loaded guns at a timorous
person as you please, but there is
unfriendly in this so long
as this poor fellow is careful not to crook
his finger and provoke you TO fire.
Carpenter has lOngplumed himself upon
being a leading lawyer in the North
west, and yet this is the best he can do
in reply TO Mr.. Sumner-and that in the
Senate of the United States! Ali yes,
l had forgotten; Mr.. Sumner sits up
nights and writes his speeches. So we
should judge. And that is a very good
reason why many other persons will sit
up nights to read them. Demosthenes
was accused of the same thing, yet this
has not prevented him from living for
all time as the greatest of all Grecian |
orators. 1t is to be hoped that Car
Denter does not do anything so ridicu- |
-Ous as to write such speeches as he |
delivers.
But it was reserved for Logan, John |
A. Logan, Senator Logan, General Lo-
gan, to complete the demolition of Mr.. |
Summers speech. / have given several |
designations by which this distinguished |
parsonage may be recognized, but it is |
within the memory of young men that |
the initials most frequently prefixed to
his name in Republican journals were
I'D. w." as these were alleged TO be the
best description of his capacities and
habits. When he ruled his Egyptian
province before railroads and free schools |
had penetrated that benighted region,
lis energetic efforts affecting Republican
sm, of which he is now so notable a
champion, were characterized as "dirty
WIN IL q
Tor a Republican to voyage into that
kingdom. There were tar and feathers
and rails, which were ready and con-
never ventured across the border till |
1850, and then Logan's intelligent con-
;tituents mistook him for a brother |
IF Douglas, and after hearing him |
peak declared him to be a better |
Tlnv-anaraN fhav, H., I II
rot back in safety before they discovered |
heir mistake. OF course Mr.. Summers /
Latin and learning will not do =" out /
lhere,n as Logan says. But the school /
master has been abroad, even in Car
since /" d. w" Logan drank /
md swore himself into Congress among
uch constituency, and even they may /
egard it as an insult that they are /
ieemed inferior to Massachusetts. We
zee a great many strange and ludicrOus
pectacles in these days, but we have
cen nothing lately quite so rich as John
L. Logan lecturing Charles Sumner
)ecGuse he was damaging the Republican /
)arty. There is only one question ofany
interest here: What did L cost? Logan
waited TO go into the Confederate army
until he found he could not be a Major
General. He forced himself into the
Senate by threatening to take the stump
or the Democrats and break up the Re
publican party in Illinois. He was ex-
1ected at Cincinnati, and the remark
here was, that Logan was acting
He was doubtless acting
Tery consistently. He was waiting for
lis price. His sword and his politics
ire for the highest bidder. He made a
'ery good record as a soldier of the brute
order. But these human
,rutes always find their place in history.
they are lucky if they get such mention
s the Boar of Ardennes."
Meantime, Mr.. Summers speech re-
mains unanswered and unanswerable.
irant feels its force when he says he
lopes not to be such "noviceU If re-
lected as he was the first time. l pre-
ume many Of your readers have seen
My the telegraphic summary of this
reat speech. They lose much if they
ee no more. 1t occupies nearly twelve
losely printed columns of the Tribune.
Jingle copies may be had by sending a
hree cent stamp. BY the hundred, sew
nty-five cents. 1t is a great document.
Set it be circulated. SAT.
THE BOSTON JUBILEE.