Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-27
ROWLING.
Immense Radical COncourse-Au sOd0m
in an Everlasting UprOar-Bar-
bOur Lewis HOwLeth.
There were Postmaster DeLOach, Ayres
Hamilton, shaw. and all the
Leagues i'm Solemn COneIaye.
Speeches, Resolutions and d Cslarac
ters-The Fight Begun I'm Earnest.

ters-The Fight Begun an Earnest.
There was travail and dire afliction
among the people of color last night, in
consequence of a g%rievous disappoint-
ment and an egregiOus mistake. On
Sunday a call, written in a fine, round
hand, ON greasy foolsclp, was read in all
the churches of color in the city, in
which il was stated that a meeting for
political purposes would be held in the
large new cOlored church on Beale
street, at which meeting it was said
Barbour Lewis and other lights OF Radi-
| calism would ventilate certain ideas
about the situation. Last night the
meeting was TO take place, and at nine
O'Clock the Radical worthless, headed by
lDeLoach, the ponderOus prime minister
of the party, arrived at the scene of their
contemplated political labors. Barbour
and Buttinghaus, and a "splen' 'splay y
of satellites were there, but the sacred
edifce was dark, and upon its steps
We're seven sacred females and the pOr-
ter in his best attire, save his coat,
which was ON the step beside him..
He said gravely that Mr.. Lewis
Issued his call without authority. He
never consulted anyone about the hall,
but presumed upon the power of i'm
pudence to get it; but the deacons of the
church, when they heard it, would not
think of such a thing. They kicked
against it and said it ought TO be 'strong-
" repressed." The church could not be
given up for such q purpOse-no, never.
The pastor was backed up by the seven
sisters, who exclaimed in unison:
"Dat's sou Barbour and his satellites
then retired apart to consult. Deloach,
of the postoffice, was for p~Ostponing the
injecting until an understanding could
be arrived at and a large meeting gath
cred, for it was plain the thing would be
more or less of a failure. But B. Lewis
insisted that the meeting should be
held, even if they had TO stand upon the
street, and he told the crowd to wait.
He was for holding the meeting on
the sidewalk. In the course of an hour,
by dint of negotiation, the Ham hall on
Gayoso street was procured, and the
densely black crowd moved around to
those quarters, where a meeting of re-
ligious folks was going on. One brother
had a sacred hymn copyrighted,
which he was teaching the sisters
twelve in number) to sing to the sacred
tune, awe are coming Brother Jones"
The densely black cloud at once filled
the hall. The unfortunate reporter of
the APPEAL grew blue at the sweltering
prospect before him, but resolved to face
the music.
o THE THING ORGANIZED.
S. p. Moore called the meeting to or
der, explaining the unfortunate circum-
stances which compelled them to invade
/ the halls of Ham so unceremoniously,
and suggested that they were indebted
to the Sons of Ham for their hberality,
and so forth, and called for nominations
for Chairman.
L. w. Marshall, q very black person,
with a white coat which added to the
lustre of his charms, vas made Chair
man, and Messrs. Thompson and
Brown 1.-THE last a misnOmer), were made
Secretaries.
The Chairman then sat down with
much dignity and gravity (he weighed
two tOns), while the opener Of the meet
ing suggested that now was the time to
speak, and he called unen Colonel De
Loach, Postmaster General, b. Lewis,
Curry and other officeholders, to let of.
MoDEsTY To THE FRONT.
b. Lewis, with his usual unctious
sweetness, got up (he is highest when
sitting down, having only a mockery of
legsl, and said: 40! Mr.. Chair
man, there will be plenty of
speakers. We have here several
members Of the Philadelphia delega-
ton, and Judge Hudson, also, who vii
address the meeting. Mr.. William Phil
lips, who had been to Philadelphia, went
forward in obedience to the calls, and
said he was suffering from a headache
and a pain in his windpipe, and there
fore wished to be excused, and stepped
down from the reading desk with a
profoundly graceful bOw-(wow). The
meeting being thus left without any
point of interest or any source OF amuse-
ment, raised a cross-fire cryof "LewisW
"Hudsonu' "Lewis!n which lasted
for several minutes. B. Lewis, the only
white person of colored politics that had
courage enough to get on the platform,
at length got up in a melting mood, and
said that they ought not to beimpatlent,
as there would be plenty Of speakers di-
rectly. There was Ayres I. 5. and Mr..
Thompson, and several others outside
ready to make speeches when the proper
time came. He then slid into the Phil
adelphia Convention and led off in a
long speech, which he had "Set
uD DICN lONAolA III ~ RNHSAf I
and was bound to deliver anyhow. He
boosted up'' the nominee of the Phila-
delphia Convention, and spoke rever-
emily Of the nominee of that conven-
ton in a few paragraphs, and then
dropped on Cincinnati-on old !" Horrors
Greeley and b. Crazy Brown" whom
he freely c~aricatured. He said, most
likely the Democrats would take him
up, the fellow who for thirty years de-
nounced the chivalry Of the South as
cut-throats and blackguards; by taking
him up they Endorsed his sentiments,
and proclaim that the Southern chival-
~ are cut-throats and robbers. They
say themselves that he is the worst man
who has come out of the Radical party,
the very worst man they could find, cut
vet he is better than Grant, and they
would take the least of two evils.
BARBOUR LOosENETH HIMSELF.
The Democrats have been engaged for
years in d~enOuncing the kukluX law as
the most odious and terrible in the
world. Horace Greeley advocated this
ticed pen. When they take up
Horace they give the lie to all they said
formerly, and indorse the views of Hor-
ace. The Democrats were deadly enc
mics of the tariff. They must either
take the tariff or else Horrors" must
give it up. Mr.. Lewis then character
lied the Cincinnati Convention a a
rabble Of all sorts, composed of dishon-
est office-holders who have been dis
charged, and of disappointed Office
seekers who were found incompetent to
fill a place. He told a story of how
Horace picked up a stump of a cigar
which a gentleman had thrown away,
whilst he was a ninety-day member Of
Congress. The Democrats pick him up
with a wry face. "They only swallow
him to puke him up again." Laugh
teri
THEY TAKE HIM AS TARTAR EMETIC.
The moment they get acquainted with
the physic they will discard him. He
is the easiest man in the country to
beat. An old spawned, raw-bOned
nag has no chance against our race
horse. A eulogium on Grant followed,
remarkable for nothing but the fulsome-
ness of its thickness and indiscrimina-
ting praise, winding up by saying that
he finished and rounded off his military
career by receiving the surrender of the
chief of the Southern armies and COM
PEELED jeff Davis to "cutn in ~petticoats.
He has been four years in ofSce, during
which time he has paid three hundred
millions dollars, and reduced taxation
SO much that everything is becoming
beautifully cheap, and everything else is
beautiful and happy. With any other
administration we should have a war
with the Indians, extending, over two
thousand miles. His peaceful policy has
produced the sweetest calm in the boz
SONS of the savages. OF course there is
once and awhile a murder cut there on
the Indian frontier, but have we not an
occasional murder here in Memphis?
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