Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-10

u we lLllS Gay EepTeStlIr iCHccI5 fWOQi
only come % their support, the numbs
e Of Liberal Republicans would reach ha
, a million or more. Great cheers
= That convention presented a platforI
+ and presented candidates for Presideu
-H. Greeley Ilong continued cheeers
,fl and for Vice President-B.H Grat
r. Brown-[mOre cheersl and that con
{ vention, for the promotion and success c
i the principles declared in that platform
there enunciated, and the support Or th
candidates nominated by that conven
ton, have invited and cordially vel
coined the co-operati6n OF all patrioti
Y citizens, without regard to previous DO
: htical affiliations. Those principle
were clearly and concisely stated in th,
platform itself, and restated in the let
: tee OF acceptance of Mr. Greeley, Nor,
B cheers. They are so well known {,
8 you all that will not Festate them. Fo
fWeeks that platforms and these candi
dates have been before the country
meanWhile the convention, called L
nominate Genereral Grant Thissesl anC
. to indOrse and continue the principles
} practice and policy of his administra
tion, has done its work. Kisses Be
! tween the Liberal Republicans and
the followers of Grants admins
: tration the issue is now c'early
made up. It is Grant or Gree
lley.- ECheeTs,. and cries of nISFee.
leyDl While these events were pass.
ing, the Democratic Republicans whom
we represent held their conventions in
all the States. The Liberal Republican
movement, the example of Missouri
the Cincinnati Convention, its platform
and its candidates, with their letters Of
aceeptance, were all before these con
ventions, which were very largely at
tended by their ablest men, and the
paramount question before all these
conventions was, Shall we accept this
invitation to cooperate with the Liberal
Republicans? GGreat applause Shall
we adopt this platform? Loud cries OF
" Yest YesW and some cries Of "Nev-
erWl Shall we nominate the same can
didates2 E"Yes! Yesu'1 Shall we
I elect them?@ {" Yesl Yes! Yesv' and
! loud cheering Or shall we refuse to
cooperate, !" NoWl nominate other
candidates, tHNoi NOM and strive to
elect them over both tickets in the field
Gentlemen, these are questions which
you are TO decide here. That you will
decide wisely, / cannot doubt, nor
can any one doubt, who looks over this
L 90,
three million citizens, and who feels, as
every one must feel, the high and patri-
/ Otic purpose which inspires YOU. Gen
tlemen, what means this great uprising
which you everywhere see? What
means this proposed union of three
million Democrats and Republicans with
a million, it may be, of Republicans? :?
What means this union upon a common
platform, and this PROPOSED union upon
the same candidates-a union so sud-
den, SO compact, so earnest as to surprise
its friends and cOnfound its enemies
| applause which comes as the winds
come, which, to borrow q figure, over
whelms ordinary currents of public
opinion, as great storms always
run counter to the surface cur
rents2 What means all Of this?.
There is something, gentlemen, it
does not mean; it means no abandon
ment of what is true, of what is Just, of
what is good in human government
Applause. It means no union of dead
upon dead issues, but aunion of the liv-
ing upon the living issues of the present
| Applause. 1t means no union for
spoils of Office. [Applause.l But it
means a union of men of the same faith
on the great and paFamount issues OF
the present hour. a frank, manly, hon-
orable aud equal union of men who have
sagaeIty to see and moral courage to ac-
cept the situation. Cries of good, and
loud cheering. 1t means a union Of
men who have the sagacity to see what
is past, and the dead issues
of the present and for the fl-
ture; to do their duty to their
country, their God and their fellow
men. LApplause.l The issue of to-day
is not for the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, nor a question of slavery
in the Territories, upon which alone the
Republican party was organized IN 1855;
it is not upon that which followed when
the LecomptOn constitution for Kansas
divided the Democratic party in twain |
and elected Abraham lincoln to the |
Presidency in 1850; it is not question !
of slavery, nor Of war to put down re- |
bellion, nor Of the abolition of slavery in |
States by military order or by the con- |
amendment upon which Lin |
coin was reelected in 1S64;n is 1t a /
question of reconstruction, nor Of the 1
Fourteenth OF Fifteenth amendment, |
nor a question of negro suffrage, nor off
the establishment by the Federal pow |
er of universal suffrage as a condition |
having any rights or existence as States |
of the Union. 1t is none of these ques- |
tions that are now the issue. All these |
have been issues in the past, great is
sues, sufficient in themselves to create /
and to dissolve political parties, because /
ideas are stronger than men or parties,
but they are all past issues. They have |
been fought out and brought TO an end l
in the forum or on the field, and are no /
more an issue to-day than the Mexican |
war or the war of the rebellion. [Ap-
planse.1 We could not reopen them if |
we would, and they falsely represent on
purpose who say that we would reopen /
them if we could. Loud Cheers.
This great union, therefore, means no
word Loud cheers. And the
for all the other States of the South what |
it has already done in Missouri. !
T Cheer l. Instead OF proseriptive-listi |
oaths, stIsnension Of the ha5eds corpus,
and military despotisn, il means per-
sonal freedom for individuals and re-
publican government for all. Loud sp-
plause. Instead of negro Supremacy, |
upheld by prescription and bayonets, it I
means equal rights for all men, white as I
well as black. Loud applause. Instead !
Of thieving governments, organized to
plumber sebjugated States, it means the
once more of intelligence
and integrity. Instead of strife, hate
and robbery, it means justice, liberty, i
peace, loyalty and good will; and, gen.
tlemen, for our whole country, East,
West, North and South, it means,
instead Of war, and a President trained
only in q military school, and whose
character has been formed In ideas,
arts, habits and despctism of military
of this, it means a peace
President [cheersl, trained in the ideas,
arts, blessings, and republican simpliei-
ty of peace. and universal freedom
loud eheersf-of peace, not enchained, /
Df liberty, not under arrest, awaiting
trial of sentence and execution by q
drum head courtmartial. but that lib
erty and peace which the constitution
secures by placing the civil law above
the sword loud applause1; by preserv-
ng in full vigOr the sacred writ Of kQ6e-
rs corpus; by the right of trial by jury.
Applause. 1t means another thing
If perhaps the most Importance
IF them ALT means to ar
,est the Capitalization of power in i
Federal Government. Loud cheers.
Il means to assert sthat the vital princi-
Dles of our Republican system, in which
I lives and moves and has its very
)eing, that the constitution is made by
he people IN sovereign capacity for
he express purpose of defining and
Uniting the powers Of the government,
State or National; it means that we are
that Presidents and Gov
,rnors, Congress and State Legislatures
md every department ofthe government
hail obey the constitution lapplausel;l
{ means also a genuine civil service
'eform, beginning with the Presidential
,ffice. [Applause,l 1t means to put an
md forever TO certain practices which
nave grown up with this administration,
which have driven SO many. Of the /,
,blest RaDf1biicaus 10 ioiu this I liberal