Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-30
SENATOR ABCORN AT THE II
CHARGE BUILDING.

SENATOR ABCOEN AT THE Ex-
cuAEGE BUILDING.
Senator Alcorn's speech ut the Ex-
change Building was perhaps the most
effective ever delivered BY an adherent
Of Grant in this city. he was temper
ate in his manner, betraying no passion
kindly in his modes Of expression, well
pleased with his audience, and, very
properly, as well pleased with himself.
His defense Of Grant vas most in
genious. When he stated that Grant re-
fused to support his brother-inIaw,
Dent, as a Democratic candidate for the
Governors place in Mississippi, he for
got to explain that Grants antipathy TO
Mississippians was even a stronger pas
sion than his extraordinary devotion to
practices O~fnepotism. Grants conductat
that time was most hattering to Alcorn,
but hardly significant Of kindness to a
people whose fortunes, as shown by sub
sequent legislative exactions imposed
by Radicalism, were involved in the
contest. Dent was supported by the
people Of Mississippi for the very rea-
Sons impelling the South to adhere to
Greeley. In neither instance does
Grant approveOu r conduct, and it would
be difficult, we imagine, to induce this,
the only Senator from Mississippi, to eu-
Iogize Grants administration, as it AZ.
E.o+s Of THE HON ~ e,-+r,o. - tL,4
State. Porter and Ames, West Point
associates, the FIRST, Grants personal
manager, the latter, Ben Buffers repre- |
sentativein the Senate, control the distri-
button Of offices in Mississippi. Senator
AlcOrn, we will do him the Justice 70
say, is responsible in nothing for the
character or conduct Of Grants ap-
pointees who manage his State, and, as
the Senator stated last night, cause the
people to live only for the day, making
the most possible from fields and farms,
without reference to the future value of
their homes. When adverting to this
conduct Of b epeOple, the Senat0rmight
well have stated that no agricultural
population, hunted down by soldiers,
dragged before strange tribunals, sent to
prison on charges preferred by dreaming
savages, and prosecuted by men full Of
hate, and hired to discharge the task
that partisan purposes may be effected
in distant States and elections, would
provide for The future when the pres
ent was thus made plethorie Of woes.
The ingenious Senator forgot these facts
when reciting the catalogue Of indie
scribable blessings conferred by Grant
upon the people of Mississippi. A peo-
pie taxed five per cent, a sin many coun-
ties, upon property valuations made by
those who would gladly e~onfscate all
property and plundered by Federal rev.
enue~ collectors, not one Of whom has
ever returned q dollar to the Federal
treasury-such a people may not have
as many reasons to admire Grant and
Ames and Porter and Ben Butler a. the
facile speaker at the Exchange Build
ing. The South agreed to support Gree
ley in order to satisfy the North that
sectional partisan feelings were oblite-
rated, that we assent to what has been
done, that we would concede willingly
everything that the truest, staunchest
friend Of the negro, Horace
Greeley, exscted. If the North demand
assurances Of Southern approval
Of that revolution, which the Senator
.pronOunees progressive, and which is
as destructive Of American freedom,
it is progressive, it is quite impossible
for this people TO concede it. He said:
The government has moved forward
IN response TO the demands Of the people,
IN response to the spirit Of the age. The
old constitution is gone, and gone for
ever. 1t is gone from you forever, for
ever gone. 1t was staked upon the die
Of war. 1t is lost. You Live under a
new constitution.
1t was this paragraph, embodying the
very essence Of progressive, ruinous,
iespOtic Radiealism, which gave pater-
lity TO headlines prefixed by the re-
porter to Senator Alcorn's speech aspub-
ished in the APPEAL, and this single
excerpt is a sufficient answer to the note
If William R. Moore, Esq, published
n another place.