Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
GOssIp of the National 2aSiiaI-VOerhies
and TFumbuIl-The People Of
the S0Elh.
The Birthday Of NashIngtOn-Ths PolIEi-
cal Horizon BFlshtenIns-pay
ls pawHiHg.

Special Correspondence Of the Appeal
WASHINGTON, February %, IS72.-
Four days sickness has prevented my
giving you another dish Of Washing
ton matters, but to-day I have been
out and gathered up the fragments Of
news and gossip that are scattered
shout this city OF hotels and visitors.
The senate chamber has for days re-
sounded with charges sgainst Grant
of Interruption and fraud, and his ''syeo-
plants" as Senator SchuIz designated
Morton, Oonkling, Harlan and others.
have been vainly eDdeayOring TO
shield him from the storm, but tO.day
8 new battery was opened, in the 9th
er end Of the capital, by the
HON. DANIEL W. vooRHIEs,
Of Indiana, who made a most telling
and eloquent speech upon Cuban at
fairs. AS you nave the speech in the
Globe, Ishall not spoil your pleasure
in reading it, by giving you detached
portions, but will simply say that the
honorable member from Indiana ex-
posed the atrocities that had been
committed by Spain, not only upon
the citizens Of Cuba, but upon those
Of the United States, who had vainIy
appealed to that citizenship to pro-
tect them, the government of which
was too busy depressing its people at
home to protect those who were
abroad. A few short years, when
this was a free country, the captain of
a United States msn-of-War, in the
distant harbOr of Smyrna, rescued a
naturalized citizen from an Austrian /
vessel, because he feared that Martin
KOsta would be punished for having:
previous to his naturalization, been q
rebel against Austrian tyranny: now
brutal Spanish sOldiery murder native. |
born citizens almost within sight of
our shores, and Grant does not inter-
fere.
SENATOR TRUMBULL
to-day made an eloquent and able
speech in the senate. He analysed the
Missouri Liberal platform, and placed
himself square on il as the only true
doctrine of the Republican party.
Senator MOxa Morton, the court lester,
endeavcred to break the force of
argument by a futile at
at wit, but failed. Senator
denounced the ku.klux act
and the suspension of the hG6eas cor
pas as unconstitutional, and declared
he could not and would not support
such measures.
l was somewhat astonished to read,
in the APPEAL Of the 10Th in
the communication of "Rex +"
10 the Upton Record. lido not know, :
nor do l care, whether Colonel Rob.
artson Topp is " the owner OF 81, OOO,- !
700 of the cottOn-tax money" but L !
know that the rounding of the cot !
on tax is a simple matter Of !
JUSTICE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
SOUTH,
md is so acknowledged to be by many
# the Northern members. "Rex'sO
.ttack upon Colonel TOpp is very un- !
1st, in my opinion, and that upon :
cur member, the Hon. W. w.
'aughan, is still more so, coming
rom a Memphian. You are very well
ware that l lever saw Mr.. Vaughan G
ntil my arrival here, but 1 am con- B
Trained to say that / find him an in b
ustriOus, working member OF the h
ouse, and particularly attentive to d
be interests of Memphis; and | do q
OF think he is at all behind his party q
people in progressiveness. n
THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON p
as eommemorated yesterday bv q a
ne display of military, and Pennsyl- OF
ania avenue wa crowded "Without az
'spect to age, color or previous con. Sc
Flags were flying in all di- III
drums beating, bends play Gu
g and all honor was shOWn by every es
re to the memory of the "Father0 m
hose precepts we have forgotten, and A
hose memory we have dishOnOred. ca
Ulysses went to PHILADELPHIA en-
dine with FOrney, and the on
miller went TO New York to Sc
,rate' to the Young Mems Christ. M
association. M
Unable to be out, 1 viewed the We
enc rom the avenue from my win M
W at the National hotel, and really qu
1ld 1 have forgotten the fact that -
|, are living under g personal des-
tism, / should have r5joieed at the
nors paid to
GREAT FOUNDER OF THE RE-
PUBLIC
Il once egiStedS but alas! when 1 saw
!, stars and stripes tiuttering in the
rish sunlight, L could only think of
,m as the emblems OF oppression in
: beloved South. could only see
lind their huttering folds not the n
liant soldiers OF the past, but the VI
'bers, murderers and thieves who
We dominated our fair land for the
! six years, and almost made it a
ert, then l turned sadly away and /,
Id only hope for better days in the :
ire.
may be mistaken, but TO me or
6 POLITICAL HORIZON SEEMS $50
FRIGHTENING.
he dark clouds that overwhelmed An
or years, seem to be scattering and
sunlight OF reason to be once more -
aking upon the minds Of the PEG.
n OF the most distinguished @Ao
lers of the Democratic party hon. sure
I me with q call last night. and he An Z
Re hopefully OF the future, not the anna
re OF the Democratic party. but -.
future Of the country, to be go
eyed however, by the wise sction
emocFats c~Oalescing with the hon. iatr'
men 10 save the country nom ir- dsnd
ruin, and / ana glad 10
that men, who might aspire to fen
highest positions in the Demo-
party, 7 willing to ignore all
ID ambition to attain the eomuon BAL
!. ne. j
you viii have seen by the tele- lEs
b, the labor reform have nomi- or enc
d for president, Judge Davis, OF eis.sf
% ] spoke in one OF my former SSSss SsEs
~. i can only reiterate what I 10 sal
OF him, that / consider him an NJ
entity conservative man,fo whom ssSen,
future destinies OF our country fchoa
i be safely entrusted. tsss