Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-14

the Sage Of Chappaqua. A procession
was formed and Mr.. Greeley was es-
cOrted to the Lancaster House, amid
the booming of cannon and ringing OF
bells and all conceivable manifestation
of welcome. The address of welcome
was delivered by Colonel Henry o.
Kent. whose guest Mr. Greeley is 10 be
while here, to which
Mr. GREELEY REPLIED.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FRIENDS
AND FELLOw-CITIzENs-The years that
| have passed away from my native
State have been fun of important and
events, and with some OF
them my name has been somewhat con-
nected, as possibly it may be in the fu-
ture with other events. can only say
that from the beginning TO the end
have tried to pursue that course which
seemed to me consistent with eternal
Justice, and therefore calculated to ad-
vance
THE PROSPERITY OF MY COUNTRY
and its people. Erring often, doubtless,
for human wisdom is at best short
sighted, and sometimes harsh when it
would have been wiser and juster to
have been temperate and kind. L can
only say, that from the time when ]
first entered upon the discussion of pub
lie affairs to this hour, have not much
regarded a party, considering the party
always simply a means TO an end, and
ten times more important to the we'll
being and upright conduct of
OUR GOVERNMENT
and our people Always acting upon
that conviction, I have sometimes alien
ated friends on this side and friends on
that side, now here and now there, but
this was indispensable to anindependent
and honest political conviction. No
man has ever yet pursued thoughtful,
Observant, manly and independent
course, without sometimes offending and
friends here and there. He
must do so if he is to be entirely and
rightly faithful to his highest convic-
tions. Well, friends, there is much said
about
ASPIRATION AND AMBITION
in this country of ours, and il is well
that they should be aspiring, and it is
not i'll that they should be ambitious.
The grand resUlt-the fOrwardment of
created by agitatOrs, by the
men who stand out, by the men who
dare 70 be wiser to-day than their grand
fathers were day before yesterday. TAp-
plause. I can only say for that class
the class Of whom am representative
the class who are said to be agitators
this, that many times when a man is
accused of absorbing ambition, he has
been thinking, not of the plaudits of the
multitude, not of the chances or pros
poets Of personal elevation. Very often
bis mental eye has been fixed on some
cottage in the
LAND OF HIS BOYHOOD.
where sits an aged mother, widowed,
perhaps, gray, wrinkled and tOttering,
her attention between that
book wherein are gathered up. all her
hopes Of blissful Immortality, and these
journals or records wherein she reads the
story Of her sons efforts, possibly,
and hopes for the day
when he may return and find her still
living to greet and honor him as no
shout of an applauding multitude can
30. So 1 say that tens Of thousands who
are misjudged as looking for
GRAND OPPORTUNITIES
for themselves, or advancement for
are thinking only of some
SPOT where fond affection keeps watch
over its loved ones career and hopes
that it may be, if not distinguished, at
least useful to the country. Friends and
neighbors, / am older than / was when
our late terrible trial began-mueh older
IN feeling and in years-but old as ] am,
[ have an ear still, 1 think, not deaf to
the call Of duty. have a heart which
| trust does not fail to beat responsive to
the
IMPULSES OF PATRIOTISM.
l am glad to see this company
Of people here tonight. Many of them,
doubtless, disagree with me in the pres
ant, or have disagreed with me IN the
past, or NAV disagree with me in the fu-
ture-for we cannot read the future-but,
/ trust, the most of whom believe that
whatever 1 have done unWisely, it may
be harshly, 1 have done in faith and
love, for the best good Of my country and
her people. in that trust. My friends
Of my
NATIVE STATE, ...
[ greet you in that trust. hope you
win follow me in the future as you have
me in the past. Judge me
kindly. If sometimes you are obliged
10 condemn me, judge me kindly, and
believe that whatever of human error or
l may have exhibited in
he past, or may exhibit in the present, L
still rejoice that here in my native State
have appreciated that If my lot should
Dear me back TO this my native State, to
pend here my
LATEST YEARS,
f such future should befall me, shall
,pend them among those who have
Ooked upon me, many Of them kindly,
rom boyhOOd, and who will be glad at
ea-t to welcome me among them when
sver 1 have a little time to spend here,
md rejoice with me that through my
Efforts, or their efforts, our country is
great, prosperous and free. And our peO-
BE, 1 may say, are destined in the fu-
.ure to make out a magnificent destiny,
which shall be a guiding light for the
nation of men through all coming time.
The reception accorded Greeley has
Jeen more enthusiastic here than at any
place since he left Concord. Men, wo-
men and children crowded the streets,
waving flags and handkerchiefs, and
to get near his carriage as he
passed by.
Senator Doolittle made a speech here
tonight Greeley leaves tomorrow
for GOrman, Maine.
His Letter ON the North CarOliRa EIee-
taSn-
BOSTON, August l3.-A special dis
patch from Washington to the Traveller
,ays that Greeley has written the follow
.ng 70 one Of his political friends IN this
,ity:
BRADFORD, y. H., August u.
DEAR JUDGE-Yours Of the third finds
ne here. The news from North Carolina
lid not Justify the first reports, but If we
york hard I am sure we will carry it in
We shall carry New Hamp-
hire. Connecticut, New York and New
Jersey. This is the extent of our work
n the East. The rest viii have to be
lone in the South and West. Yours,
very truly, HORACE GREELEY
A Washington dispatch says that
Colonel Whitley, Chief OF the secret
Service Division, reports in favor OF the
pardon Of Collins and seventeen others
lf the kuklux from South Carolina i'm
prisoned at Albany. Collins was one
Of the persons for whom Gerritt Smith
had interceded, and is an illiterate, sim
man. The seventeen other
cases are analogous to Collins's. Colonel
reports against the pardon Of
Brown, for whom recommendation was
made by Smith, but makes no recon-
mendatlon in the remaining f0Tty-six