Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-02

dred n nifty DOLLARS, Whl he received
nine thousand five hundred and twenty
five dollars. w. H. Whites salary was
six thousand two hundred and fifty dol
lars for two years and a hall, while b
received eight thousand thirty dollars
and ninety-seven cents. William
Hacks salary for two years and
a half was five thousand dollars,
while he received six thousand one hun
bred and, eighteen dollars and seventy
five cents. Thus it will be seen, that
these five commissioners and Radical
usurpers received from the county Of
Shelby overdrawn beyond their salaries
thirty-four thousand five hundred and
ten dollars and seventy-eight cents for
two years and a half. Notwithstand-
ing all this, Mr.. Lewis has the brass to
look this honest people in the face and
ask their votes for a seat in Congress.
Instead of this he ought to have his
head shaved and be put in
the Jail he built out Of the
money of the tax-ridden PEOPLE of Shell
by for twelve months in ~expiatiOn of his
conduct. What could such a represent
alive as this do with General Grant? If
l am elected, / shall strive for appropri-
atoms for O customhouse, postoffice and
COURTHOUSE ApI lit GlAy VI n1tlllADlss EOA
the purpose of building d customhOuse,
postOGice and Federal courthouse, at
Chicago, Congress has appropriated four
millions Of dollars. TO ST. Louis
Congress has appropriated for the
same purposes already one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars.
To Cairo Congress has appropriated
for a customhOuse two hundred thou
sand dollars. To Nashville Congress
has appropriated three hundred and
e~ighty-five thousand dollars. To Knox
vile, my old home, Congress has appro-
priated two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. Thus all these cities have here
tofore received these large appropriations
while Memphis has received nothing.
We want rooms for a courthouse,
p~ostoflice and customhouse, and Judge
Barbour Lewis is the Appraiser of Gus
toms, who at a salary Of two or three
thousand dollars per snnum, has ap-
praised, ] have been informed, n bar
rel Of pickles with all the benefits to the
government thai results therefrOm.
This is the most naked injustiee-more
apparent if we look to the business and
trade OF Memphis. Her pOstofice yields
a revenue of about seventy thousand
dollars per annum. She is the third
city in the shipment OF cotton on the
continent; she ships between three
hundred and fifty and five hundred
thousand bales, worth forty mil
lions of dollars. Her grocery trade
amounts annually to eighteen million
of dollars. Her dry goods trade
amounts TO fourteen millions of dollars
per annum. Her wholesale shoe trade
amounts to three millions of dollars per
annum. Her drug business to about one
million five hundred thousand dollars.
Such a city as this ought to have five
millions, and must have it, for her pub
lie buildings, TO put her OF q level with
like cities Of the Uniol. Congress will
not stoOp to the degradation of with
holding these appropriations because
the Representative may not be
a carpetbagger. Nc, never. never
If elected l shall favor the grant Of the
national domain or public lands in al
ternate sections, to the building of the
Southern Pacific railroad. Ihave been
a railroad man for twenty-five years in
Tennessee. 1 drew the charter for the
East Tennessee and Virginia railroad.
l made the closing speech in the Legis-
lature for the great system in Tennessee
when speaker Of the House of Repre-
sentatives. l am for the Southern Pa
ciic road. 1t is below the line Of ice
and snow. 1t brings the Atlantic and
Pacific together upon a line perpetually
open. Europe lying in the East,
and Asia in the great West, and America
between the two, if this road is bull tit
will be the highway Of the commerce of
Asia and of Europe within and across
America. Instead of going around Cape
H., ~ fha Tana Of Good II,r, g.
months in its transit, the commerce of
India and Asia will come through the
United States upon a direct line below
the empire of northern frost and snow
through a land not Only blest by heaven
over all the world besides, but where
q warmer sun makes day more
bright and delightful, and where
a milder moon gives to the night the
air Of Paradise. / can see now the
locomotive coming from the Pacific,
bringing in his train the commerce of
Asia. l can but eXclaim, Hailyking of
the cliffs. monarch of the mountains!
grand hanfa of the glensl Sultan of the
solitudes. day of the wilderness! royal
ranger of the woods and forests. prince
of the mountain air! conqueror of the
world, whose speed on earth is only
equaled by the eagles flight in heaven!
Come, laden with riches of the earth,
with which to make America Opulent,
and Memphis and Tennessee splendid
and glorious.
Mr.. Haynes said that the need of the
hour for the property Of Memphis is q
reconciliation of States and races. Moth
ing stands in the way but the carpet
Dagger. He is the natural enemy Of the
South, white and black. He keeps strife
between the white and black race. He
tells the negro that he and the Radicals
freed him, and thus secures his vote.
But this is not true. Neither the Radicals
OF the rebels intendedto free the negroes
in the wal. Mr.. Lincoln said he had no
power to interfere with slavery in the
States, and no inclination to do 50. He
proposed, if the rebels would lay down
their arms, that the negroes in the States
should be slaves forever. But they would
not. What then freed the colored peo-
pie? l answer the rebellion. Who made
the rebellion? The c2rpetbaggers say
the rebels. If the rebellion freed the
negroes, and the rebels made the re-
bellioR, it follows that the rebels
freed them. / do not say they in
tended it, yet l say they did it.
If there be anything that a col
Ored nan ought to thank his
Col for it is that there ever was a rebel
lion, for but for this they would have
every one been slaves to-day. You
have heard much about the flag, the
constitution and the government of the
Union. | tell you that the flag was a
slave flag and waved yer you as such
for seventy years. The constitution was
slave constitution and held you in
slavery for seventy years. The govern
ment was a slave government and
passed its fugitive slave laws
to grab you and send you back to your
master, and had it not been for the re-
beuion and the rebels you would have
been slaves to-day Then thank your
God day by day that there ever was a
which usheredin your freedom.
He said that If sent to Congress he
would regard himself as the representa-
tive Of every man in the district, and
would consider that the Democrat, as
well as the Republican, would be emit
tied to his best services. While other
cities in this State were getting appto-
priations for the building of custom
houses, nothing had been done for Mem
phis. Not even a pig-pen was built.
Laughter. He thought that with the
of Colonel Haynes in the past, he
was not the best party in the world to
get anything from the administration.
He was aware that when a fellow was to
tried for some iniquity, his case would
be much improved by having q
man, for instance, like John Sale,
for his advocate, his fine face and great
talents would be very useful to him.
Colonel Haynes would not have much
influence in Washington in getting any
hing for this part of the country. Ever
he was able to speak he has been
ienouncing the party at Washington.
He could not have much influence with
whom he has been denouncing rs
guilty of the largest crimes. Here we
O railroad to the Pacific. We
wanted an iron bridge across the Missis-
ippi. We wanted Federal buildings.
We wanted Federal support and aid in
constructing these great works. He
poke eloquently of the future Of Mem
1his when she should be united
With the far East and the great
West by national lines of railroad. He
aid 1--WE are entitled TO help,D the great
wants of the age demand help. Greeley
8 opposed to any more Immigrants.
Well. that is not the only way in which
id may be granted. The platform is
against t. He did not care a fig il a !
hundred platforms were IN the way, still [
he would proclaim that We are entitled
it, and we would be foolish if we did !
lot labor to get what we are entitled to. ]
We had right to get three million del 1
airs for q p~ostofliee and customhouse. '
lie said that his interest was bound
ID in the Interest Of the State.
Ter people, said the Colonel, are my !
and hsr interests my interests, l
" would labor faithfully for the good Of !