Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-14
Full RepOrtOf the Speeches of the
Great RefOrmers at New
York ON Friday.
Grants Administration Thor.
Oughiy RevieWed--The Issue
with the Radical Par
ty Made Up.

endorsed. Colonel COnklin, on coming
forward was greeted by hearty cheers
and said:
FsllOlO- O-RepablicdHs-W are honored
I by the presence tonight of tive
of the most distinguished statesmen Of
the Republic. [Applause.] One of them
was born in New England, and the other
Graded on the Rhine. [Cheers.] Both
of them are Representatives Of the impe-
rial West, which, in all coming time, is
/ to control the destiny of our common
countTy-Lyman Trumbull, Of Illinois,
and Carl SchurZ, Of Missouri. Pro-
lOnged cheering. 1t is hardly
necessary for me TO say that
l throughout the length and breadth
of the land the names of both are assO-
/ ciated with the defense of constitutional
| liberty and of the rights of local self
! government with restriction of dele
| gated power, and with a firm and un-
/ faltering advocacy of the rights of the
masses. [Applause.l In view Of the
near approach of the presidential elec-
/ ton they have consented to leave their
places in the Senate ofthe United States
| for the purpose of addressing US, not
upon the dead issues of the past, but
upon the living issues of the hour. lAp-
/ llducC-l 1AlillhAAtB 9ou loA l4C uoAAOt VI
being selected to preside over this vast
assembly, l await the further pleasure OF
1 the meeting.
The list Of Vice-Presidents and Secre-
! taries was then read and elected unan-
imOusly. Among the former were Hor-
/ ace Greeley, Sinclair Tousey, Michael
/ Doherty, Isaac Sherman, Waldo Hutch
| ins, Moses S. Grinnell, Hiram Barney.
! Charles A. Dana, E. D. Godkin, Parke
Goodwin, Marshall o. Roberts, Geo. w.
Palmer Richard NJ. BlatchfOrd, John
/ K. Parten, Geo. Wilkes, Samuel Sin
clair, Rufus f. Andrews, MerthOrne
Tompkins, John A Dix, +. G. Squier,
and Alfred Bell.
The following declaration Of principles
was read and endorsed with tremendous
cheers:
We believe that the political action Of indi-
viduals and conventions should be left free
from the Influences OF political patronage,
Business men should not be under the fear of
unjust official interference with their affairs,
or be compelled TO pay tribute for political
purposes. We believe that public orhces are
OF should be created for public convenience
and moi ss rewards for partisan services nor
for personal aggrandizement; that ttle acts O1
officials should be confined within the strict
letter Of the laws creating such officials. We
believe that the triumph OF Republican prin-
ciples is Of paramount Importance 10 the
country, and that the success Of those great
principles IN the approaching national cleo
ton does not depend ON any one individual
We believe that the prosperity Of the country
demands thorough, radical reform In all de-
partments of the PUBLIC service, civil, militia
rv and naval, and that the One-term principle
for the presidential Office viii conGuoe more
10 that end than any other measure.
At about a quarter before eight
o'clock, Messrs. Schurz and Trumbull
arrived and were received in the most
enthusiastic manner. At eight O'Clock
Frederick A Conklin, the President,
briefly introduced Senator Trumbull
who spoke as follows:
Fe3OlD- Citizens-It is now nearly six
teen years since l had the pleasure of
addressing an audience in the city of
New York. We were then just entering
upon what was known as the Fremont
campaign. The question then before
the country was whether slavery should
be spread into the free Territories of the
United States. Many people thought
that the government of the United
States, then controlled by the slave
holding power, was oppressive and un-
Just, and a party was then organized,
which did not succeed in that election
but whose seed was then scattered which
bore fruit in 1860 in the election Of Abra-
ham Lincoln to the Presidency of the
United States. The slaveholding power,
in its folly, refused 10 submit TO an
administration which should be gov
erned by the friends Of freedom,
though it was well understood there
was no intention on the part of the
Republican party, and there was no con-
stitutional right to interfere with slavery
in the States where it existed. But the
slavehOlding power, unwilling to
retain slavery where it was, undertook
to dismember the Union and set up a
government one-half of which should
rest uDOn slavery as its cornerstone,
when followed the great war, carried on
for the purpose of maintaining the
Union, and slavery went down, never
more to rise forever. lCheers,l In that
great struggle many patriot fell, and
many more are seen among us bearing on
their person, wounds received in free
dom's cause, and a grateful country will
cherish the memory Of the heroes who
fell, and provide pensions for the wild
dOWs and orphans who remain among
US. The war closed, the armies We're
disbanded, and slavery was forever pro-
hibited by the constitutional amend
ment, then the equal rights of all were
established throughout the whole land.
Provision was made to pay the debt
incurred in the maintenance of the
Union, and that the payment of bOun-
ties and pensions TO soldiers should be
forever sacred, and that the debt of the
rebels and the payment for slaves should
never be made. Since then provisions
have been made by which the debt in
CURED is in a gradual course Of extinc-
ton. To-day all the States are restored
to their former relations in the Union
and what now is there to disturb the
happiness and peace of this people?
There are several causes for dissatisfac-
ton of the people, which | can only
briefly allude TO upon the present oc-
casion, and / shall not touch upon many
which ought to be discussed before the
people at large; but one cause Of COM
plant which produces the alienation
in the late insuuectionaFy States and
keeps alive hates and animOsities en-
gendered by the war is the continuance
of the political disabilities after occasion
for such has passed away. In conse-
qnenee Of this continuance the govern
ments in the late insurrectiOnary
States have been placed. in the hands
Of inexperienced, and in many instances
adventures, who have plunder-
ed the people Of these States scarcely less
than you in the city Of New York have
been plundered by your former city gov
erpmeBf TApplausel Why are these
continued? Why are they
not removed and all the people enfran-
chised? / think there are two causes,
and two causes alone, which prevent it
-One mercenary and the other political.
lApplausel. The mereenary one, that
these adventures should exclude from
Office in these States all the former lead
ing men that reside In them and their
large experience and capacity; and al
though they were traitors during the
war they were not thieves nor plunderers.
| Loud eheering] Their exclusion has
thrown these governments into the
hands Of men who have used their |
power TO piunder the people overi
when they rule, and the debt
of the Southern States have |
been swollen in some instances twenty /
fold from what they Were before the 1
war began, and they won't even have 1
what you had in the city Of New York |
to show for the money expended. An
other reason for continuing these politi- |
cal disabilities is, as ] have said, of |
partisan character. The men in author |
ity use political disability as 50 much |
capital upon which to trade To illus
trate what mean, viii refer to what
took place in the State Of Georgia a few
years ago, when a man named Bullock |
was Governor. When the Legislature I
Of that State was about to be organized, |
it was understood that certain persons |
had been elected who were laboring un-
der political disabilities. They were
given TO understand that those Of them
who would sustain the Governor could |
have their political disabilities removed,