Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-09

We OF recognized ability and probity, wiihol
10 reference 10 race, creed or color.
Because he VIII restore the Union an
gu states Rights the fouudatons Of The consi
Because he believes in more rational en-
ployment than cock-hghting, horse-racin
I Beeanse he viii reform and elevate II
"a sphere Of politics.
N Because he is supported by the ablest an
&c hehestest men and journals In the country.
ne GRANT A FAILURE.
Grant is not only q military but
~ civil failure. He is not a good ruler, n,
u even a fair specimen Of q citizen. He
n not only an egregious failure in civil an
!, military life, but he is a tyrant. Creole
- is as far above him in the civil and mil
- tary departments as Grant is ahead
Greeley in his knowledge Of killing /
~ the field. Greeley was not bred to tn
command Of armies, not brought up /
midst Of wars alarms and the soundin
Of brazen tTumpets and cannon. He wa
not nurtured i the camp. His missiOl
and training and education were Of a "a
different sort. He is the man 10 marc.
in the van Of the great armies Of humaI
. progress. He opposed Grant because b
y had proved himself unfit for the office
= he opposed him:
Because he Is ignorant OF the first princi pI
OF stafesmnnship.
o Because his personal habits disqualify him
s Because he is at Long Branch when he ough
TO be in Washington.
7 Because he has usurped powers not conferre'
I by the constitution.
Because his party favors Capitalization
, which is a step toward dbsotutisH.
u Because his gOvernmentOf the South Is mill
e tary rather than civil.
Because we have no assurance that q sacont
!. term Will satisfy him..
I Because his bungling Cabinet has brought
= disgrace on the national honor.
Because he has tolerated fraud and COrrup'
! tton TO further his reelection.
1 Because he has fattened his impecunfous
relatives on the spoils OF public offices,
: Because his strongest partisans foster an an
tagouism Of race, creed and section.
l Because the h~onestest statesmen Of the cOun-
try are opposed 20 him..
Because the financial policy Of his admins
tratiOn favors stOck-gambling.
Because he has done enough harm already.
Because, though in 1868 his motto was
Peace, " in 1872 he is the standard-bearer of
Because his leading orator has openly ex-
pressed a desire TO have Grant made Per
Because he is a gift taker.
Because OF his speeches.
Clay said he would rather see the
country afflicted with the seven plaques
OF Egypt than that it should be ruled by
a military man. He said that in his
canvass against Andrew jackson, who
was a civilian, a judge, a farmer; who
was not bred to the profession Of arms,
and wa only q soldier in time Of neces-
sity and by nature, not by educati0nn nor
profession.
THE INIT PLANK.
Barbour Lewis having harped long
and ~discordantly on the ninth string in
the political fiddle, Colonel Haynes pro-
ceeded to show how that piece Of cat-gut
was drawn out. He said all the talk
about it was bosh. How was it done?
The Convention at Cincinnati was COM
posed of all original Radicals. They
adopted that plank, they were honest in
it, they were sincere in it, they meant it.
When the Baltimore Convention met
several motions were made to strike it
out, and they all failed. 1t was wisely
and properly considered that as the
Democrats had accepted the man, whole
and entire, they could do no more nOrnO
less than accept the platform. Greeley
was already pledged to that platform;
he could not accept the Baltimore nOmi-
nation if they presented him with
another platform. / believe, however,
it wa a mere clerical error by which the
word grateful" was put in instead of
the word respect" 1t does not make
much difference, way or the other,
now. 1t is merely the expression of a
sentiment, and Lewis attaches more
Importance 10 it than it is worth. 1
take Greeley and the platform as a man
takes his wife" for better or for worse."
If the clerical error had not been made
l would have event it, and so would
every man in the South, with unques-
tioning enthusiasm. There is no man
who is worthy of the name anywhere
that does not respect the bravery of
those who fought against him. 1t is
only for carpet-baggers and bummers,
men like Lewis, who come down here
to cut our Threats, that we have no
respect and never will have. ICries
of mo, never! Never!" and cheers.
And the people Of this district will show
by their votes on the fifth of November
that they have no respect for him.
Cheers,
w viii show by our acceptance of
the
GREELEY TICKET
and Of the Cincinnati platform that we
are willing to take any man by the
hand who would do as Greeley promises
to dO-Test0re the hd6eds corpus, draw
the Struggling powers Of an irresponsible :
executive within constitutional bounds, /
cut down the swelling armies and navies :
u NlE G0lAAAAAg " q REoLE AObLAIkf EtOA- q
Omise the public moneys, and stop the :
rule of the robbing and murderous car !
p~etbaggers in the Southern States. 1t >
for this we accepted Greeley. That
IS what we did it for, and hat is the po- 7
sition / occupy, and which 1 will MAIN q
ain. We will stand by the amend :
nents to the constitution. They have i
been adopted by the people Of the cOun- :
.ry, and all the questions and matters +
involved in them we now regard as r
inally and constitutiOnaly settled, and :
here let them stand forever. He was =
lOt in favor of opening up again any ,
questions settled by them. Slavery is g,
lead. 1t is wrapped in its winding sheet J,
md laid in. the grave. Let il rest there; T.
ct it sleep forever. The man who goes y
.mOng the colored people, telling them \
there is any party or men in this
country now who would attempt to re- &,
.nslave them or ~disfranchise them, is a r
bastard that does not rise to the respect !
.biIty Of being a demagogue, but sinks \
0 the contempt and infamy Of a knave. !,
cOlOred people will not suspect that
an friend Of theirs for the purpose Of T
votes, but 1 am q far better =
riend to them than those lying 4
CARPETBAGGERs q
hat come down here from Vermont. for u
he purpose of getting office. II should
e elected to Office, OF which l do not en- M
ertain a doubt at present, l shall stand -
y those amendments as firmly and as n,
consistently as any man in the land l cl
hall stand by the interests of the col =
red race as faithfully as L would by the ~
l~terests OF white men. They have a 90
uty to perform toward the white peo- ~
lie of this country. They live here. Z
hey work on our lands, they are our ",
eighbors. Our interests are derived IN
ON the same source. Their natural =,
alone ought to lead them to at ar
lch themselves to US; but if they go r.,
irer false gods, seeking out carpetbag- ~
erS to elevate into places Of trust and n
s~ponsibility, they thereby place them an
Ives in an attitude Of hostility to the 20
bite people of this country. What can +.
lose beggarly ca~rpetbaggers do for you
ddressing himselfto the colored folks p m,
hey have nothing. They are mere adj in
'nturers. They have no houses, no fir
nd, no plantations. They have moth m,
g. They eannOtfeed you,O clothe you; IN
mot give you an hours shelter from in
e pelting storm. They have not even of
cow-shed. LCries Of mot one,1 and IN,
risive laughter.l They have Or,
NO COTTON FIELDS St,
put you to work in. They can do ne
They have nothing. They seC
mot furnish you a home, nor succor
n in distress. lCries of "no.Dl No, ~
ey have nothing aud can do nothing Lia
t live of the colored people. Zap 70
iuse. He appealed to the colOred ooe
ople to adhere to their ancient friends, ~
use with whom they had lived all 9l
lives, and he appealed to the white re
ople to stand by The colored people, oo$
ling them to remember that in the 50,
Us Of disastrous war, when their sons, ~
. brothers, and fathers, heads of fam qua
IS, were away in the field, at the front 10
the battle, there was no case Of rape,or Gia
'on, or murder charged upon the four oOai
lions Of colored people, who were at =
me laboring in the fields. No such ev- ne
nee OF fidelity on the part Of servants cHo
20 be found in the whole history of !sDs
, world He was in favor of the tuI
Iendments more than Kellar was. in u9
. he tkellar) made speech, in which Yot
said the fifteenth amendment was wa
! needed, and the fourteenth amend Z
mt ought to be repealed. At that nm
Re he was for keeping the colored peO- IL
DISTINGUISHED. He would leave that ne
tier to the uncertain operation of nis
m voters to-day and to-morroI- n our
We them Of the privilege. He pre-
ned that no intelligent cOlOred man Yum
uld vote for a man Of that sort, but lec'
who would not vote for himself, ueu
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