Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-26

net officers of Washington ami Jefferson have
he saws he ms NOT promised YOU what he
would do II he goes 10 Congress. / know he
has not told you. Mr.. Lewis said: NO, you
don't want me in Congress. MOI no! no! For
II you do in Congress as yOu have in Shelby,
may God forbid that you should ever go to
Congress or any place else this side of the pen
itentiary.
Did not you and your Radical conspirators
repeal the constitution and the law, drive our
ancient County Court, composed then, as
now, OF the solid intellect, decency and worth
Of the county of Shelby, that ancient and
~time-hOnOred tribunal which we inherited
from our ancestors, from the bench, and by
usurpation put yourself and others there?
Did you not seize on the finances of that no
BILE COUNT let out immense jobs tOyour rings,
build a magnificent jail for your beloved Grim
expense OF the oppressed and tax-ridden peO-
pie of shelby county? Did not
the Supreme Court, at it's last term,
decide that the law by which you
usurped the bench was unconstitutional, and
all your acts void? Did you not there for
years lay your unlawful halc on the revenue
of that tax-ridden county, Did not the peO-
pie finally kick you and your cO-usurpeTs out
Of the house and lock the door of the treas
ury against yOulGreat a~pplause.l Here Lewis
tor the first time quailed and lent back and
put ON the sardonic grin.l
Thus every act you and your co-usurpers
did was Illegal band void, costing the people
of Shelby county in litigation and frauds,
hundreds OF thousands OF dollars, and l now
here say that as q lawyer, that ! can sue you
in the courts for the moneys Of the people
which you illegally and uncorrstituiOnally
appropriated to yourself and cO-usurpeTs IN
money had and received for the use of the
county OF Shelby, and recover the last cent
from you. lApplause.l The gel -tleman seems
TO be exceedingly sensitive about the word
Hcarpetbagger." I did not call him such. He
has arrogated 1t 10 himself, and suppose that
a guilty conscience needs no aecuser. ZAP
plause.l 1 am no knOw-Noth1ng1 and do not
hold any man responsible for the place where
he was born. He says he was born in Yer
mont. Well, let il be 50. This Is n matter Of
just pride TO him, but / am sorry l cannot say
so much for Vermont, for while he loves his
native state. 1t Is an unrequited love, for / re-
gret to say Vermont has no cause to rectpro-
cate the affection. [Great applausel Men
come into this world without any agency OF
their own, and are therefore entitled to nei-
ther blame nor favor on that ccOu
1 have always said, let the people
OF every nationality come here and take slei-
ter under the tree Of American liberty. Let
the Hberty-lOving Irish sons of the Green Isle,
fleeing from the prosecutions OF seven hun
dred years; let the law-abiding German from
his fatherland, whose history will forever
live in song and story; let the thoughtful and
intelligent Italian, from the land of classic
renOWn and historic ~plendO come in our
midst. The great Democratic party has ever
afforded them an asylum from just such Op-
preSsions as the gontleman's party has
l welcome them to this country because they
were willing to extend to us the privileges and
immunities which We extend them. 1 am
wiling 10 accept every man, his wife and
children in all the relations of life, who comes,
to cast in his lot with US, us such are no car
p~etbaggers. But the man who comes here
like you, to band the black against the white
man, for the purpose of SEEING on Office
clutching theTevenues Of counties, abOIishing
county courts, and unconstitutionally usurr-
ing the functions OF our ancient and worthy
magistrates n court which has been ever
consecrated in the affections OF our people.
and which commands their cOnddence-fs
what we call a c-arpethagger, [Applause.l He
says he was born in Vermont. Mr.. HAYNES
said he wished to know-and the tax-pav-
ers Of shelby would join HIM in the wish
that he had been born in some region from
which he could have never come TO deSecrate
the sol OF Tennessee and blight her uroSperftv. |
gave the lice, the lecusts ana tie
frogs OF Egypt; but We have a worse plague
the plague Of caFpethaggers. [Applause.1
MAJOR ELDRIDGE.
After the Congressional candidates were
through, Major j. W. Eldridge, the FIoater
for Fayette and Shelby, was Called before the
and responded IN his usual eloquent
and impressive style. He urged the peopleto
Organization in eCeTV precinct rs the
chief means of success. He viii remain in !
Fayette county until the election OF Greeley, :
and with them, il is hoped, the county viii Be
carried for the Democratic tiQkoi. Let the
friends OF free government in Fayette do their
duty. Select their best candidate to co-ope-
rate with him in the canvass. and it will he !
carried like Shelby, t~riumphantly.