Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-06
NOTES OF THE ELECTION.
JOIIy-A COiOred sIatesman's speech
Nov the Fortunes or states are
shaped.

Yesterday, while au endless array 0
cOl0red people moved IN front ofthe bal
lOt-box in the Tenth ward, a vensrabl
darkey Of grizzled hair and beard stoo,
upOna barrel and ge~sticulating violent
" and with lungs of q hippotamus grew
eloquent. A vast black throng ellcom
passed him round about and he spokI
with an earnestness that became a pa
trsot- 81 want TO tell YOU niggars. what
yotin here dis day that Horriss Greeler
am a good man. He's better dan naennl
Odder men, but he amt wurth de cispee
Of US cullerds. Grant am de MARI Fl,
wants US TO be alters free, to do de legis
latements Of dis country. Massa Gree
ley say all of us now old enuf to votl
may keep on votin, but all de little mig
gaa must be sot back. All on yer chill
dern must be regiar niggas again. DEM
Jacks my kullerd trends, and dem Of yoI
who don't want yer piceanninies to u
back to the ole plantation must vote feI
Massa Grant"
The speech was greeted with IL greai
howl, and the process Of repeating wen
on with undated vigor and success
This is the genuine speech, Just as il wa,
made, in almost the precise language o
the speaker, and such are they who
shape the political fortunes Of many
States.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
There were no restrictions Imposed
upon illegal voting, or upon -reIeaters,
yesterday, in this city. The Northern
elections Of October dissolved partisan
ties TO a great extent, and no Conserva-
tive committeeman appeared at the
polls to restrain or watch corrupt voters.
The vote Of this city was increased IF
teen hundred, and these were imported
colored people. There was no ragistra-
ton Of voters, and the detection Of
frauds was impossible. In fact, when q
circle Of five hundred or eight hundred
colored men began to move before the
ballot-box it never stopped. It moved
endlessly throughout the day.
PARTY DISSOLUTION.
The dissolution Of party ties, as affect
ed by the Northern elections Of October,
is shown by the relative strength OF
Grant and Lewis. Many who have been
lifelong Conservatives and Democrats
voted for Grant, in response to the ac-
ton Of Ohio and Pennsylvania ia Octo-
Der, and refused To suppOrt the local Rad
zeal candidates. Grant, in this city.
runs ahead Of Lewis.
PERSONAL.
Barbour Lewis voted for Colonel
Haynes yesterday, as Haynes did for
Barbour.
ANOTHER SPEECH.
Billy Adams made a speech yesterday
afternoon in the Fifth ward. Several
voters gathered about this gentleman,
asking il he were still a candidate for
Congress. ~ThereupOn Billy climbed
upon the roof Of a shanty and numbered
after this wise:
GENTLEMEN AND FELLOw-CITIzENs
OF MORE SHADES OF OPINION THAN OF
COLOR AND SHAPES OF NosEs--Listen
while l tell you that l am not now a
candidate for Congress. l was in full
blast for Washington till my friend
Colonel Kellar sided off the track into
Obscurity, and then L began to feel
-haky. There was a smash-up ahead,
and we have concluded to devote our
lives hereafter exclusively to literary
pursuits. We saw before Us the rack of
matter and crash Of worlds into oblivion
yesterday"
Just then the ~clapboards on the shanty
beneath Billy's feet gave way, and the
voluble orator found himself caa,ed in a
pig stye. He was silenced. He was
not the only aspirant for Immortality
who went down.
HOW THE PEOPLE TALKED.
81 knowed it - was a common asser-
ton last night. As each dispatch was
read and as each ward and district was
heard from, 81 knOwed it, exclaimed
the w~iseacres. Ever since them in
fernal elections in Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania, I've been a mind to vote
for Grant" What's the use kicking
agin the prieks," 4" Grants on top and /
am going to get there "The North
won't believe we are sound, and well
show to-day that we a Oui-Herod
Herod and be better Radicals than the
Radicals. 1.-THE APPEAL gave it I'D s.
month ago and we are all right now
A repeater was heard to say, "There
are none watching the polls to-day,
and We will have things on W wav.Dr
The result was that the vote Of the
city has been increased to an alarming
extent.
GATHERING THE CLANS.
MONDAY night throughout the whole
night multitudes Of colored men roaraded
the streets. Drums and fifes echoed
everywhere, and the forces Of Radical
ism were gathered from the I0wlands
and from every hill and valley. They
swarmed yesterday into this city, and
into villages along the railways.
The African vote was evoked as never
before, and whence it came none can
conjecture.
There was not a voting place in the
city at which numerous black faces ap-
peared, led by Federal offiee-holders.
No questions were asked, no oath of
qualification administered, and the
same negroes might have voted a dozen
times at the same place without recog-
milton. To the masses OF whites in the
all negroes are alike and alike IN
known.