Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-22
NORTH ALABAMA.
The Late Democratic Meeting at Flor
enee-Fhe sweed a1ld GaEman Set
Tiers Opposed TO the Civil
Rights Administration.
sympathy for Us-Candidates for
Governor, Etc, Eie.

From an Occasional Correspondent
FLORENCE, ALA, July 1S.-I arrived
in this place to-day and found large
gathering of people from all portions Of
the country. The occasion was meet
ing OF the Democracy of The county for
the purpose of appointing delegates to
attend convention in Montgomery to
nominate a Democratic candidate for
governor, and also TO attend a conven-
ton at Decatur to nominate candidate
for congressman for this district. The
meeting was the largest one of
the kind ever assembled in this
| place. The solid yeomanry of the cOUn-
ty were here, and speeches were made
! by Judge II. G. Jones, General Il. A.
| O'Neal, Judge Richard Pickett and
/ others. The speeches all breathed eter-
nal and incorporating hostility to the
| civil rights bill, and the sentiments ut
| tered were loudly applauded by the
meeting. The meeting was the inau-
guration of the canvass in Lauderdale
county, and it gave the party happy
send off in the right direction.
THE GERMANS AND swEDEs,
who have settled quite colony in the
county, took part in the meeting, ma nv
of whom have heretofore voted the Re-
publican ticket, but now they have az
rayed themselves on the side of tn
white man in a contest for the suprem-
acy of the white or the black races.
They say they are not Democrats, but
will vote with the Democratic party, at
least until the civil rights abomination
is crushed out. There were several men
here who called themselves independ- |
ents in politics who to-day joined hands !
with the Democrats and enlisted for the |
fight against the civil rights party. By |
this you see the Bartlett movement " |
is as popular here as in Shelby county. |
Memphis has great many friends here |
who trade with your city, and they ex-
press great interest in the success of |
the Bartlett ticket in August. Should |
the Radical party succeed in carving |
Shelby county in August, / greatly fear /
MemDhis will be injured by it. That |
grand old patriot, Ex-Governor r. NJ. |
Patton, seems TO be the favorite for can |
didate for
GOVERNOR.
He was governor one term since the |
war, and did more for the people of the |
State than all the governors they have
had for fifteen years. His spirit of en-
terpTise is only rivalled by his unswerv-
ing integrity and publicspirit. General
E. a. O'Neal, another one of those who
have never faltered in times of Demo-
cratic adversity, will no doubt be the
standard bearer of his party for congress-
msn fiom this district. His policy has
ever been that of throwing the Demo-
cratic banner to the breeze in every con-
test, and make no compromise with the
enemies of the constitution. With such
q leaOer as O'Neil victory nnust sureIy
perch upon the banner of the Democra-
cy. / have met a number of Tennessee
ans since l left Memphis, and at
BAILEY SPRINGS
men from the different larts of the
State. They are all wide awake to the
interests of Tennessee, and many of
them are straight-out for General Mar
Gus J. Wright as the candidate on the
Democratic ticket for governor of Ten
nessee. All of which your rambling
correspondent is glad to see and hear.
With such men as General Wright and
Patton in the gubernato-
rial chairs of the southern States our
waste places will most certainly be re-
deemed, and prosperity take the place of
threatened financial ruin and political
1 leave here to-day for
the mountains of Tennessee, and will
write you when again check up from
my ramblings.