Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
CIVIL RIGHTS.
at Turner HaIl-BaFb Our Lewis
Rolls in Filth After the congress
siOnal STYLE.

siOnai style.
Three hundred people, including
about one hundred negroes, one hun
dred Germans and one hundred Irish
and Americans, assembled at the Tur-
ner Hall last night to enjoy the Radical
pow-wow, which was Ihandbilled to come
off. On the stand and adjacent thereto
appeared Barbour Lewis, P. j. Mulvi-
hill, Ed. Shaw (negro), P. NJ. Winters,
Andy Davis, s. s. Garrett, batch of
Federal office holders and other noted
negroized politicians. The first speaker
was
p. J. MULvIHILL.
This "red headed rooster" as be loves
to be called, repeated his Cochran Hal
speech, without that savage attack made
on Reilly and Mayor League which
adorned his previous effort. Mulvihills
friends have him in check, which pre-
vents him from opening out again on his
enemy, the Mayor, fearing that it will
lose him Irish votes. he defended Gar
rett, the candidate for Sheriff, and at
tempted to show that Garrett would not
place negroes on juries. He claimed all
equal rights, political and civil, for the
negro. He took survey of Memphis
politics and his own career as a states
man. He claimed that the ex-Confed-
crates should vote for him, as he was in
the Confederate army. He denounced
the Bartlett movement as an office hold
ers' affair. Mulvihill then became a
Communist, and artfully attempted to
array the poor man against the rich, and
advised the Irish and German minorities
to 60 together with the negro and divide
out all offices. He denounced Democ-
racy and the Bartlett movement as des'
potisms. His speech was more sensible
than his Cochran Hall effort, and he
evidently curbed himself and refrained
from abusing newspapers, the League
ring and the Winters ring, neither Of
which he admires, and the two latter of
which he has many time and oft de-
nounced on the streets as selfish and
corrupt to the core.
BARBOUR LEWIS,
our noble-looking Congressional gym
mast and comedian, danced out gingerly
on the platform and made his bow amid
cheers and stamping Of feet He was
arrayed in black suit with white vest
He opened up by denouncing the Demo
cratic party as the enemy of the labor
ing man, and just here he bucked against
history. He claimed cheap postage, the
Tennessee school law and mechanics
lien law as Republican measures. The
school system of Tennessee was also a
Republican measure. Barbour said
nothing about the plumber of the school
fund by Radicals He then took shy
at the Memphis press, and belabored the
Appeal, asserting that it was suffering
from softening OF the brain; that the
Register did not have the complaint be-
cause it had no brains to soften. The
great Congressman then became black
guard, aud uttered few filthy remarks
about the Register which cannot possibly
be published. 1t was disgusting in allu-
sion and filthy in the extreme in ex-
preston. In the purlieus and slums
of the city such language may occasion
ally be used, but coming from a full
fedged Congressman it was outrageous
ly low, vulgar and indecent. Had Lewis
been talking to horde of low and de-
based negroes, or in the Federal House
Of Representatives, it might have been
all right, but such language addressed
before intelligent Germans, Irish and
Americans was out of ploce, and was
insulting to their responsibility as men.
Our reporter has heard Lewis many
times, but never before did he hear such
luucScub huu hlbhJ AdheuoBO 4SSNS AAS'A
the lips of a public speaker, which
caused our representative to wonder
whether or not B. L. was sober or
member of Plymouth church. The
spread eagle Congressman then became
egotistical, and claimed all the
credit for the custom-house APP
preparation. II got it all. " He
then attacked the Appeal about its
course on the custom house question,
and gave the LEDGER a turn over. Com
pared the Democratic leaders of Mem
phis to Judas, who was a gentleman
compared to them. Governor Brown
next came in for few sentences filed
with abuse. Lewis told that moving tale
about a negro Congressman from South
Carolina, who could get nothing to eat
at Virginia hotel. he claimed that
the civil rights bill only meant that a
poor, hungry negro would be entitled to
get something to eat when he had money
to pay for it. Lewis now dropped the
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