Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-06
THE WHITE MOVEMENT.
Immense and Enthusiastic Mass
Meeting Of the White ken
Of Shelby at the Green
law OpershOuse.
A Stirring Time-A Great Re-
vivaI Of the White Raee-Re-
uniOnOf All the Opponents
of RadlcaIism.
Speeches by General Chalmers
anO Colonel u alters, OfMissis-
sippI, Of Hon. LandOa C.
Haynes anG Hon. W.
H. Stephens.
Hon. Luke P. Wright and Thomas
C. Lowe, Representatives Of
the Young Ken of Men,
phis, in support of
the N0Eement-
Etc, Etc.

The meeting at the Operahouse last
I night was the largest and most respecta-
/ bic gathering of the citizens OF Memphis
I ever held on any previous occasion. At
I nightiall the crowds began to gayher,
| and DefOTe eight O'Clock every seat in
/ the psrquette, dress and family circles
and even the upper cirele-was oceu-
! pied. Among the audience we noticed
I several ladies', who seemed as much en-
thused with tine spirit Of the occasion a.
| the yeTiest old politician in the crowd
/ The arrangements for orderly proceed
/ ing IN properly seating the audience and
/ conducting the programme Of the eve
/ ming were under the direction Of Gen
/ eral John c. FiZer, chairman Of the COM
mittee of arrangements, ably assisted by
q number OF prominent young gentle
men, and were so perfect that nothing
1 occurred to in any way disturb the leg
| ulsr progress of the meeting.
/ At the hour appointed General Fizer
( appeared on the stage, called the meet
/ ing to order, and moved that
MICHAEL BURKE, ESQ,
/ be chosen to preside over the meeting;
which being unanimously carried, Mr..
| Burke came forward, aud in a few re-
marks returned thanks for the honor
conferred, aud Immediately presented
GENERAL J. R. CHALMERS,
the fist speaker OF the evening. Gen.
eral ChalmerB was received with ap-
plause by the audience, and began by
saying that he WAS not a citizen o
Memphis, but belonged 10 North Mis-
sissippi, q section whose interests were
most intimately identified with Mem
phis, illustrating the fact by stating that
when the purse-strings Of Mem
phis Were tightened, the ra-
items Of North Mississippi were
prOpOrtionately shortened. General
Chalmers ssid that one great neces-
sIIy was organization; We have been
wandering ia the doubtful paths of pol
icy; policy, when Influenced Uy princi-
pie Is not TO be despised; but policy
without principle is like beauty without
virtues fatal snare and false syren;
be said that free trade, hard money and
States rights were once the watehwords
Of Democracy from Main to California:
and We would be ready to return TO
these principles when the States were
returned to their normal condition Of
health; strong meats are not 10 be ad-
mjnistered to men wasted by disease OF
excited by fever; that our states were
worried by disease, snd our currency fe-
vered with excitement; both demanded
most careful treatment. he said that
States rights were iOuIded on the idea
that the family was the symbol Of true
government, that each family could best
regulate its own personal affairs; he said
the family relation had been disturbed
by military power; the master placed in
the table, the servants ia the counting
house, which WAS crime against civil
liberty. He reviewed the recent deeis-
ions Of the supreme court Of the United
States, and showed Ihatit was the duty
OF congress to relieve the southern
States from the governmental frauds
that had bsea imposed upOn them; he
said thatthat government was certainly
not republican in fact; when majOrl-
ty OF voters place in the b2llot-box BAL
lots which they cannot read and do not
understand, they were not voters, but
mere machines, which register
the viii of the OligaTchy which
controlled them. He drew a
vivid picture Of South Carolina, com-
pared it to San Domingo, and said it
was the duty OF a conservative congress
to restore the power 20 the intelligent
could be done under the fifteenth
amendment, which was prepared as 8
sword for our destruction, but might be
turned into a weapon Of defense. He
spoke Of the evidences Of a returning
sense Of justice IN the northern mind, ss
evidenced by the election Of Eaton and
the estimation in which Lamar aud
Gordon are held by northern people.
He cOmphmeDted the Bartlett ticket,
and spoke Of our duties in the canvass
next fall. He referred to the recent vic
tory at NicksouTg, and said that the
place where the star Of southern hope
had gone down was the first IN
which a faint glimmeT OF It's
light was again 10 be seen. Gen
eral Chalmers 3 speech was frequently
interrupted by appTeaistive applauses.
As soon as General Chalmers bad fin |
isbed, loud calls were made for
COLONEL H. W. WALTERS,
of Holly Springs, who responded in /
very enthusiastic manner. He said that |
be did not propose 10 Try to convince lhe 4
people Of Tsnnessee that the PROPOSE
lions contained ia the civil rights meas
ure were superior 10 the mandates Of the
Jehovah; IL. the INTEL gence
Of this people was EOt already CONVINCED
OF that fact, voice from the grave could
have no effect. Colonel Walters was
impressive as 70 the duties Of
the white citizens Of Shelby county
in bringing into action TO-DAY
every effort 70 effect a complete route OF
the enemy. He alluded 20 the gallant
one hundred and fifty-fourth regiment,
when brought forth fapturous aud pro-
longed applause. he said there we're
some members OF that old regiment yet
in the county, and they should proceed
70 the work to-day, armed, not with
the mimic aud saoeT, but with the pow
eT Of righ and business OF their Cause,
and advance to the charge as if con- /
scious that the eye OF that noble
chieftain, General Preston Smith, /
was looking down from on high /
upon them. This was received 4
with another and anoter round Of ap-
plauss. Colonel Walters said that cur |
editors and speakers, in discussing the /
evil effects Of negro SUPREMACY Is It ex-
lists ia Mississippi, knew nothing about
il. He did: be lived there, aud had
been an eyewitness, and he assured the
people OF Shelby that if Garrett was
elected sheriff, he would not even
plac4 intelligent negroes ia the
jury-boXes, but would pack
them with the lOwest-down, LATEST
and consequently the vilest class Of the
negro element. He had heard Mis-
sisslppi farmer say that his plantation
was formerly valued at eighty thousand
dollars, bat by the shrinkage caused by
the vilest mislegislation under black
donBioatiOn, was nov valued at scarcely
twenty thousand dollars. Colonel