Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-01
His Speech at COvingtOn Yesterday, be-
fore a Large and Enthusiastic Meet
ing of the Democracy Of Upton.
His Record During the War-His Pres
ent Attitude in POlitics-The Issues
Of the Day-Grant's Admins.
tratiOn.
The BlOOdy-Shirt Banner and the Cry of
Radical-The Negroes Rights Fully
Guaranteed by the Democratic
Party-Etc.
Special to the Appeal

CovINGTON,. August 81. - Governor
Harris arrived at Covington the afternoon of
the thirtieth, and was warmly welcomed at
the depot by about two hundred of the leading
citizens, many of them his old friends, and all
admirers of his intellect and his many ster-
ling qualities of mind and heart. Early on
the morning of the thirty-hrst the people
commenced coming into town, and, upon the
arrival OF special train from Memphis, near
Iy every neighborhood in the county was
represented, most Of them coming from Ma
son, Randolph, Atoka, Brighton and Garland.
A stand bad been erected in a shady
square in the center Of the town, aud
benches provided. at eleven o'clock Cover
nor Harris was escorted TO the stand, around
which nearly one thousand people had col.
Iected, including few ladies and good turn
out of colored men, all of whom seemed 10 be
of the best class of that race. The Atoka COR
net band gratuitously furnished music for the
occasion, aud there Is not q town # its size in
the state that can compete with the above In
the excellence of its band. Mr.. G B. simon
ton, Democratic nominee of Upton county
for the lower branch Of the legislature, in a
few appropriate and well-umed remarks, in
troduced the distinguished speaker to
the assemblage. The governor opened
his speech by saying that 1t was peculiar
pleasure to him 10 address Upton county
audience; that 1t took him back twenty
years, when he first asked their support, and
Wllcn ne 1elJ q deep sense OF 2rat1tuQos
that they had helped to place him in high po-
sition, which had endesred him to the m, and
that in the discharge of those trust. he had
been guided by t1e dictates of an honest
heart and regardless of the promotion of reIa-
tiVes or friends. He referred to his selection
as elector, thanked the friends who support d
best Interests of the party that he resigned, as
he did not want the party he was battling for
to lose one vote on his account. II e spoke OF
the opposition he met, and said that the
principal objection 70 him In q certain por-
tion of the stale was because he vas seces-
sionist in 1851, and that some OF them went so
far as to say that he carried The State out OF
the Union. This idea he rldtculed and de-
nounced as slander upon Tennesseans ST.
evan General jackson. He here, with great
earnestnesS, asked If he carried any man in
Upton county out OF the Union, and was an
was not in the county. He said he sought no
Immunity for having been secesslontst,
that be had the frankness and nerve to follow
the dictates of his conscience of duty, and
that sixty thousand Tennesseans ad thought
and acted the same way; stated that Cover
nor Brown, General Baie and all Otte were
forgotten, but tn at he alone was condemned.
When he gave his reasons for res gning the
eleciorship number in the audience cried
out, mot Iightp' but he said he was, ss there
was a Fossi bility of it weakening the
ticket am IN tsat certain Ss WAS part f6e
Isham q, Harris. In this he was heartily p
plauded. He said he would battle a earnestly
and vigorously for the ticket as II he was a
laid the Union men are much mistaken in
regard to him, and claims to be as loyal as any
mar In Iae pnioI dnf ne sGHsenoF bn SpoI0gSSba
IT was demanded. National politics next re-
ceIved his attention, and Ia an able and eio-
Quent sty le argued that the administration is
responsible for the present depiorable condt.
tion of the country. he asked II the people
of Upton were not less prosperous than
and was ANSWERED. ii the affirmative by
many. In this connection, he cOmplimented
our people upon their economy and industry
eaid thai the evil was in the wrong admins
tration of the government, and that we
the heaviest taxed peop On the globe; that
| bagaielle com pared withF ederai taxation. He
dwelt at considerable length upon Fas-.erai tax
afion: n1o-nelnS e7aIes 70 p,oye his asser-
responible tor the present financial
ie felt more keenly by The poorer
classes. he referred to the sppointmsnt by
| Grant of such thieves as Joyce, M'Dona d,
| elc., an oom plimented BristOw in end. avor-
ing to carry out Grants order to "Iet no guilty
| man escape, which resulted in his having to
| 'step down and out" The expenditures OF
| the govel nment under different Presidents
| the most extravagaut until the advent of the
| Radical party, which have been enormous,
| as have also The White House expenditures
| surpassed any precedent. The reckless man
| agement of the navy by the Republicans, the
| governor said, has had the etfsct to cause it
| 70 be cl.ssed tuird or fourth rate, instead
| of being the pride and admiration Of the
1 world. He also reviewed the cond act of naval
officers In making purchases and contracts
contrary to law, and asked was II not nsces-
sary for retienchment and reform. He re-
| minded his hearers of the fight the Republi-
| cans in congress made sgainst the IetIench-
ment measures of the Democracy. he said
| that in answer TO all this the Radical cry is
| "Reoel," "B oody shirt, " etc. He said that this
cry Is kept up by such men as Morton, and not
! by the soldiers who fought in defense of the
10 the soldiers north and south. He hoped
that old issues would be bulied,
and that al wE6'd w9,R 10 mSIntana the
| ana industries vi the country. Passion and
| prejudice never built mp good government
ieeling terms to abandon sectional pref udice
| and was loudly applauded. or about fifteen
| minutes he addressed himself exclusively Y To
the cOiored people present. and said thar he
| yot s; he knew them well, and knew that
| for several years they have been blindly ied
who only sought to use them for IneiI
1Sm them 'ei for it, for for they Knew nc
ing for themselves. he showed them that
| their interests are identical with ours, and
| advised them in the future 10 vote with us
| He told them he would do everything In his
power to advance their intelligence, and that
II was his desire that they be made better citi-
| zens, In regard to their voting, he would &c
| as far as any man in protecting them in that
| He ridiculed the IDEA That The Democrats
| wanted TO put them back into slavery, snC
said they would not do 1t II 1t were possible
| He expected yet to see all the colored mer
| acting with both parties. he said he would MOI
| lead them IL he could, but begged them TO bC
| frsemen and not be voted by the carpetosg
| gers as they have been. The colored people
| gave marked attention, and several times ap
plauded the speaker. In reference to Hayes
and Wheel T, he believed them 10 be honest
but incapable OF etfecting change in the
government, should they he elected. Tit
| same influences that surrounded and cen
trolIed Grant woula control them. He merely
mentioned the charge against Hayes abon
Ste ing four hundred dollars bounty money
and said he did not believeit The augeaI
stable must be cleaned out entirely, in orde
TO accomplish any good, and new and bette
man put at the head Of affairs. In conclu
sion, he spoke in the highest terms of Til
den and Hendricks; the latter he said D.
had served with In congress, and knew 10 b
worthy of confidence. He held his audienc
SPELL l-Dound for two hours and half an,
they still wanted him 70 go On, His spet cl
throughout was conservative, heightened, an
| marked With courtesy 10 political opponents
| The assem- olage was composed OF the intellI
gepee ana respectsoility cf the country.
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