Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-10-06


self reliant. They knew their man;
they had seen him tried in various ways
and on many occasions, and they had
no fear of the contest. The result not
| only sustained the correctness OF their
judgment, Tut literally unnerved and
dismsyed the Radical party. General
Chalmers met every point Lynch made,
and his triumph was the most complete
and crushing, thing We have ever wit.
messed In political debate.
Mr.. Lynch
led off in a speech OF an hour and a half,
which was unimpassioned and created but
little applause. He said he was opposed to
Mr.. 1iluen because he was too thin 90
small; that he did not weigh bat one hundred
and ten pounds, and could n IT fill so large a
space as the Preside e tial chair. He next OBJ
jected 10 him because his name was Sam
Jones Tilden; said he might stand Sam or he
might stand Jones, but when it come to Sam
Jones, he could not stand that at all. Laugh
teri He next objected to him because he IA
vored the rebellion, but did not dare act as he
felt; that he was skulEer; that he and the
copperheads brought on The war; and then hid
behind the green mountains, said he could
forgive southern men who fought for what
he believed to be his rights, but he had no re.
spect for northern copperhesd. He com
pared Tilden to the skulkers in the south VINO
kept out OF the army by having twenty
ns groes; told an 2sInusins story OF a man
ABOUT u ~ conscripted, who had but nine
teen negroes and wanted to borrow one from
his old masterl described how misera-
Row hsppf e9 the neT, Wa ee Because as during anS
the night Sal had baby and made out the
twenty. L4ughter.l He says he objected to
TiIden because he had been the bosom friend
of "Boss" Tweed; would not say Ii.den was a
thief, but that be was the intimate friend of
one. He said when man ale with a thief,
slept with a thief walked with a thief and
talked with thief, he was not fit to be trust.
ed, for II he was not a thief himself he ought
to be on. He next objected to Mr.. bend 1cks
because, aft the war, he opposed the adop-
tion of the Thirtesuth amendment in the
United Stat senate. He was in IA
vor of yes, frst, because he was
fought for the life of the nation and
the freedom of the slave; second, because
he belonged TO the g eat Republican party
which had saved the Union and conferred on
the cOlored man all The rights he Possesses.
He eulogized the Republican T arty and said it
was capable OF reforming all the abuses OF
the government and 1t was the true party of
reform. Said the colored man ought not,
must not and wilt not be q Democrat, because
when the Republicans said make The slave
free the Democrats said no; when the Repub
Icans said make the negro a citizen the
Democrats sal t,oh, no; when the Republicans
said. let the negro vote, the Democrats said,
oh, for Gods sake, no. He then said thai
he objected to General Chalmers because he
was a Con tederate general, and his election
would teni to 1rritgte the north. He said
that the Democrats always took up generals
colonels or majors, and never noticed the pri-
yates nur the quiet citizens at home. h next
objected because General Oh iln1ers had con-
tested SulliVen's seat in the senate; turned
him out or a technicality, and got seat he
was not entitled to. Said he did not ike to
see man contest a seat against another
who got the most votes at the polls
he next objected to General Chalmers be-
cause he supported Ames against AIcorn, and
then turned on Ames aud helped to impeach
and turn him out. Upun the Ievee question,
he said General Chalmers could obtain no aid
for the leveeS, because the whole north was
against the south, and that this was because
the south was said to be solid for the Demo
cratic party. He said that he was sure of go
ing back to congress, because this district was
largely Republican, and if General Chalmers
got the most votes he would confess his seat
and turn 4 i'm out; that Chalmers could not be
fairly elected, and that a Republican or Dem
ocratie congress would give him (Lynch) the
Seat, Mr.. Lynch's manner was good, his Ian
gusge very good, and in his general advice to
mis- race he was conservative, and cOunseled
peace and moderation. He had before bsen
charging General ChaJmers with murder
ing women and children at Fort Pill
low, but to day he said nothing about
1t. Whether 1t was because the general
given him by Governor Alcorn, we do not
know. Mr.. Lynch at one time said there was
something else he could tel; ION General Chal
mers, but did not like 10. The Democrats
called on him to tell 1t out, because they
knew General Chalmers had the proofs ready
to crush that SANDER, but Lynch said nothing
about 1t. Mr.. Lynch closed with handsome
peroration upon the prospects of his party,
and, after music by the brass band,
Geuerat C0aAmerS
arose amid wild cheers and shouts from the
audience, in which many of the colored peo-
pie heartily joined. He commenced with a
defense of himself against the objections urged
by Mr.. Lynch. He said it was little singular
that Mr.. Lynch's first reason for supporting
Mr.. Hayes was that ne was general, and that
he should oppose him (ChalmeTs) for having
filled the same position during the war; that
II seemed all right that a Federal general
should be promoted, and all wong tnat a
Confederate should have any place; that so
he
ored him Ior it, and had no enmity against
him or any other true soldier who fought
ag 8tnst us; that the objection TO southern SOL
dIers being elevated to place, aud the cry of
Confederate generals in congress, was one of
the lowest, meanesL and most cOntemp pti ole
exhibitions OF Radical pref udtce; that If the
south is free, she should be free to choose Iep.
resentaLiveE to suit herself; that the demand
that we shall not be permi' ted 10 honor men
who won distinction in defense of our cause
is one that no free people will ever consent to;
tina the election OF Mr.. Lynch might be more
acceptable to the nor ,hsIn Rad lcalS than his
own, put that the Mississippi Demour. cy were
not now solicitous about pleasing northern
Radicalism. 10 answer to the charge that he
had taken a seat in the senate that he was not
entitled to, he read the constitution
of Mississippi, which in a contested case gives
the seat to the next b CHEST candida when
the highest cannot take the oath of office pre-.
scTibed, and charg, Mr.. Lyncn with ig or
ance OF the constitution or an attempt to de-
ceive the people. He showed that Mr.. Sui
nvan could not take the oath of Office b. C iuse
he was an alien, and because he was defdul-
ter for public money. He then showed that
one box was thrown out because OF the fraud
ulent votes which Sullivan had obtained,
and that when this box was thrown out he
had the highest number of votes. He then
turned upon Lynch and administered scath-
ing rsbuke 10 him, for having in advance
announced that he expected Chalmers to be
elected unfairly, and that he Lynch) would
Contest his seat he rldiculed Lynch to the
great amusement OF the audience for object
ing to his contest against Sullivan,
and at the same time threatening TO
the same grounds. He said that it is ali right
when the Democratic OK was to be gored, but
all wrong when the Radical bull is horned
little. As 20 the charge of supporting Ames,
he said he diJ not vote for Ames, but If he had
voted at all h5 would have vO;ed for him
against AlcOrn. That he be ieved then, and
does yet, that the el. .ction OF AIcorn would
have Deen the worst thing TOR the Democracy
of Mississippi that could have happened that
he did not regret his course as TO this matter,
and had nothing TO take back about 1t. AS TO
his having assisted to turn Ames out, he was
OF his, he had been Instrumental to any
extent in helping Ames to power, that IL was
the more incumbent on hum to put hi =
out when he betrayed his trust. That
this is what Tilden did with Tweed,
and this is the striking difference between the
action OF Democrats and Republicans II we,
by mIs'ase, pat corrupt men in power we }
all we can to convict and turn them out.
When you put corrupt men IN power you do
all you can 10 screen and protect them. We
convict Tweed and Lord. You reappoint Boss
Shepherd, and You help TO cover up Babcock
and BeIknap. He then took up the objections
TO Tilden ana to the charge that Tiden was
too small he answered tnaJ we were hunting
for bra and not for beef and bowels in the
selection of a President. He said that Alex
auder and Napoleon, and most of the great
men of the world, were small; that the dia
mond was more precious than the granite;
he said if Hayes as the GOliah Of Radical
ism, ad in the armor and surrounded by all
the pOmp and circumstance OF official corrup-
ton, that T.lden was e little David of
Democracy who, armed only with
the sling OF truth, would triumph
over tais giant as he had over the ri ant rings