Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-19

I NUVeIuDtT u gO-U
looKi og Democratic friends would not snow
their fac q for two We eks, and Tilden would
have to surrender, me south was nearly half
RePgOilcsn, aud Mississippi would go Re,
| pub icau IL the colored people are allowed
10 vote and no shotsuns and bullets are used.
Go into the twelfth district In this county and
aek how many peIs DIS across the Mississippi
line were allowed to vote there. The speaker
| Ma3e another attack upon the sonth, and said
| the eQlored PEOPLE he'd been put down as low
IS ths dog or the mule by the Democratic
party, which proposes TO carry the election by
intimidation and force and vlo ence, and
stun the ballot-box with frsur ulent votes, IS
they did N this cou pty two years ago. If they
want to preserve their rights and manhood,
shun the Democratic party which was " orse
than smallpox, yellow fever or cholera. II
any pc son were there who loved the Demo-
| cratic party, such person was an idiot. He
spoke next Of the TACT that before the war
river carried slaves aw y from their
| hom s, the parents from their ch l.
! dren end she children from their parents
| cratic party. nr. LIE nis being a little uu-
| usually anxious to impress upon his hearers
| that the cOlored people are under special OBJ
liga ions 10 him for being an original aboIi-
| Zionist III the south before the war. They took
| to convert the northern mind TO abolitonism,
| but the south would be finally converted. e
would give them his pr ayers and his pat ence.
He wou d clear Off the first row of seats and
| invite all the Democrats up to the mourner,s
bench, and the brethren and sisters would
sing. Up north The ab0litionists us d to be
| papers lied as much about them as the Demo.
| cratic newspapers here. They even lied
| worse, II such is possible and it sould only be
| upon the theory CT the mort ern Democratic
| editor, being smarter. He next referred to he
time before the war whe I there was a blood
hound ,I law" In e, existence II you wish again
| the bay of the bloodhound in full pursuit OF
| the fugitive slave who Is making for land OF
| freedom, vote for Tilden and Straddle-Ieg
Hendricks. He said Tilden had lce termed
the Union "a Federal agency" He next
stated that the Democracy say they acqu esce
In the constitutional amendments. They re
solved, in the New York convention of 1885,
that these amendments were unconstttu
1onal, at St. Louis they say we acQuiesce
made the Democrats acquiesce. They were
| slOw In lea ming even to acquiesce and
snd9Te these drstS se
The Democrats prefer slavery little while
longer, and would not acqulesce in these
amendments If they could help It. He re
ferred to Charles Francis Adams, whom he
termed an old mess-covered tombstone that
the Democrats OF Massachusetts had set up.
came quite comic in his style, maneuvres,
etc. Hayes and he Lewis) had gone through
t9e v war; Sd FACED & bullets bullets blood and danger Lana
battle Tilden was at home all that time
proving that the war was unconstitutional.
says it is rnconhututionel. Tney said
II was unc institutional to exclude
slavery from the territory and to m axe
scoundrel, but during the war he was making
m ney wrecking railroads. Tilden was the
chairman of committee which, in the De-
nIocratic convention at Chicago, declared the
war failure. But the colored people don't
think the war failure. He compared Demo-
cracy TO Jejune wolf, and said when the Ds
mocrats come up to buy any coloTed people,
refuse the porch9e. Tney remembered the
time when the Democrats came to their
homes, and murdered their families, while
they could not go into q court OF Justice to
testify. II they wanted return of this, they
colored people, knew who gave them
the right to vote and to testify. To this and
the preservation of the Union the Republ can
party had devoted itself and went through
the war. He thought the Democracy of the
touth loved alden because he said any Union
soldier VINO came south could be sued for
tire pass, and he suspected that they nOmina-
ted linden because he wanted to put the ne
groes back in slavery. He termed Mr.. Tilden
"Slippery SAM" and said that his actual in
come and his affidavit were at variance. Mr..
Tilden was silent upon this income tax le-
turn, and yet this is the man the
S aIes. Since the war the Democrats have
been in power in Tennessee. What have they
done for The honor of the state, or that tn
are proud of? Their nrst com ptroller, Hobbs,
sold cut his office tor Twelve thousand dollars,
that Burch, democratic editor in Nashville,
has been peddling Tennessee bon S
publicans had done this they would
have been denounced as Infamous. The Dem
ocratic editors say nothing about 1t, except a
few do it. 1t was a sore thing to Democratic
eyes that the Memphis Ledger has taken
man in favor of honor will not vote for Por-
ter, and no Republican who values truth and
has been hired by the Democracy.
Yerdley, he charged, was hired by the D. moe
Iacy, and even the APPEAL had praised
convinc ce d itself that 1t would Vote for Yard
Icy. He did not know who the Republicans
were to vot for for governor. Let the Demo-
Graf Porter. YQr0laV ant them
vote for Dorsey B. Thomas, who is an honest
man., or for any other honest man.
coupons that Governor Porter had paid, and
he received the same from the bond ring The
Republicans should not vote for hireltng of
lieve in God nor in the devil. The co,ored
people sh ould vote for the Republican party,
whose standard-bearers ase Hayes and
truth, justice, reform and liberty.
he thanked God that he and the colorsd peo-
men who are ashamed OF them, or who re-
fused to stand by the negro through thick
and thin. They should vote for men who two
ashamed to vote the Republic an ticket. Then
Ibe democrats made "things howl" about
vote FOR the man who was merely a Republl-
can to get office. They should not take coun-
Gil of the Democrats, put from the men who
amid outrage and insult, who amid the gleam
of daggeTs and the array of guns had stood
up and fought for the colored people. They
for men because they pleased the Democrats,
for Jt ff Davis and lsham q. Harris please the
kind of leaders for the colore d people. Abra-
ham Lincoln had called the colored people
out Of ssvefy from as on she lord had
Lincoln had freed four million five
hundred Thousand slaves, and yet, he was
ocrat The Democratic congress had turned
out forty st ven Union men TO put forty-seven
Confederate rebels in their places, and among
sson after the dastardly ASS So n c Lir coin
Ehs Democra tteGi anG be ca = ewhipred
ism; tney IKE The DeT,am ns51oore peea4se taey
tneIn 10 vote for traitors and describes.
DO tue opposite to what the Democrats a x,
They should take the advice OF meu who are
true and earnest in their devotion to the prip-
ciple of freedom and the rights of the negro.
This was a principle with him, for he had
consecrated his life to the rights OF the colored
man. When they ran Curry they were beaten
py large majority; but " hen they took HIM
he carried the congressional district
by nearly four thousand majority,
jority. His opponent in to e last election had
dwindIed down and got bu one thousand or
twelve hundred majority They stood by
their principles, and took the advice OF their
men who we're bolder and aggressive, and
hence won the battle. The peaker continued
in this strain Tor some time, closing with a
and quite In keeping with the character OF
Barbour Lewis.
OTHER SPEECHES.
After Mr.. Lewis's address, Chairman
Thompson introduced United states District
Alto, ney w. W. Murray, who made a speech
upon the political situation and the present
national ampaign. BE was followed by John
Malone, colored DR.. Prewett, of 6ran0 juno
tion Colonel Barrett, of Bolivar, Mr.. Thomas
Hamilton, and Mr.. Thomas D. Eldridge. OW-
ing to the 1ateness of the hour we were unable
10 give the speeches OF these orators, 1t being
twelve O'Clock when the meeting dissolved,
Assassins Arrested.
MONROE. LA, September 17.-Sstur.
day q ternoon three colored men were shot
and wounded, six miles from here, by a white
man named Hathaway, returning home in a
wagon. A warrant was obtained here, aud
posse OF white citizens went in pursuit and
captures Hathaway in a briar thfcket, where
he had refuged aud which the citizens had
surrounded and watched all night He is now
safely lodged in the parish jail. The colored
people cheered the citizens along the road.
Hathaway is a stranger here, and came afoot
from Texas about three weeks ago. Only one
man was serious Y hurt, but will recover. The
freedmen charged with the assassination of