Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-15

Gratis and the soothing remarks OF the
Libsrsl Republicans until he could bear
Il no longer. Then he took the floor like
q bombshell, and scattered his shot In sl
directions, He said that the colored
men of the south had suffered every In
dignity from the white Democrats, and
their rights had been trampled under
foot by those who were supposed to rep
resent the government. Instead of pro-
tecting their rights under the cops1tu.
ton, President Grant had deserted
them and left them helpless under the
heel of despotim. 1t was useless to con-
ceal truth any longer. President Grant
had not kept bis promises. His adml D.
iatraticn was failure, so lar as justice
to the colortd voters of the south was
concerned. Toe passion OF the speaker
grew more intense at evevy Word, ana
when he hsd reached the grand climax
in his descriptive recital Of the outrage5
committed ON his people he sstonished
the silently listening Republicans By
declaring with great emphasis that the
time for looking to the administration
for help had parsed. There was no help
for the negroes unless they made peace
with the Democrats. He was in favor
of going oyet to then4 as the only
rneasttre OF eately to the negro. He
clearly perceived Vests treAchery
to Pinchbaek and the general hol.
lowness of Radical ple.ences to
special love for the negro. He de-
nounced Grant and the leading white
Radicals of the south as untruthful and
treacherous, suggC s!ed that they used
the negro for selfish purp 9ses only, and
did not scruple to have him killed In or
der to furnish political capital to the
party. he said the negro could not fur
ther trust them, but would be compelled,
for self protection and quiet, to form po-
litical alliances with the resident white
men of the south, who, rs class, were
honest and trustworthy. The speech
produced terrible panic among the
Radicals. Senator Simon Cameron,
true to his vigorous way of expressing
himself said ''lt was hell of q Speech"
and Alcorn epjOyei it hugely: The
Democrats enjoyed it and told Senator
Bruce the negroes ought all to be Demo-
Gratis.
Senator Alcorn, in reply to Bruce,
said that he was sorry to hear such in
Judicieus remarks from his colleague.
He admitted much of what had been
said, and he knew that the colored
people had suffered many wrongs, but
the President had been their true friend
and had done everything possible for
them, undet the powers granted him by
the constitution of the Uaited States.
Senators ConkliDg and Morton, and
other northern Republican,, followed In
the same spirit, and rehearsed a long
catalogue OF benefits which the coloTed
people had received from the govern
ment. They knew that full and impair
tial justice would be done them in the
end.
Bruce said be had no quarrel will Al
corn; but he paid little attention to these
assurances. He said he knew what he
was talking about. The colOred voters
were not to be deceived any longer by
administration promises. he wanted
the northern Republican senators pres
ent to understand that the great masses
of the colored people of the south would
not vote for Grant for third term.
Thousands of negroes had been shot
through the negligence OF the officials
appointed by President Grant, and the
survivors would not cast their ballots for
him again.
1t seems that the quarrel began at an
early hour in the day, and long bsfGe
the senate went into executive session,
and originated about as follows: Pinch
back was on his way into the capitol
when he met a messenger who was
taking q dispatch to the telegraph office,
written by West, asking him to come
up from the hotel, as ne wanted to see
him. He accordingly went over to
Vests seat, and in the conversation
which ensued he was startled by propo-
sition frOm West that all action on
Pinchback's case should be postponed,
and that PlEchback should go home and
wait until April, lest bis admission
now shCn!d provoke the Democrats IN
the Louisiana Legislature to overthrow the
Kellogg government. AS may be lmag-
ined, the conversation nov became qaite
excited, Pinchback protesting against
further delay, and the noise and gesticu-
lation attracted Senator Morton to the
scene. with the inquiry of what was up.
PInchbsck told him what West had &c
cooIy proposed aud repeated his own re.
lection thereof, together with further
protest against delay in the matter Of
his admission, saying that as the party
most interested he demanded immediate
action-whether such action should
prove favorable or uniavoIable. Morton
coincided with Pinchback, and said ht
intended to force vote. At latel
period of the open session Bruce heard
Of the proposition to postpone made bS
West, and denounced it to West as ar
outrage on his race and as treacherous tG
Pinchback, and declared his purpose tc
state SO much in executive session, and
when the Injunction of secrecy was re
moved, to repeat the came in open cen
ate. West rejoined that Bruce's per
sonal grievances should not be an incen
tive to make him fight against his party
and Bruce replied that he was not fight
ing his party, but he was fighting th'
thieves in it. Billings was confirmed
by a strict party vote, including that o.
Bruce, and it was nearly seven o'clocE
before this, the stormiest Of executive
| aessionS closed its debate