Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-10-20

II could hardly be expected that man OF his
experience and years should meet the COM
peer of CLAY and Webster. lCheersI How
sver, he Submitted to this as a sacrifice. There
was, as Governor Foote had said, big steal
in the credit mobilier, and he held as prin-
eiple that the party controlling both houses OF
congress was responsible for this. This steal
was done by a change of law by the Republic
famous measure passed, without which this
robbery could not have been committed. Mr.
BrownIow, Mr.. sherman and Mr.. Stevens held
to the view that the interest on the bonds
should be paid in greenbacks instead
OF IN gold, as the difference would amount
10 seven hundred and fifty million dollars.
BE charged that up TO 1884 silver dollar
would pay every debt After the RepuoIi-
cans had fixed this debt as foreign debt,
they got up a little scheme. A gentleman
upon the floor Of congress, Mr.. HOOKER
said that the bill was drafted in England, or
at least furnished many valuable suggestions
and sent a man from England to demonetlze
silver. As question Of common sense, that
act of congress was an act of nullthcation, FOR
the interest of the bondholders and in direct
conflict with the rights of the people. Daniel
Webster in closing his speech in the senate
upon the money question, said that gold
and silver, at rates fixed by congress, constl-
tute the legal standard of values in the coun-
Try" He thought Webster as good authority
as Governor Foote. After the Republicans
packed the supreme court and made 1t legal
tender, refused to give the people the benefit
OF the delusion, they next made gold legal
tender. They did not consult the American
people about the demonitiZation of sill
yer, Duj congress ana IllS were
striking down the ability of the people to pay
1t. The substitute to the bill was never read
in congress. He had no doubt that Whit
torne's face was covered with shame when he
arose to read his report because of the peculas
tion, fraud and robbery committed by cab
met officer. The testimony OF all the admir-
ais is that the United States navy is not able
to run after anybody to get into fight, Ior
able to get away, but has, since the war, de-
generated from third to an eighth class navy.
When the Virginius affair came up, where
A n1nr6nrnH n0th-
ing was done, for Spain knew she could COM
mand better navy than the UDitet States
Now an idea Of the wise diplomacy IS
eighty thousand dollars in ,xchange
for her unsettled honor, and fifty
three American lives. He next Tefel red
paired at three times as much as they had
cost. In the Indian frauds they used to run
the Indians for about three ,atllton dollars
before and during the war. In 1873 the cost
for running the Indians was over eight mill
lion dollars, for the Indians have increased
in number and stopped drinking whisky and
substituted champagne, furnished by Mr..
Ptce. The testimony is that thirty per cent.
Of the appropriations go to the Indians and
the rest TO the KepuoIlean ring ana hayes
and Wheeler election. Yet 'this is the purest
party the world ever saw" You couldn't
drive ray of light through it with steam
eogine. What has become of the eight hun
dred and sixty two million dollars collected in
1875? The government has been in the hands
of the most corrupt of men that ever existed
o n.
istration, with the Indian wars and all costs
of government, was not as great as the cost of
the civil service reform under Grant for three
years. Grants administration has paid only
tour hundred and twenty-five million dollars.
Now, what has become OF the three hundred
thousand dollars which Governor Foote said
government taxes about four thousand articles
-Woolent hats, gunnte, woolen blankets,
wooden goods, eIc.-yet all OF these are "luxu-
rie." Mr.. Boutwell, as good as said that Mr..
reDOft. and him.
self a liar. However, a comparison of the ex-
penses of the government for seventeen years
shows two hundred and fOrty-seven million
dollars agair st the Republican. 1t takes sixty
eight thousand dollars TO run theWhite House,
twice aslmuch as when there was a,DemocraIic
President. On election years the expenses in
single department amounted to three mil
lion dOllals additional, the money being
spent to keep the Republicans in office. The
same was true relative TO the Indian depart
meIt in election years. The expenses of the
army was likewise increased a third more
eleven million dollars) on election years, it
being the price of whole county like Fay
ette. Yet this is done by the purest and most
economical party that ever existed. Mr..
J James said they plunderei the navy and the
Indians, and then LAID their Sacrilegious
Eands upon the money appropriated to erect
headstones over the graves of Union soldiers.
They committed frauds in the Jombstones
that mark the last resting place OF the gallant
soldiers who fought to perpetuate this Union,
and took the money to give Governor
Foote chance TO run for elector
Wishing to bless the cOlOred people, the Re-
publicaus sent the co lored people blessings In
he shape of the "Freedmen's Bureau" TO
teach the IN book keeping. They also sent to
the cOlOred people another boon in the shape
of the "Freedmen's bank" which Governor
FoOle would doubtless explain. They told
the negroes TO deposit their money, and the
signing of the act was one of the last of the
martyr President. The agents were sent south
amOrg the negroes in the name of Lincoln,
because the negroes loved him. Nearly all
these agents were ministers, and they
preached il on sundays and weekdays, to
the effect that ave freed you; don't trust
your old masters, they will swiudle YOU but
rust us, the meek and lOwly followers of
Jesus" Alter this money of the negroes got
around it Ike the locusts about the corn
in Egypt. By a law of the Republican
congress this money, gotten from the savings
of the negroes, was loaned out on collateral,
and the result was that the depositors got
only twenty per cent. of their fund: yet all of
these putrescent aud corrupt men are for
Hayes and Wheeler, and denounce and curse
Tilden; yet this is the most virtuous party the
world ever saw. After sending their agents
south With the cross of Christ in one hand,
and the Freedman's bank in the other hand,
they cry out twenty per cent, for this is al the
money the negroes have received; still, this Is
the party that wants to be put in charge OF
%Dld Hayes and Wheeler steal any of this
No; but Hayes and Wheel
er were both members of con-
gress and voted for the law.
collateral, and never opposed this law, which
led 10 tbs robbery. He denied that the collec-
minislration than any other administration,
and desired Governor Foote to prove it. Gov
ernor Foote said the Democrats would dis
franchise the negroes, and yet just before that
he said the Republican party mad placed the
rights of the negroes upon an immovable
basis. NOW if the latter be true, the former
statement is untrue. This was all myth, a
b0sh, and mere fiction TO play upon the
fears of the negroes, whose enfrauchlsement
gave the south a larger representa-
tion in the electoral congress. The
ernor FOote, he did not yield to public pres
sure, and instead of going into the war, OPP
and the greatest folly ever committed by the
secessionists was when they made Governor
Foote GO into the CODfederacy and secession.
He denied that Johnson had anything to do
with the whisky ring and stealings, but gave
a humorous account of the manner In which
the X ideals and Grants friends have manip-
ury. The report OF the civil service shows
that at least one fourth Of the
officers are guilty. Yet, Governor Foote
says this is the cheapest administration ever
known to the country. He next read an
article from the ElizabethtOwn Garter
county, Republican, Radical paper, abusing
Yardley and charging him with being bought.
Unless the negroes ask permission of the white
Radicals to run for office, they cannot do SO
without being branded as traitors and as
bought He understood that Governor Foote
would not vote for Yardley, although Yard
lev is a member OF the Republican central
committee, When negro wants TO run for
office he has to ask the white Radicals, but
when the white Radicals want TO establish a
freedman's bank, they do so without asking
the negro's consent and take all his spare
change. Mr. James next read the following
letter from prominent Republican, Ex-Gov-
ernor Henry S. FoOte, which was published in
the Nashville Banner of February 10, 1872:
''But If no Democratic statesman, however
high his abilities, however 1llustr1Ous his past
services, however sound his principles, can be
elevated to the Presidency next November as
the nominee of Democratic convention and
by Democratic votes, exclusively in Opposi-
tion to General Grant, then what is TO be done
to prevent this dread result? Shall we despair
OF the republic? Shall we stupidity succumb TO
the dangers that confront US? Shall we inglo-
rlously sink into the arms of despotism bot
toned upon notorious and undeniable cor
ruption? Shall we make no effort to save our
native land from menac1ng ruin? shall we
allow the deadly influences now obviously at
work inWaShingtOn to prevail for still another
four years, with the certainty which stares us
in the face that at the end of that period We
shall no longer be free or even an hOnored
people? H. S. FOOTE"'
GOVERNOR FOOTE'S REJOINDER.
Governor Foote said he came to discuss the
Presidential question, and not to discuss the
record of Mr.. James, in an inconsiderable
manner. Four years ago he belonged to no
party; wanted TO bring the country out of
trouble, and did write the letter just read.
Since then satisfied that he had done an in
Justice to the man. This morning he read an
article in the AUdldnche giving 1t as Foote'S
opinion that the "fundlng bill was an out
rage" etc. Mr.. James voted for 1t, and was
Oh of the most active supporters of the fund
ing bill. [Cheers.l He denied the statement
about Webster's opinion upon the Iegal-tender
question. Yardley was brought out by the
Democrats, and were he (Yardley) q Republic
can he (FOote) would with pride and pleasure