Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-01
CHALMERS,
His speech Delivered at the Democratic
Meeting Held In the Firs Ward on
Wednesday Night Last.
The Issues OF the Day Between Radical
ism and DenOeraey-Why 1ilden
should be Pre- erred 10 Hayes.
Retrenchment, Resumption, Reunion
and RefOrm-A Platform that Every
Homes. Man Can stand Upon.

At the Democratic meeting held in the
first ward on thursday night, report OF
wnoh appeared ia the APPEAL Of yes
tsrday, General Chalmers, being spe-
claily invited, delivered tie following
speech: he commenced by acknowl
edging the compliment OF the invitation
to him from the ITIsh-American citizens,
and paid beautiful tribute TO the cOur.
age, energy and uniiTiDg fortitude Of the
lush people, al home CT abroad, snd
compared the sUffsrings Of the south to
ths suf-riugs of Ireland, quoting the
Irish poets words:
"Unprized are her sons till they've learned TO
Dcirsy,
y On .istinsaished they live who shame not
their sires,
And toe torch & bich should light them thro'
Must b. caught ffom the flame when their
country expires"
He showed that tue Confederates were
denounced with bitterness aud hate only
when they were Democrats; that Mostly,
LDngstreet, and even old Foote were
welcomed as pure patriots, while Cor
drD, Lamar and Harris were denounced
"a enemies OF the government. He de.
scribed the enthusissm Of the Democ-
racy in the lower portion OF his district,
EnG compared this campaign TO that of
1910 DE contrasted the Republicans
and Democrats in their conventions,
their psrties, their plato. ms and candi-
dates, and challenged Comparison with
our bdYerseries In contTss ing the con-
venti0ls he gave ia iicrous account OF
the Cincinnati convention, and com.
paTet the s.. LOUIS convention to the
sgneIs OF the D -cl irA,ion of Independ-
eucs, who proclaimed the great doctrine
OF "mzn's night 10 local self-govern-
Inent,n which was resffirmed at st.
Louis.
IN COMPARISON OF PARTIES,
he ssid: When we turn to compari-
30 Of parties, The contrast Is equslly as
striking. The Republican party was
born OF turmoil and strife, ana COM
menced its career with Sharpe's rifles, in
the Territory OF Kansas. 1t ia party
OF blood, which invaded OLD Virginia
under john Brown, and shed the first
blood ia the frstTicidal strife which was
inaugurattd. Ii il party Of envy and
NJ alice, which refused 90 receive Us into
full fellowship in the Union when we |
laid down our arms; for while the De. |
mocrscy OF the north would have re- |
ceived US with open arms, as the father |
received the prodigal son, the Republi |
cans, like the Jealous brother, would |
have driven us ont again into the will |
derpess to eat busks with the swine |
and 10 stsrve. 1t is a patty Of hatred, |
which destroys all our Industrial pros.
perity by constant threats OF recon
strustion, and which conferred the right |
OF suffrsge upon the coIoTed race for |
the sole purpose Of preventing the rebels |
from returning to power and LlAce. 1t |
is q party If sectjonalism, which won its
first victory by united north, and |
which nov seeks TO unite the north
again by shielding crocodile tears on
ITS PLATFORM,
over 8 pretended fear of united south.
II is atty Of mslignitv, which sought
&c stir up race conflicts ia the south that |
1t mighC qusnch them in blood, as
was abuudsutly shCwa in the investiga-
ton OF Amss by the Mississippi legisls-
turs. IL vas then proven by R .publican
witnesses that in speech 10 an excited
number Of coiored me >, ne said: 1--WE
white men of the north Lave risked cur
lives for you, and il you are not now
willing TO fight for yourselves, you do
not deserve to be FREE" And when
warned by the attorney-genersl that this
would lead 10 blOOdshed, he replied in
whisper, which w6s only heard by an
officer Of the United Ststes army, that
"the blood OF twenty five negroes would
vet, the leaders of the p aTty boast of its
achievements, and tell US "its deeds
have passed into history, and we look
back to them with PRIDE" So did
Fsgln, the thief-trsineT Of London,
lO9k with pride upon the advance
ment OF the ''Artful Dodger,n and the
little band OF thieves who supplied his
wants by their skillful and successful
pilfering. Aud so might the pirate La
litte have lOos ed with pride upon his
deeds, who, like Conrad. the Eold buc.
Gamer OF Byron's song
LEFT a corssir's name TO other times
LinEed with one virtue and thousand
crimes "
For IL the Republican party is entitled
to the enc virtue OF having saved this
Union, il has linked that virtue with
every crime Of which a political party
coull be capable. Ia the language OF
our Democratic platform, sit has in
fleet upon ten States the rspscity CT
csrye bag rule: it has honey -cOmbed the
offices OF the Federal government with
incapacity, waste and fraud; it has tine
tur5d municipalities and States with the
coutagion OF
MISRULE;
it has locked fast the prosperity OF an in
dustrinus people 10 the parsly sic OF "hard
UNITS II Las NalNcH Out
from the seas. II hiss made wanderers
and outcasts Of thousands CT Industrious
laooring men, who have been tramping
through the States "b ggi & brother OF
the earth TO give them leave to toll" 1t
hiss We ed the public revenues to three
times the extent OF the public debt. 1t
has squandered the public lands, giving
TO rsilsoad corporations slone two hun.
dred million acres. 1t has issued an IT.
redeemable paper currency, and de-
nCu1ced all men as traitors who, In the
beginning, would not receive 1t; and
noW a tex-Iidden, overbUrdened, debtor
people are denounced as Reputation and
reg baby il a atiouists, when they simply
lsk that its circulation may continue
until time, honesty, economy aud reform
nav enable Us to cnADge il. 1t demon
allied the silver currency sanctioned
by the constitution, and has debased
the silver coin il hiss issued. 1t hes
added millions 10 the public debt
by requiriT bones to be paid
Ia gold Ihst were redeemable in gresD-
backs. II has shipped from cur natur-
sliz q citiZ ms who return to their ma
tive land the protecting shield OF Ameri-
can citiz snship. It's off GERS have dis
gracsd US al boms. LIS ministeis have
dishOnOred Us abroad, and yet its lead
ere tell Us they loOk Win ptlde upon lts
deeds. IL We aye TO have four more years
of such deeds as these, IL the American
people can Look upon them even with
tolerance, then W , can only say, "God
save tie American peoT L." When We
turn TO the Democracy, on the other
hand, we find party that was not bern
OF turmoil aud strife, but had its origin
far back in times OF peace, ia the earliest
and purest days OF the republic; party
which bears upon its rcll come Of the
most honoTed 1mes OF
AMERICAN STATESMEN,
and which hss he'd the reins Of govern
ment snd shaped the the destiny OF the
nation for more than half century; q
party which k lowe no seetionalism,
which trlumphs equally in the banner
s ate Of the north and the banner State
Of the south which holds the capital Of
Connecticut IN the far east, and tae cap.
itsI Of Oregon Ia the distant We which
added Louisiana and Texas to the Union,
and extended its dominion from OCEAN