Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-03

THE Republican congressional committee Is |
busily engaged at Washington in the prepa- |
ration and circulation of documents, In the |
tortuous, lying and sneaking way usual to
the Hayes party, in which they misrepresent
the scope and drift of the action of the DEM
ocratie party in the house In matters OF I'M
portant legislation. OF course the lies already
circulated, and so frequently denied, IN refer
ence to the intention of southern Democrats
to ruin the army, or accomplish its reorgani-
cation, with all the old officers In the ranks
which they left in 1861 for the Confederate
army, will be among the statements spread
broadcast among people already well pre-
pared, by reason of their prejudices, to be-
lieve them. They will also repeat the
Islander upon US that we want to
bankrupt the government, by loading the
public debt down with Confederate
claims, and a demand for payment
for the negroes freed as result of the war.
They will print and circulate these lies, will
fully and knowingly, just as John Sherman
exhibited Eliza Pinkston, knowing that she
was a strumpet hired from the slur1s to do
his bidding, and swear falsely against the
people of Louisiana. They will tell these and
other lies with the complacency and ease OF
old hands at the business, but will take es-
pecial good care not to tell that whatever
there was of failure TO pass useful legislation
was due solely to the Republican senate
planting itself between the Democratic party
and the people. OF course John Sherman Is
aiding IN this business. Where lying is to be
done, so great master in the art could not
afford to remain idle. AS his quota to the
stock of faisehood, he has had printed at
government expense pamphlet reciting the
history of the financial legislation at the re-
cent session of congress, which is intended
for circulation In Greenback localities. 1t re-
cites that the Republican senate passed the
bill providing for the receipt of greenbacks
for four per cent bonds and for customs dues,
but that the house refused to adopt it. The
facts of the case are the reverse
of this [Sherman'sl statement of
them. The Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer gives them truth
fully. The house bill for the repeal of the
resumption act was amended by the senate,
or, rather the senate agreed to a substitute
making greenbacks receivable forthwith for
the purchase of four per cent. bonds and for
the payment of custom dues after October LIST
next. The leading greenback Democrats in
the house were apprehensive that there was
some trick in it, for the reason that Secretary
Sherman, as we'll as the President, approved
the senate substitute. 1t was decided, there
fore, to write Secretary Sherman and request
from him statement whether he would or
would not use the proceeds of the sales Of
four per cents for resumption purposes. Ac-
cordingly Congressman Phillips, of Kansas,
wrote him two letters, asking him that very
pertinent question. The FIRST reply was deci-
dedIy evasive, and the second, while being
less so, was susceptible of the construction
that he would use the greenbacks thus re-
ceived for resumption purposes only. The
greenback men OF the house very wisely fore
saw that such an Interpretation of the law
would act as a still further contraction of the
currency, and they refused to concur in
the senate substitute, although it was no
ticeable that nearly every eastern Republi-
can voted to concur. Sherman is now trying
to turn the Phillips correspondence to good
political account. He has the same printed al
the expense of the public, and it is beng cir
culated through the west and south at the
public expense through the mails, with an
explanatory note affixed that, while Repub
lican senate offered this means of financial
relief, a Democratic house refused to accept
it. Of course, among the more intelligent
Greenback constituencies this will not have
weight, but the object is to scatter this insin
uation, unjustly conceived, broadcast, with
the hope that the tares may fall on to grounC
where they will yield fruit. Sherman fails Il
add to this new political circular that. hac
the hguse passed the bill as 1T came from tn
senate, further contraction of the currenc.
would have gone on to the extent of the pur
chase Of four per cent. bonds with green
backs; and moreover, to state that, had tn
bill been concurred in, he had made an ar
rangement with number of national bank
to take the loan, and thus, almost at one fel
swoop, have contracted the currency man
millions of dollars. The wisdom of Genera
Ewing and other Greenback leaders Of th
house, in refusing to have this trick OF Shel
mans forced down their threats by passin
the senate bill now stands out pre-eminentl,
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The decision delivered on Saturday last
the supreme court of Arkansas, in the case {
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