Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-19
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phreys.
Mr.. Savage-What do you read fromP
Mr.. Clapp gave the authorities, and said,
when you can masticate ami digest these,
can supply mere il your appetite Graves
them"
Referring again to the cancelled bonds In
ms report, he said the governors neither per-
Jured nor stultifed themselves, and would
never have signed if they had not believed
they had ngat to do so. Now the question
IS settled, except in the mind OF my venera-
bic friend from Warren, and he will die with
signature to the Browplow bonds,
Suppose he did not sign them
with his own hand, lecause tome one
took the hand of Brownlow, trembling with
age and disease, and affixed his signature
VIII you account that forgery? o, no; there
Is no lawyer In the State that would under
take to make such defense as that In
court OF Justice. They say that the legisla-
lures were fraudulent, corrupt and bribed.
1t is greatly to be deplJred that the agents of
the people should prove talse to their high
trust; but who is to suffer by it? II my
agent is authorized by me to commit fraud
on an m Innocent party where does the
man who causes the suffering. You are
bound to put your finger on some specific act
of bribery. Who was bribed? How many?
We request you to be specific In so grave
charge as this. The testimony fails to fix the
charge OF bribery on single member OF the
legislature. The only specific case was that
of the member bribed by Bearden, and that
member showed that he had, as sworn to by
him, returned the bride, and voted against
the bill for which he was expected to give
his vote. lie then read from section Is of
the act of 185l-52) That section comes
like the breeze that sweeps over the valley,
AID lite the fog. 1t shows that the legisla-
ture did not intend to entrap and delude the
foreign holder in the purchase of these bonds.
In all the wide range of discussion in the en-
tire speech of my friend from Sumner,
where Is a single, solitary bond upon which
he has been aple to put his finger and say,
this bond was traudulently issued? This
charge Is sweeping; no man can tell how far
1t reaches In all these twenty-five million
dollars of bonds, surely some one, two or
three might be exhibited which were issued
rather through Ignorance than fraud. The
senator from Sumner stated that some rail-
road had obtained fifty Thousand dollars per
mile / am authorized to state that he was
Inisied by the party who gave him the
information. They also state that IN
1S69-70 we were threatened to be thrown
under the heel of the Federal government;
that we were under duress. the facts are
these: We elected Governor John G. Brown,
and they raised the Cry in Washington that
the rebels were IN power In Tennessee, and
the President was about to put Brown out,
but he found if he did it would only retain
Senter, which would be cloves labor lost"
and he didn't do it. Prosperity flies away
from people who act as we are doing. You
can't get rid of this debt, which IS sitting
like an incubus upon the shoulders of the
State. 1t is paraly wing the energies of your
citizens; it Is destroying their confidence In
each other at home and abroad; it is lpjUring
your people. If you want to see the mercury
rIsa
yourselves Of this crushing load Of deot.
Make some arrangement for 1t; provide for
it, and work it out. You must get this debt
off your shoulders, and when you do you will
Civ. new impetus to the energies of this
people. ny earnest desire is to CO.
operate in some practically feasible
scheme upon which the people OF the
State and its creditors may unite, which will
relieve this burden, and that we may 90
home to our constituents ard say that, as
honest representatives and senators, we have
done all that could be done to relieve you
and set you once more upon the road to
prosperity and glory.
EaeetinE of Supreme lodge n. o. u. ~.
Associated Press Dispatch.I
NASHVILLE, March 18.-The Supreme
lodge of the Ancient Order of United Work
men convened here to-day. nj. W. Sackett,
NV, presiding. Representatives. were
present from California, Ohio, Kentucky,
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ten
nessee, Wisconsin, Kansas, Georgia, Ontario
and Massachusetts. The morning session
was principally devoted to the work of pre-
hrnlnary organization. An application was
read from the Grand lodge of Ontario asking
be set apart as a separate beneficial jurisdic-
ton. The total number of deaths during the
year was four hundred and six, and the
amount paid out sixty-four thousand dollars.
The yellow-fever losses were ffty-two thou
sand dollars. During the past year the
growth of the order is reported to have been
Unprecedented in its history.
Heavy On Old BIO0d-LettIng Zach.
San Francisco Examiner: THE naudlin
rawlings and sour-mash rant of Zaebariah
Chandler will disturb no decent public sentl.
ment. 1t is the will of God that he should
prove himself a great scOundrel and black
guard, and that Jefferson DAVIS had proved
himself, in long back years, great states
man. But it ID well enough to remark that,
before the States of the south had seeded,
and while Jefferson Davis and the other
southerners in congress were endeavoring to
secure the rights of their section of the
Union without trouble or separation, old
Zach Chandler would listen to no arrange
mert, but roared and beloved for blood
lettingn Yet when, through Stewards per-
old Zach Chandler took precious good care to
keep his cumbersome body from the peril of
lead and sword and flame. But he was hot
for the carnage. for he had the cunning to
appreciate that amidst the turmoil of war the
basest are sure to emerge to honors and to
reap lucrative reward, and he has Deger
In his manhood seen the day or hour when
he was not ready, if not eager, to sell either
his country or himself tor place, or profit, or
power. Among the most Infamous OF the
corrupti0nists brought to the surface of the
boiling cauldron of the war period, from the
scum of which the ruling mess was SKINNED,
there was none to whose name was attached
fouler stencil than the debauched senator
from Michigan, who has lately obtained a
seat in that body by trickery and bribery.
The idea OF his applying the stigma of
traitor to any person, Is as the assassin of
bound victim accusing the commander of
an army of the crime OF murder. Fortunate
ly, the senate which now has existence, the
body which came in power at noon this day;
is not the arena for rufhanly bullies of
Chandeliers mould. The depraVed old brute
will find, in the c5ming session. that his claws
have been pared and his tangs are no longer
to be feared
Result OF An Experiment. In wheat
Culture.
ST. PAUL, MINI, March 18.-The Pioneer
Press will publish, tom brow, an extensive
series of interviews and dispatches upon the
question of the terminating quality of last
years crop. The Minneapolis mlllers have
generally deprecated, recommending the
shipment of the northern Pacific hard wheat
TOR seed. The experiments made at the
State agricultural college indicate that as
sound a percentage of the low grade as of
No. wheat terminates, the former requlr-
| ing time, however. Ten out of twenty tele-
grams from various farming regions In the