Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-10-30

senator IIOin OnlO 10 ' ISiIild duulence.
He came here, he said, to address the rea-
son and not the preiudices of the people,
and he bespoke for him cordial greeting
and respectful hearing. Senator Shsr-
man was cordially greeted and was ac-
corded a most respectful and attentive
hearing.
Senator Shermap's speech.
Fellow CtrI7FN5-I ACCEPT with much
diftdence the invitation to speak in the canvass
in Virginia, chiefly because I feared the public
prints might have made a false impression upon
5our minds as to my position in the recent can
yass % IN Ohio that was neither just to me nor the
ever, that l might, face, TO- face, show you how
unjust is the clsmor evoked against the Repub-
Republican party processes IN Otto as ID national
questions is the Same that i processes in Vir-
ginia, and that the practical application of the
principles of the Republican party would be Of
vast benefit to the State of Virginia, while Demo-
cratic success would tend more and more to
velOpment Ct Virginia. Not only your news
paper, but the distinguished gentlemen who is
the Democratic can didate for Governor of the
State of Virginia has said to you that waving
the bloody shirt while he was contending under
the Union flag. If he meant by waving the
bloody shirt that sought in any way to renew
the anlmoslties of the war, then be was greatly
mistaken. for in the speech to which he refers,
and in every speech made in Ohio, constantly
said that the war was over and the animosities of
the war should be buried out of sight; that
BILE tor what he did during the war, and that all
wished was to maintain and preserve the ac-
claim is the right of every voter to cast one
honest vote and have it counted; that every citi-
zen, rich or poor, native or naturaliIed white or
rights, and that every man of lawful age should
be- allowed to exercise his right to vote with
clifton. chaige among other things that these
constitutional rights and privileges have been
pecially in the Southern States; that at the
last election, in the year of our Lord 1884,
wherever the votes of the colored people would
affect the result they we.e deprived of their fran
chlse by one device other, and thus political
power apportioned to the colored population was
of the South, so to make their political power
greater than other citizens, aud, by these means,
GROVER CLEVELAND
became President of the United States instead oi
of mine, made with full con onsideration and with
absolute certainty of its stantial truth, that
the democratic ISI press. and Gen Lee as we'll de
the events to which was referring occurred last
year, and not in 1861 or ls65-that they related
not to the war, but to frauds and crimes commit
| ted long since the war, which overthrew the
sanctity Of the ballotbox and Upturned the foYn-
dation of republican or democratic government
1t was tHe upon the ballot box, and not tht
war of the rebellion, that arragned. The truth
| Of what l said was not contrOvertel by Gov
am advised, by Gen. Lee. l. pointed to the pub
lie records, which proved all said, and especial
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in the South their full and unequivocal admis
| sOns of the facts stated by so far as they af
! fected the States of South Carolina; Georgia AM
| Mississippi, and their frank avowal and defens
| of their conduct. made no appeal to the Uniol
soldiers, but to all good citizens, South we'll a
North and said would do it to the people o
| Virginia. Gen. Lee, on the other hand, if 1 an
| not mistaken, has conducted his canvass almos
entirely upon the basis of an appeal to the Con
federate soldiers, TO the pride of Virginia, for tn
courage they exhibited in the war, and with mill
tary trappings.. flags and eavalcade he tries t
4 II opla trnT tha tac
tions of the present time, from your material de
| velopment, from protective tariff to the mem
| while there was hope, and submitted honorabl
to the arbitrament of arms when their
| CAUSE WAS LOST.
| 1t was of the present was speaking, and nc
of the past, and said that this evil of deprivin
| legal voters of their right to vote was great
wide,reaching in its influence, that it would neve
| be suit united to, but that some remedy would b
| found TO prevent its success. did not at tina
time dream that the same tactics of fraud an
| violence in the South of which complained wer
| about to be transferred to the State of Ohio. Ye
SO it was. In the recent election in the city {
| Cincinnati, where the Democratic party had cor
troll of the police, and substantially of the elet
ton, they resOrted to fraud and violence so gros
and shameless that even among the Democrats
Ohio there is an Outcry against such proceeding!
in the South, and invoke against them the hone
Indignation Of Nirxinians as did of the peOpl
issue of the times, to which I invite tt
earnest attention of every Democrat as we
| as of every Republican, involves the fund.-
| mental principles of our government; tn;
elections must be free and open and fai
and every honest voter should be permits
to cast his vote, and every honest vote should |
counted, and others. If this principle
| once overthrOwn republican government is at q
end, and the war of the Guelphs and the Ghibe
| of riots will commence, and there will soon be 8
end to al elections. In support Of this | mig
Jefferson and jackson and all the leading men
the past. who justly denour ced any violation
| the purity Of elections as the
GREATEST CRIME AGAINST A REPUBLI
therefore appeal to men of all parties, in Il
| name of all the great men of Virginia, invokrI
your just pride in your history, to to it that
the present election, whatever may be the resu
of it, that every entitled by the cons tituti,
and laws of Virginia and of the United States
vote shall be allowed freely to exercise that rig
and that his vote shall be counted and q
nounced. If Virginia will but do this she wi
by her example, confer as great beneft upon q
people of the United States any of the mauifo
benefits conferred in the past, and viii prescri
| type of manhood and justice which will be fC
lowed elsewhere, and thus tend to relieve
| American politics And now, fellow citizen
| what is the fundamental difference between Z
| Rep lblican and the Democratic parties? U
| doubtedly this line of difference is the same tn
at the very beginning OF the government diyid
| of giving birth to the two great men who. abo
all others, may be considered as the great lie ade
Of two. opposing theories as to the nature al
2 Of John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson. Jol
I | Marshall said the country was divided into tl
l plated Ameri a as a nation, and iabored inct
sanity to invest the federal head with pows
The other attached itself to the tate COVER
ment, viewed all the powers of Congress wi
! which would enable the head to act
any respect independently of the members
. | John Marshall was the great judicial expound
1 of the first of these theories, and. chief just
4 of the Supreme Court of the United States
= thirty -four years, was abe, by his DECISIONS,
| mark out the foundation and establish the prin
e pies of a strong national government, with ami
power to maintain itsel AGAINST all enemies
and champion of the other theory, and, no dol
by reason of his observations of monarchy
what he called concentrated power, icrgettil
| however, that the power of our national govel
: | ment was the power of the people when admin
A | tered by the nation as well as when administer
:. | by the State.
= THESE TWO OPPOSING THEORIES
! were manifested in every question, great g
small that appeared in the gSlitiics ic.s. Of the
eised ena what he Thought was an unconstitutioi
: | power in the acquisition of Louisiana, and Ma
/ son approved the bank bill and s.tl,sa the HI
. eisn affairs. The result Of the. first b
John Marshall as against those of Thomas JEFF
| son, and nothing disturbed this tendency ur
h the question of slavery unfortunately became
= | slavery induced the Southern leaders. John
e Calhoun at the head, to seek to cripple and Ill
~ | and narrow the power of the State and 10
"a au hOrity. 1t was upon this dividing line betwt
J. national and State authority that the Civil
b was fought, and it ended by the abolition of 81
', | cry, and should have been followed by the abb
r donmen of the doctrine which led to the conte
l. so that now it may be said in theory, II moi
g. | practice, the doctrines of John Marshall are
"a | established principles of national law, while
" Democratic party still adheres to the old theori
and It'll seeks TO belittle, to limit and to Grip
" the powers of the national government as to ms
"a of the great and necessary objects of naho
10 policy. Now, in these questions, whatever u
be said of the past, the State of Virginia
far deeply interested in hepubli
ideas than the State of Ohio or any of the Nor
J, | ern ideas. The two Virginias, taken as VII
10 and united into one State as they should be, ]
!, l vania any of the Western States. You h
' coal and iron without limit under soil
a. hausted but capable of restoration. You b
| harbors and rivers as beautiful as the sun shi
| upon. You have proximity to market, good
mate, all the products of the sea and all the
| ductions of the land suited to your clim
at | These are not my opinions expressed for the
~, | Cxpre ssed five years ago after careful stuo,
= | your resources. now repeat to you that W
SO ever may have been your theories IN the p
ys when it was necessary for you to do what
Its could TO
10 MAINTAIN THE SYSTEM OF SLAYER
ty yet now that every man is free and citizen,
- | interests of Virginia much involved IN
10 fair and just application Of the principles of
at Marshall AS any State in this Union; that for
~ | ginia still to lnger around the resolution
IA 17as, when new elements and new life