The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-30
THE TRUE SOUTH.
The Tribute Of Senator Voorhees,.
One ofth Most Eloquent Utterances
Of the Great Orator.
How the South Has Risen Out of
Her Poverty.
THE Dreadful History of the Recon-
struetion Period.
why the South Can Have No Love for
the Republican Party-The sena-
tors Beautiful and Touch
ing Exordium.

The telegraphic report OF Senator Voor-
hees' eloquent and scathing reply to Sena-
ator ingalls, was M abridgment merely,
and that part Of it which referred to the
south was somewhat meagerly outlined.
THE APPEAL gives that part OF il in full as
obtained from the Congressional Record:
Twenty-three springs and summers have
decorated with flowers the graves OF the
dead, and rs many autumns and winters
have covered them with falling funeral
leaves and shrouds Of snow, since peace
was declared between soldiers in the field,
and yet at this late day n campaign OF
political animosity is again declared
against the people OF the south, their
rights, their security, and their good
name.
The especial anger OF Republican leaders
Is excited because the vote OF the south in
a national contest is solid against their
party. Will some one on the other side
OF the chamber, and with even the slight
est knowledge OF human nature, tell me
how the vote of the south could be other
than il is? You had political supremacy
once from the Potomac TO the Rio Grande.
At one time and another for seven years
and more after the war you had the
ascendancy IN every state of the entire
south; you elected Republican Governors,
State officers and Legislatures in them all.
You had the purse with which 10 corrupt,
the sword with which 10 intimidate and n
Republican Congress and President 10
enact and TO enforce all laws necessary for
the overthrow OF individual and State
rights and for the consolidation OF your
power.
You seized upon the eniranchised negro
and sought TO organize and hurl him against
the peace and security OF political and
social order, and for a time ard in many
instances YOU succeeded. You and your
allies, who mostly went there from the
north, not ''allios OF the Confederacy," but
allies for power and plumber, swept down
upon the helpless south like Hyder-Ai
upon the Carnatic, and left scarcely a
vCstige from which TO hope and with which
70 rebuild, except its never-iaiing soil and
its staunch and splendid manhood. You
dcspOiled States OF their resources, aud YOU
dismantlod them Of their credit. You
issued their bonds aud securities in the
interest Of fraud, and lmwked them on the
market, like counterfeit paper, for any
thing you could get
You ordered Investigations and sent
committees and commissions, composed OF
your biticrcst partisans, into the south,
for the purpose VI scfaping together and
putting in permanent form the pefjuries OF
vagabonds and scoundrels with which TO
dciame and blackcn the reputation Of the
southern people. They were proclaimed
in some instances rs bandits and In others
rs barbarians. You repeatedly nnnulled
honest elections when their results were
favorable TO the stability and good order
Of society and against the schemes 81 parti.
san plundcrvrs. You would have over
turned the state government Of South
Carolina In 1876 and sacked the substance
and the credit Of the State had II not been
that that giant stood in your way upheld
by the public judgment OF the world.
You provoked collisions between the
races in order TO justify military usurpa.
ton and 10 inflame sectional hate at the
north. Sir, the career OF the Republican
party during its ascendcncy in the south
was n career Of crime, unrclieyed by q
single net tending 10 promote the educa-
ton, the progress, the prosperity, the
peace or the happiness Of either race,
white or black. II reared and left behind
II no monument Of patriotism wisdom or
bcneyolenco TO tell future ages that It's
presence had been a blessing, aud not u
curse. And when the future historian
comes 10 inquire why and how and exact
ly when the Republican party lost IFS tire.
mcndous hold on the PROSTATE south and
skunk away 10 return no more forever, he
will be puzzled 10 make answer In definite
details, but he will finally write that It's
administration throughout all that region
had become 30 vast and intolorable q
- scandal, filling the world with It's foul
odors, that an Intelligent and onnipotont
public opinion here and everywhere de-
manded It's downfall and the restoration
/ on liz ruins OF home rule and decent gov
eminent
And Il Is this party, sir, whose leaders
/ now iume and resolve and threaten the
| southern people and their States, because
they do not welcome II back again into
power with all lis unhalowed memories
aud its prcdaceous instincts and habits
As well might you expect frontier settle
mcnt 10 welcome with Joy a second inya-
sion Of tomahawks and scalplng knives.
Why cape and wonder ut the result Of
the election few days ago In louisiana
There Is nothing in the 1900 Democratic
majority TO marvel az. II was simply the
overwhelming protest Of the people OF that
State, terrified and appalled, nc the pros
poet Of ever again being governed by the
leaders OF the Republican party, and the
III
imoua
They had In former times seen their
State government pass into Republican
hands with q debt Of but 81, 100000, aud
thoy had seen her in the short space o
four yean aiierward crushed 10 the very
earth, financially ruined, bankrupted, and
dishonorcd by mountainous debt o.
S5O,000OOO. The people Of Louisiana oil
both races had witnessed worse and more
dishonest government in their state under
Republican rule than the pirate chiefs o.
Barralaria ever inflicted IN their lawlcs'
camps, and In the recent election they
simply declared with great emphasis thai
they wanted such government no NOR
forever.
But, sir, suppose We permit the people
pi the entire south 10 make answer by
heir works 10 the reproaches Of sectiona
bate, TO the proposed inquest legislation Q
the senaiorfrom Massachusetts, Mr.. lloarl
pnd 10 the other Evolutionary and uncon
ftitutional measures introduced Mt Tho
present session here, aud in the othe
branch OF Congress. The spirit OF won
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