Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-03-15


The power usurped and exegcised 10
exclude representatives, to distranellise
States and people, 70 prescribe test oatlls
and other tests in subversion OF equal
government is q fitting prelude 70 that
desnoiisH which frowiis rom the brew
Of revolutionary Congress
] It is strange that Constitution suited
I 20 25,0lO 009 of white peeple, pfodsieing
! prosperity when obeyed, aud misfortune
only when violated, should now be
| deemed Insufficient FOR 3,Oo3OV OF
negroes.
While all these proposed Constitutional
anefdniehts Il have beenkept IN Hbeyanee,
and Congress has been specnlatng with
/ the temporary suspension of the relations
1 of the South 10 the Union, until the pub
/ lie mind should become familiar with
/ and tolerate the permaneney Of the stis-
I pension, an important measure was being
mamred as an entering wedge for All
/ these revolutionary schemes.
The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, recon-
,neaded 10y its charitable appearance and
! ostensible humanity, and besides haying
4 Il precedent IN operation in tie south,
was brought forth; bill to establish
military jurisdiction over adj parts of the
( United States containing refugees and
/ freedmen TO create large and per
manent standing army; to require saia-
ried agents without number In every
State, county and parish in the South 10
invest the agents with supreme power
over the negro, and over all questions
between the negro aud citizen, and to
tsy all white persons who might be
charged with oifense against the negro,
upon negro testimony, without ndict-
nent or jury, and without any fixed rule
of law or evidence, and to iniiict such
punishment as the bureau agent might
see proper, and in which proceedings
there was no appeal to any court. Tile
bower Of the Bureau was 10 be Supreme
over State constitutions, State officers
and courts and laws, aud 10 be admins
tered by that class who would seek q
livelihood in such occupation All tile
negroes were to be fed, clothed and sup I
ported by the General Government.
Out of the Treasury of the United !
States was 10 be paid the expenses Of |
erecting schools, houses and asyiums, |
and negro churches and hospitals: and /
the lands of the residents were 10 lie |
taken away and given to the negro.
Every section of the bill was Il viola |
ton Of the whole scope and purport of I
the Constitution, and was, in effect, a .
bill 30 enslave and impoverish the white 1
people sf the South, and to establish, in |
the general views the negro race, and I
at the expense of Northern labor This I
bill totally ignores the Southern States
rs being in the Union, aud the Southern !
people rs having amy rights under the
Constitution. With this bill as q law
and in operation, and followed up by the
constitutional amendments proposed, the
work of disuniOn would be complete and
permanent.
IL would have prostrated the whole
agricultural system of the South, de-
Sir0yed its commerce and the revenue of
the Government, and Increased tile pub
lie debt, perhaps, $1,000 ,ayD yearly.
by the veto Of this hill the plans OF the
disuuionists are, for the time being, bro
ken up. The work of the whole session
has come 10 uaught, and their motives
are exposed 10 the public view presi-
dent johnson has denounced these work
nrs of disunion in the following language:
u have fought traitors ana treason in
he South. / opposed the Davises and
i0omhses, the SlidelIs, and long list Of
ltheTs, whose names | need not repeat
and now, when | turn round, at the
other end of the line, | find men,
are not hy what name you call them
still stand opposed 10 the restoration of
he Union of the States. Aud / am free
o say to you, that ! ain still for the pres
'rvation of this compact; | am stili in
avor Of this great Government of ours
soiug on and following out its own des-
.IHY--l a vaipe. give us the nafnes'f "A ,
Gentleman calls for their names well, |
iuppnSe ! should give them. 4 voice,
we know them. look ap0n them,
'epeat IL, as President or citizen, as much
opposed to the fundamental principles OF
his Government, and believe they are
Is much labOring To prevent or destroy
{ as the men who fought against Us. A
voice, what are their names"l | say
i'haddeus Stevens, OF Pennsylvania, )
tremendous applanse]; ] say Charles
great applause say Wendell
Phillips and Others uf the saline stripe;
Ill among them" !
That their leaders brought on the war: Z
hat while one danger TO the Union has }
ieen thwarted, another equally great is
from the Abolitionists Of the I
Sorili, must excite the reflection OF every >
over Of his country. II tire Hartford
Convention has merited the odium of '
hree generations, may not this Congress
merit, and viii il not receive, at the
lands Of the people, an immortality of |
nfamy. Freedom, Union, peace and !
prosperity are being sacrificed ON the altar q
f negro fanaticism. l
Both Our interests and common pa
riotism demand that the people shall 4
ppOse The scheme Of their leaders To q
eStrOy eleven States, and hold them in
assalage to make a negro pauper-ln-
rmary out of the South, and poor fund r
at of the Treasury Of tiIe United States l
D place the negro on an equality with
ne white man TO give TO a treasOn- !,
bic faction the negro race as an i'm d
iense engine Of fraud; 20 perpetuate
n power those who have fattened
II the pablic misfortune To increase the
uhlic debt; 20 foster Eastern monopoly / ,
nd oppression; to destroy the means OF !
avenue in One-half OF the Union: 10
hange the Constitution Tor the purposes
4 view, cannot but degrade, impOverish,
li~laye and rain the whole people, but
ke sectional fanaticism, aud ambition
nd official extravaganza, be hurled frolDI
over; letthe Union be- preserved intact.I
4 the Southern States revive theirindus-i
y and restore their wealth, and let each =
tate provide for its own poor, and cunt5ol
$ own system OF labor; let this Govern :
lent forever remain a Government of
.hite people; let the public debt be
laced upon the Whole people--rich rs
ell as FoOF-accoF,iing to valuation of p
fuperty; let labor and production he
and the ruins of the war
III -1oh disappear, and the people again
2 prosperous and happy. IL cannot be
17slhlo that people who have sacri- d
eed 50 much to save the Union are at
st to see il overlhrown in the name oil
egro equality!