Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-02-27
For the Appeal.
ANDREW JOHNSON.

been removed, 10 make way for ANDREW
JOHNSON to ascend to the p~erilous emf
hence Of the presidential chair. He was
universally odious 20 those upon the
losing side, and it was supposed thatthe
remembrance of old enmities in the sen
ate. inaamed by the abuse heaped upon
=. him during the war, would spur him on to
acts Of severity against individuals,
while his inclination to radicalism in
+, @politics. would lead him to side with
those most eager TO make the Southern
s states vassaIs Of the North, and 70 pun
s fsh treason by the shedding Of blood,
and indiscriminate c-ondscations.
1t is needless to say how by degrees all
these s-pprehensions have been ~dispelled,
and all these ~forebodings falsi6ed by
events, until even those who have not to
thank him for the poor grace Of a par
don, have become bis well-wishers and
admirers. He has not only proven him
self 10 possess a rare magnanimity in
forgiving and forgetting personal inju-
ries. but he has also shown himself a
wise, firm and prudent statesman, intent
only upon restoring the integrity Of the
Union, and ~reconciling the States so re-
Gently ia arms against each ether. Il
Mr.. LNC0LN had lived, he would have
yielded 90 the pressure Of the radical
party and its leaders, as he had always
done before the leaders Of the South
would have been executed, and the prop
erty Of all men of mark indiscriminately
confscated. He would no more have
withstood the pressure, than he did after
promising not TO sign q bill for the en-
ployment Of negro troops.
ANDREW JOHNSON, gifted with more
frmness and equal m~agnanimity, has
steadily faced the insane agitators who
rule in Congress, and, so far, has checked
their mad designs. Never were schemes
so wild and measures so ruinOus pro-
D0sed. no u-tterances so rabid heard in a
representative body, as in the Senate
and House Of Representative Of the
United States, during the pre-entsession,
except during the contest between the
| Jacobins and Giroudins, and during the
after supremacy of the Mountain and
he visionary ideas Of SUMNER are only
/ equaIed by those of CoSDORCET, SAINT
I JUST and ANACHARsIs CLoOTE while
the msIigniry Of THADDEUs STEVENS
is only paralIeled by that Of CoCTHAN
and NARAr, the murderers, and friends
/ Of the people par excellence. At length
ANDREW JOHNSON has become an lob
s.acle" which it is openly threatened to
/ remove: and the President, provoked by
this revolutionary madnass, has publicly
/ denounced the leaders and dehed their
malice. The Tribune Of the people ap-
peals to thspeopIe, not, ike the Gracchi,
| against an aristocracy of mobiles, but
rather like RIENzI, against the agitatOrs
and -demag0gues who seek TO rule by in
flaming the worst and lowest passions Of
the mob
No more sad spectacle, We think, has
ever been witnessed anywhere, than
/ CHARLES SUMNER u-tering his venom in
diluted limitations of CICERO, specious,
plausible and poisonous. His swelling
pomp and stilted parade of phrase have
al Iength become ridiculous, and the i'm
porence Of his intellect is manifest amid
all his sounding periods. He has be-
come a bore Of the greatest magnitude,
through one Of whose trashy harangues
it requires more than ordinary quietude
to wade.
Stevens is a malignant of the order of
Thersites, raucor0us, impatient Of oppO-
,iriou. soured, vindictive, snarIing like a
toothIeS Old wolf To him there are but
t~wenty-three States. The rest have be-
come Provinces 20 be despoiled.
How viii the war end, between these
men and their party v0ciferous SIS it is
through the press and in the pulpit, and
the President and the party which sus-
taius him. The President should always
have known, perhaps always did know,
that it was useless 10 attempt to concili-
ate these D~estructives. Probably he has
only waited until they should fully COM
nit themselves, before declaring himself
the President-n0J Gf twenty-three, but
Of thirtv-four States. IL would have
weakened his position if Tennessee had
been permitted to re-enter the Union. As
the matter now stands, there are no prov
fnces. or he is no President. If Tennes-
see is a state in the Union, she is entitled
20 be present in the Congress Of States,
by her senators and representatives.. If
she Is not one Of the United States, no
citizen Of hers can be, c9nsitutionally,
President. Logic is memorable as neces-
-ity. All the SKINNED milk ofSUANER's
-m0nologues cannot avoid the force Of
these selEevident propositions.
Of course. no man who asserted the
right Of a State to secede, and that one
seeding ceased, to al intents and pur-
poses. TO Doe one of The United States, can,
consistently, deny that the United States,
having conquered these, could Of right
reduce them Jo subsection as Provinces.
We admit that slavery IS lawfully abol-
fshed here. because a title founded orig
iuaIIy on force, and the rights Of the cap
tor i'm Africa, may equally be annulled by
force and the viii Of the victor. The
United States might uuquesu0uably sell
us into slavery, or put as, men, women
and children. 70 the sword. All this is
within the power Of the coHqGeror, aad
no more contrary 20 Che modern laws Of
war, than the plunderiug OF pictures,
plate and jewels Of n0n-combatants.
But the President holds that q State
could not secede, and some Of States
have, at bis wish, declared their ordl-
nauces Of secession to have been, from
the beginning, HBU and void. ~Itfollows,
upon his theory, and 90 msintain which
Z the Northern States fought, that al the
! states are still States in the Union; for
if they did nos ss ont by seeding, 1Ohea
I did they cease to be Ia the Union, and
when and how did they become Provin-
ces. TO be governed after peace by mill
tary p~roconsuls?
Certainly 10 graver difference Of opin-
ion has ever existed. If the eleven con-
quered States were by defeat prevented
from leaving the Union, and are still
parties 20 the constitutional compact,
then their senators and Representatives,
If they can take the required oath, have
precisely the same rights IN the Halls Of
/ Congress as those from Massachusetts and
Minnesota. II t~wenty-three Of the States
deny that right 10 eleven, and yet pro-
coed 10 legislate for all, the country is in
the midst Of a revolution. Is the Presi-
dent % consent 20 be such for only part Of
the States, his own, among others, being
excluded? Can he consent not 10 be the
Presldent0 Of the StaJeof Tennessee aIsoo Is
be bound 10 recognize the body Ia session
at Washington as q true Congress Of the
United States and If not what remedy
has he? VIII he continue 10 recognize
it as such by signing and so giving force
r. H..-. .-..s.H H.- so ar shall lac refuse