Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-21

, serts that "sll men, in the Declaration
Of Independence includes negroes. must
/. regard Mr.. Jefferson as a seoundrel. fol
there is no excuse possible 70 be conceived
Of why be and the men of his day,
J should not have acted upon the principle
! laid down. The number Of negroes
was scarcely 10000, all told. Il was
before the opening of the cotton culture
when they were really a burden, and
economically an evil. No, Mr.. JeueTson
never regarded negroes as entitled to the
rights Of white men, never, never. He
proposed emancipation, but always con-
nected il with their removal After
France tried the experiment in Hayti in
1890, be declared he would wait to wit
ness the workings Of emancipation there
before he ventured more opinions
on the subject. We thus see how
utterly grOundless are all the state
ments that Mr.. Jefferson was an an
/ cient Thaddeus Stevens or Charles
Sumner.
Indeed, 50 far from Mr.. Jefferson's be-
I lieving in giving negroes white mems
( rights, he was, perhaps, the first states
/ man OF our country who intimated that
/ they were a distinct race, and that the
! laws and usages Of society should be
| modified 70 correspond 10 these natural
/ distinctions. In view, then, of these
/ facts, we claim that the Anti-AbOliti0n
( State Rights Society has a right to cele-
I brate the anniversary Of Mr.. JeffersOn's
| birthday, and to regard him as peculi-
| arly the exponent Of its principles.
Standing as he does at the
head Of American philosophical
statesmen, as the great apostle Of democ-
racy and self-gOvernment, his name and
his principles ought now 10 be the watch
word Of every true American. When
we think that the rights Of his own be-
loved State and ten of her sisters are
stricken down by an abolition disunion
faction, that they are denied representa-
ton In Congress, denied all voice in the
laws under which they are compelled
to live, it is a wonder that his
majestic spirit does not break the cere- I
ments Of Monticello and rise to rebuke
the traitors and revOlvtiOnists in Wash
inglOn. But, gentlemen, the work before |
all true men seems TO be plain and sim
pie It is to give those men fair notice |
that we intend TO have our government /
back a. it was That we shall submit to /
no "new nation, - no new /
America, " that nothing but the |
government as given us from the |
hands of our fathers will satisfy US. 1
There is at least one set Of men in this /
country who need no reconstruction |
mean the States Rights Democrats Of |
the North. Through all the reign Of
bleod they have stood upon the COnstitu-
tion and the Union under it. If Mr..
Lincoln had pledged himself to admins
ter the Government as it always had
been, there would have been no war.
II he had accepted the Crittenden
Compromise there would have been
r. 4 !
the Union as the basis of his administra-
ton, and when he did that the State
Rights Democracy could not and would
not sustain him. But, gentlemen, I viii
letain you no longer, only remarking in
conclusion that l do not impugn the mo
cives Of thousands Of our fellow citizens
who went into the war sincerely believing
t was for the Union, men whose devotion
therefor, cannot be questioned, and who
never intended TO be a tool Of the Aboli-
iOnists to carry out their negro revolu-
ion. At the head Of those men unuues-
i0nabiy stands Andrew johnson; and
low that the war is ended, the great issue
5 the restoration OF our Government to
Is original position. With all who now
abOr sincerely to that end we can strike !
lands. Il Is as uuwise as impoltic TO
iemand perfection, according to our stan /
.dIa mere DeLOW. W e laDOr Tor the future,
lot the past. That, with its errors,
IS blood and its sufferings we will
ladly bury, if by that means we {
an see the sunlight Of a happy future
iiding the ruined homes and blackened {
wastes Of our beloved country. Let US $
hen use all our efforts to roll on the glo- :
lOus work Of restoring our country to its
riginal position, and hold ourselves in
eadIness not to be the blind adulatOrs of
ny man, but the cheerful followers Of
ny leader who viii take Us to that glo-
iOUs contamination.