Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-02-11
THE CURE FOR TENNESSEE.

The Union men OF Tennessee are try
ing 70 prevent that State from being
overslaUghed by the late rebels, and for
that purpose Mr.. Arnell, Chairman ol
the Select Committee on Franchise, has
reported TO the Legislature an act dis
franchising, stringently all except those
white adult citizens who have never vol
UNFAIRLY borne arms against the Govern
ment, or given any aid or encourage
ment 70 the rebellion, OF accepted any
office under the Confederate States.
This act, says the Memphis APPEAL will,
If PASSED, "~disfranchise seventeenth OF
the real people Of Tennessee, ana ought
10 be entitled a bill to promote emigra-
ton from the State"
We doubt not the APPEAL is correct,
and little a. we like 20 agree with so
thorough a rebel, its objection has much
force. Every government 10 be self-sup-
porting must enlist in its favor the ma
iOrity, Of numbers and Of force among the
people. ANY other is a desp0tism, by the
minority over the majority, and can
only be maintained like ali other milf
farv despotisms by the bayonet To
exclude seven-tentlS OF the whites AMI
all the blacks of Tennessee, Is 10 eX-
clude nine-tenths OF the people, and
no government maintained 10y one-tenth
NL AAM GANNAA a. ~
or secure. The remedy is easy. Let the
loyal white Tennesseeans admit 70 the
ballot box the equally loyal black Ten
uesseeans, and they Will then have the
majority Of numbers and Of force, and
can afford 70 let many Of the rebels
vote. 4 resident ~nOn-vOting population,
whether white OF black, j. a magazine
Of explosive cOmOustihies, needing only
"a spark % fame mp into a revolution.
The Union men OF Tennessee should
first see whether by extending the sur
frage 70 all the loyal men In the State,
they may not bid defiance 10 the rebels.
If even then they would be too weak,
they should disfranchise no more than
would enable them certainly TO control
the State.
But If a bin Withholding the franchise
from seyen-tenths Of the people Of Ten
uessee is an act 90 promote emigration oil
its citizens. was not President Johnson's I
re-constusction proclamation, which with
holds the franchise from seven-tenths Of
the Deople OF South Carolina, a bill TO
promote emigration from that State
Are not all his reconstruction prOclama-
tons and the entire policy on which he
is running for the next Presidency, a
series Of acts 70 promote the emigration
and deportation Of four millions OF Amer
icsn laborers, far more needed 20 develop
the Resources Of the country than are the
rebels Of Tennessee2
But oyalTennesseeans mustsO arrange
their platform as 70 construct their State
on the broad basis Of the majority Of the
people. II matters title tchetter the
foundation stones be tChite or black, 50
that they Ugiderite the whole edkfce.-CHi-
cago Tribune.
We copy the foregoing in full, to give
our readers an idea OF the fanatical mad
ness which has seized upon the Radicals,
Of the Stevens Observation-Disclosures
school. We commend it, especially, to
The attention Of those East Tennesseeans
who, by their course, are upholding that
marty, and are contributing 20 beat down
AxDREw JOHNSON. one Of their own peo-
ole. We recommend it, TOO, to u old
friend, Gov. BROwELOw, whose first no
toriety, II not fame, was obtained in
resisting these identical doctrines Of
agrarianism and negro equality. The
Radicals in our Legislature from East
Tennessee still remain 50 faithful TO his
teachings that they are with difficulty
brought up 10 the point Of simple, hui
name, common n justice, by giving
the poor emancipated negro such access
% u Courts as to enable him to protect
himself against bad white men. How
shall he and they swallow their brother
Of the Zri5aates doctrine Of absolute
ffeTs eqHalagf