Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-05

brigade Of negro militia quartered here
to maintain order, which they will do
with about the same efficiency as the
Metropolitans catch thieves.
PROGRESS OF REVOLUTION.
The student Of human nature has a
new book opened to him, in that hetero-
geneous mas Of humanity which is be-
ing slowly fused and moulded into a new
race in the Northern departments of the
country that still appropriately calls
itself the United States.
For he will there see men who have
certainly read a little Of history, and
who must sometimes be visited by a
CLEAN of sanity, reproducing all the fol-
lies, which led to ali the crimes, o fFrench
| ~Jaeobinism which gUillOtined the Giron-
dins, gave France the Reign ofTerror, and
led to the Directory, the Consulate and
the Empire. The whole North resem-
bles, 10 an Indifferent spectator, a vessel
drifting upon a lee-shore, with the break
ers full in view, and crew and passengers
drunk, insane, dancing, singing, yelling
and Disappearing.
We propose to furnish our readers with
some means Of judging Of the progress Of
Jaeobinism in the North, by r~e-Produc-
ing from day to day the u~tterances of the
| Northern Press, or, as we might more
truly say, its rawlings, in respect t~opublie
affairs. The radical press is just now
running a muck against the Supreme
! Court, because it has had the temerity to
decide that half a dozen plain provisions
in the Constitution mean what they say,
and that all trials Of civilians by mill
tary commissions have been illegal.
We furnish to-day a significant article
from the st. Louis Democrat, as contain
ing the very essence Of Jacobinism.
1.-THE will Of the People," it declares,
Twill certainly find a way to make
d" itself master OF the Government, -
which of course means that neither
Courts or Constitutional restrictions are
to stand in the way Of the popular will
Of the Northern leaders. We all know
what the word " People" means, in rev.
dictionary days.
The article we reproduce is especially
significant as declaring that not one
Northern State would have considered
itself pledged to allow the Southern Prov
inces a representation in Congress, even
if they had accepted, to their eternal in
fanny. "tbe Constitutional Amend
ment."
It declares, moreover, what is true,
that States not entitled to representation
are not States at all, nor entitled to exer-
else any political power. The present
Congress wiH not adjourn, until II has so
declared By la1C. II President Johnson
vetoes the law, it will be passed owe his
veto; and he is ~estopped, by his constant
recognition Of the body as a lawful Con-
gress, now to deny it. W. agree, more
over, that whether the conquered COM
mUnities are States or Provinces is a
question which it is not competent for
the Supreme Court to decide. For the
Supreme Court cannot adjudicate in re-
spect to the lawful composition of the
Congress, and the whole question is a po-
litical one, in which the judiciary must
follow the decision and accept as conclu-
sive the action OF the political power.
There will be no remedy anywhere.
Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee be-
ing dextrousIy severed from the South
ern States, and non-entities, are at best
impOtent and insignificant as depart
ments Of the Empire. The rest Of the
South is to be divided into Provinces of
convenient size, in which to try, on a
scale, the experiment Of negro suf-
and negro domination owe the
white race.