Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-22
THE MIRROR OF SOUTHERN RADI-
CALISM.

THE MIRROR OF SOUTHERN RADI-
CALISM.
The st. Paul Pioneer, an admirably
conducted Democratic journal, says:
Extremes generally work their own
ruin. The lawless and revolutionary
programme of reconstruction, so-eslled,
is becoming so very lawless and TevOlu-
tionary that it IS reacting to vex and
embarrass its authors. This is the case
IN all such revolutions. Those who set
the ball in motion are hardly ever able
to control it, and are often crushed in
their efforts TO do so. Our motto for
several months has been to a" to let the
pendulum swing" II must swing to the
utmost verge its momentum will carry
it, before it returns TO the other extreme,
or to a medium stand.
That is our motto also. We hope that
Governor BROwNLOw will not favour the
! Acknowledgement of the majority Of
white men that once were Tennesseeans.
If he should, we hope the Legislature
will not listen to the Suggestion. "Let
the pendulum swing" Let Radicalism
run its course. Let the negroes recon-
struct, and take the powers of govern
ment in their hands, snd hold the offices;
and the whites, uniting for ~seIf-protec-
ton, become an army OF observation in
each State. When the disease of Radi-
| colism is cured, let it be thoroughly
cured. Palliatiyes will not reach the
cause of the disease. 1t is too deeply
rooted for that. There can be no health
OF soundness until the right Of suffrage is
sternly restricted to the white race, and
it is settled that the votes of a hundred
thousand negroes cannot rightfully make
law tor even five white men.
The Pioneer then quotes the following
paragraphs from that unmitigatedly
Radical journal, the Chicago Tribune,
which, unlike that philosophical bat, its
namesake in New York, has in this in
stance emerged from the twilight Of
nonsense into the open daylight Of COM
mon sense.
The Tribune says:
we repeat the warning to our repub.
lican friends in all parts of the country,
AlGL Tie RIGdLCHE aEEEE % Tie 5LEEE6S Oh
reconstruction in the rebel states is to be
spprehended from the extravaganza and
demagogism Of the white UPSTAIRS who
sre fastening themselves upon the nseks
of the negro population, and will ride
them to destruction, If not overthrow.
If the party at the south is to be con
trOlled and directed by these men, we
cannot hope for the cooperation Of the
more intelligent and patriotic whites"
One would think that the Editor of the
Tribune had been on a journey through
Tennessee, and tarried q little while in
Memphis. It would have been only fair
to add, that the UPSTAIRS who are fas-
tening themselves on tAe necks of the
negro population, - are enabled to main
tain their presses and e5pt0iter the ne
groes, by near Of contributions levied
in the North, and subsidies from the gov
eminent, II the danger spprehended
by the Tribune results, the party at large
will have been its author. To its moneys
and It's emissaries, the banding of the
negroes into Q consolidated mass of
sable proletarisnism by means of the viii
famous machinery and munmery Of
Loyal Leagues, is owing.
Again the Tribune says;
"In fact, the virtual abandonment Of
all opposition has produced at the south
just what IL would naturally produce in
any other part Of the country-a number
OF demagogues, who, in their rivalry,
hasten TO outbid each other with the
most fna1nn nrd .wNH~-.u,,N --,---s
tions.n
1.-THE proposition it says, made by
" some Of these demagogues to place in
its constitution q provision c~onfscating
the lands OF the late owners and appor-
tiOning them among those who have no
lands, is received with q favor which
bodies no good to reconstruction or to the
general peace and welfare of the cOun-
try"
And it adds
There are other propositions mady by
these demsgogical white knsves equally
dangerous and repulsiYe. They propose
that the officers and houOrs of the state
shall be equally divided between the two
races ana they then propose to so limit
the eligibility Of the whites as to keep
the offices falling to the share Of that
class among themselves. They propose
TO avenge the wrongs Of slavery by the
political Acknowledgement Of 81 who
ever owned slaves, and to punish treason
against the United States by excluding
all white men from Office save their own
immaculate tribe.
Its even honest enough to say:
The idea Of c~Onfiscsting the property
81 any person by a state for an offense
against the United States, is not relieved
OF its responsiveness to justice and propri-
ETY. because originated by Andrew John
son. Andgew johnson, when he prom.
lsed the negroes Of Tennessee that the
land and other property OF the rebels
should be divided among them, was but
anticipating by a few years other dema-
goSues as INSCRIPTIONS IS himself
Ii the conventions about to be elected
IN any rebel state propose to present a
constitution to congress which shall con-
nscate the property of any citizen for
ofenses sgsinst the United States. or
undertake to divide and spportion the
property of q class of persons AMONG
other classes, the people who PROPOSE
that kind Of q constitution shouId he
maze to know beforehand that it win not
be accepted or recognized by congress.
but will Be ~FePPdl4ted IS promptly as ii
IL re estapilSne0 slavery.
And it concludes as follows;
What the country wants is, not hat
there should be Africanized nor pure
white, nor republican nor democratic.
stats governments in the rebel states, but |
governments rejecting the popular will
and securing to all freemep, without dis
tination Of race OF color, an equality of
civil and political liberty. They are not
to be svenging tribunals, nor pFoacriptlye
establishments; they are not to punish
or degrade a nan because be is black,
Ror because he is white. They are to be |
governments that are just, and founded
upon principles of republican liberty. 81
guaranteed snd protected by the national
constitution. When they depart from
these plain and intelligent propositious |
to reach after extremes that are hereticaI
in theory, apd ~diabolical in practice. they
become hostile to the well grounded Mi.
losophy Of our government, aud become
violate Of the principles Of the republican
party.
How Lopez was Killed.
The following letter describes the
assassination of IoDez. who hafravaa i