Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-27
MILITARY COMMISSION BILL.
The Stevens Dictatorship Re-
.stored-N othing Settled.

From the New York Express.l
Thad. Stevens was discomfited for a
few hours in the House, but through
Shellabarg of Ohio, one of his subordi.
mates, recovered the usual mastery of
his House Plantation, and affixed to the
Senate Sherman bill his proscriptive
principle of excluding from suffrage or
office in the South every person of note
who had taken active part in the rebel
lion, while Scipio, SAmbo aud Cesar,
who freely and willingly raised corn and
cotton for their masters during the re.
bellion, and served them well, are sd-
mitted to the suffrage. How men of the
North and West, with any regard for
their own wives and children, can prefer
ignorant negro voting to theirs, amazes
us, or how such men can consent to put
themselves and their wives and children
into o negro partnership government
with ten States Of the Union. The
whole is as amazing to us as the cru
sades, or Moslemism, or the doings of
the Praise Barebones Parliament But
il shows us that under the influence Of
passion and fanaticism, reason in man
is not half as conservative as instinct in
the brute.
The effect Of this bill is, that, while
outragng every principle of Democratic
progress and civilization-the trial by
jury, the rights of man, Magma Charta,
etc, etc.-and, while subjecting millions
of white people to negroes, just emerged
from slavery, it is a cheat that settles
nothing The five Brigadier Govern.
ment is not a settled Government-but
a Government, the Rump Congress re-
serves to itself the right to change, any
day it wills. All the State governments
are enacted to be mere provisional gov
ernments, and the Rump reserves to
itself the right to annul and change
these provisional governments at will
Already we see that Mr.. Sumner IS
forcing Louisiana into the Union
through the exclusive negro suffrage
vote
Under these conditions, the South is
ruined, and to be ruined more and more
No emigrants from the United States
will 90 into oar Poland or Ireland,
while the Polish and Irish proscripts of
the South will emigrate here, or 90 West
No Young American, if he can possibly
earn his living elsewhere, will now set
tie down in land of despotism and be-
come a subject, when he can emigrate
East or West, and become q citizen. No
Northern or Western men, OF any fore
,.ast, will invest any capital in this Po-
land ~ Ireland The South, therefore,
;s a nlaee 10 be Stunned by the worlds
amigration, as Ireland or Poland is
summed. or as Egypt or Turkey:
The exact history of the South is al
ready written out in Hayti, Jamaica,
and in the mixed, mottled. hybrid Span,
,sh settlements, which Cortez and
Pizarro conquered for the orowA OF
Spain, but which the Spanish Hevolu-
tionists ruined when they smalgamated
in government, and in blood, with Aztees,
and Indians, and negroes. The whole
vast Territory, from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande, is blastsd-as If Attilla or
Alaric had run over it, with the Sword
of Devastation, or, as if the Plague had
settled upon it with the Bosom Of De-
struetion itself,
Ii is MOTTO be presumed, for a moment,
that Andrew Johnson will approve
this bill. He can kill it by what is
called pocket veto, TO be surs-bnt
two questions arise on that:
lst' Cui bOHOi The Forheth Con-
Uress, TO assemble March 4th, would re-
pass il.
ID. The government Of FIVE white Brig
adiers in epaulettes is preferable to the
,braaten. government Of eight millions of
vh;.es by four millions Of negroes.
Nor is Il 20 be presumed that one of
the ten Southern States will accept this
act. which proscribes the most capable
Of the white men, and subject them all 10
governments Of negroes. The i've
Brigadier General government over r.
GOO 600 of our people will continue as
long as Congress pleases Endurance,
admission, political slavery, hard as
thew are, should therefore. be submitted
10 bv the Southern people just nov, as
mart Of wisdom. Subjects Of soldiers
tbey are, not citizens-but the govern
ments OF Austria, and Of Russia, we can
hear witness, are very eRduraole govern
mepts. Even Egypt, under It's Pasha,
Il an endurable government Your bat
lie. Southerners, is now to be fought out
In ths Northern and Western States, and
when passion is over here-which cannot
reign always-oar people viii be just
Yo1r very snbmissiep Eil shame our
mea into justice. The lie they Bat gpoou
record against the Declaration OF inde-
pendence, Of the freedom and equality
Of men, IL a living lle, nov terribly star
ing them IN the face.