Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-18

have searched with great diligence in
every place likely to yield Information,
and we have the advantage Of many pri-
vate letters on the same topics, and we
4 say with sincere regret, that our best
! Judgment more than justihes the esti-
mate herein made Of the tone and tenn
per Of the sOuthsTn Psople-or at least OF
their representative Den.
This spirit VIII have 8 powerful reac-
ton. Already we are conscious Of ? de-
cided Change Of feeling in this section.
/ 2 the natural eZuItatiOn Of success, our
/ ~peosle were o-pen-uanded and open
/ hearted with forgiveness. Even the
| horrors Of bGlle Isie apd Anders0uyille
were momenJartiy forgotten, audatl that
was necessary to wash the past in the
waves Of oblivion was q frank extension
/ of the hand, and al honest acknowledge
meUt Of the results Of the contest, ac-
companied By a graceful submission 10
the decision Of the Jribunal Of arms,
that tribunal to which the south had so
sgIemnIv appealed. The untCG is still
| generous and magnauimOus, even ahaer
the pr~ovoeatiCus here cited but cer-
I tainly none can be so infatuated IS 70
[ suppose that the union viii continue to
lOCk lightly upon uhat Incendiary malice
which seeks to reopen old wounds and
provoke, OF perhaps undertake, another
national assassination.
The Northern people claim, and mean
to exercise, the right to confscate large
/ estates in the South. They hold that
| eveua fun pardon does not restore 10 any
right OF property. OF course the South
ern people know tAst, if they have not
been alien enemies, but reBels and trail
tors, tAeir property could only be eonas-
| Gated As a consequence Of a conviction
for treason, upon regular trial after in
dictmeut, by a Jury, and before q compe-
tent court. or course they know that
| the proclamation Of President LNCOLS
could only set free the slaves, as a war
I measure, so far as, and where, his armies
went aud gave them actual HaaUmis-
sion. But they also know that consti-
tutional government, snd law and
/ right are al at an end. and that these
/ have been succeeded by ga unlimited
and irresponsible despotism.
There are still, after the lapse Of more
| than two years, thousands Of men in the
South whom the capricious Executive
clemency' has St yet PsEdoHcd Those
pardoned are still regarded as having &c
| rights, and in Tennessee it is laudable to
murder them. Fifty sthousand white
men in South Carolina are reduced to
/ servitude under sixty Thousand images
! Of GOD cut ID ebony ? and that State and
North Carolina endure SIcKDEs and his
Bureau of Civil Affairs, while SHERIDAN
sabre in hand and in jack-boots be-
strides Louisiana ike an abbreviated
Colossus, and kicks and cuffs the dead
body Of the State; and in Alabama
SINISTER DICK BUSTED" ~dispeuses
what he calls law and justice, and is
quietly told by Judge Warts that his
bearing toward the bar is not such as
gentlemen in the South have been used
to; and UNDERWOOD, in Virginia, pours
out his bad English and billiDgsgate from
the Bench to negro and negr0IOid grand
iuriss, and holds indictments for treason
over those whom General GRANT pa
rolled and emissaries from those f1Jnaa-
MIA bGrGttrG OF hypocrisy and de-
baucheeism, New England and Pennsyl-
vanis, preach patience to Southern
white trash and cO~nfscstion to their su-
periors, the accomplished and intellec-
tual sons ef Ethiopia and, in short, the
Devil is unclaimed in the South, and
Russia and Turkey furnish p~recedeuts for
its government. There is TO be 3 general
parcelhng out Of Southern lands, among
heroes and negroes and to pay CoUTHoN
STEVENS for his iron-works andy YET the
New York Times pirates Of restoring the
era Of good feeling and the people Of the
South are admonished not to be contu-
maciOus, but to sccept thankfully the
dispensations Of Northern greed and
piety, and with cheerful resignation
thank GOD they have not fallen into
worse hands.
The people Of the South mag accept
the shameful terms exscted by Congress
sionsl ~Suobbery and so admit upon
the record that they have been rebels
and traitors deserving to be hung, and
owing their lives to the mercy and Glenn
ency Of their conquerors. But neither
persecution or csjolery can make them
5elieUe hat they have been either
traitors or rebels. If the war had at first
been a rebellion, &c sOOn outgrew the nro-
portions Of that and no Government
has eve done a more indecent and dis
graceful act, than the United States in
treating u Generals and civil leaders a.
traitors, at the end Of four wears, war.
waged between armies larger than those
Of NAPOLEON. To prove this we need
but quote the words Of that greatest Of
the great, Edmund BURKE, spoken 4,
the House Of Commons. when it No.
proposed in England, in l776. to try
American prisoners for treason. He aid.
"War is at presen tcarried op betvoa,
the kings natural and foreign troons -
one side, and the English in Amerie9 ~
the other, upon the usual footing of ofhar
wars and, accordingly, an exchange 81
prisoners has been regularly made from
the beginning. L. Notwithstanding thiq
hitherto equal procedure, upon some
prospect Of ending the war with SUE
cess, the administration prepares to act
against those a. traitors who remain a.
their hands at the end of the troubles
la my opinion we shall exhibit 10 the /
world as indecent a piece Of Injustice a.
ever civil fury has produced. II the
prisoners who have been exchanged
have not, by that exchange, been viz
tually pardoned, the cartel whether
avOWed or UNDERSTOOD is a cruel fraud
for you have received the life Of a man.
and you ought to return a life for il, or
there is no parity or fairness in the trans
action.
"lf, on the other hand, we admit that
they who are actually exchanged are par
doned, but contend that you may Justly
reserve Tor vengeance those who remain
uneXchaDged, then this unpleasant and
unhandsome consequence will follow
that you judge Of the delinquency Of
men merely by the time of their 1,lt =
D not by the Nervousness of II. al :
you make fortune ard accidents, and nof 5
the moral qualities Of human action ~ /
rule OF your justice. ~ :
"These strange incOngruities must 7
ever perpleX those who confound lie Z
unhappiness OF civil discussion Win ~ :
crime Of treason Whenever . rebellion 2