Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-13

: QEIluEu Ul lAUSc III " tths AlhNt
we TO hope ia the future2 Will not the
blighting wrath Of an outraged God fall
with resistless and destroying power
upon such people and crush them 10
atoms? It is all they deserve and all
/ they have a right to expect Louisville
/ Courier.
THE b LBOT AND THE SWORD.
Correspondence o. the st Louis Republican,
NASHVILLE, February 4, 1s67.-Much
of last week was consumed by the
Tennessee house of representative
in discussing the proposition TO amend
the franchise law. The amendment was
upon its second reading. 1t proposes
simply to strike from the law so called
or pretended amendment 20 the state
constitution, limiting the right to be
electors, the word "g0lite" wherever it
occurs-thus admitting to the ballot
box, at once, every mature buck
negro in the state. Saturday, about
three o'clock in the afternoon a vote was
taken and the amendment passed its
second reading by 80 to 30. This is not
the full radical strength; and several
radical members who voted in the af-
firmative arose like hesitating, sefvile
wretches, with a lash on either side, and
sought, by paltry excuses, to avert pub
lie Indignation, and to silence the voice
Of that feeble conscience supposed to lin
ger in such men. There 'were three
members absent who would, it is sup
posed, vote in the negative; and one who
would perhaps, vote in the affirmative.
That no time may be lost, the amend
ment, on its third reading, is made the
special order to day at ten o'clock N.
A more revolving exhibition of human
depravity aud shameless indecency has
not been witnessed outside Of Washing !
ton city, than was presented by the |
usurping advocates of this measure, and !
by their abettors, during the discussion /
The most frightful phenomena Of the |
French reign of terror, as observed in I
Paris, had an odOr about them which is /
as the perfume of Arabia to tine stencil OF .
this demonstration The French fa- I
naties grew frantic In a cause which I
they conceived to be that of their /
own race. Their riots OF blood |
We're redeemed by the belief that they |
sought the interests of their own children. /
The shameless men who have argued for /
enfranchising the brutal, vagrsnt negroes /
of Tennessee, have made their appeal, I
altogether In the name of the Africans
They have even eXLclied him, as coming (
of a race TO which mankind are largely .
indebted. While striving 10 arm him
with the ballot and the bayonet against |
their own children (if they have any
white offspringl they have forgotten .
very rule OF parliamentary dignity, and 1
addressed themselves, not to the speaker /
or the members of the house, but to the .
thick-lipped negro mob which composed /
the audience. The galleries have been
crowded with dirty, greasy, black and
yellow vagrants, who have man
aged to eysde The penit6ntisry
aud the advocates Of the amend
ment have turned to these, in
tpeir illiterate, coarse harsngues, and /
addressed them in such language as this:
You know your friends you know who
are the rebels; you know who have sup
ported themselves for many years upon
your labor ~ At the beginning of the
debate the blsck ru1iians broke into loud
applause from the galleries; but this was
too strong even for the ffostrils of Mr.
Mullins, speaks9 pro tenn, who forbade
them. Since tifat time the 4 srieau voice
of appreciation has been heard through
Gev. Bra Enlow's olgan, the Ircss
and Ismcs. Members have been cals-
toned not to forget that they must
speak and vote under the gladdening
smile, or the killing frown of their
anticipating masters in the galleries.
41NbiS NiI6 JuAlAuS pOteuAAte ud5 DSeu
at his post, that weakened radicals
might net awerve for lack either Of per
suasiOn Or intimidation. The trembling,
emaciated man who fills the guberna-
torial cb&ir, has been present ia nearly
every sttIA6a. ArnelI, with a cluster of
whippersin to assist him, has been ever
in the hall. The very few radical white
maidens and matrons to be found about
y Nashville have been Induced to visit the
hall as encouraging spectators. These,
however, have not exceeded half a
dozen. I maTveled that the color which
represented the other sex of radicalism
in the galleries, had not shamed them
away. Indeed, 1t gives me pleasure to say
that before Saturday they had almost
discontinued their visits. The cOnserv-
ative members l am sure would he far
from wishing the presence of ladies at
fit of brutal negroes who would burn
their houses and eubieot themselves TO
insult and VIOLENCE. Among the more (.
eXtravagant advocates of negro mind
morals and muscle to be used in control
ing the white people Of this country may
be specially mentioned one Smith, who
pretends TO represent Hsrdeman county.
Almost the entire speech of this man,
delivered on Friday last, was addressed
to the clord of black witnesses. such
fellows know their level. Instinct
teaches them that only in communities
of semi -brutes could they acquire emil
neEce.
1t is intended by the reverend head
centre of the Radical conspiracy, as far
as this state Is concerned, to maintain
power in his own hands through negro
votes and the militia bill, whicn / have
no doubt will pass as well Rs the freed
mems amendment. There can be not
the slightest doubt, he Intends TO con
tinue in office by the use Of violence;
but the African vote is desired merely to
give faint show Of plsusibiilty to bis
Without such vote, his
support at the ballot.box in August
would be absolutely contemplate. II is
the programme to get as many votes as
possible, and, then to splice out with
open fraud and military force. The mill
tia bill is carefully devised with a
view 70 this contingency. after pro
viding for the enlolment Of whites and
blacks, between the ages of eighteen and
Tty-hvS-separate lists of the two races
TO preserved-it enaets that volunteer
state guard shall be orgsnized out of the
militia so enrolled. This state guard wi /,
consist of one regiment Of infantry or
cavalry IN each Congressional district.
In such districts es enroll negroes enough
to compose more than one third OF the
aggregate enrolment within the sane.
the regiment may he composed of ne
groes 10 the extent of one half. This is
a COW catcher fastened on for the benefit
of East Tennessee, that the recruitment
of that people may moi be aroused by the
presence OF negro volunteers. DOUBTLESS
it is anticipated that il Middle Tennes-
see, half those volunteer guardians of the
usurping minority will be negroes.
Ample provision is made in the bill,
by the conspirators, TO set themselves
and Eneir tools over the state guard as
otneers, and Ior Ems, aecoutrements
and subsistence. It will be seen from
the following portion of the twenty
second section, that the force can readily
be turned upon the people whenever
Brownlow shall think it necessary
That the governor may order out the
whole or any part of the volunteer state
guard into the active service of the state
to execute the laws thereof, when the
execution of the same shall be obstructed
by combinations of forces too strong to
be overcome by the civil authorities, to
repeI invasion, and to suppress insurrec-
tions against the authority Of the state
or the United States, and also to aid irIs
the execution of the laws Of the state or
the United States, and the suppression
of insurrection therein.
Brow nlow and his associates are de-
termined TO hold Tennessee as q section
of the great conspiracy against free gov
ernment. The signs are revolutionary,
and it is impossible to foresee the results
of these audacious steps. At present the
negroes seem alive to the issue, but the
whites are spatbetic. CADENCE.
The old Greek tragedies are revived Of
late in Europe. A tragedy Of Sophocles
was recently performed in Paris before q
private and select audience of classical
scholars. One-half of them went awav
and the other to sleep. The modern
Greeks do not appear TO appreciate the