Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-07

ilfuE OF INe SORT hneh NHr EAp II
raised, the little joker viii not be
found under It. OF the same sort are
the assurances that there will be no con-
hscation. No one, two, ten or twenty
members Of that rare evisTy Of obscene
birds at Washington q honestly under.
take to say hat the s~creeehing
eouclJve will refrain from doing any
particular act or enacting any particular
uEazure, unless it is one dictated by
generosity and magnanimity. Then
they could safely assure US that we had
not the ghost o. a chance.
The Congressional Union Committee,
which speaks for the Jacobins By an.
tlori.y. has been more frank and honest
than the itinerant cOlpOrte1ys Of their
marty. and other individual Jacobins,
who have endaavored to re-assure the
anxious rec0nstru8tiopists that follow
Governor JOE. Brown, ORR, PATTON,
and the other stars Of the nebuiaus galaxy
Of reconstructionism. 1t has recently
issued an address to the Southern people
On the policy Of Congress in reference to
the restoration OF the Onion. The mill
tary and supplemental reconstruction
acts sre given, after which follows the
address, wherein an appeal is made to
the negroes fOT their support for the Re
publican party. a argss people to direct
the establishment and maintenance Of 8
system Of public schools for the eduea-
ton Of children Of all classes. The
owners Of large estates are then advised
10 divide and subdivide their lands 10
those who need them and who can i'm
prova them IA the South. The address
saws "1Iaere is land enough for all,
and all who desire snoald be permitted
70 obtain homes.5' This, it maintains, i
4 right that cannot be denied with safety
TO society, which is a mild warning to the
southern iand-haIders to divide with the
negroes, or else ooHfseati0a gil follow.
The address proceeds to say that GER
tain conditions precedent sre laid down
i'm the laws. These must be met but
beyond these conditions, Congress must
be satisfied also that the people of the
proposed States, respectively, are, and
are EEely 70 De- 7oy1l TO the Union, hy de
cisiUe and trustworthy m~Cj7ritiss; that
their institutions are framed upon the
basis Of equality. ana that they Will
from year 70 year, and FROM sgs to age,
contribute to the peace, progress Saa
prosperity Of the States and Of the cOun'
try" By this it appears that the Repub.
licsn party Must receive " trustworthy q
maiorities in these Southern states i
they hope to get into the Unioh.
Our States must not only Be loyal t.
the Union by decisive and Trustworthy
majorities, 81 the ou'Eet, Int also they
must be EI-e3y to continue 80. That is 4
I say. no Southern State is to be resdmit
led which does not elect to al Offices
Executive, Legislative and Judicial
white or black 'Loyalists.' IL the tru'
people Of the State, By registering anI
voting. select for Legislators aud officer
men who have been faithful to the SOuti
IN the great struggle, and identified
with the rebellion their States viii b
! kept out IN the cold.
You men Of Mississippi, VITO som,
time g sufficiently Je%oPardized you
selt-respeet and your right to The goo,
/ opinion Of the world, when your Con
ventiou declared the Ordinance Of Seces
sion null aud void, this is the entertain.
ment to which those gho are commit
ting the terrible and fatal mistake o
advising goa to aid IN the work Of re
construction are inviting you. You
were yCry anxious, eager, beyond anJ
! other State except South Carolina, to en-
hose from the hated Union YOI
would not wait for your Sister States
which hezitated. A 'co-operationist' wa
as odious to you as a 'submissionist
Do you remember it ASK yourselve.
what Is The difference between a sdbmis
{ si0uist OF 1850, and a re-constructioDis
Of 1867. Does ituot IN become you to b,
eager to get back into the Union, OF
any terms, and especially on sUeh term.
as the acts Of Congress imperiously pro
pose? It is humiliating enough tO b.
governed by 3 military despotism. It i
infinitely worse to accept the negro as
political equal, and to see your publir
men, whom you have heretofore love,
and honoured, compelled to address az
guments to their ignorance and obsequi
ously consult their whims aud solici
their "sweet voices" Some OF tn.
greatest men that humanity has pro
dueed have lived and been able 10 respec
themselves under the worst despotisms
To submit silently TO a power that v
cannot resist, ~dishonours no one. Il !
the tyrant, who ought TO feel the sting
Of shame; and it is under despotism tina
the true men are educated for freedom
IL will be hard % have 10 submit to
governmental Jacobiss and negroes; bu
Il would be worse for M~ississippian
elected by negroes, % sit, shamed an
cOwed, in the two Houses Of Congress
and receive, without daring to resent, al
manner OF sights and insults from Tia
men whom once they hardly though
their equals. Imagine these NIississipr
members-in-law rising in the House an
Roasting Of the intelligence and virtue q
their constituents!
Suppose you 90 on and do ali that !
demanded. What does the address a
the Union Congressional Committee A
sure You that the Jacobin party viii thei
do? The New York World thus renliss
and every word Of the reply is true
Haviyg thus consolidated its blacl
v0te-And BY the same steps censolidatp,
the white against it-and finding tbi
latter far the largest, the next bad stel
o. the republican party viii be "a Fepudi
ate the settlement il has already made
ia 50 far as il involves the white vote
It viii throw overheard the pianinvalve,
ia the military bin on the day when /
becomes certain that the votes given Z,
white men under that bill will be cas-
against IT, aud Overbalance the niggeI
vote. The republican party" say:
this last programme Of the re
publican committee, declares the
restoration of the union only on sual
terms n shall render it impossible TO in
! voive the country ia sectional strife
/ Ballot box victories against the radicals
IN the south will indicate, therefore, 4
Z condition that will render a restoration
Of the Union not desirable to that party.
Ia order to have an assurance OF a p0iiti-
cal millennium, says the same document,
" there must be cooperation OF the
races; /" and not only that, but this CO.
operation must be upon the principles
which prevail IN the north, and 10 which
the republican party is fully committed
The point OF which Is, that II the south