Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-24
rouv-orIyCy ADAMS.


yOHS QUINOY ADAMS. Il
We make the following extracts from
a bold, frank speech Of Mr.. JOHN QUINCl
ADAMS, of Massachusetts, lately deliv
cred in New Hampshire; and those WIN
read it will, We do not doubt, share oul
regret that cur limited space does no
permit US to repubIish the whole speech
Let US look at the latest phase OF recon
structiOn. 1t is based On the idea which
is false in fact, that the foremost men al
the South, who took part In the civil war
are incapable of self government (for II
would, trust, be unjust TO Congress te
suppOse Acknowledgement is intended
SOLELY rs a piifJisbmentl, and II can look
for success only to q permanent civil sub
lection of the white race there as mass
4 10 the black race as macs. Now II the
two races we're OF the same COLOR ol
4 equal numbers, of similar intelligence,
aud possessed of approximately equal
property, there would still be grave oD-
i=ctions 70 the plan, even II the NOrth
unanimously desired il. The relation OF
master and slave is not obliterated IN a
dav by a statute, and anything more un-
statesmanHke than expecting permanent
conteDtment and quiet from people
whose natural iesdeIs are deosrred from
ali honorable ambition, ii is hard TO nnd.
But here we expect race degraded Oy
slavery and inferior by Descent compar-
ativeiy small in numbers, wanting Ia
: Intelligence and without education OF
training, to successfully rule Ine more
numerous, able, trained and wealthy
class. and that, too, before the helOt
= rtHf #HnF
. such a system viii need, as we all can
see, more than the ballot TO sustain III
an inverted pyramid, it will topple down
in widespread ruiz if not propped Dy
bsyonets. But bayonets i'll accord with
[ republican liberty. The plan Will need
! Al once the supplement which the logical
! MIND OF Mr.. Stevens has already sug-
I gested. The negro must have property )
and what is more, prepohGerance OF
property, TO balance bis other dencien-
/ cies. and 70 secure subOrdinatiOn it must
/ be taken from the whites. Is this Tepub
Tcua freedom Granted all this, and
I SUPPOSE the plan, by some mir-cie, be
submitted TO by the Southern whites
and Northern freemeD for i've years. i
am ready 10 test tue entire soahoness OF
my objections tothe heCOngressiOnal line of
policy by the answer Of An unpreJuulced
[ friend oI the black man, whether, II the
whites were neither driven out nor
killed. he would dare, at the end OF that
period, to take the federal hand on the
I ihrosts OF the whites and let the two
,acss saftie their affairs for themselves.
My friends, men must nave changeu
/ n,yra man tney have in eighteen hun
,ire,i years If either s white or black
,,onuistion. not greatly mixed, did not1
IN six months after the last national sol
der departed, stand victor Of an inter
UeciDe war on Southern soil. Is this,
tbep- q speedy way to a satisfaction or
our longing for peace, good fellowship,
mntuaI kindness and the Brotherhood Of
one common nationality? Cau we ever
fys,pe for that time so longed for, II We
taEe this way, when We shall all stand
together once more within the protect
irg embrace Of the Constitution? What
we want is peace, good feeling, friend
sbip, under the DeW Constitution anu
yeyy Union. And this is what Conserva-
fispo to-day demands Believing that
time is now TOO short for tempOriziBg,
md that the Radical lead has hurried us
almost 10 sn impOssibility Of constitu-
uousl reconcil liation, We Conservatives
helievssshat As to this plan of recoustruc-
tioFit must be stopped. We have tried
the "prBy don't" plan long enough;
now it must be, "thus far shaft thou go
ard no further" on peril Of your lie.
BUTT is said the Southern whites are
{" red handed rebels and deserve all
they get and ten times more too they
are lucky 10 escape with their lives"
Passing over any question as TO the in
tinIpenee cantaineG ia sparing life and at
a
makes lie enduFable, as the whites of the
South maintain aud many Of US at ths
North fear, would be the result OF this
negro suffrage system. say st once that
/ win nut them out Of the questiOn-and
argue the question simply IS affecting
the North aud the negro. Look at the
South to day, and who does not feel that
In ber desolati0n and despair is to be
found the source of the most potent
causes Of the stsgnatiOn and distress
which already press so heavily upon
Nortbern industry. Do yCu think she
ygiiI soon help Us to pay our debt or buy
our manufactures when a horde Of voters,
degraded by descent, and brutalized by
centuries Of slavery, bear nnrestrsined
swsy2 Viii they be wise2 How can
they be unless, Ike Sir John Falstaf,
they get their constitutional Prlncl-
Fies as he did, by instinct Look at
the Alabama Convention for your an
swer. No, gentlemen, the only possible
end will be, that alter spending immense
sums to maintain armies 10 uphold the
bIacks. YOU viii md yOu have changed
the kindly feeling which exists odsy
AT The North, and as l believe did exist
among the mass CT men at the South but
a few months since, into blind, unrtas-
opiug preiudios and hatred. Then you
have placed the negro where he cannot,
upIpss nature has thus far deceived Us,
uC--ibfv msintaiu himself-When you
nave wedged him up 50 by embedding
him in the organic law Of ten
States that lie cannot get out with
ont revelation and yet you have
exasperated the natural repulsiOn Of race
into fsnatieism and fury, aud you must
at last cast him down TO be trsmpled IN
der the feet Of q party which will be too
strong qnd too hot for argument. In the
name of the negro, gentlemen, and I
wish my words might be remembered, l
protest against this fatal policy. But it
is said We must have guarantees that no
such thing as rebellion ever happens
again. And here again / say, for Gods
sake YES, let us have them, and good
ones too, for after our experience of
paper ones 1 want something more.
Now, my friends, l think the best
guarantee we can ever ind We have got
ElraaGv in the terrible teachings Of
war But / think the next best gUaran-
tee Is in the hearts of a happy and con-
tented people, who feel that they are well
and Justly governed, and entertain a sin
eere affection for their frame of pOfty
because they see in it one great source Of
bsppiness, They are secure, free and
nrCsperdue, snd II is not in such soil that
rebellion breeds. But treat q people rs
Won would the Southern whites, ex-
asperate their prejudices, trample on
their pride, spurn their protests,
destroy their property, and remove
from their minds all sense of security,
and safety Tor life or land, and you breed
a deatbIess hate which, the longer it. is
stifed, The fierceT it viii burn AT last,
and when it does find vent, it will shake
down the totteriug remnant of our con-
stitutional citsdel in utter ruin 90 our
heads. say, gentlemen, this plan arrays
against the Constitution, at the earliest
unhappy opportunity, at least ten power
fol States. When We think of these
things we can realize toe well the uncon-
quered JOY with which Mr. Davis ex-
claimed, "Our attempt has failed, but
our idea will live.n Surely it will, if
our want Of wisdom can foster and re-
store its once falling vitality.
.AGRECrETTRAL POLICY OF THE
SOUTl.
MEMPHIS, IENN., Nov. %, 1867.
Editors Memphis Appeal:
The necessity of abandoning the cul-
ture of cotton, the impossibility OF start
ing a profitable stock farm without the