Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-28
THE MILITARY COMMISSION BILL.
The steBens ISetatOrship Restored
Nothing Settled.

From the New York Express
Thad Stevens was discOmfitted for a
few hours in the house, but through Shell
labarger of Ohio, one of his sub0rdinates,
recovered the usual mastery of the house
plantation, and affixed to the senate
Sherman-bill, his prOsoriptive principle
of excluding from suffrage or office in
the south every person of note who had
taken active part in the rebellion, while
Scipio, Sambo and Caesar, who freely and
willinglyRaised corn and cotton for their
masters Sring the rebellion, and served
them well, are admitted 10 the suffrage.
How men Of the north and west, with
any regard for their own wives and chill
dren, can prefer ignorant negro voting to
theirs, amazes US, or how such men can
consent to put themselves and their
wives and children into negro partner
ship government with ten states of the
union, The whole is as amazing to us
as the erusades, or Moslemism, or the
! dOings of the praise God barebOnes par
! lament. But it shows US that under the
| influence of passion and fanaticism Tea-
/ son in man is not half as conservative
/ as instinct in the brute.
! The effect of this bill Is, that, while
| Outraging every principle of democratic
progress and civilizatiOn-the trial by
! jury, the rights Of man, Magma ChGrtd,
| etc, ete., and, while subjeetiDg millions
/ of white people to negroes, Just emerg-
| ing from slavery, it is cheat that set
/ ties nothing. The five brigadier govern
melt is not settled gOvernment-but a
/ government, the rump congress reserves
to itself the right to change, any day it
wills. All the state governments are
enacted to be mere provisional govern
ments, and the rump reserves TO itself
| the right to annul and change these pro-
visional governments at will. Already
we see that Mr.. Sumner is forcing Louis
| lana into the union through the exclusive
negro suffrage vote
Under these conditions, the south is
ruined more and more. No emigrants
from the United States will go into our
Poland or Ireland, while the Polish and
Irish prOseripts Of the south will emigrate
here, or go west. No young American,
if he can possibly earn his living else
| where, will now settle down in land OF
despotism and become subject, when
he can emigrate east or west, and be
come a citizen. No northern or western
men, OF any forecast, will invest any
capital in this Poland or Ireland. The
south, therefore, is a place to be Stunned
by the worlds emigration, as Ireland oI
Poland is Stunned, or as Egypt OF
Turkey.
The exact history of the south is al.
ready written out in Hayti, Jamaica
and in the mixed, mOttled, hybrid Span
isb settlements, which COrteE and Pi-
zarro conquered by the crown of Spain,
but which the Spanish revOlutionists
ruined when they amalgamatod in gov,
eruInent, aud IN blood, with Aztecs, and
Indians, and negroes. The whole vast
territory. from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande, is blasted-as il Attila OF Atari,
had run over it, with the sword of De.
VsstatiOn, CT, as if the plague had settled
upon it with the besOm of destruction
itself
1t is not to be presumed, for a moment
that Andrew johnson will "approye ,
this bill. He can kill it by what is calle,
a "poeket Yeto,' to be sure-but tw,
, questions arise on that:
/. C,li Iol0s The fortietb cong ress
to assemble March 4th, would repass it
2. The government of five whit
, brigadiers in epanlettes is preferable t.
+ the threaten-g government of eight mil
I lions of whites, by four millions Of ne
grOes.
ten southern states will accept this act
! which nreseribes the most capable of th
, white men, and subject them all y |
government OF negroes. The five 5riga
: dier general government over 1000, ,OC
, of our people will continue IS long a
, congress pleases. Endurshce, submis
I. sion, political slaverv hard as the.
: are sbould therefsr, be submitted &
by the southern people psaS;e:Jta Just y now as
0 H., sra ,,Jt eitizens-but the govern
n rne wants - ~ = Austria and of Russia, we ca
e hss- Witness, are very endurable govern
aSents. Even Egypt, under its pasha,
en- endurable government. Your battle
p | southerners,lis now to be fought out in Ia
:. northern and western states, and whe
passion Is over here-whieh eannotreig
7, sIways-our people will be just. You
Y verv submission win shame our me
3 into justice. The lie they put upo
record against the decision Of ind,
a pendenee, of the freedom and equalit
o OF men, is q living he, now terribl
e staring them in the face.