Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-19

Constitution ~ Gay acuu HucA persons
to Congress- as oon take the oath pre-
scri6sd b lap-that iss such persons as
have given no aid or comfort IN any
Day, to their States in the civil war.
They are to bind themselves to per-
petually ~ostracise all vino have been true
to them, and suffered Nth them and for
them, aud with them shared the for
tunes Of the fray. When they do that,
the negroes ought to govern. We are
quite willing, aud so are hundreds, to
bind ourselves never, under any cireum-
stances, TO accept Office. That is no
sacrifice for rs. But we are not willing
10 SEQ the people fall so low as to COW
enant that they will never elect US. II
that Vas the price of admittanee to the
Kingdom of Heaven, no MAN ought to
fall so low as to agree to II.
Moreover, any civil governments that
may exist in any of our States are to be
deemed provisional only, until they are
6y lar admitted to representation in the
Congress OF the United States and
subject to be at any time abolished, mod
flied, controlled or suspended by the
p-aronlouzlt authority of the United
States,-by that military authority, Of
course, to which they are declared to be
subject.
Such is the Bill of Opprobriums, which
that inanity and parrot of pompous
phrases, Collar, no doubt thinks, as he
thinks the Civil Rights Bill, altogether
superior TO Magma Charta.
This is that Jedissiniap ct Jatcle mon
syr1iui, that most foul and fatal monster,
to whose lewd embraces Governor ORR
and Ex-Governor BROWN and those who
think with them would bow the South,
that her shades of States may hence
forward forever be like
1.-THE shade OF him who 10 base fear
yielding, abjured his high estate"
and whom Dante saw wandering on the
shores of Acheron; whom neither
Heaven or Hell would have,
with that i'll band
or angels mixed, who 40 rebellious proved,
Nor yet were true to God, but for themselves
Were only
OF those i'll spirits both to God displeasing
And to His foes
"whose blind life
So meanly passes. that all other lots
They envy. Fame Of whom the world hath
Nor doth permit, and who are scorned alike
By Mercy and by Justice"
This is that to which we must consent {:
to confer upon every negro the right to
vote; to put the constitutional amend
ment in force by our own act, and so
make It 8 part of the Constitution; to
agree that we will never elect any man
10 Congress who was on the Southern
side in the civil war-not because Con-
gress has prohibited it, or because the
test-oath is constitutional-but we our
selves, by our own deliberate. action dis
qualifying our own comrades in arms
and ourselves, as unworthy ever to be
Legislators for our State, or to serve her
in council.
A SOLDIERS MAGEANIAIITY.
We ought sooner to have published the
following, and assisted in making public
SO urgent a recommendation to the gov
eminent Of the United States for the
promotion of the officer who has so we'll
known how to maintain the honour OF
his country and exemplify her magma
nimity. We do it now, with the hope
that when other claims of the like kind
are considered, the merits of this officer
may not be overlooked by a just and
generous government:
MOBILE, ALA, March "a curious
affair has occurred here, which may
aus trouble to some parties. The body
of g young man who fell in the battle Of
MurifesbOro, was recently disinterred
and brought hither for burial. The if
tenth United States regulars are en-
csmped on n side Of the road leading
to the principal cemetery, and, when the
funeral procession reached the camp, it
was stopped by Col. Shepherd, Gem
manding the regiment, who, on learning
that the deceased had served in the Con-
federate army, refused to let the corpse
pass, and the procession had to counter
march and reach the cemetery by a cir
cuitous route. As the deceased had been
a fireman, and was being buried by his
otOAANA AAIAAAIhf nAAtAOAL auf ulE-
play other than usual on srch oc-
casions, and as it was not even
proposed to fire the volley Gus
tOmRry over a soldiers grave, the inter-
ference of this shOulder-strapped upstart,
who is said eve to have heard the
sound Of a hostile gun, was regarded by
the public of Mobile as a wanton and
grossly indecent outrage, and was so
characterized by the press Of the city.
Stung to the quick by the cutting com
ments of the Advertiser and the objurga-
tory column in the Times, Col Shepherd
addressed a pompous, badly written and
ABSURD letter to the editor OF
the Advertiser, closing with a vague
and the remark that it would
apply TO the editor Of the Times as well.
The letter Appeared in the AdUertiser,
and both editors, in reply TO this foolish
lamented that they could not
deal with him in the matter on terms of
equality. l took their meaning to be
they would be happy to fight him
II he would doff his buttons and shout
der-straps, which there is probably no
hope of his doing.