Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-16

/ will say you nave DeeE shNOiFeu iu
: contest with rs, ia whlen you WeI
urged on by ideas which believe .
have been Wicked. You fought worth,
of a better cause and failed, and 20
y ought Il, thank God for it. We will ye
= zee our banner dearer and desrer, am
if war should come we viii marcn sia
i by side in its defense. The cause OF on
separation is gone. IL has been sunk =
. deep that plummet viii never ieAeh !.
!. Let me advise you o elect convention
: OF tried and true men who VIII amenS
voUr constitution in accordance with tn,
provisions of the reeonstruetion act
; Send men to eougress who can take thl
e oath: recognize the new rights Of th;
/ negro; coRcede them as worthy OF re
spect and confidence, men who Coo
nrsde and Christ died for develop the
2 resources Of old Virginia; buiid up man
ufaefories cut 10 ysiur great plantations
into small farms, aad till them well
and In the course 4of q generation you
will make her one Of the most opuicnt
} and prosperous sta'.es 10 the union. II
Won will do this, the people OF Massa-
chusetts viii thank God for i"
OF this speech, the Richmond Times
had right TO say, a' it did say;
"Whiie we are Oiltlawed and held BY
the stern duress of the bsyOnet no gen
tleman-no decent ulan-no demagogue,
indeed, but one Of the lowest type-would
\ insult our wrongs, oar griefs and our hu-
/ miliations, as Wilson has done.
The most callOus executiOner spares
upon the scaff0ld ths feelings of his vie
| tim, and no radical who is not vulgar
charlatan would attempt, while we are
pinned TO the earth by the bayonet, to
! harangue fn praise tof the humanity and
| charity of the destrtlyers Of our liberties.
1 If Thaddeus Stevens was to appear
among US, proelaimlng eonfiseation AID
exile as our fate, he would merit our re-
! speet far more than puritan dema-
| gogue, who, with the blood OF cur hoer-
] ties fresh upon his hands, comes among
| US smelling Of the shameless to tempt US
with promises Of relief if we will indorse
! and sustain the authors Of our unparal-
/ leled wrongs and insults"
| Such persons as WILSON are not par
ticulzrly observant CT the oourtesies that
are 1ue to the conquered. He is not of
a nature fine enough to be delicate, and
probably imagined that he was saying
exactly what was most proper and
| generous. So also. no doubt, did
SICKLEs. Those who make up their
minds TO complete submission, must ae
espt these little ulpieasantuesses philo-
sophieally.
1t is the fashion 10 call the cause Of the
south the Lost Cause" 1t was no
more lost, when the reconstruction bills
were enacted, than. that of the Neither
lands was lost when ALvA administered
there the tender mercies Of PHILIP II;
than that Of Prussia, when NAPOLEON
had it under his feet; than that of Swift
zerIand in 1906, before TELL revolted
against the tyranny Of GEssLER; than
that of Francis, after the battle OF
Pavia. when he wrote to his mother that
all was lost except honour than that Of
Rome when the Senate sold the ground
on which the army of HANNIBAL lay
eneamped after the disastrous day of
Canna.. The cause Of the South could be
lost. o,llv 5g the S0iitl's abandoning IL or
5etraginq II, under. the urging of unwise
eounsels.
That il, we think, exactly what the
South is now about to do: and it viii do
so, because the men whourge her to it are
for the most part honest, and do believe
that they advise her for the best; and
because the people have right to trust
in their honour and also to esteem them
wise.
1t is evident that these advisers see
that, once engaged in the work Of recon-
struction, they cannot halt at any half
way point; that they cannot induce the
negroes to vote with them or for them,
unless they consent that these electors
shall hold office as well as vote. OF
course they are not so little sagaeious as
not to know that when they have once
consented and agreed that the negroes
shall have either right, it viii be as dan
gerous afterwards to attempt to take it
| from them, as 10 take her cubs from a
Iioness, besides being an act Of bad faith
! that would dishonour \ gentleman.
II the negroes can be persuaded, by
this and other appliances, used in aid Of
old associations, to vote with the Con-
servatives, and these do thereby gain the
control of a Sti,te, and become members
Of the Convention and afterwards legis-
/ lators, that STATE Wi25 not be ddH2itted into
1 the Uaioa. 1haFe will be pretexts enough
on whicby ) refuse It admission, If any
are deemed necessary, and hypocrisy is
thought preferable to audscity, by Malig-
nancy. They viii admit no State, ia
which the rebel element becomes in
vested with the powers Of government.
It would be deemea reason enough to say
that the freedmen were not secured in
the possession of their rights. The result
would be the immediate and absolute
disfrauchisement Of all implicated in the
| rebellion.
! And. if the States aoere admitted, ne
! gro suffrage and negro officials and leg
isIators would curse it thenceforward
| forever.
| John SHEr.MAN, senator from Ohio,
month since, wrote the following let
ter:
| JNTTKD STATES SENATE CHAMBER,
WAsBTNGT0N, March II, lSa7.
Dear Sir. Your letter of the sth in
slant is received. The bill you referred
10 was passed in the earnest hope that II
would tend to the restoration of all the
states to all their rights IN the union.
| The sixth sectiOn 7 think too harsh, but
10 was put 10 ia the house as the result
of oup0sition from both extremes. At
the request of large numbers from the
south we are passing a supplementary
act. to provide machinery of recOnstruc-
ton. The original bill left all this to each
state, but there was danger Of double
ORGANIZATIONS and conventions, anC
! therefore. tc avoid further strife or dif
ference, this new act will be passed. Il
is merely a scaffoldiDg. My earnest con
viction is that the south should no
forego this opportunity to be restored {,
{ representation, and you may rely upcr
, 1 it that q majority in both houses vii
+, adhere to tile offer and execute it in gOoC
faith and to the letter, if your peoPl
: will do likewise. Neither section can b
g prosperous while the present condition 0
{ military surveillance prevails. You cal
do as you please with this.
f JOHN SHERMAN.
7 WM. X. DEGRAFFENREID.
Notwithstanding which letter, we d
not trust these treacherous Greeks, eve
when they bring rs gifts. JOHN SHEF
MAN himself viii not consider hi
honour in the least pledged to approx
= the Constitution Of State that is so re
: constructed as TO make It certain that
, will vote for the Democratic candidai
for the Presidency.
: We shall consider this matter furtht
. tomorrow.
ALABAMA.
~ in pursuance TO an act Of the la
As legislature, the Coosa river is to be su
as veyed from WetUmpka to Greensport,
N see whether that portion of it is navig