Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-07
Csup1TGS az TIsE IECoHTEs

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CAMPAIGS OF TIdE J~AC0BIAs.
WILSON and KELLY have j%ourneyed
through the South, done all they could
TO make the negro vote a unit for Jacob
inism, and returned TO rePose on their
laurels. Others are to follow, and com
pIete the work. Meanwhile it goes on as
well in Tennessee. Six thousand negro
voters are registered in Memphis, and as
few white men as possible. The Con-
sentative press imagines That something
may be effected by speeches on the
stump but what is the power OF speech,
and truth and reason, when partigan vii
lainy has only to appoint a registering
officer without a conscience, and ne can
create for J~aeobinism whatever majority
is necessary? DAVIS registers, aud
BRowNL0w's militia is to keep the peace
at the pollsi And this is called a Re
publican GoVeFnmentl
The campaign is being conducted
under the auspices OF the Executive
Republican Committee in New York.
This body some weeks ago united in an
address to the Republicans of the Union.
What they shieay Eanted Yss money,
avowedly to be expended in building up
a Republican party at the South, so as to
secure the Presidency in 1865. The New
York World says of this:
They propose {" % prosecute a system
attic aud thorough anvass or the south
ern states by the most efficient speakers
of both races - [" to distribute documents
enforcing the principles. policy and
aims of the republican party to estab-
fish in those states free thought, free
speech end a free press - TO relieve the
republican party fr0m tbs "%FeprQaeh of
being sectional in its aims and 9harac-
ter % and "t0 stamp the conviction Of
our Loyalty and fidelity to the right,
Irrespective of section or race, upon the
reconstructed states"
Colorless as these avowals are, desti-
tute as they are OF any distinct exhibition
of " principles the trainers Of the ad-
dress have thought ut TO dilute them
with "claims of humanity and free
DOM" " generous spirit snd noble aim"
50 loyai and true men, and the ike
hNAHNNk uELAhABE4GL1a AANAAA
read this republican address forwards
and backwards without finding one
eunae Of explicit information in it as to
the "prineIElesp held by thst party.
1t is q mess Of sentimental tEaddle, dis
graceful { q party which is at least
great In its numbers; it contains
nothing clear, except that the republican
politicians want money to speHd, TO en-
able them to keep fast hold upon the
patronage and power of the government.
The states are pronounced recon
structed I" which have not one member
in the house Of representatives, nor one
senator in tbsJ body where the eonstitu-
ton prescribes that no state shall be de-
pyfved, without consent, Of its right to
TWO. RECONSTRUCTED states" they are
called, where military commanders eE-
srcise supreme power, here making Of
the national flag a Gessleiis cap for
Charleston firemen, and there prohibit
ing 2 governor from advising his people
% await the decision Of the highest
national TRIBUNAL before determining
what course to adopt in securing national
representation in one place ejecting
. state aud municipal officers from the
positions TO which they had been eleSed,
in another place prohibiting lectures and
suppressing newspapers. With such
" recoustructio~Su6bes this republican
committeeRroclaim the southern states
RECONSTRUCTED, " and now il proposes to
STAMP the conviction OF its loyalty
and fidelity to the right, Irrespective
( Of section and race, upon these recon-
structed ststes,'i by sending through
them a score OF ylndictivs brawlers ike
Kelley, of Philadelphia, who will tell
j 100 ~ h.. did - I am haakaA NV a paun-
psny Of Infantry, and behind them by
tbe whole army of the United States"
"StampH is 3 well chosen word.
We c0uldswish 10 have the ~ssleeting of
documents for this committee. The
messages OF Mr.. Lincoln would do. The
falsihed sveFmsnts Of congress in the
Critteuden resolutions would do. The
columns of any republican newspaper
would do, comparing the utterances of
'62 with those OF '64, or those of '63 with
| those of '67. The platform OF Chicago
alongside the platform Of Baltimore
would do. The plain history OF the
events Of the last seven years ct the
| north alone, without note or comment,
would do. The reports of the secretary
of the treasury would do. The last ten
protective tariff acts would do. The
military d~espotism bill and Mr.. john
sons veto would do.
And these men have the effrontery to
talk of establishing free thought, free
speech, and p free press "-these, the
representatives Of the only party which
ever in the history Of this country pros
tituted the power of the government TO
suppress newspapers, to stop free speech,
TO make even the privilege Of silence in
secure.
These men hope to vindicate their party
from the reprOaeh of being sectional'-
these, the representatives of the first and
only sectional party in the United States,
the party which first divided the Ameri-
can people On issues purely seGtioRal,
which precipitated g sectional war, and
has given Us nothing national but the
split blood of the children of every state
aud a colossal debt, to cripple the indus
tries, diminish the comforts, and drain
the energies Of thirty millions Of people :