Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-10

Arkansas stood, IN all respects, by IN
side Of South Carolina and Mississippi
He- Senators and Representatives voted
with the South on every vote upon tbs
I different bills aud measures concerning
Nebraska and Kansas. She was a De
mccratic-State-rights Pharisee Of the
straightest sect, finding it difficult to de.
eide whether q Wing or a disorgsnizing
Democrat was the more deserving o.
| eternal damnation.
When the crisis was approaching
candidates who are now good Union
men, pardoued- during the war, and who
were elected, proposed the hanging Of all
men who were 10th to break up the
Union, and Of all men Of Northern birth.
1t was hardly safe to express q wish for
the continuance Of the Union. The
secessiOnists per Sc, those who promised
to drink all the blood that should be shed
in consequence Of secession, had the ear
Of the People and those who at last
were the Union men, who organized
into Federal Regiments and gathered
into pluudering bands Of murderous
m~srsuders, the present Governor, and
all the leading Union-men who now ride
and rule, had always been fierce and IN.
compromising State-rights Democrats, Of
the ANDREW JOHNSON pattern, swearing
Jy the Virginia snd Kentucky Resolu-
-i0us Strict C0|nstructiouists, and know
ing no more ]opprObrious epithet to apply
TO a political opponent than the detested
word " Federal
Never, upon any vote in the Senate or
House Of Representatives, was Arkansas
ever known to separate FROM the South
eru State-rights' leaders, unless, possibly,
upon some matter OF local concern. If
any State In the Union was thoroughly
committed, heart and soul, to the cause
of State rights, 70 the Southern theory
OF tie Government, Arkansas was so
and her Chiefs had SO connected her,
during a long series Of years, with South
Carolina and Mississippi, by every possi-
bic means and appliance that can bind
States together, and make the action and
fortunes Of one dependent on those Of the
other, that she was not, In the matter Of
secession, a free scent. Some Of her rep
resentsuves iu Congress urged tine South
Carolina members 10 hasten the secession
Of their State, as a means Of carrying
Arkansas and other hesilating States
out of the Union. When that State Sc
ceded, no choice was left to Arkansas.
Then we told Ler Legislature that,
whatever they might wish, and how
ever they might love the Union or fear
the consequences OF secession, the STATE
had to choose Of three thing to
90 out of the Union Of her own accord,
to be kicked out, or to be dragged out.
When President LINCOLN demanded
volunteers from Arkansas, to make war
on South Carolina, the knot was cut,
and the State followed those who had
Withdrawn from The Union. She had TO
elect whether she would fight by the
side Of or against South Carolina and the
other States that had seeded; and she
made her choice, some Of the Uuion-men
forced into the measure, declaring
thst they did not secede, but rebelled.
il any M smong all the Democratic
leaders of Arkansas, from 1885 to 1861, |
had been told by a Wing, that under any
possible stress of calamity or danger,
nenaced by whstever persecution, even
in imminent peril Of his life, be would
ever agree TO give and guarantee 10 per-
to ali the negroes Of the State
the right of suffrage, he would have re-
5ented it with a blow as a deadly insult.
The Wings, fearing the fckleness Of
popular majorities, knowing the insta-
1lity Of all Governments ia which these
nave Uncontrolled domination, and de-
iirous TO maintain all the constitutional
safeguards against the license and pas
donate impulsive action Of those ma
set the higher value upon the
Constitution Of the United States be
'aUSe it imposed restraints on the will Of
he populace and nowhere permitted d.
ect effect to be given to that Of a bare
majority Of the popular vote Of the whole
It's greatest excellence, for
hem, consisted in what were regarded
" their opponents as its anti-democratic
eatuTes. The Democrats were ready to
avour elections of President by the d.
ect popular vote, to which the Wings
we're utterly opposed, and thus were, on
hat important particular, more con-
eTvative Of State rights than the
,tate-rights' party itself. Denying
he right Of a state to secede, and con-
truing tie Constitution literally in
TO the powers of the General
Government for beneficial purposes and
bjects OF national interest, they we're as
as their opponents Of any en-
roaehments by il upon the undenia-
ly reserved rights Of the States or
be personal rights Of the citizen, and
aorc anxious than they for the main
ainance Of every check and restriction
pom the popular caprice and the tickle A,
y nours Of the Northern haIfforeign
1851 !
lasses. They would to the last man
ave opposed, at al hazards and to the 4
.st extremity the extension Of the {
.%ectoral franchise to a swelteripg macs !
ignorance and brutality.-ap act
luiyalenS by whatsoever common d
committed, to national suicide I
hey believed that the salvation Of tn :
depended on the intelligence Of S
le voter. 4
The Democratic party Of Arkansas. in .
%repudiated with almost entire :
lanimity, the Popular Sovereignty doc
inc Of Mr.. DOUGLAS, and cast Its vote 5
Mr.. BRECKLNRIDGE. We did 30 Ike 1
ise, not converted to the Democratic d
eed at large, but because no was the 5
preventative Of the only party taat in q
stinct aud positive lerms asserted 70 :
cir full extent the equality of the s
States in the Union, and the q
hts Of their citizens in the common ?
!
And in 1860, the Senator'S Of Arkansas. 81
I'd the fiu aud unqualified appnoba-
u Of their constituents, voted with g
sDREw JOHNSON for all ex-senator DA- a
3 resolutions upon the subject Of the fl
lality and rights Of the States and the N
lure Of .he Government, especially =
the Constitution to be a Com q
u between the States 70 which her II
ne as States were parties. ~