Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-08
PROM wAsHH,eT eTON.

WAsHISGToN, Nay /, 1861.
Numerous parties visiting the south re-
Gently return with the most favorable
accounts Of public opinion there. They
report the people as desiring paeification
and being willing to extend a welcome to
northern men going there. These ac-
counts are procuring good effscts. The
business men begin to be encouraged
with the hope of an early restoration OF
the business relations Of the south TO
their natural condition. For some time
/ 1t has been found almost impossible
| to draw northern capital TO the south.
/ 1t is predicted that as soon as political
matters are definitely settled, capital
will begin TO flow into the south. The
business men north are extremely anx-
| ious to restore peace entirely at the south,
and this influence will be more power
erfully felt hereafter than at any time
since the war. If the country north and
south settles down in earnest to improve
! their advantages, and confidence is en-
tirely restored, the material progress of
the United States will be such as to sur
pass the most sanguine expectations.
The Northern and Southern Pacific
railroads are to be pressed on congress at
the next session. The Southern route
would be Of immense benefit to your city.
These two routes will naturally sustain
each other before congress, showing
at once q point which the southwest and
the south can act together. The annex
alton of Russian America renders GER
tain the building of the Northern Pacific
road. This annexation develops the
policy of the United States to acquire
British Columbia on the Pacific, and
gives sdditional motive for building the
northern road.
The official advices of the government !
here are that the annexation of Russian
America is regarded in England as a
new evidence of the bad disposition of
the United States to Great Britain. The
remarkable secresy Of the treaty Is re-
ferred to as showing a bad spirit. Why, |
it is asked, did not Russia invite eompe- |
tition for the purchase? ? Then why, it |
is said, does the United State seek TO |
annex these frozen regions of rock, IN |
st for population. The only solution |
they can see is desire to cripple Great |
Britain.
The approaching trial of Surratt is re-
garded with great interest. If Surfatt |
is acquitted, then his mother it is said /
must have been an innocent victim to /
the ferocity of the hour. And upon |
whom does her blood, shed without cause, !
fall? It is confidently believed by the /
friends OF Mrs. Surratt that her innO- /
cence will be signally manifested in the
approaching trial.
The attorney general has recently been
much occupied in preparing instructions
as to what classes are disfranchised by
the military reconstruction bill 1t
would seem almost that there were IL
territorial antiquities in the law.
The opinion of the chief justice in
England recently delivered to the grand
jury in reference to military tribunals
taking Jurisdiction Of civilians, is read
with great interest by the conservatives
here, who have constantly protested
against their stretches Of power. One n
cannot read this opinion without feeling n
that the liberty Of the people is more A.
scrupulously guarded in Great Britain i
than in this the model republic. At theo
very moment the chief justice of Eng a
land proclaims these military tribunals n
for the trial Of civilians in violation of,e
the liberties Of England, by acts Of con-, ,e
gress, One-third of the people of the
states of the union are put under the 7
form of arbitrary military Jurisprudence. ca
How pOsterity, If they are not utterly as
will blush for the violence +
Of these times. -