Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-13
consent or our acceptance. Why useless
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consent or our acceptance. Why useless
" degrade ~ourselves9
"A PROPER COURSE TO BE PURSUED"
Under the above head the New Orleans
Times gives some good advice to its
readers and the southern people, Ia an
article which we insert In another coll
INN The spirit Of this acticle is, we
believe, that Of the southern people
therefore we doubt not that the advice
will be acceptable 70 them, and that
their conduct will conform to it.. Re-
fiecting upon the wrongs which o
Cypress them, and the further wrongs
with which they are menaced, a stranger,
q European for instance, might well sup
pose that these people would and inevita-
bly, must rise against their oppressors.
But they are a people who have been
tutOred into watchfulness of those OPP
pressOrs. They know that these are
contriving provocatives to drive their
southern victims into acts Of violence,
so that they can have the opportunity
of making these acts the reason and ex-
cuse for still further oppression, and
hence the southern people are prudent
and wary. Though their hearts may be
nearly bursting with Indignation at the
| sense Of the huge and terrible wrongs
inflicted on them, they keep silent and
submit. Probably they do well to heed
| Shakspeare's counsel, by bearing the ills
they have rather than flying to others
which they know not Of.
Unless we have come to the conclusion
| that the American people are irredeem-
able-that the insane fury which now
possesses so many minds among them,
/ is really running into a chronic stage,
! AnnN ~Il GEgA sn naN~ar fR on nff-Gnh that
our people are to become the victims of
one desp0tie faction succeeding another
in a never-ending series-we ought TO
agree with the Times, that the deplor-
able and fearful state of things must IN
no long time come to an end. When
ever the northern victims Of this insan-
| ity shall recover theirsenses, we do them
the Justice to believe that they will weep
in saekcIoth and ashes for what they are
now doing and suffering their leaders to
do. -,
Meanwhile, the southern people viii
have occasion for the use and display OF
all the f~orbearance of Ghich they are
capable. In our opinion they have not
seen the last nor the worst of the trials
TO which they must submit. The plans
Of their radical oppressors involve a
scheme OF spOliation OF property, una
color Of law and through the instrumen'
tality.of Judicial tribunals. How thl;
scheh0 will wOrk-hOw far " loyal" men
who now expect to make themselves rlcu
out of damages recovered rom "dls'
IovaIH men will realize their expecta'
tions, remains to be seen. But the south.
ern peopler may expect to be harrssSsc
for such objects. Their property anC
earnings are In danger. If one OF these
&" disloyalH southern men raises scrop
some worthless rascal may imp0und It's
proceeds on the ground that the rasoali Is
a "lOyaIn man who has suffered from
urebelu persecution. Perhaps then It'll
not going too far to say to southern men
that, so far as concerns their industrial
operations, it is the part of prudence moi
to make anything more than will merely
pay their hands and their own way, ever
If they do not abstain altogether from
farming tue present year.
It NAV be said that those consequence:
cannot follow the passage Of the present
reconstruction bill; in answer 70 which
the reply is that there is NJ certainty
that this bill is a 6nality. There il
great strength in that portion OF the
radical party which is resolved, if pos
sibIe, to d-isfraHchise the whites IS wei
as enfranchise the blacks. In that event
government az Lne SOuLn viii o5 entIeS
ia the hands Of the Southern Loyal
lists" and under such q government Ger
taiuly the property, and pro0soly thS
liberty and life, of but few men OF property
at the south would be safe. Then, again
the reconstruction bill may not pass. II
this event, there is some reason to feal
from the next congress worse measures
which will be urged upon the preteX
that the south aud its friends Fefust
milder ones. Coufiscation may be among
these measures. The New York lime
says that confscation bills have beeI
prepared for presentation to the mex
congress. The measures threatened msy
well be treated, in the language Of tina
paper, as ''bIaek clouds 10 the southern
sky,n aud we therefore repeat that nC
southern man should be blamed i0
Living on his oars" until the storm
Il over.