Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-01
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ruE cRSWHISG OUTRAGE-EEGRO
uUReRs TO TRY WHITE MEN.
RICHMOND, September IS.-Col Burn
ham. detailed as judge Of the MUSINGS
court, charged the grand jury this morn
No. He said no distinction on accouht
Of color or caste will be allowed ID the
court.
Much. though not half enough, nor in
terms half bitter and indignant enough,
hes heen written and said in respect to
the vjIlalny Of that usurping and there
fore guilty legislation, outside OF the
Constitution, which has created Military
Despotism in which the will Of each mil
itsrv subordinate Of Congress Is the
source of aI law and has cursed a ruined
land with the Internal abominstion OF
negro suffrage.
But there il another atrocious villainy,
crime for which even Congressional
1sgisIstiop affords no warrant, the spawn
ans issue OF the wantOnness Of military
tyranny, that has SIS yet excited little or
no comment, although it is the last ex-
tremitv of degradation to which the
white men Of the South, once free, have
bas1 or ever can be subjected. That it
e horne in silence proves how completely
the people OF the Southern States are
subjugated.
While the Civil War was raging, and
the ardent aud fery-hearted secessiSnists
spurned, as though it were a dishonour'
the idea Of returning into the Union on
eauay and honorable terms, and were
ready to swear their children, as HAM
uc.R did bis son HANNIBAL upon the
sItsrs Of the C~arthsginisn Gods, to
eternal hatred Of Rome, not foreseeing
that the day would come when they
would favour reconstruction and coyet
negro Notes.-The few surviving Journals
of the Confederate States were in the
habit Of painting in the gloomiest co!ors
the imagined consequences OF su5jugs-
ton, 20 encourage the people to continue
the desperate struggle, even when the
csuse had become hopeless, and success
impossible. But no journal, that we re-
member. ever included among these con-
seouences even negro suffrage, and still
less even limited at the trial Of white
men by negro jurors,-the crowning In
fanny and insult and most dsmnable
strocItv Of sL GOD forgive the Southern
mar who unites himself with those who
peTpatrate this brutal and beastly out
rage FOR It Is impossible that his ruined
country should forgive him, or that be
should forgive himself?
The brief paragraph that heads this
article is more eloquent to every man
who thinks, than q thousand volumes Of
speeches and sermons.
Colonel BURNHAM, detailed as Judge
Of the Hastings Court" An officer Of
the army Of the United States, shoulder
straps and jack boots included, detailed
10 be Judge Of 3 Court Of civil and Grim
inaI Jurisdiction : and ANDREW JOHN
soN, wearing the rags Of the Presidency
Of the United States, sits serene as 3
summer morning" receiving his salary
Of SIS. 900 per annum, and the dishonours
incident to his position, and permits this
viilainous outrage upon the Constitution
20 pass unehaIlenged, though encouraged
10 be a man and q patriot by a solemn
decision Of the Supreme Court, long
since given, and in which even the Re
publican Judges, CURTIS and MCLEAN
coDcurred, that the Congress 9 exer-
else no powers at outside Of the Con-
stitution and although it has not the
least power or right 70 invest military
officers with arbitrary powers Of govern
ment over territory acquired by con-
quest.
eTcKLEs. ex-New York Democratic
Demagogue, and SHERIDAN, few years
ago Second Lieutenant, and ScHoFIELD
IN Virginia and North Carolina, and
griffin in Texas, command that juries
shall consist equally Of whites and ne
Rroes. Hatred Of the Southern people
wear, with all Of them, as IL does with
Congress, the mask OF tender solicitude
for the civil and political equality Of the
negro.
tits even suggested that JoHNH II. SUR.
RAFT will not be tried again until Con-
vress. eager to have him hung, in order
10 Justify HUNTERS Military Commits
sion. HouT and bingham, shall have
provided that all juries in the District Of
Columbia shall be half white and half
negro, or wholly negro, as the Judge may
please An honest white jury failed to
convict him. It will he easy 10 murder
hin by means Of s jury Of negroe5-as
s.sv. almost, as TO do it by 8 Military
Commission, presided over by the sstur-
nine malignity Of q HUNTER, taking its
lsv from a BINGHAM, and procuring its
testimony by the exsrtions Of a Bureau
n Military Injustice conducted by q
HOLr.
II is even probable that when JEFFRR-
.o~ DAVIS, President Of the Confederate
states. Is tried on the absurd charge Of
srssson, after JOHNSON has ceased to be
President, and WADE has become go, or
some other Radical, rho triH not pardon
y. DAVIS after cOhUicdon-when UR-
@rvwoop, 5 creature viler than ScRoos,
lido upon the trial, IL the chief Justice
.ho supreme Court, with 3 lingering
-.aut Of shame or decency declines to
:, the Jury to try that ilustrious man,
- he the judges OF the LaD as well AZ
- S,o, Of treason, will be composed In
mart Of Degroes-
- GIVES the negro the right to
even Il did not dive deep enough
seIsre him entitled to cit upon the
49, e try white men accused Of pOliti-
.ces. or ordinary cEimes and mis-