Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-29

queuces Of The Insane measure OF eman-
cipadon, ard to diminish, if they could
bot prevent, the sntagonism between
The W races. But we have only char
ans, and irrational malig-
nants, and other plaques inflicted upon
US by Gods Justice for our National
iniquities. Consequently all the legisla-
ton Of Congress hss tended, aud indeed
was Intended, to increase and exasperate
that RntagOnism and antipathy. The
Freedmen's Bureau at once divided the
whites and blacks into two hostile camps,
with conflicting interests aud passions
continually exssperated by collisions.
Congress might have rested there, with
the satisfaction Of knowing that il had
secured the ruin of the country, and the
ultimate determination or re-enslave-
meut Of the black race, after, perhaps
half n century Of 0lOodshed. But il was
necessary that Radicalism should secure
the votes Of the Southern States and it
committed the astounding crime o. con-
ferring on negro pFoletarisnism b right
q vote, and then seemed astonished at
the instructive unessiness that at once
pervRded the public mind, Ike that
which presages the coming Of an ele-
mental c~onvulsion, or warns us OF the
presence OF poisonous reptiles or deadly
~coutagiOn.
The Jseobin presses and praters have
DANGEROUSLY insisted, for two years and a
half, that the men who led Ia our strug-
Gle for Independence deserved the halter.
They must not deem US ~discourteous II
we retort by the same declaration $ TO
themselves. To confer upou the negro
the right to vote, without regard to in
tellect or qualification, was the most sta
pendous crime that ever man or people
committed.
It was q crime against the white men
OF the south, because il takes from them
the power Of self-gOvernment, and COM
mits the legislation and government of
the South to the hands Of s. race entirely
unfit and incompetent to govern even
themselves.
It was a crime against the negro, cruel,
treacherous and deadly; because it ere
ates an irre-conci,Rble and deadly sntag-
onism and hostility between the white
and himself, is already destroying
his race by thousands, by the combined
influences Of imprOvidsnee, vice, licsn-
famine and infanticide, and
will inevitably end in its total extermi-
or expulsion from the country.
It was 3 crime against the Southern
States, because it enables needy and
adventures, ~vagabonds and
kuaves, using the miserable negroes to
their ruin, to make themselves the rulers,
masters, legislators, or rather the adj
m~iuisuatOrs de 60Hi non Of these States,
and makes these the shame, scandal and
the reproach Of the age.
Il was a crime against the Nation, be-
it makes the votes OF these negroes
in the South equal to the vote Of five
white men OF the North, opens the Con-
gress TO negro Senators and Represent
and enables the negro vote tOcon-
troll the legislation and often The cleo
OF the country.
And It was q crime against human ma
.ure, and its authors The enemies Of the
human race, because it degrades a great
to the level Of Hayti, demon
that the psrpstuity OF republican
government is impossible, pOisOnG the
very springs of the public life and con-
.aminstes and p]Oilutes the life-6lOOd OF a
nation and a race.
We have long believed that God would
punish the United States for the savage,
,old-blooded and atrOciOus injustices
md barbarities which they have for near
hundred years perpetrated upon the
indians, whom they have robbed Of their
ands and murdered with as little pity or
conjunction as men murder wolves. That
punishment consists in the curse Of the
poisonous presence Of the African among
IS, the terrible wal Of which hat pres
nee was the cause, and the present and
uture hideOus and terrible consequences
f both, which our miserable and despie-
bile masters do not even attempt to
The men who have forced Negro
on the South are the murderers
f the Nation, as surely as the BOKGJAs
we're the m~urderers Of the victims whom
hey poisoned. Sumo are fanatics, no
more responsible fJr their acts than lu-
.atfcs but the great majority knew,
D part, at least, what would be the
o~nsequences OF tneir.crime and commit
I'd il knowingly and deliberately, bs-
ause without it they could not be secured
D the possession Of power. We repeat,
nd History will adiudga, when it eEults
mourns, as the case may be, .over the
Iin Of the American Republic, that ,
lese men deserved, as great criminals
nd mslefsctors, to die ignominiously al
ie hands Of the eXecutiOner. ,