Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-15

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The New York ri, 5uze takes occasion
briefly % rsriew tie Actsand Orders Of
le Military Sstsars, and express its
high ~grstiication and enthe satisfaction
with their justice snd wisdom And yet
HORACE GREELEY really imagines that
he Is an honest Politician How any
man who ever was a HENRY CLaF
| Wing can approve Of a Military Despo-
tsm, and OF the infamous treatment of a
suffering peoale hg the IHsolenee Of
power and the vulgar arrogance Of ne
groes, we are utterly AZ a loss TO under
stand. If he approves these iniquities,
be ought 81 lsSst 70 have shame enough
to Keep his approval TO himself. To be
known 20 approve them ought to make
any man as Infamous a. . parasite Of
Of vitellius.
General swAYNE, In his report on the
Mobile riot, says:e I do not find that a
greater charge than timidity or inefH-
cheney can be sustained against the police
authorities Of Mobile Upon this, the
National Batabgsaes7 always moderate
in its tone, and cautiously Weighing its
words, remarks:
Mild as this sounds, il cloaks a state OF
things the enOrmity of which ought to
excite the indignation Of every white
man in America, and which, when
properly understood by the civilized
world, will reflect d~isastrously upon the
character OF republican institutions.
Why were the police timid and inefi-
cient Because Mobile is ~terrorized.
Because the white population are para
lyZed in their efforts to preserve order
by the armed power of a republic which
claims that all men shall be free. The
men Of Mobile know that to hurt q hair
Of q black mans head is to unkennel a
pack Of party bioodhounds, who are al
ready ciamoring for yengeance and have
been threatening confiscatiOn. The
r0wdy element OF the colored poplia-
ton has held high carnival in
that city. Night after night they
have been parading the streets, holding
their meetings-some public, some pri-
vate-hTiDg their guns, and making
threatening demonstrations. At some
Of their meetings the most ~incendieFy
speeches have been made. Secret
leagues are organized, and the ~leaguers
are assured that every member will have
a grant OF oonfsoated land, while the
outsiders viii be cut of. The latter, too,
have been violently threatened, and in
some instances brutality assaulted. This
state Of things became ~ last so fragrant
that the league leaders were privately
notified by the military that it must
stop. But the negroes are led to believe
that the military is on their side; and
the whites, knowing the political conse-
quences OF . collision, bear as best they
may an insOlenes that cannot be de-
scribed, because it Is the ~overbearing
brutality of q nature once cowed, but
now exulting in power.
The Ehite men of Mobile groan to be
released from = bondage the more gall
ing because at present hopeless. It IS
not the black rOwdies they fear, but the
perverted power Of the nation, which, if
these are brought to justice, will be in
voked to avenge b wrongs of the
injured negro" A proud, high-spirited
people, our eountrymen, man whose
herOism we cannot but honor, making q
desperate struggle, which must ever
command the admiration of the brave,
enduring a poverty uneXampied in its
widespread hardships, and seeking now
to recover their shattered fortunes, are
not only denied the privileges Of citizen
ship, but sre exposed TO the lawlessness,
the arrogance, the insulting brutality Of
few eolorsd desperadOes, whom they
dare not deal With as they ought,
lest the country ring With the cutlery
of "Outrages upon negroes" and
the spirit Of rebellion; and 70 the
wiser heads advise ~fOrbearance,
fOrtitade, siieneeg and this nation per-
mits itself to participate IN ths great
wrong Of subondinating knowledge to
ignorance, culture to semi aFbarism.
On the night of the riot it was the negro
rowdies who held possession Of the town.
1t was by the negroes that Outrages were
committed upon the whites. One white
wsman had her Jaw broken by a darkey
for SIMPLY asking the question,
% What Is the meaning Of all this dis
tUrbsnee ~ & reputable citizen was
causelessly feiled with an iron bar aimed
at his head, but which struck his back,
and the life of a well known citizen was
saved from a gang Of darkey desperadOes
only by the Intervention Of some cOlored
people VINO knsV him. The police ought
to have arrested the negroes who we've
firing their guns; but their dark skin was
Uncle Sans warrant of protection, and
50 they were "timid and Inefficient
lest they might provoke 8 5Ontest which
only make more uncomfortable the
condition OF their town.
The H1teHigeacer asks how long this
stats o, thiEgs Is 70 last and appeals to
q the calm judgment and good sense of
our COuntrymen.n 1t might as well
appeal to the demented inmates of Bed
am. It has been the deliberate inten-
lcn Of tne people Of the North, whose
it representative, faithfully rejecting
heir hate THAD. STEVENS is, q that the
order Of nature shall be reversed" a.
intelligent, cultivated classes Of the
south be put at the mercy Of those unac-
,ustomed TO ~self-eontro1, and whose
nsoienee can now be measured only by
heir former obsequiousness.n This
tate Of things viii last until it produces
anarchy, and that anarchy be-
,omes intolerable. As yet we see moth
ug, compared to what we shall witness
y and by. The reign Of the Devil is =
lst commspfipg, The accused conse-
Ofswgre-eaHrage and negro in
a~rdDnardly beginning to develope
themselves. When the anarchy which
inevitable can be no longer borne,
here will be a revolution, and sham re-
'ublicanism viii end. There will be no
.mendment, Improvement or reform
.ntil then but matters Will go from bad
o worse, until the very idea of demo-
ratio government Will become detesta-