Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-30

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falsely taken, 10 investigate the loyalty
| of the false swearers, and exclude them
although they had swallowed the oath.
The second was, to give up the test oath
az unconstitutional, and require only
( present loyalty to the Constitution.
Their Committee had only a few days
before been housing about Kentucky,
picking up testimony here and there, 70
impesch the loyalty of the members
from that State. If ARNELB, STOKES
and MULLINS bad been elected to repre-
sent Kentucky, they would not have
been admitted to seats. No man can
wink 80 hard as not to see that: and it
was the veriest and shsbbiest s~coundrel-
ism, a small sneaking rascality, to allow
them to take the oath and their seats,
and exclude better men who came to
represent Kentucky.
II BENZ. +. BUTLER and LOGAN swore
that they had never favored or sympa-
thizad with the rebellion, and soswear-
ing swOre the truth, immense injustice
has been done them: and We do not see
how ARNELL, STOKES or MULLINS could
take the Congressional test-Oath. II
they swore 70 a falsehOod in taking it, the
House which permitted them to de it,
and accepted them as members, was as
guilty as they themselves, as accompliees
and suborners.
The H~HtsNiqencer says:
For the honor of poor human nature,
we are happy TO chronicle the name Of
one who seemed to feel ashamed Of this
exhibition Of ~partisanship. Judge Shell
labarger, Of Ohio, protested against de-
parting from the law of the House and
the statute book. He seemed to feel the
disgrace with which these proceedings
covered his party. Better to err with
him in the spirit Of 8 bigOtry which
closes the door TO an honorable recOneili-
alton between the two sections, than the
double dealing which has n law, One
conscience for the Democrat from Ken
tucy, and another just the opposite for
the Radical and former secessiOnist from
Tennessee.
SHELLABARGEB is as bitter q Radical
As generally to have been utterly incapa-
bic OF arguing logically, or like a "a
tiousl and sane human creature, in re-
gard to any thing connected with rebel
lion or reconstruction. Probably he
feared that the people might have wit
enough to see the ~barefsced, bold, IN
blushing viIlainy which the House was
not ashamed to perpetratei and that it
might form another count of the Great
Indictment which the Grand Inquest of
the Commonwealth is preferring against
9 faction that has not even the decency
to wear a mask over its deformity.
It is treason TO give aid and comfort to
those who levy war against the United
States. II these Tennessee members
gave aid and comfort to the Southern
cause, and then abandoned it, for safety
or profit, their apology only made their
original sin the greater no matter how
humbly they had repented. They could
not truly take the oath and the House
knew it and it holds that even s par
don does not restore the competency Of a
peniten6Ofender
The H7teFgeaca- well terms these men
/" Rotten-borough Representatives ia a
Rump Congress" The phrase is felicit-
Gus ard true. They do not represent the
white men Of Tennessee. The "Sove-
reigns" whom they chiefly represent,
are negroes. The number Of white men
represented would not entiGe Tennessee
TO more than two membels; but she has
seven, and the white men Of Kentucky
practically none. There vas a time,
once, when Members of Congress, and
even Of State Legislatures, were fond Of
Boosting Of the intelligence and cgltivs-
ton Of their constituents. If those who
represent New York or Massachusetts,
should do 50 now, IT ought to be ruled
out Of order, rs an iBvidiO1s reflection
upon TENNESSEE, and the whoie-sOUiedp
and "high-toned" sable constituency Of
its Representatives.
OF some Of the men who were most
eager for the admission Of the Tennessee
members, the L~gteujgoacey bitterly says
In another sspect Of the scene Ia the
House, so humiliating, not 10 say dis
gushing, to 8 true white man, thoughtful
Of the once hOnored name Of American
citizenship, how is the picture dsrkened
by the characters that were sponsors for
the REPRESENTATIVE Of Afrieanized Ten
nessee! A Sehenck, who is accused q
having sent 10 the South the loathsoms'
characters that are described in another
column by N article from a Radical
jOuFlsli a ScheBck, who has been re-
pudia-ed by the people Of his district,
aud whose aeEid partisan life is near its
close! A Kelley, who i also repudiated
10 his district, and who to tha Forrest
style nf acting in his demagOgueism
~superaddeo, of course, the qualities OF
bully, coward, and fugitive &C NOhilel
A Butler, who TO b crimes OF private
p~eculation and public piundeEing, ~
charged upon him by men OF his own
party, adds that, according to Gen.
Grant, OF inc0mpetency as a soldier, and
who 70 recognized OF all men as the pO-
Iitical assassin Of Douglas and the Demo-
cratic party, thereby placing himself IN
the fore front Of the original disaBiOnists,
who, with bIOodletting, abolition
fanatics, brought all the miseries Of civil
var upon g smiling and happy land.
A Logan, whose only good name, out
side Of that OF beiag q brave man, was
that he came to prOminencs under the
wing Of Douglas, yet whose a. be
abandoned when by sympathizing with
the Bsheliion then in rms and Ii force in
a n~eigbb1ring State no was arrested by
a Union General, and confined upon the
charge Of treason.
Benz. F. BUTLER and ScHUYJB Coz
FAX are talked OF IN connection with the
Presidency. There is no knowing to
what bad eminence ARNELL aud STOKES
may attain. Honours are, to-day, for the
worthless among the living, and
monuments and mausolea for the basest
Of the dead. It is the old story; the
bravest and the Boblest sleep in undis-
tinguished graves. Il is IS VARRo
wrote in these singing lines.
e Morm7roo Lactnts tlnuao facet. az ono parg5.
f" PoHpeus Haio. CredfHus es1e Ds0s
LIcISUs lies in a marble tomb, but
CATO in a small one, aud PosrPEY in
none. Do We believe that there are
There never was 3 Republic free Of
that sort Of men who for sinister pur-
poses labour to deprave the people With
their eoansellings, (ple5eul e0nsiJ3s d5.
pravars3 like the preachers Of whom
MILTON speaks, whoss p~alpit-stufR,
both frst and las hath been the doctrine
and perpetual infusion Of servility aud
Bretchsdness 70 all their hssrers and
whose lives the type OF worldlIness and
hypocrisy, without the least true pattern
of virtue, Righteousness or self-denial in
heir whole practice
Never, in any age, has God afflicted
and cursed acountry with a more despi-
and detestsble crew Of tyrants and
iemRgoguss than those who have forthe 1
asst two years been bounding on this
70 It's ruin. 1t may be impossible
undo their Internal work ia the South,
Until it is TOO late; but il so, 50 much the
worse for them. The vengeance Of the
reused st last 10 8 keen sense Of
he mighty wrongs inflicted upon them,