Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-10

that The people OF cur States will ever
coEsest 10 negro suffrage as the price Of
re-admissfon into the Unicn.
We believe that the great majority OF
our people win, like Senator EAULsBURY,
rspudiate the whole plan. II gives no
assurance that any one who fought on
the losing side IN the civil var, hall
ever be allowed to represent the people
anywhere. II does not pro ride for a
general amnesty. We thing thst our
people viii say with emphasis the con-
ausror " may persecuts US with thesword,
with the famine, and with the peetilence'
and deliver US to lie removed to all the
kingdoms Of the earth, TO be a curse, and
an establishment and q Kissing and a re-
proach among all the nations y; but we
will not accept as voters a horde Of bar
barians sprung from the teeming loins
Of dusky Africa. It would be a less
curse to the country to agree that they
should intermarry with our daughters.
Let the vietors do the deed, II they VIII
and take the consequences. Elsewhere,
the negro may be the intellectual equal
of the white man. Here he is not
Elsewhere it may be ft, and the white
man may be willing, that the negro
should govern and the Caucasian serve.
Here, neither is the case. We think the
right of suffrage is already cheapened too
much, when conferred upon the scum OF
cities. You can impose the curse upon
US. You have the power; and the time
will be short before "the whirlwind OF
the Lord will 90 forth with furyr-a
continuing whiTlwind :" and he'll will
rise up to meet your coming. When the
Devil has reigned long enough, and our
discipline and chsstisement shall have
taught US wisdom, the Lord God will
again ascend the Throne. Then Tour
children shall be as afOretime, and their
congregation shall be established before
Him, and our n0bless shall be Of ourselves,
and our governors shall proceed from the
midst OF US"
We are urged to remove every seed
OF future controversy" How remove
them, when the North daily sows them
broadcast?
The truth is that our cslamities are, as
usual, blessings in disguise. The war
had made Us no wiser. At the end oft,
our people had literally learned nothing.
Neither the men nor the system that had
governed US so long had been changed
while the war lasted. Richmond was q
pocket edition Of Washington, with all
the old routine and all the old abuses.
We copied all the odious acts Of the
Northern Congress. We also had the
Injuries that the North had. We sus-
pended the privilege Of the writ Of
Habeas Corpus, and our Generals de-
clared martial law, enacted codes, and
substituted Provost Marshals for the
courts.
We are learning something now. The
ugly linesments Of usurpation no longer
fascinate Us. Tyranny can no longer
justify by the plea Of necessity, and it
has become detestsble. We feel upon
oar limbs the manscles and letters that
CALLED the limbs Of JEFFERSON DAVIS in
the gloomy casemste Of Old Point Com
fort. Weknow what ~subjugstion mean
The folly Of those who possess the
powers Of government is COMPRISING US
into u solid unity. What csuses So
ever some Of US have had to complain Of
others, we have forgotten them all, and
are becoming Of one mind and u soul.
We are learning 10 endure. 1t may be
their new plan Of reconstruction will
divide Us, for the people strongly desire
TO follow the President, and have hereto
fore complied with all that he has asked
or ordered.
But every new act Of submission on our
part leads to new ex~setions. We must
stop somewhere. It would have been
much better, we think, if we had stopped
long ago. We ought to consent to no
thing that does not propose a general
amnesty, and the restoration Of all OF
u leaders to all their rights and privi-
leges as citizens.
We need not, however, imagine that
we shall be offered an opportunity to act
upon the Presidents plan. It fell dead
as Dol as presented, and its only effect
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determined on enforcing the "COnStitu-
tiOnsl Amendment"