Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-22
RECONSTRUCTION.
The Southern Press on tie
Military Bill.

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h Military Bill.
From the Richmond Times.l
3i Calm, temperate, sagaeious executive
and legislative action, at this time, ma.
save US from any permanent injury iron
j. the vetoed act. Bat the desired advan
J. tages cannot be gained by sUplnenes
and inactiOn. In all ages and cOuntrie
the haughtiest and most high toned peO
pie, when defeated in battle and fOreet
| at the point of the bayonet to accep
Z merciless and inhuman terms, have il
:. no way stained their reputation by tax
ing such measures as have best secured
e their lives and property from the fury o
l. their 6onQuerors.
. From the Richmond Wbig
The only question we are privileged t
determine is, whether the present con
, stituted authorities viii take charge o
the machinery aad york it to the bes
. possible advantage fOf the ps.blic, ol
leave it ia the hands of unknown Rdven'
tursrs or well known knaves, who may
! saddle us with a despotism after the
model OF BrOWnioW.
From the Richmond Enquirer.J
The supreme court has unanimously
voted that such law is wholly inadmis-
sible Majority and minority on other
points, cOncurred in declaring that mar
tial law in time of peace is impossible
Let us make haste to appeal TO that court.
Let US do so ere we are all bucked and
gagged.
From the Mobile Advertiser and Register
The men who, were Yancey alive to-
day, would send him to the scaftold as q
union breaker, have themselves COM
pleted and peTpetuated the work he only
began. There is no more American
union. II died with the constitution,
which was the life ia its body. Eancey
is triumphant. He struck the blow to
end what Washington began, and the
radicals are but the inevitable links in
the chain Of sequence and destiny
which he forged.
From the Tallahassee FIoritcaa.I
We think the executives of the states
owe it to the people and to the best in
| terests of society to leave no efforts IN
turned to bring the matter before the
/ judiciary. II failure shall attend US
! there, we must then meet our troubles
with brave heart, leaving the issue 10
| Him who maketh the wrath of man to
| praise him.
From the Louisville Ky Courierl
Let the south, therefore, stand firm,
/ submitting to what it cannot help, but
| not aiding in any way in dishouoring
| itself, or in bedaubing its fair escutcheon.
[ From the Jacksonville (FIa-) UniOn.l
Let US then by peaceful and earnest
measures take active steps TO arouse, il
possible, the friends OF good and honest
/ and constitutional government, to sense
| Of the fatal course upon which the revO-
| lutiOnists in their midst are rushing their
own as well as southern liberties.
4 From the Montgomery ALA Mail
Let the people be quiet, and let the
! governors of the south who represent
/ them meet in council, and cast about for
some concerted plan of testing immedi-
/ ately the constitutional validity of this
| shameful and yindictive act Of legisla-
| ton. We are satisfied that it will prove
! successful; and, if so, country, the con-
stitution, liberty, homer, all are safe /;
and if it should fail, we shall be in no
worse condition than we are now.
From the Norfolk virginian.I
In 1850 Virginia cast 165, 600 votes, and
! il is asserted that she could poll to-day
| 10000, after allowing five per cent,
which is the governors estimate, for
disfranchised classes. With this power
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our people to rouse from their apathy,
and, wheR our charter elections come,
with the cOncomitants forced upon us by
| this bill, we should be found, every man
Of us, ready, in a temperate and discreet
manner, to use the only means left to
| preserve our municipal governments
! from the pollution with which they are
| threatened by the political Dalghettys
] who have recently mustered under the
! Sherman bill.
From the Baltimore SUM-
To call this bill, then, measure which
! tends TO the restoration of the Union, or
which holds out hope of restoration, is
/ 10 miscall Opposites-tO liken desruc
/ ton to creation, injustice to justice,
| tyranny to right, prescription and perse-
cuti0n to brOtherly love.
/ From the Macon Ca New Era
The only good reason for not appeal
/ ing to arms in this conjuncture is the
| hOpelessness of success.
From the Memphis BuHetinl
However it be, the southern people
must manfully endure, and be able to
/ say that which Francis /. wrote to his
mother after the disastrous battle Of
/ Pavia: " Al is lost ercept honor"
/ Prom the Atlanta lGa.l Daily Opinion
Let US learn one lessou-the course Of
/ abOlitionism has been onward, day by
! day, ever since the government was
/ formed, and in no single year has il
made greater strides than in the one last
past. To our mind it has long been plain
that If tge did not vote the negro, they
would.
| From the Memphis Tenn Avalanche.l
The man among US who fsvors this
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among whom he lives, AKA the man who
! recognizes or encourages its advocates
with his patronage or his smile, is not
better than the radical scoundrels who
are seeking TO rob US Of liberty, and TO
make us tie abject slaves OF the most
| uuprincipled tyrauts tnat ever disgraced
| the earth.
| From the Charleston Is. c. Mercury.l
In our judgment any military rigor,
any eoerced submission on any terms, is
! preferable 10 the voluntary debasement
I and infamy, and the permanent, ire
trievsble ruin the southern states will
incur by adopting the terms of the bill.
From the Charlottesville (va) Chronicle
We are very far from despair, black as
the prospect is. The immediate aim OF
our state should be TO get back in the
union as quickly as possible. There we
shall be measurably, at least, shielded
from the radical storm. II we stay out
much longer, we shall have confiscatiOn
added TO negro suffrage. There we have
at least reached resting place, There
we can get control Of our state affairs /;
there we can make another state co'isti-
] tuition.
From the Louivine tRy.) Journal
The people of the south, il wise and
prudent, can live for a time under such
a damnable tyranny as this, but if they
consent to it, they deserve il. They
don't deserve it, and they will never
| consent to it. They would sooner see
| their beautiful cline whelmed beneath
second Dead sea.
From the New orleans Bee.l
The situation is different now from
what it was when the constitutional
amendment was proposed. Then the
south was asked TO assist in Masking the
change; now she has 20 submit to the
laws that are made for her by the party
in power.
From the Wilmington ~. C3 Dispatch
There is but little doubt that the south-
ern states will msfas haste TO fulfill the
requirements Of the Sherman bill ia the
event that il shall become law; and
that they will do all they can speedily TO
rid themselves Of the military surveil-
lance to which they will be reduced IN
: der the operation of that scheme. This
iUiU be done t0ith the hope that MANI Of
the disQudlifcdtiOAs, 1Chich 1CiH be re.
s,s5tdnt, may be avoided, and that the
; peace for which they have so ardently
longed may be enjoyed. But whatever
the motive, there is left no room TO dOubi
. that prompt action will be taken to avail
themselves OF all the benefits TO be de.
rived by a surrender of opposition to tbt
nurposes OF the radicals who WELD the
hover Of the federal government.
From the Mobile tAla-l Advertiser and Ree7
Nor does it make the slightest differ
! ence whether the law is constitutional
5 or otherwise. 1t will be a law Of fore,
- - - .vd there is neither poyyeT o. n,