Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-30

DEVILTRT.
We take the following hguresa Iact
from the National Intelligence Of the
25th Of September. 1t is part OF the
history OF the internal conspiracy by
which the Radical leaders, JorsseeiHg
their approaching defeat in the Northern
!Satss, las we kzlow they did, sought for
the means Of maintaining themselves IN
mower at sl hazards for fOuryears longer
bv securing the votes Of the ten unrecoh-
strDcted States and Tennessee. In -four
wears more. the pockets Of the present
leaders, their friends, dependents mer-
ceusries aud pimps will be hlled' and
they can then retire gracefully to private
life. We are not in the habit Of tslkinS
st rAudom,o or vituperating without cause,
and IS we are not the chsttel or thrall oil
any party, man or passion, We can speak
the cold. calm words Of the simple truth
This object Of most Of the principal lead
ers OF RadicRlism has always been
MONEY and where they were honest As
some OF them were, they have been COM
peIled to %connive at the plunderings OF
their dependents, the coHdohieT7 OF their
faction, to whom they owed, and through
whom they retained, place, influence
and power One half Of hsPubltc as6t
IL charoeaBle TO this widespread SYSTEM
Of D1,gldering the public. The legitimate
arDenses Of the war and Government
have not amounted to one half the debt,
The purchase by STANTON Of q vessel
worth not more than $50, 600, for S45O,OOO,
went somewhat beyond the ordinary
measure Of rascslity; but is only s fair
specimen Of the mode in which the
Treasury wss robbed. The imposition OF
a tax OF ttOo dollars agsllon on whiskey,
after the purpose to do it bad been made
known 70 the favoured few who COM
posed the inner ring Of Radical rascality,
50 that they might buy up the whiskey in
market at current prices, TO the amount
Of millions, and realize by its subsequent
sale, at the price borne by that which
paid the excise duty, was another speci-
men Of the prostitution Of legislation to
purposes of private profit.
Power was thus msde too profitable to
the possessors OF 1t, to be given up with
out an effort to retain il. We are not
talking loosely when We say that the
leaders long sgo knew that their lease Of
power would be brief II they could not
secure the Southern States. They had
no hatred against the South. The war
had been too profitable 10 them, for that.
They owed to il sl they had and 81
they were. They applied the qaes-
zion, torture, the rack, the thumb
screw and the irou-bOot to the South, Oh
q cold .blooded, selfish and atrocious cal
culstiou, to hurry it, by the double in
centive Of fear and selhshness, into such
q reconstruction as should secure them
its Congressional and electoral votes.
To secure these, they determined IN
their esbals To force negrO-sufhrage upon
il; and by the bribe Of fear, pardon and
the prospect OF official dishonours they
purchased the consent and assistance Of
too many OF those TO whose unwisdom
in former years the misfortunes Of the
South were owing. Their calculation
was that by means Of the various appli-
auces used, they could win the vote Of
the Southern States, if they lost those Of
the great States OF the North, some Of
which, tOhio, for example,, they did not
doubt they would retain. Il Wa 3 des-
perats game, and they have played 1t
desperately. They bought some South
ern men In one way and some in an
other,-these being for the most part en-
tirely unconscious that they had become
the mere chattels and tools Of these IN
~scrupulous conspiratOrs. Some, who,
once prescribed Wings, still hated the
p~roscripdve Democracy like the Gov
n OF Tennessee they did not need
TO buy. Their passions and old snimosi-
ties secured these without other price.
Flattery and the hope Of preferment Sc
cured others; and in other cases the
simple and oonhdiug honesty OF brave
soldiers made them the easy dupes OF
the political shRrpers who farmed the }
and emoluments Of the Gov
eminent. &
GRANT or SHERIDAN IS q candidate Z
for the Presidency, and the sure votes Of {
the Southern States are indispensable to |
success 10 November, 1858. 1t =
therefore been 8 necessity 10 radical. $
ze the South. Tennessee Is subsidized. il a
he Acknowledgement Of eighty thousand l
her white citizens can be continued, 4
md the negro vote caa be secured by 4
irving them the right TO hold Office. 81
There needs no other explanation Of the
tate Of sffairs here. 81
As 10 the other and unreconstructed Il
the Natioaal hateUigsaosr well n
aid, on the 25th Of September, that the a
rtful machinery by which they were TO "
e put under negro domination, 30 as to e.
ke out Radical strength at the North, to
I'D reached 3 point where o could be- SO
10 to compute results. 1t said; In
Louisiana. under the auspices Of Gen. N
and the clique OF bad men by D,
he was surrounded, and 10 whose
sssions he ministered, was the first to
,mplete this initial step OF " reconstrue- ha
on 50 called. The official result is as
hites. "A 1872; blacks, 50, 9J7-being a ex
gro majority Of 3S,l75. ~.
IN Alabsma the official result was also
,iekIv reached by the ptOus zeal OF DC
IN. POPE. The fetal is Ice, 995-whites, J
T47. blacks, 50, 248-being 3 majority Pc
! the negroes Of 1851. Of
In South Carolina the Onielal figures
46 Ols negroes to p, l76 whites, being Gle
majority Of 4643 res
n Virginia the official figures are AM
I5l57; blacks, lOl, $50, being : nla
'ite majority Of Is, 667. Gen. Seho- r.
res ordered an eieetion % be held AR
the a2d October for members Of q con- fra
alton. w