Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-24

SHERIDAN might legltlHlIZe pOlygamyS
establish q State religion, create orders Of
nobility, levy taxes, collect additional
imposts, decree divorces, legitimate bas-
tards, change the laws of descent and
distribution, sell debtors into bondage,
provided they are not Of African descent,
exile citizens suspect of d%isloyslty, sup
press refractory journals, issue lettreS dc
cdcbet, close the courts, pass relief laws,
e. post fscto laws andlsTs impairing the
obligation Of contracts, try citizens by
Military Commissions for offences de-
clared such only by his edicts,-exereise,
in short, all the powers of despot, for
hidden only to pat men to death and in
fict cruel and unusual punishments.
For the Congress OF the United States
by a resolution Of thanks and a law that
stain its records with an immortal in
fanny, has already approved and ratified
most Of these things, and cannot consist
emily refuse to approve the worst. They
have approved the enactment Of laws
violative Of private rights by SICKLEs
Of orders by SCHOFIELD preventing the
execution Of a decree Of q Chancery
Court for the sale Of the property Of the
proprietor of q radical newspaper of the
removal and appointment of Governors
and Judges by Sheridan Of the trial Of
citizens by Military Commission of
every folly and every outrage, in short,
which the Generals commanding Dis
tricts have seen fit to commit.
Actuated, not by any regard for the
reputation, honour or interests Of the
country, but by those most de~spicable
and detestable Of all the motives that
can influence public men, malignant
anger at being opposed and thwarted by
the President, and vindictive personal
hatred of MIN, they have not only toler-
ated, but with indecent laughter eneour-
aged and applsuded the buffooDs
and blackgusrds who, in the House and
Senate, from Massachusetts, Michigan,
Ohio and Pennsylvania, have libelled
and DETAINED him in debate; have lent
themselves to the infamous plots Of NAL
ice, and entertaining charges and impu-
tstions on which they should have looked
with loathiDg, have, by a prejudiced
Committee, headed by the principal
calumnistor, endeavOured by suborna-
ton Of perjury to fssten upon the Chief
Magistrate the guilt of completely in as
ssssinatiOn.
They have in effect snnulled the Veto
power that feeble barrier of sand raised
by the Constitution against legislative
~usurpation and e-ncroaohment on the Ex-
ecutive ; and, receiving his messages
with a studied contumely, with their
hoofs stamping the PROSTATE Constitu-
ton, have passed measures Of infamy
over his veto, with indecent haste, with
out debate or deliberation.
They have robbed him of his ~constitu-
tional powers and prerogatives, or so
crippled him in the exercise of them, as
to make them worthless. They have
endeavoured to make his Ministers indie
pendent of him, and so subjected him to
indignities of iDsolence intOlerable to q
gentleman, and which insult and degrade
the Republic in the person of its Chief
Magistrate. The Senate has sitten still
ia tame impassiveness, and heard him
denounced by q brswling rhetorician as
the enemy Of his country and the House
has s~pplaUded when he has been coarsely
proclaimed an assassin by the accomplish
of a perjurer.
The have encouraged his Military Sub
alterns to insult him and their press,
the beast of the Apocalypse with seven
heads and ten horns, to which the great
red dragon Of Radicalism, THAT old Ser
pent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deeeiveth the whole world, hath given
" a mouth speaking great things, aud
blssphemies, and his power and bis seat,
and great authority" has insolently
threatened him with impeachment if he
dared exercise his lawful powers to pun
ish the a~Dmannerly insult.
What remedy for all these outrages is
it to transfer SHERIDAN to another com
mand, and leave unredressed all the
wrong be has done, and SCHOFIELD and
SICKLEs to riot in the enjoyment of more
than Imperial power? Is he willing to
be responsible for the act Of SIcKLEs in
confirming an illegal sentence that fined
the Captain Of a steamship two hundred
and fifty dollars, for refusing to give an
African wench a passage and q bed In
the ladies' cabin?
So, also, ia the intervals between 0
important exploits ia legislation and
h~erculean feats of administration, Gene
raj SICKLEs insists that all juTies in the
COnrts Of his plantation shall be COM
posed in part Of negroes and when this
ukase is not regarded, he incontinently
notifies the eontumscious Court, that his
order is pleadable against the mere
law of North Carolina, aud orders the
Illegal Le., lm-order-lA jury quashed,
threatening, if this is not done, to quash
all verdicts and the udgmentsupont them.
Is the President willing to be responsible
for these drunken abuses of power?
Does he approve Of negro %juries, to be
Judges Of the Tan as well as the facts, as
Rn institution Of SICKLEsDoM?
Would to God we bad the genius and
power Of word painting Of MACAULEY,
and the fiery bitterness Of JUNIUs, to de-
pict, ia the language they deserve, the
execrable infsmies of Radical despodsm.
viii there be no TAcITUs TO cblsel upon
The granite tablets Of history in sentences
that cut into the flesh Of v~ilIainy like the
lash Of the hangmaD, the record that
Radicalism, lost to all shame, is making
for itself, to earn the detestation Of the
endless generations? no JUvENALi to
strip from pretence and impOstnre the
mask Of patriotism, and In words that
burn and blister like a fiery acid, to lay
bare the T-ottenness and loathsOme viii
lainies Of faction ? The country is like a
ship that PUSHES blindly and madly
through the thick darkness of a stormy
night without knowledge, on the partof
a crew drunken and insane as pack OF
bowling deryishes, into what unseen dan
gers and to what disastrous catastrophe
it is being driven. The President is the
pilot of the ship, and On him rests the
awful responsibility for the safety of a
craft that was once full-freighted with
the hopes Of millions. How is be doing
his duty in this terrible emergency.
HAITI
The negro Republic Of Haiti rejoiees
in a new Constitution, of which the New
York World says:
1.-The new Hayden constitution con-
tains some very e~Ommendable features,
and il properly adhered to may possibly
tend 10 increase vastly the PROSPERITY of