Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-25

at last left her defenceless.
ACT OF sECzLEs.
COAIMARnED, APRIL II, 1867.
We publish in another column, the
ROYAL Edict which DAN. SICKLEs has
proclaimed, by permission of the Presi-
dent of the United States, as the Su-
prenae Law. Itlaeks the Imperial style,
in not commencing, a., we hambly sug-
gest. all future Rescripts.should
1--WE DANIEL T. SICKLEs, by the
grace Of God, Major General, CESAR
and Imperator."
II is headed, in a more unpretentious
way, Is nodestly, indeed, As though it
were an order of daily routine, General
Orders. No. 10. Headquarters Second
Military District" aud is signed, "By
command Of Major General D. +.
sICKLEs. wv. CLoUs, Captain Thirty
/ eighth Z. S. Infantry, A. d. c. and A.
A. a. G.
"Let Us see the National HitettgeE-
Ger SAYS, "some OF his initiative work
of restoration in communities more than
two hundred wears old, with laws and
/ customs so settled for the daily routine
Of life as to be a second nature to the
people whose one political delusion has
/ axDused them TO the calamity of a de-
/ peudenCe upon tne sport Of q New Aork
Z political Wire-Dulleg.
I'm the first place, when Ii peases the
Commanding General to turn law
giyer, his statutes ought to be inteliigt-
Die enough for people TO know how TO
! please him. If they are TO be construed
like q genJlemanis letter of instructions
to his gardener, they ought to be written
80. If they are ~artieulated in regular
/ sections, GcOundiDg in legal phrases, and
lumber along in the tUrgid yerbOslty OF
! ordinary acts OF a legislature, the read
/ er's mind. admonished OF the rules Of
| Interpretation by the 'afOresaids and
whereasss, Ought not to be banged
into the posture of q laws ere, SE.y % be
~coufOunded by incOherencies, distracted
BY contradictions, and lost in insOlub.e
dOubts.n
The substance Of this ResceiPt is Of a
nature aEd seach TOO extraordinary and
startling, for Us TO initiate tae +stel-
| qeacer in criticlslng its beauties Of Ian
guage.
We are informed by Northern journals
that the Orders in question have given
greet satisfaction, and have made Gen
eraI SICKLEs very PcPrlar in South and
| North Carolina and the same Journals
congratulate the people Of the Second
Military District upon their good fortune
in being under the mild and p%aternal
government OF 9 Cenign lsi.itary Des-
potism, which begins its reign, not by
an act Of apprehended severity and op-
preston, but by loading the people with
blessings.
1t woa.5 hsye been much better for
the population there is no paris any
longer of the two C%aroIinian Provinces,
now fifty named after two Of the
STUARTs, if the tiger of despOtism had
not shOd itself with velvet. There uear
was, since tie world began, q Gespotism
born in the bosom Of 8 Republic, that
did not begin BY Comforting benefits and
g~ratuities on the P~opulace, in order to
be able to end by owning them as slaves.
Il is 50 that all have been established in
the supremacy Of power. SIcKLEs,
stepped from tile day when he first
thrust Up his head out Of the miFe IS 9
New York Democratic politician, in all
the %corruptions Of political chicane Of
that political Sodom, the city of New
York. is, SIS despot, exactly what he
was as deE.GIogue. Then, he, like
JOHN CoCHRANE and others nov Dadi-
Gals like himself, composed one brother
hood with the TUEvEYDRoPs and Tar
TUFFEs, the HoTsPURs and FLUELLENs,
Of State Rights, whose alliance was
profitable 70 them, and who were busily
engaged in pushing the South, with
their help, into a movement that was
to end in their su6jugation, out Of which
they were themselves to scramble, with
their wings singed and their fortunes
beggared, but their necks saved from
the halter by self-expatriation or sub
mission.
STCKLEs Is stil the Democratic Dems-
eogue, educated in the political morality
of the Five Points, and that education
perfected by a few years service Ia that
unclean body, the House Of Representa-
tives of the United States.
The President is, by the Constitution,
the Commander in Chief Of the Army
OF the United States. His powers, as
such, over his subalterns, are beyond the
reach Of Congress; and SIcKLEs is as
absolutely under his control as a negro
Sergeant is under that Of the white Cap
tain OF Ethiopian m~ereeuaries. II Is the
President that must 0UsWcr to the cOaq-
try for general Orders, No. TO-"
"PANEM EFT CIRCENsEs bread and I
the Games These reconciled the popu-
lace Of Rome to the ~fosculent despotism
Of the Caesars who gave them the loaves
Of a tyrsnt's bounty, and relieved them OF
their debts. South Carolina, like blind
BELIsARIUs " SipeBl emeRdicat," and
accepts with gratitude the largesses and
donatives OF Imperial mUnifeence. The
Roman Caesars gave these doles at their
" expense OF that Of the Treasury, and
the rabble applauded their munifeenee.
The Kaisar who is commissioned TO
make DesPotlsm acceptable to the cOun-
try Of Macon and Calhoun, buys The af-
fections of the debtor by the cheap and
inexpensive process OF ~plundering the
creditor.
The Act Of SICKLEs I undertakes to
do these several things
It permits a debtor To be imprisoned.
by " the proceedings now established in
North and South Carolina respectively
for the trial and determination OF such
questions" where be fraudulently can
eeals or disposes Of his property, with
intent to hinder, delay and prevent the
creditor in the recovery Of his debt or
demand.
1t forbids the enforcing by execution
the person or property, of
judgments and DEGREES for the
payment Of money, on any causes
Of action that arose after South
Carolina seeded, and before the close Of
the war and prohibits the institution
Of suits on any such causes Of action.
Where the cause Of action arose before
Secession, it suspends sales on execution !
" for foreclosure Of mortgage, for twelve f,
months. 4
It g~raeiously permits judgments and
rendered since the 10th Of May,
s85. to be enforced. and b~enignlv "a. !
from interfering with the priority c
4 liens in the disposition of the moneys )
from sales in such cases.