Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-11
TU NE C,xDE HALLS, e CONTRA
ANDEKTIOR ITO.
HELENA, ARK, March, 1867.

TN NE cxDE HALLS, sED CONTRA
nNDEKTIOR ITO.
HELENA, ARK March, 1867.
Editors Memphis A ppesli
Not since 1851 has the public mind of
this state been so centrally exercised on
any one subject of public Importance, as
it is now, touching the last infamous act
of the infamous 2 % the United
States, known as the Sherman Dill"
There is not q man in this broad state,
aye, not a man within the limits OF
the territory between the Gull OF Mexico
and Mason and Dixon's line, who has
any claims at all to responsibility, VINO
does not in his heart of hearts loathe u
contemn that essentially corrupt, essen
tial vengeful and essential detestable
act of congress. The language Of this
Sherman bill breathes the very spirit
which burned in the breast of Robes
pierre, Murat and Danton- 1t enunclates
; a modern version of the Jacobtn edicts
Of 1888; it puts in parliamentary phrases
/ the bitterness of Thersites it wears the
/ deformity and Kisses forth the venom OF
it's god father, Thad. Stevens, and from
beginning 10 end is a " foul and pestilent
congregation " ofspiteful and malignant
legislation. And yet we must look 1t
straight in the face! Like the plague or
the cholera, or the small pox, 1t strikes
the south in epidemic fatality. Inc
honor and honesty Of this brave people,
who have suffered so much, and pre-
served their national and family reputa-
ton through so many long and weary
years of war and exile, cannot act as
disinfecting agents to this new yankee
curse, this puTitanical Infection tnls
- - - - wrnnEna lmmfaln-
ton. But the people of the south will
disappoint their enemies; they can and
will brook ever this abomination.
Driven to the wall, they can n will
learn the wisdom of lighting the devil
with fire. The charge has been brought
against the south that her people were
wanting in common sense. The charge
was made by a yankee, and meant that
the southern people lacked in that essen
tial ingredient of yankee success, which
consist In the ability to make out OF
northern woed marketable oounterfelts
of hams, cheese aud nutmegs. Under
the old reqtnle the south, like her cousin,
the great west, did not leave the whole
some air of the open field for the con-
suuptive atmosphere of the workshop.
She purchased health and largeness of
heart, when her northern brethren were
developing thatidiOsyncracy o~fthenorth-
ern mind, c~uteneSS. The south has ever
had, and has now, a contempt for that
ambition which achieves success at the
expense of principle, yet is not wanting
in common sense, and she will lemon
strate the truth of the assertion in the
present instance. She viii accept this
very bill, and we are very much mis-
taken if out of this nettle danger"
she does not pluck the flower, safety"
OF course its articles and its sections are
abhorrent TO our people, but what Is left
her but the poor plea of making g virtue
of necessity? Here is what our best and
truest citizens are determined to do
thew will accept in good faith the terms
Of this bill, and they will control the in
fuence which its provisions give them
to defeat the nefarions object of the very
men who intended it as an instrument
for their destruction. No man who at
all knows the negro, but knows that he
il subseTvient TO the southern mans will.
He is so by the force of nature and Of
education, and in eighty-seven cases ont
Of every hundred the southern MAJ
will vote the negro. This bill
does not disturb the political
| rights of the great mass Of
the rank and file Of the southern people.
OF this great mass those who could vote
before the war can vote under this bill,
and are eligible to Office. This rank and
file contain abundance Of intellectual
power, political honesty, and moral
force, and enough, certainly, of love of
country to ensure a faithful discharge of
the duties Of official position. Represen-
tatives of this rank and file can and will
run for Office, can and will be elected,
can and will defeat the hopes of their
enemies, and the hopes OF office of that
hungry crowd of southern yankees, who,
born of the soil, were recreant to its past
allegiance, and who, having aided in the
impoverishment of the south, are now
prominently eager to share with its con-
querOrs the spOils gathered from their
native land.
The negro population OF the south,
reared almost beneath the same Aof
with the white population, a generous, a
warm-hearted, 3 simple race, have many
feelings in common with the owners Of
the soil. II was natural that the white
man should not turn very cordially, so
sOOn after q forced emancipation, to the
black man yet it was the association
e%nvirOning the black more than any
prejudice against his rae or color, which
rendered him somewhat obnoxious to the
white. That association removed, the
especial espionage Of the detested bureau
or the more detested camp taken away,
and the more kindly feeling between the
races come back. At this very hour, as
everys outhern nan knows, and as every
honest colored man can testify to the
most kindly relations, the social disparity
being taken into consideration, exists be-
tween the white and celOred population
Of the southern states. It is both the
desire and the interest of the white man
to protect the black, and that desire
and that interest would have dictated and
effected as much and more protection 10
the negro touching his real and true
prosperity and happiness, than could be
brought about by a dozen such acts of
congress as this infamous Sherman
bill. To destroy this iatcnte cOrdiGle
between the races, to excite in the
black man distTuSt Of the white,
is the aim and desire Of the radi-
calls, certainly will be if uncontrolled
the legitimate effect Of the legislation Of
that rabid political association. To fos-
ter and strengthen this good understand
ing should be the aim and purpose Of the
people of the south. In it they will find
their tower Of strength and the means
by which they can render migratory the
evil designs Of their hereditary ~
BY putting arms In the hands OF the ne
grOes during the late war the north
taught us a les&n which we did not
heed, andalOt needing were conquered.
The north is n0w putting the haIlotiu the
hands OF the negroes if We do not learn
3 Lesson here, this will be a more de-
structive weapon than the other. Let
Us turn the negro ballot, as we should
have turned the negro bayonet against
the north, and beat them at their own
game. We have nc voice ia discussing
the right or wrong of this extension
of the high privilege Of the ballot box
TO the negroes, Of its eNpediency
OF inexpediency, it is al fGt GccOmpE,
and we have simply To direct its use 50
that it will confer benefits upon Us, or at
least be rendered less harmless than its
evil-minded OriginstOrs intended it to
be. We can make even il subservieDt
TO our interests, and it Will be pleasant
TO hoist the yankees with their own Pc
tard. See that the negroes vote, if they
must vote, for men of their old homes,
Of their old families, ties and home
associations for men with whom
played when boys, "away down
upon the old plantation - for men who
understand them, who know their wants
and have a warm sympathy for them,
let them not vote for adventures
and strangers, money-grasping and task
aXactlng lJInerantS, who care no more !
for them, save to make them the pill
mt medium of "putting the rascal
quarters in their own pockets" than
.hey do for the apple vendors of their 10
cities, or the proletariau of their rural
Let this be our future
work. In cur last We said some =
hing about the irregularity of the -
If it is not useless we would seek
'edress in this quarter. We receive a
nail every Sunday morning! When
'Ou take into consideration that we are
within twelve hours run Of Memphis,
nd that steamboats, are daily passing
.ur wharves, and that ours is a CONNER
city OF no mean importance, with
ctive business men and extensive BUSH
houses whose interests are seriously
tfected by this uncomfortable lameness
the mail department, you will appre- ,
our u Of complaint. We semi |
OCCASIONALLY have a mail in the middle !
the week, but we never " cOuatn on
nat. The postmaster general should :
TO this matter The people will [
him if be applies a proper remedy.
The legislature has changed the time
{ holding the circuit court in this phil