Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-16
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Til Hind hi ~ sEEs
When SUMNER and WILSON, in reply
to the question put by Senator Dixon of
Connecticut, declared it to be the pur-
pose Of Radicalism to impose negro-suf-
frage on the people Of the Northern
States, Connecticut i~nterPosed her pro-
test bv giving a decisive majority for the
candidate Of the Democratic party.
California still o decisively protested
against Coolie- suffrage; and Ohio has
now ~interpOsed her veto Of the whole
scheme, by 3 majority Of fifty thousand.
It is an article Of the Jacobin creed
that no State has a republican form Of
government, in which any men are de-
MED the right to vote, on account OF race
or colour; and that Congress under that
provision Of the Constitution which
guarantees to every State that form Of
government, has the right, by 8 general
law, to confer the right Of suffrage upon
all men, without distinction. In vain is
It demonstrated that, by the Constitu-
tion, it belongs exclusively to each State
to determine for itself to what portion Of
her citizens the right Of suffrage shall be
entrusted. In vain the Supreme Court
OF Tennessee, ss essentially radical as Al
Ethiopian is black, so holds, in order TO
Justify the Acknowledgement OF eighty
thousand white men for aiding in or
sympathizing with the struggle Of the
South for independence. Still the Tadi-
cal Chiefs announce their determination
TO infect the Northern States with the
Ieprosy of n~egro-sufrsge; and journals
Of the hue Of the New York Tribune
clam0urs for it Increasingly in hoarse and
~discordant notes.
In the Southern Provinces, where the
club Of Jacobins at Washington governs
IS it pIeases, under the Pretense that it
possesses powers outside Of the Constitu-
ton, not only is the right Of suffrage
given 10 negroes without distinction, but
they sre forced upon juries and installed
in even judicial offices.
The-dark cloud that thus rises rapidly
towards the zenith, threatens the States
OF the North, while the storm that it
bears 10 its bosom is already bursting
upon the South. What the present Of
the South is, the people Of the North
begin TO know what its future is to be,
they begin to foresee. They sec that fu-
ture IS /. is described in the following
paragraph, written to a New York jour
nal from Georgia. they see coming
events at the South casting their dark
and gloomy shadows before, with alarm
and dlsmay and their passions, which
the war aroused and Rsdicalism has
nursed and fostered since, are being
queIled by the new danger at which they
stare aghast.
That writer says:
It il hardly necessary to tell you what
YOU gather from the newspapers, the
alarm the people feel here at the results
Of the Governments registration. II is
certain that negroes and John Browns
corps viii have a large majority ia this
state. This causes many TO prepare to
find a home away from such q govern
ment as must follow. In conversation
Yesterday with one Of the gifted and
honured Of the State, who long held not
only 8 high position in Congress, but in
the Cabinet, IlesIhed that he despaired,
and was looking abroad for a home.
Should the an~Ucipatious Of the most in
tellivent here be realized, and Georgia
be Tennesseeized, there will be an eXO-
dus hence, Of the wealth and iuteIli-
geuce Of the State. Enterprise is per
ished-al are trying to pry into the
future, and men meeting ask, what
are we coming 10. / received yes
terdav, from a distinguished South
erner-one who has been Uromi-
nent above all Others for years as a
LAWYER. and who is now in the North-a
long and Respondent letter. He tells
me it is arranged by the Radicals, as a
part Of their policy, 20 take hold Of al
the state and municipal Offices IN the
Southern States, and I'LL them with their
partisaus, and only such as will be ODE
dent 20 orders from headquarters; 10
crush the press opposed 20 Rsdicalism in
the South intimidste, by military per
secuti0n, those who are talented aud
influential, and who have been psTO'ed
or DISTINGUISHED and should ali this fail
10 secure q triumphant majority in the
JAIL EHEAA"hA"H AANA AANAN NA9LkEaM AE~
mains a doubt but that Congress would
vote itself 2 permanent body and by its
own action 50 amend the Constitution as
70 give them perpetual power, through
self-auDOintmeut. 1t is a dark picture,
but one well suited to the views Of such
men as Wells, BroWnlow, Brown and
that immaculate dend Jack Hamil-
ton.
The people Of the North cannot but see
that unless Radicalism is defeated and its
spine broken there, it viii triumph in all
the reconstructed States, and become
omnipotent by the aid Of their votes.
three-finhs Of the negroes, but Oh,
are hereafter to be counted in determining
the number Of Representatives to which
each State is TO be entitled. OF course all
white and black, In the reconstruc-
ted states, will eagerly concur IN impOs-
ing negrossfrsg on the Northern States,
the more eagerly, against whose
remonstrances it has been imposed on the
South, 10 order TO visit q just %retribution
on the North, and compel it to share the
curse.
The people Of the North, though not
yet wholly restored to sight and free Of
the bondage Of passion and fanaticism
commingled, are beginning to see, even
If only indistincty, that TO Cypress the
South with negrO-sufrage, Is to make'it
In the end inevitable for themselves.
There must he one law, 10 that respect,
Tor the whole Union. The eleven recon-
strueted States will vote unanimously TO
compel The North to accept that which
[ has forced upon the South, and the
more n~RUseating the dose, the more they
will delight in administering it. If it
needs an amendment to the Constitution,