Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-11

stitutes a true man, ne Is worth > thou
sand petiifoggers and exhortefs Of Erhi-
opian conventicles. BE pauses, aild looks
around. and there comes crouchingly to
him 8 knock-kneed, fat-footed, semi
gorilla, black specimen Of animality, and
scrapiDg one splay foot, asks sold Marse
Tom for something to buy a little
tobacco. The old negro has not yet
learned h.sown value. BE has not joined
a Loyal League and become the property
Of SEINE whey-faced mulatto barber,
whipper-in for the pedlars and pettifog-
gers who are the administration de bonis
non of Tennessee. Old Peter is q uoter, a
loyal citizen OF the United States, under
the especial protection Of SUMNER, STE
VEINS, WADE and CovoDE; and 'Marss
Tom has no vote, for he marched under
the Confederate flag for four long years,
does not desire to be reconstructed, and
would consider himself eternally dis
honoured, il he were to accept safety,
when its price was the abandonment of
those on whom he helped impose the
onerous responsibilities of leadership,
Here is a knot Of the men who shape
and control public opinion,-ths editors
of the leading journals, the old we'll
known politicians, the keen intellectual
lawyers,-and not a man among them
can vote. Do you wish to know who
are the voters? There is one, perched
in sable majesty on that drsy, whose
mule his Kingdom is. The Country is
partly in his hands. Here is another
SOvereign,-this creature all animal,
with his tongue protruded from the side
of his mouth, and the leer Of idiocy on
his sensual features. He votes. Nc
RAE, CARUTHERs, HAYNES, YERGAR,
CHALMERs, DIXON and hundreds like
them, do not.
Is the nation sane that DISTINGUISHES
hundreds of statesmen, advocates, ed
itors, merchants, bankers, the men Of
capital and intellect and influence, the
men whom the people have always
trusted and that gives the ignorant,
brutal, bestial Ethiopian the power to
govern and Cypress these men, not to be
exercised by themselves, but by a hand
ful Of pettifogging adventures? Is it
not lunaey that releases these men from
all obligations of allegiance, makes them
foreigners, and encsmps them in a
country whose government they know
only by its expressions? By doing so,
the government arms each with a thou
sandman power OF agitation, and i'm
poses it upon them as q duty to seek the
ruin Of the country, if they cannot other
wise regain the rights of freemen.
SAMSON, blinded, and grinding in the
Philistine mills, and making sport for
his eaptors, was justified in pull
ing down the Temple Of DAGoN
the heads of DAGoN's worship
pers. Is it not lunacy to persist in
making the South the weakness and the
shame of the United States ? What,
after all, is the value of a Uots, to the
man who can use the tongue and the
pen? That he cannot vote gives him q
hundred-fold the power which not dis
franehised he would possess. If the
Tyrant cannot paralyze the hand and
brain, and silence the eloquent tongue, it
only exhibits an impotent malice in
taking away the poor miserable right to
vote, which given by it to the negro has
become worthless. Was it worth while,
for this poor pltiful triumph, to create a
great party of the disfranchised, at least
Indifferent to the fortunes of the eOun-
try, if not, indeed, seeing no prospect of
relief from wrong and persecution, e
cept in its calamities ?