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

ere of the whites, il that becomes desira-
BE, the white Militia Of the Provinces Is
disbanded by act Of Congress, and the
tyrant OF the Province may, if he pleases,
to prevent disturbance Of He pace, dis
arm them.
II all these precautions should prove
insufficient and the omnipotence Of ma
lignancy be not secured and established
beyond a doubt in a particular Province,
the reserved right Of Congress to disap-
prove the Constitution framed for il, may
be exercised, and al that has been done
be annulled.
Before the admission Of the Provinces,
as States, las it might not be practicable
afterwards the confiscation bill will be-
come law, and be mercilessly enforced.
This will make every black voter a free
holder, and viii also induce an immense
emigration Of Northern and foreign Rad
icalism to the South. Much of Texas
and the Indian country will become pub.
lie domain, and be distributed as bounty
lands among the native, foreign, anC
negro soldiery Of the war, and sold ir
small parcels, at low prices, to settlers
The native white men Of the other Pro.
vinces OF the South viii become what 1
vast number of them now are in Tennes
see,-oheas under their own skies, for
eigRers in their native land.
When all this is effected, and not III
then, the South will become a part Of tn,
Empire, q Of the municipalities com
posing it.
The success Of this plan could not b,
certainly secured, without winning tn,
assent and cooperation Of a respectabl,
portion, at least, Of the true people O
the Provinces, in most Of which tn,
'Loyalists are not quite so numerou
as the stars in the Milky Way. To Sc
cure that assent and cooperation, tn
appliances Of fear and hope are resorte,
to,-fear Of worse measures, if the pres
ent propositions should be rejected; hop
OF escapisg from military despotism
and of propitiating the Devil Of Ma
lignanoy and avoiding confscations b,
submission. It was found that some in
~iuential gentlemen, possessing the con
hdenee Of the Southern people, woul,
urge them to active cooperation, to avoi,
entire ruin, ~persuading them to endesvou
? to save themselves and those dependen
on them, by abandoning their leaders Il
{ their fate and the tender mercies of win
I dictive legislation. These advisers o
our people could be rewarded by the re
/ mOval of disabilities and disqualified
tons, and the same be offered as an in
ducement toOthers. Once committed, ana
eager to reap the expected benefits of CO
operation, the mass Of the people, land
less, or small landowners, would, it wa.
supposed, not be halted by the confiscs,
ton Of the large estates, but rather re-
jOice at it, a men are always inclined
to feel a degree Of satisfaction at the mis-
fortunes of others, and the poor, especial.
ly, at those Of the rich.
Even the defeated, or rather delayed
proposition of SUMNER, to provide fol
the education Of negroes at free school:
supported by taxation, is a part Of the
general plan. 1t will probably be in.
sisted on, and, meanwhile, the posi-
bility that such taxation may be avoided
by the approximation to educational pur.
poses Of part Of the c~onfiscated lands,
will tend to reconcile the people to The
measure Of eoniscation.
Such, we think, is the entertainment
to which the people Of the South are in.
vited by Messrs. ORR and BROWN, and
those who follow their lead. VIII the
plan succeed? viii the people again
follow the counsels Of those who Jed
them in 1866, engage in the work of re.
construction, and like the blind SAMSON
become the slave Of the Philistines
They might, like him, break the green
withes and new ropes with which other:
should fasten their free limbs, 1t the cry
of the bsrlot, "The Philistines be upon
thee, SAMSON r'-but when they shall
have bound themselves, by cooperation,
the Lord will have departed from them,
and they will be bound with letters OF
brass, and grind in the prison-house and
make sport for their csptors between the
pillars Of the house Of DAGoN.