Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-29

balls shall be the political superiOrs of
the descendants Of English freemen.
Athens had thirty tyrants once; but
the United States have three hundred,
and behind these RACES the stormy sea OF.
the Northern populace reckless and ira
tional as 3 Partisan mob, urging them to
other acts of revolutionary despotism"
What need to say more than that these
Three Hundred have already authorized
the Incarceration and murder Of freemen,
by military commissions more detestable
than the Inquisition ? and that in ten
States the writ Of Habeas Corpus is no
longer known. and the military power
paralyzes the process OF the courts OF the
limited States The foundations of the
social order aud free government are all
overturned, and the will Of a Congress Of
mart of the States has dethroned and
usurped the place Of the Constitution.
The establishment of these despOtisms
is attempted to be justified by the impu-
dent plea that the ten States which have
become five Military Districts have been
conquered and suhjugated, and the con-
queror can govern them Is he will. The
plea insults the understanding, and
shocks the moral sense Of the world for
these despotisms are not established over
those only who fought against the North
ern States, but also over those VINO
always adhered to tie Union. These,
like the others, are deprived Of the com
mon rights Of freemen, and as to them
and for them, also, the Constitution and
its guarantees no longer exist. All are
slaves and serfs alike, governed as Russia
has governed Poland, and Turkey its
Pacbaliks. Under tie latos Of Congress,
incredible as it may seem, the people Of
the five Military Districts have no civil
rights whatever. They hold everything,
property, liberty and life, by the tenure
Of the Military Commanders will. He
can, with q single edict, obliterste them
al. He may refrain from doing so; but
if ne chooses 10 do it, there is only an
other despot above him who can undo
what he does. The Constitution pro
tects no one, and there are no laws, If he
chooses to repeal them.
Kentucky, q State that never with
drew from the Union, and was neve IN
represented in Congress, has elected a
Governor by a majority Of $1,000 votes
II Radicalism dares,-and what ia its
madness will it not dare, and at what
outrage viii it pause Pit will forbid the
inauguration Of the Governor elect,
expel Kentucky from the Union, and
place her under q Military Government.
VIII the free men of Kentucky submit
to this We do not believe it: and il
they resist, q civil var begins, the end OF
which no man can foresee. Reluctant
as the Southern Ststes would be to be
lawn into It, thousands upon thousands
~sople would rush to the aid Of
- ~ IN K Ntucky would rear the
standard of State-rights, 'n'usH He
States themselves should take no
Manned, crushed, and still bleeding
from the wounds Of the war, even their
pride gone, and almost their self-respect,
it is not likely that they would act at all
as States: but the resistance Of kens
tuckv TO the edict snnihilsting her exist
enee as a State would be formidable,
stubborn and ~protrscted. The first blow
struck would bring financial ruin upon
the North. Even the forms Of repre-
sentative Government would disappear,
Dr. only its forms remain, all power being
vested in a Dictator, a Directory, or a
Committee Of Public Safety. We need
only read the history Of the French
Revolution TO know what horrors and
atrocities would follow.
Can Radicaiism avoid the collision?
is the fate of all revolutionary factions
@ De compelled to advance. They can
not halt and stand still. If they do not
advance, they recede, and are ruined.
The Radical RevolutiOnists must exclude
he representatives of Kentucky from
congress. Not to do it is to recede and
.cknowledge a defeat. That they do not
Iare to do. II SURF ruin is ahead, as
ure s ruin is also behind. An i~rresist-
bic fste urges them on, as the Furies
rive great criminals 10 self-destructiOn.
f the representatives of Kentucky are
Excluded, it must be declared that she is
d the possession Of disloyal men, and
must be reconstructed. The process Of
hat reconstruction is already prescribed
q other cases, and will be followed in
lers. How then, shrink from the con-
emplation Of it as we may, is civil war
o be avoided And another civil war
5 the sure destruction o. the country
hat has already ceased 10 be q republic.
Nothing can avert a Civil War, but
he entire defeat Of that monstrous fac
ion, to express whose character all ordi-
larry words and phrases, and especially
he words Radical and Jdco5iB, are in
expressive. There is room for hope that
Is detestable reign is TO come to an end.
The party whose measures at last resolve
themselves into public debt, rag-mOney,
military despotism aud negro suffrage
annot, one would think, long maintain
tself IN power. We now have emphat-
for 3 governing faction, what
RANDOLPH Of ROanoke's bitter phrase
,est characterizss, 4" the combination Of
he Puritan and black-leg-BLITm aud
BLACK GEORGE"
There are Radicals in Congress who, |
egregiously misled by their pas
ions and prejudices, are nevertheless
honest and patriotic. We are always too
.esdy to impute to every one opposed to
Is, hypocrisy and knavery. There are,
.mOng those who are warning on the Con-
.titutiOn, men Of vigorous intellect, and
Who once were de repuJiicd 6easmer1i, |
hough now led sadly sstrsy, and serving
very inferior and very worthless
men. For it is also true that among the
Three Hundred Tyrants of the Republic, |
many of the most active and noisy and
Ome even Of the most influential, belong