Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-20
TIE MEMPHIS DAILY !

as soOn rs military protection is with
drawn, for acts performed in their official
capacity"
1t has become a criminal offence, 1t
seems, under the Papal Government of
Alabama, fer a man whose rights are
violated by jaek-boots and shoulder
straps, to threaten that If ever the Courts
Of justice are opened to him, he will in
stitute his action for damages. Those,
We suppose, who are so unprincipled as
to threaten that, are of those bodies of
men" whom it is proposed to Danish.
Where Pope proposes to establish his
Botany Bay or Siberia, we are now ad-
vised. We do not suppose that many
more persons illegally convicted or not
convicted at all can be accommodated at
the Dry Tortugas. Why not select the
country lately purchased from Russia,
and exile to that new Siberia " the
causes that endanger" loyal govern
ment2
The Romans had q time, once every
year, when their slaves might freely
speak their minds" Who could be an
cry, therefore, but those that are guilty,
with these ~free-spoken and plain-hearted
men, that are the eyes of their country"
when they advise their countrymen not
to consent to the abominatiOn Of negro
suffrage and not to submit to dishonor.
able terms, nor barter away their birth
rights, to obtain that which upon such
terms they ought not to desire, the privi-
iege Of executing their indentures of
eternal servitude to the populace Of the
North, AND of being the political interiors
of negroes.
A-propos Of this order Of General In
competency, Incapacity and ~Insolence
in Office, tie Chicago Times says:
Before the new order Of things, intro
dueed and instituted by the satraps at
the south, the object of advertisements
was that Of reaching the greatest num-
Der of people. An individual or a gov
eminent that desired anything to be
generally known, and adopted the me-
dunn of newspaper advertising, sought
for the journal which had the widest
circulation. But this good, old, tradi.
tionsl custom has given way to the neces-
stiles Of reconstruction and, hereafter,
90 loyalty" and not circulation, is the
newspaperisl criterion for public patron
age. Although this system has long
been in vogue among official jackdaws,
Gen. Pope is the first one to give the
principle an open expression and q uni
versal application.
Under this rule any newspaper which
is opposed to the present military usur-
patton and dictation cannot receive the
Ofdcial advertisements. ANY newspaper
which threatens suits of decentralization
for the laWless acts of the usurpers, when
legitimate authority shall once more
prevail, cannot have the official patron
age. There is a double meaning to this
order. 1t looks, at first sight, to be d.
rected against newspaper publishers as 8
punishment for opposition to tyranny.
But the fact is that most of these adveF-
tisements relate to contracts and other
matters which may result in individual
interest, and the object in keeping them
out of the opposition papers is to keep
them from the notice Of the majority of
the people, among whom some COMPETE
ton might be expected. BY the course
decided upon the JRcobin newspapers re-
a support which is just enough 10
keen them alive, and the Jacobin dema-
gogues alone get the information that
is to be some more nibbling at the
crib.