Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-01

HRrHgwv By rHE PROMISE OF coNFI. CA
TON.

far the right OF HohnS VI s& mass
~ ignorant semi-barbarians, whose
morals are only instructive, their reason
inc nowers small, their faculty of imita-
ton large, their religion a gross and pa
papish superstition, and their habits of
thought s~ervlle, Is to aa~sassinate liberty
and make q d~espotism inevitable. We
ALI know how the Pretorian Guards dis
posed Of the imperial power Of Rome,
and can conceive Of the grotesque man
ner in which the serfs Of Muscovy would
exercise the prerogatives Of freemen. To
make freedom 8 curse to the negro race,
1t was only necessary, II indeed anything
was needed, to invest them with the
right to vote. This investiture resem-
bles nothing 50 much as the uniform OF
a Congo dignitary,-a shirt and a cooked
hat. The negro will use it as we have
sAen the Wichita Indians use trowsers,
emitting off the legs and using them only,
with a breeeh-clout. No such miserable
and disgusting farce q this of decorating
with a perrlcious privilege those whose
salvation in this life depended on their
being kept from all eorrupting and de-
moralizing influences and taught to be
honest. patient and faithful labourers,
has ever been played before high
Heaven. since Satan began to divide the
Empire of the World with the Almighty,
and exercise the power OF cuTslng M
uanitv with the STEvENsEs, the VII
CONS and the HUNNIcUTTs, n liners
ike them. who thrive by their eountry's
undoing.
Only these words Of MILTON, a little
changed in the two first lines, can ade-
oustely express the detestation which all
who love human liberty and that true
freedom which no people, winning 1t,
has ever long retained, ought to feel for
those who are thus engaged in preparing
the way for despotisrn, and who have, 10
use his fierce words, "~ransacked the very
NAV of hell, and let out its lecusts and
/ SCORPIONS, to involve US in that pitchy
| cIoud of internal darkness, where we
| shall more see the Sun Of Gods
truth again, never hope for the cheerful
/ dawn. never more hear the bird Of morn
ing ng;n-those, by means Of whose
| Unsuitable villainies, the angels are
u moved with pity at the afflicted state
of this wi shaken Commonwealth, that
now lies labouring under her throes, and
! struggling against the grudges OF more
| dreaded calamities."
"They contrary" said that noble
vindieator of the English people, that
by the impairing and diminution Of the
true faith. the distresses and servitude OF
their country, aspire to high dignity
rule, and promotion here, after q shame
full end in this life, (which God grant
theml, shall be thrown down eternally
into the darkest and deepest gulf Of bell
where, under the despiteful control, the
trample and spurn Of all the Other
| damned, that in the anguish Of then
| torture shall have no other Ease than tc
exercise q raving and bestial tyranny
over them as their slaves and negroes,
they shall remain in that plight forever,
the basest, the lowermost, the most de-
| jected, most underfoot and downtroddeI
vassals of perdition"
One can but be amazed at the basenes'
/ Of those peryerse and cruel men, who
| while their own States refuse to be In
fected with the aecursed leprosy Of ne
gro suffrage, thirsting for revenge upor
| the manned aud bleeding States Of tbs
| South, and proud of those who insult tbs
/ ashes of our dead, " after the impetuou'
rage of bloody inundatiOn, and the sue
( ceeding sword of intestine war, soaking
the land in her own gore" do not =" pitJ
the sad and ceaseless revolution Of on,
swift and thiek-eoming sorrows,' but arr
intent upon increasing u miseries aHC
making perfect and utter our ruin, BY
placing over US the negroes, lately slaves
to be political tyrants.
Nor are they satisfied thus to annihi
late all hope, all confidence, all fortitud'
to bear unmerited ~reverses, and to imposI
upon their victims an ignominy agains
which we ought never to cease to pro
test, but with a dsvilish policy they per
petrate a second great crime, not NOR
against us than against the negroes them
selves, whose ruin and destruction
must eventually cause, in offering then
the bride of con~isestion of u land
and divisions of small tracts among
them by way of remuneration for thei
votes.
Estates and residences in towns an
cities will Of course be reserved for thos
well-deserving who are the leaders
These, no negro will inherit; but, a
in Arkansas, the BLIssBs and tn
SCHENcKs, and in Louisiana the syco
plants Of BUTLER and BANKS.
To buy up the populace, or appeas
them, with the promise Of an agrarial
law, is an old device Of the demagOgue
Revenge and profit unite to make
acceptable to the baser sort of the peopl
Of the Northern ties and it must b
confessed Rat they have managed tn
matter with a singular dexterity. I
reward promised is far more ~eficaciou
than paid in advance. 1t is a gOo'
policy TO promise, 8 bad one TO pay, be
fore the work is done. Therefore STE
VEINS proposes the bribe, by his proiec
for c~onfscation. There are just vote
enough against it to show hat enough
can easily be gained to pass it and thel
its suthor postpones action on it unit
December. By that time it can have ii
full effect as a bride, if adroitly used
So soon as the impatient Southern poll
tieiaRs, TO whom loss Of political powe
is like loss of life, determine to eat thu
leek, and begin to chatter for the negro
vote, the Confiscstion Bill is put t.
use. HENRY WILSON, g second Pc
ter the Hermit, commences a pilgrim
age through the South, preaching to TIA
negroes a new Crusade against those
whom he represents as having wrongec
them for two centuries by holding them
as slaves. He arouses their latent feel
ings of s~mouldering hatred, and prom.
ises them power and dominion over those
when they once served. He urges con-
cert of action, combination, and a con
centrated vote. He is convinced that
they will vote for none but radicals. He
lies by saying that he does not advise
the organization of a black mans party T;
and he cunningly lets fall a hint that if
construction Is delayed, eonfiscation
may be used to compel it.
Meanwhile HUNNIcUTT, TO the same
gaping audiences, promises it and UN-
DERwoOD, that knave in ermine, pre-
psres resolutions, which a mob in con-
vention adopt, insisting on it; and out
here in Tennessee measures are threat
ened that will "make rebels stand
aghast - and THADDEUs STEVENS, a
reptile whose venom is exhaustless, in
apparent antagenism to Wilson, but in
reality cooperating with him, writes
from Washington, on the 9th Of April,
the following letter, the meaning of
which is unmistakeable. Speaking Of a
newspaper statement Of remarks made
bv Senator WILSON, he thus sWells his