Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-22

~treacneFy ~ tue approaching ruSg Tot
place with the democracy OF the north.
al feel 1t my outy 70 state here, that
every interest Of the State, material and
political, demands absolutely that those
Of our leaders who have been original
seeessionists, shall be excluded from sll
our attempts TO make terms for the re-
lief Of our people.
"The people Of the South have been
blended In Northern opinion with the
plans Of the Northern Democracy. The
hatred with which that body is regarded
by the Republicans will expose any Bo-
litical movement OF the Southern whites
to searching suspicion. Our salvation
depends, therefore, on saving all at
tempts for its accomplishment from
every trace Of democratic sympathy
lie insists that all others must be ex-
cluded from " the movement" than the
old-line Wings and DOUGLAS Democrats.
But he protests hat his plan does not
contemplate for a moment that the Sc
eession leaders shall be excluded with
his consent from the full enjoyment of
sill their rights and privileges as free
born Americans. He will, he AYERS,
never cease to protest, with all the earn
estness of his devotion TO civil liberty,
" that every Mississippian. be his mill
tary grade " private fortune what 1t
may, shall be restored to the full enjoy
ment Of the heritage Of freedom, wrung
by the c~ommingled blood Of our fore
/ fathers from the grasp Of crowned mon
arcby."
WheB 7dHd hour soon P-Ifimmedistely,
Of what avail will it be TO exclude the
Secessionists and Democrats from the
Increment the alliance, or the organizQ-
ton which is to seek to make terms with
the Radicals? How will that exclusion
coneiliate these, or lulI TO sleep their jes-
lous suspicious, if those excluded are
only excluded from the negotiation, but
are Immediately to reap its full fruits by
a perfect Acknowledgement? What diff
ference will it make to these Lords of the
Situation, thst there is no trace or taint
of Democracy in the organization, if the
Secessionists from President DAVIS down
are Immediately 10 vote. Or does Mr..
ALCORE suppose that the Radicals will
not find out that be has said, 81 should
be ashamed to seek for myself a restors-
ton TO any right Of person or property,
on the condition that the like measure
of those rights be withheld from any
man who participated with me in that
fatal mistake" Of secession? Thesenti-
ment does him honour. It is generous
and manly but it will prove fatal 10 his
plan. It kills it in the womb.
He sanguinely says:
A mixed party Of ~unionists can obtain
for Us that great remedy for all our
neutrality-suspicious..
With a platform guaranteeing to the
freedmsn all his rights IS a citizen, pro-
viding generously for the education of
his children, securing to him, by its ex-
emptiOn from seizure for debt, the enjoy
meut OF a homestead, an influential and
respectable mass Of white people Of Mis-
sissIppi may maintain their position as
advisers OF the old and devoted servants
Of the sOuth-the COlOred people. The
alliance thus constituted will represent
the political power Of the state, and will
therefore have reached the attitude of an
authority under which il may open ne
gOtiatious with the dominant party Of
the north, on the basis of the sbOlition Of
the Sottoc--ax. the construction OF the
levees, the earliest possible restoration 10
full political rights Of Gil those Of our
people who are prescribed, and such
additional concessions as may b6 found
on inquiry TO be ~obtsiuable.
This brief review OF tie scheme I pro-
pose need not 20 into the terms which
viii be extoFted frem Us in exchange for
our political ana natsrial safety. We
will, of course, eudegvOr 70 obtain all We
can, and except so far Rs may be de-
maHded by our good faith, Will seek to
obtain it on the best possible conditions.
All Uniouists of the South, he says,
will acCede s5aE5y 10 a Constitutional
amendment setting the question Of
secession forever at rest; and viii enter
into any mutual guarantee for the sane
tity Of the bonded debt, ofthe pensions Of
soldiers, and all rights vested, whether
North OF South and they will accept
such a candidate for the President az the
Congressional psTty may select.
This policy, he thinks win draw the
lightning from the threatening cloud of
universal suffrage We really do not
see how. He says:
It will save the people of Mississippi
from g domestic Eadicalism infinitely
more dangerous 70 both black and white
than that which has inst triumphed in
Tennessee. Having given the northern
organization whose governing passion il
haired Of the northern democracy, s res
pectaUle position a. the south, the mixed
body which I propose wiz have inaugu-
rated that happy time when, party pur-
poses accomplished and Revolutionary
violence at az end. a msgnanimUus
spirit, anxious 10 COGoiIiata the people Of
the state, will throw open political privi-
lege ~uDgrudgingiy 10 those Of cur leaders
who are held for the moment under the
ban attaching 10 the superstition Of trea-
souable sentiment toward the govern
meut.
So!-One Of the terms Is 10 consent
to the disfrsnchisemeut OF the secession
leaders, until a "magaanimous spirit
shsil by and by remove it. We thought
that that cat was under the meal.
Finally, Mr.. Aicorn thus disposes Of
the constitution
Ny opinion a. to the duty Of the hour
rests, You viii have seen, on n0 ahstruse
0edneIiOnssCf law. The Kentucky rpso- I
buttons possess no more interest to the
desperate necessities 81 the STATE here
than do DR.. GiidGon's mummies. Be
tween the president on the d hand aud
the congress on the other, the coustituy
tuition is entitled in this ~exigency 60 little
more attention than 1t may receive at 4
the bSad5 Of sOme curi0as |antiQuary.
My reflections a. to the means Of saving
the state take no notice Of those fossils Of
the pre-secessiOn period. Your meeting
has been called, assume, with the view
of dealing practically with q revolution
which rushes onward in fierce career /
and therefore advise, regardless Of 81
old time lOrmulsry, that, as a bold man
does In the case Of q runaway horse whose
bride be essays to grasp, we first run on
Uith 4 JOT . distance SL9scteBt to check
rs speed.
If the Constitution has become sin
this exigency" entitled only to the at
tention OF the curious antiquary, a a
subject of archaeological research il it
is, chat he irreversntly calls it, one Of
the " fossils Of the progression period"
to what sort of entertainment is be in
viting the negroes and white men or
Mississippi?
We have given, we think, fairly and
fully, the whole sustained { this remark.
able production, in which Mr.. ALCoRN
claims 20 consider the subject as q States
mau. We have omitted 30 MUCH Is Is
in ~vindication Of his own motives, and
protests that he is in no degree swayed
by prejudicss Of {" the p-re-seeeasion Pc
Rod No doubt his motives are entirely
patriotic, As 70 the other point, we re.
member that one Of the most bitterly
pFejudieed public men we ever knew,
and entirely unable to resist his preju-
dices, once protested in . public speech
that he never was actuated by prejudice
in his life. We only impute to Mr..
ALCoRN the common weakness Of hu-
man nature, and object to his testimony
in his Own behalfss incompetent. though
he undoubtedly believes every word be
His argument and plan We have stated
fully and fairly. We detest the common