Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-05
-Yr PREsTDEET,s REMONsTRANCE.


TuE PRxsTDRET's RESPONSIVENESS.
ON ali questions touching the recon
~struetion Of the Southern States, mill
tarv Governments and negro suffrage,
tbe Presidents Message must be regarded
a. a we'll considered TemOHstrGnce against
+be unconstitutional and outrageous sets
NJ the legislative departments Of the
Government The recent popular cleo
lions in which the question Of negro
suffrage was directly submitted to the
peopIe Of several OF the most powerful
Nor.hern States and decided by very
strong msiorities agsinst the Radical
idea Of negro suffrage, for the sole END OF
securing Radical supremacy impaired
N the Executive mind q cslmness anu
ompasure- equable poise when
must give superior weight and force 70
his recommendations. The evils OF Ne
GRO suffrage are discussed, in connection
with their influence upon the fortunes oil
fba while race and their destructive effect
unon the constitutional principles Whleh
have heretofore sustained the perma-
nence Of republican institutions on Jols
continent, in a philosophical spirit WDieh
loses nothing Of its force from the par
tsI example Of negro rule which mas
bsen exhibited under the operation OF
tina reconstruction acts, s. administers
and carried out by the military sstraps
in tbeS Southern Provinces. But an ar
gument far weightier than any Of these
fbongh we are ashamed TO make the
record. is to be found in the signlncshI
suVgestiou OF the President that the cost
of rbec continuance Of negro domination
in the south will fall heavily upon the
n,cket of the Northern people. They
ara told that such 3 rule will cost them
two hundred millions Of dollars sum
sufficient to eztinguish the present enor-
mons national debt in fifteen yeSrs, n
that in the meantime, all the industries
NJ the South will be, a. they now are,
totally pzrslyzsd, and that they can
reasonably expect no aid from that qcar-
term besring the burdens Of taxation
That this melancholy statement Is
t-1e. we have only to look at the pres
ant psrslvtic condition Of the South-the
stsgDation Of trade-the Indebtedness OF
her ulanters-the bankruptcy Of many
NJ her merchants-the gloom Of agricul-
tural prospect; at the same time that we
are cursed with military governments,
which entail confusion, embarrassment
and uncertainty upon every department
Of industry and upon every condition OF
Hfa-iomestic. social and commercial.
The standing armies in the ten Prov
fnces-the Freedmen's Buresu-the abb
scence Of accountability to the people, Tor
avnanditares-the entailment Of litiga-
ton upou all classes, by reason Of the
strife which results from unsettled prin-
ciples of action and the tumuit which Is
f,mented BY the emisssries n spies
who swarm throughout the country, are
but a part Of the cost to the Government
and people, which must be endured until
q better rule shall prevail. The Northern
people can not be prepared to submit to
burdens so oppressive as these for the
purpose Of seeing the white men Of the
south subjected to barbarian rule. They
are not prepared to 90 to so practical an
extent Of sacrifice Of their own interests
IN urocure the degradation Of white men
and the enforcement Of Ethiopians, a.
the governors Of this Republic. such an
appeal 70 their pockets viii necessarily
have the effect to turn the scale against
the Radicals, and to defeat the Jacobin
and revolutionary scheme and to turn,
not only the South, but the entire Union
into another Hayti, st. Domingo or
Jamaica. The mere degradation Of
Southern men might not reVolutionlze
public sentiment in the North. The
deprivation Of their rights might not
procure q consolidated sentiment for
fine relief OF 80 rebels - from the worst
and most atrociOus form Of human
siavery-that Of political servillty 70
tbeir former slaves. The appeal to b
muniments erected by the founders Of
the Constitution might not, nay, has not
effected a change in the opinions Of the
Northern masses. The poverty and SUI
fering Of our people may have fallen
upon ~insensible hearts, when recited by
the most eloquent orators. But the
prospect Of decentralization and poverty
ii home, the popular panic with regard
10 indebtedness, the certain fact that
hundreds Of millions must be annually
expended, TO perpetuate the slavery OF
the South, with the almost sure approach
Of slavery, poverty and Generalization
reaching the North, when the cancer
shall have eaten out this portion Of our
political system, must give pause to the
most reckless Of Northern men and lead
them at last-alter a lapse Of half aeen-
fury Of madness and Experimental dis
credit the counsels Of the fierce fsnatics
and criminal sgitabors who nave brought
upon cur country all its woes and all its
fatal punishments.
The message Of The President,
in urging this strong point, is
well and ably conceived, and
its tone is graduated 10 the Importance
OF the vital interests which it discusses.
But this tone inevitably and necessarily
assumes the character Of remembrance,
from the fact that Il Is addressed to q
body Of men, who are essentially narrow
minded partisans and sectional disturbers
OF the q whose whole legislation has
heretofore attempted TO compass nothing
more than party a~sceDdaney and sec
tional domination. Other questions in
the message may be left TO another anal
ysis, which require more time and leisure
to consider, than We have been able TO
give IN this hasty review.
NH. BINGHAM's DESCLAIMER.
We are requested by Mr.. J. B. BING-
KAN 10 state that a correspondent OF the
APPEAL, writing from Nashville, under
date Of November 18th, misrepresents or