Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-05

REvERDY JOHNSON, Senator from
Maryland, in a recent speech in tn,
Senate, upon the bin to repeal the pro
vision in the act Of July Il, 1862, in re-
spect to an amnesty, used the following
language in respect to the people Of Tn,
South:
Toward such citizens is the mere low.
er Of a conqueror 10 be used? Are thei,
past services to be wholly forgrtten, their
willing obedience 10 be cOntumeliously
overlooked, all political rights to be de-
MED them, and As long as their conquer
Ors please are they to be the mere serfs
and slaves Of brethren whose EQUALS
they are by descent, manhood. and in
~telligence? If peace and prosperity he
Of value, land who can doubt itI2tGis is
not the mode to attain them. If il is.
all history will be reversed. If il is
men now are not what they have been
from the first Of their political associa-
tons. The dullaess brought about by
despotism its authors have at times fam
cled TO be peace but in the end they
they discovered the fatal mistake. Man
chained Is a man stiIl. The moment
opportunity offers land Providence soon
er or loter IL sure 10 offer IT'D he will east
of his fetters and assert the rights
which nature gives him and be free.
And such a policy is at variance with
our own history. In the civil commO-
tions which have heretofore occurred.
the opposite policy has been pursued
and with the happiest results. In The
u-nprOvOked rebellion ia Massachusetts
in l7S6, after its actual suppression Inv
force, clemency toward the offenders
was shown, and all soon became peace.
and the government, because Of it,
clemencY, was placed upon a firmar
foundation han 10 had before. At the
termination Of the revolutionary war
while the land was filed with MANY
dissatisfied spirits, and state laws of q
stringent character had been passed nv
most of the states, laws Of cOnfiscation.
etc, congress, IN January, 1884, passed a
resolve earnestly recommending To
the several states to reconsider and revise
all their acts and laWs,n so as TO render
them " perfectly consistent not only with
justice and equality, but with thai spirit
Of Cancellation which, on the return of
the blessings OF peace, should univer-
sally prevail" The same policy was
pursued by Washington in the instance
of the whisky Instruction with the like
consequence. Not al offender was exc
EuLtu a lew biilg WEAE h4tu1 anu none
seriously punished.
The history Of the European world
furnishes even still more striking exam.
pies of the impolicy Of mere force Of
power, and Of the policy of kindness and
Cancellation. The Netherlands, in the
sixteenth century, were lost 10 Philip III. 4
by the f%erociOus conduct Of Alva; and
in that land, under him, the historian
tells US that the axe, the stake, the
rack, the dungeon knew no rest" His
was that he had executed eighteen
thousand six hundred persons. But
executions, his council of blood.
his devastation of the lond, ended. as in
The judgment of God such conduct has
ever ended, in defeat. The invader wss
driven of, and the country lost 20 the
lnhnman Philip.
Poland, because Of a policy nearly as
inhuman, is now but aH expense u Rus
sIa, She dreads Instructions she has
Vainly ~endeayored to prevent or guard