Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-04
PROPHECY. ma r-
CALHOUN once said, In words trueI

Mr.. CALHOUN once said, IN words tfuer
than those of the ancient Oraoles:
The blacks and the prohigate whites
that might unite with them, would be-
come the principal recipients Of the fed
eral office and patronage, and
would in consequences be raised
above the whites OF the south in
! the political and social scale. We would,
| in a word, change conditions with
them-a degradation greater than has
vet fallen to the lot of free and enlight-
ened people, and one from which we
could not escape should emancipation
take place (which It certainly will, if
not prevented), but by fleeing the homes
| Of ourselves and our ancestors, and by
abandoning our country to our former
slaves, to become the permanent abode
Of disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery
/ and wretchedness.
Upon which a aGeorgia correspondent
1 Of northern journal says: Three months
ago a decided majority Of the white
people of the south had made up their
/ minds to accept the congressional recon-
struction plan, bitter as the pill was, and
| to reOrganiZe their state governments in
obedience TO what they understood to be
| its commands; now it is seldom
I one meets with white man
who can write his own name, or who
| pays taxes on one hundred acres OF land,
| who will have anything TO do with 1t.
/ Do you ask Whist has produced this
! change? 1t has been wrought by the
/ action Of congress at its late extra ses-
4 sion, and by the harsh and arbitrary coa-
duct of Sheridan, Pope and Sickles,
who, instead of being content with
executing the laws OF congress, be-
came the partisans of radicalism and
/ aspirants for its hOnors. Is this
language too severe? What then shall
I be said of the administration Of Gen.
/ Pope, who, without sufficient cause being
/ assigned, orders the arrest and imprison-
ment ofthe most peaceable citizens who
/ refuses to allow the annual appropriation
| to the oldest college in this state 10 be
/ paid, because g member Of the last grad
| uating class make speech which one OF
/ his (POpe's) southern admirers ian origi
nal seeessionist, by the way,)
did not like; who orders the
/ iudkes of the courts, in vio-
! lation of the laws of the state, 10 consti-
tute their jurie5 unfortunately of
white men and black; who fOrbids Off
| GERS of courts TO publish their legal no.
| tees in those papers indicated by the
/ law, but orders them to send them to
/ radical sheets from one hundred 10 three
/ hundred miles distant, thus vitiating the
whole proceeding and creating fresh
| litigation and who, in all disputes be-
/ tween a white man and a negro, and
/ between a gentleman and a white loyal
4 Lacquer, who is generally worse than a
! negro, invariably takes the side Of the
/ latter, even when the latter had been a
noisy secessiOnist aud the former a
uniOnist all through the WARP
/ No, the folly Of congress and the Sc
! verify and want of experience in civil
matters Of these military commanders
| have done more to array the whites of
| the south against the reconstruction pol
! icy of congress than all other causes COM
bined. The people desire peace. They
have kept the pledge they made when
! they laid down their arms. IGey have
/ lost everything but their lives, and these
/ they would yield up as a sacrifice rather
than see their country Africanized and
/ all the horrors of st. Domingo re enacted
/ in these southern states. Are they not
right?
Every word Of this is true; snd the
people of the North are beginning to
understand and be alarmed at the condi.
tion of things in the south-the apathy
Of the whites, the disposition to emi-
CRATE, snd the accursed consequences Of
negro domination. The only hope for
| the South is in an utter rOut Of Radical
ism in the North; and Of that there is al
! length q reasonable hope.