Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-20

/ OF commerce, the entrepoJ OF LfhdtJ Iht
portal of immigration Here wealth
and liberality reign. Here the arts
| flourish most. Here the questions grow
! ing out of the corruption of the currency
] the exchanges of the world, the eeon0-
mics of politics, the freedom OF citlesi
| the rights of personal liberty, and
the grandeur OF all these elements en-
shrined in frasernal union-should
/ be best taught by a courageous press
and golden lip! Here should be taught
( the meaning of your motto, "Civil Lib
| erty, the Glory OF MGnW As municipal
| liberty has ever been the mother OF per-
sonal and commercial freedom, and a.
1 this municipal liberty Is menaced wher-
ever distant legislatures regulate these
4 hearthstOne rights by military power or
/ legislative commissions, the first letters
! to be unclasped from New York is the
| subserviency of herself TO Albany and
/ Dunkirk. This accomplished, she Will
| then be stronger to break the bonds OF the
! ten states in a similar condition. The
next blow should be for the gold and sll'
yer currency of nature and the eonstitu-
1 ton, as against the depraVed paper
money issued for redemption when hSs
/ debauched the nation. The next DloW
should enfranchise industry from the
4 thrsll of the iron barons and cotton
lords, the bank mOnOpolists and unta1eu
bondhOlders, the highway and UyWay
! robbers of labor, and give to commerce
| its former interehanges and to agricul-
1 ture its natural right to buy aud sell
where interest dictates. These be our
watchwords; "Pesonal, commercial
4 industrial, municipal and constitutional
| freedom !" The day has gone by when
! the personal liberty Of the citizen IN the
north is menaced by the federal provost
! Russia sold us q Siberia little too late for
l any infamous renown. We have other OBJ
! iects now for craftsmanship. A great war
! has made desolarian and radicals call
| il a new Order-HOUus seclaOTltDl nuScttuT
! ordo. They made silence and sor-
! roW-signs of de8th-au through the
land, and call it peace, but It
| is the peace of terror; or again,
| they call it Gods providence, when 1t IS
! the organization Of hell; or again, pro.
| gressiYe government, when it is as OLD
as the despotisms Of the orient. Ihey
/ gave Us debt which drawing on poster
I ity to pay, they, as is usual with sueh de-
/ ferred debts, squandered IN riotous pIoui-
/ gality. They gave US credlJ "hicd
] goes begging through Europe az over
! per cent, when even England oo[Io"f'
/ for 8 and Russia for 4 per cent. Ihey
have disenchanted Us Of the belief that
! republican paths were usually the paths
of prosperity and peace. Leaving the
track Of experience, they have endeav-
/ ored to consolidate power in congress,
( and perpetua.e it in party, to the dis,
| honor of all our traditions, history ana
constitutions. Instead of repairing the
! breaches in our system made by the war,
| they have widened them by ques-
| tions which engender strife. Blisters and
/ poisons are administered instead OF ano-
| dynes and sedstives. Erecting as law,
! that which is martial law, or the eXtlne-
/ ton of all law save the will of the COM
mander, they have cheated the people
! out of their liberties by one pretenee or
another. until the moral sense Of the ma
/ ton ia numbed, and the enginery OF the
! state paralyzed. Their mailed hand
I tbr0ttles nearly one-half of the nation.
1 They are endeavoring to make people
/ take, if not love, a system under which
4 they are at once loaded with Odium ana
/ taxes. They threaten to divide estates,
I to reward a semi-barbarOus race for their
| ignorant suffrages, registered Dy the
I point of the bayOnet. Not only DO they
assume to give vigor to their acts oy con-
structions of the constitution, but when
/ that instrument is an obstruction they
/ trsmple on its provisions. They both
noison and stab. The express reservation
! of powers TO the state and the people,
as well in matters OF suffrage as
/ in the very existence Of the states
| is blotted out Of their editions OF
/ the constitution The very names Of
states are destroyed, and military dis
/ tricts substituted. No page in history
nothing on this star for three thousand
wears can match this act Of giving unbrl-
I died mower TO the military arm over an
area equal to the half OF Europe, dispia-
cling judicial tribunals and state govern
me1ts. a bill of attaindeT, and Of pains
and penalties which cTimSOns the cheek
with shame at its enOTmity and at the
abiectedness Of our submission TO It's
woke. The rights of the state to jury
| trial in the yieinage, to hG66GS corpus,
to freedom from er post tdctO laws, TO
| security for property, person, life ana
Iiberty-aIl reserved to the states IN their
own bounds and constitutions, are swept
I by the reconstruction bill. The president
! gave the right reasons for its veto. 1t was
grant of unlimited power 70 the mill
| tary; and if the attorney general has IN
! the interest of the citizen and OF liberty
/ seemed TO interpret the law as II some
/ power was reserved, It's certain congress
/ Intended to make the bill as vim
/ dietive proscriptive, tyrannicsl and dila-
/ tory as possible This act was passed IN
! a DassiOn. as MiTabeau said of hasty
/ will making: al irdtO, db iDlbecj5ti, q
/ terrific. a dcliruHtC. Mr. Stanbery' 5
! opinion must be repealed by the congress
! which meets to-day, lest his mitigatlngln-
| terpretations prevail, the nation be organ
| ized and ten states vote for the president
/ in IS6Sl A venerable statesman, IN sur
viewing these acts of atrOciJy, told the
su6reme court that he had Travelled
/ throuph Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Rus
sia. and that he found no such despotism
| as that which was established by these
/ acts. These countries all had courts of
some description, and allowed hearing
and an opportunity for defense. The
] sword was not the only Rrbiteri but here
| an act of congress sweeps ten states out
of existence, and subjects every one OF
their ten millions of people, OF all ages,
sexes and colors, to the deSpotle VIII OF
military commanders. We shrink from
such legislation as from moral cpl
demiO, with horror and dismay
What s spectacle for this era Ten
/ states discrowned, st time when even
Francis Joseph, Of Austria, crowns Hun
gary and assures to her an autonomy OF
! government with liberal rights when
/ Germany cOnsolidates her power oy the
extension Of her liberal ZOlverein; when
/ Nsnoleon assumes the virtue OF liberaliz-
inc speeeh and pressl We have four
states that helped make the constitutions
Borrowing with their six young sisters,
At the bier of theT liberties. One of the
| fonr. old Virginia, mutilated and shorn
I of her glory. leads the sad procession.
She beseeches for her sisters their
ancient and written privileges. 81" No"
saws the sstrsp; "yoEF governors,
legislatures, municipalities and may
ors, your clothing, food and drink,
vonr property, liberty and life are at my
mercy y q No y says the radical, bow
IN fhe sword and breathe through con-
oress end then you may live" The five
! Generals in the south, uncOnsciOusly it
nav he. are doing the bidding of con-
eyress which does the bidding Of Boston,
Which does the bidding of Wendell
Phillips. When they fail to extend the
market for Boston crackers ana the
sphere of Boston crotchets, they will be
discarded. They are but the congress
siOpal hangmen Of states. III the presi-
dent interferes he is threatened win
the is loving kiudness OF congress,
according TO tine gospel OF Bout
We'll and Butler. DO y0g ask i
there Is to be no end to this? Will
radicalism perpetuste itself 10 1868
shall wrong breed wrong for ever? My
answer is That would sooner believe
that the universe we're without first
cause sooner believe in the fsbles OF the
TsImud or the book of Mormon than IN
a continuance of such a degradation
ap1osg such a people While Radicals
are formilg instruments Ottorture Tor the
south. we will redeem the north! Con-
nectieut under the auspices of Governor
English, beraidS the dawn New HorB
will foIlow-and her example is mag
netie. Radiealism hangs by thread
She might hang by something stronger
An over-rain of few days to rust the
wheat q pricking Of the financial bal
loon. a manic in the banking system, may
pFeeipitate the crisis. With personal, mu-
nicipaI, industrial, COMMERCIAL, anc
constitutional fresdom, who shall be onl
leader Que might infer from the radi
cal attacks upon the fsiF, generous and
successful general -Grant-the counter
mart of those made four years ago upor
Mcclellan. Would that the ocean tele
! 0raph could bear these cheers to hi
heart. The people, inspired with a sens'
of Justice for Gen. Grants merits, and Q
The Injustice Of such attacks, and IN TN
| sDiTit Of his parole to the enemy, may