Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-27
TuR FOITY on OPPRFssToF

The remarks Of BURKE, in his letter
to Sir HERCULES LANGRIsHE, in respect
to the English Revolution and the policy
pursued towards Ireland, are strikingly
applicable to the present mi -government
Of the subjugated Southern Provinces OF
the United States. We quote the sem
fences, not continuously, but taking
them here and there, detached from
their context, 50 as to group together
those that are most striking.
al shall not think" he said, that
the deprivation OF some millions Of peo-
pie Of all the rights Of citizens, and all
interest IN the Constitution, IN and to
which they were born, was q thing con
formable to the declared principles Of
the Revolution. The whole spirit Of the
system was changed, not to say reversed.
In England, it was the struggle Of the
great body Of the people for the estab-
lishment of their liberties, against the
efforts Of a very small faction, who would
have oppressed them. In Ireland
it was the establishment Of the
power Of the smaller number, at
the expense Of the civil liberties and
properties Of the greater part; and at
the expense Of the political liberties OF
he1choJe. It was, 10 say the truth, not
a revolution, but a conquest Vbich is
not to say a great deal IN its JdU0ur.
The Protestsnts settled in Ireland con-
sidered themselves in no other light than
that Of a sort Of a colonial garrison, to
keep the natives in subsection to the
other State Of Great Britain The war
Of chicane succeeded to the war Of arms
and hostile statutes and a regular series
Of operations vas carried on, particu-
larry from CmCHEsTER's time, in the
ordinary Courts Of justice, and by special
commissions and inquisitions first, IN
der pretence Of t~eRures, and then Of IL
ties in the crown, for the purpose Of the
total extirpatiOn Of the interest Of the
natives in their own soil-until this
species Of subtle ravage, being carried to
the last excess Of oppression and iuso-
lence under Lord STAFFORD, it kindled
the flames OF that rebellion which broke
out in l641. All the penal laws Of
that unparalleled code OF oppression,
which were made after the last event
were mAnifestly the effects of National
hatred and seorn towards a conquered
people; whom the yictors delighted to
trample upon, and were not at all afraid
to provoke. They were not the effect
OF their fears, but of their security.
They who carried on this system,
looked to the Irresistible force OF Great
Britain FOR their support in their aets of
power. They were quite certain that no
complaints of the natives would be heard
on this side OF the water, but with con
tempt and Indignation. Their cries
served only to augment their torture.
Machines which could answer their pur-
poses so well, must be Of an excellent
~contrivance. Every measure was pleas
ing and popular, just in proportion as it
tended to harrass and ruin a 81 Of peO-
pie who were looked upon as enemies to
God and man" e
Whatsoever there is, that Radical des-
Dotism has not yet put 10 practice to-
wards the conquered people Of the South,
in obedience to the precedent set by Eng
land in its government Of Ireland, the
leaders Of Radicalism are now advo-
eating and urging, as 1t and lust and
wise to be done. We have sll over the
South the establishment Of the power
Of the smaller number Of white men.
and these for the most part foreign ad-
v-enturers and mercensry knaves, sns.
taiued by bayonets and hordes OF barba
rians whose civilization is not skin-deep,
as their religion is fetiehism in another
form and this power is maintained " at
the expense OF the civil liberties and
properties Of the grester part Of the
people; and as the North will after a
time be made to know, "at the expense
Of the civil liberties Of the whole"
Everywhere foreign ofice-holders are
quartered upon the people, TO eat out
their substance, as colonial garrisons,
to keep the natives in subsection y to the
other State, formed by the humiliation
Of the sovereignty and Independence Of
the Commonwealth Of the North,
which have ceased to be States and be-
come Departments, governed by a Ma
tional Assembly thst pretends to find its
principal powers outside Of the Constitu-
ton. "'rhe war Of chicane has succeeded
to the war Of arms - but that Of hostile
statutes still continues aud it is delib-
Intended by the miscreAnts who
dominser in Congress, "to effect the
total ~extirpation Of the interest of the
Of the South In their own soil"
In Ireland, the eonquerors bad st least
the decency to use E~ngIishmen and rem
egade Irishmen only, for the effectustion
Of their Internal purposes; but our con-
l~uerors, prompted by an incredible
ieyilish baseness and malice, resort 10