Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-22

least dimensions. Can he offer that? II
he proposes to do 1t, how win he get the
negroes, who will be in 8 majority Of ten
to one in his organization, to consent to
it, or to enter into any alliance with old
/, line Wings or DOUGLAS Democrats on
/, such terms. How does he propose TO cut
down negro suffrage? By a property
qualification? Al the negroes are TO
vote; il any are entitled to do so, all are.
How many Of them will agree to give up
the right? How many Of them will the
Radicals OF Mississippi permit TO give
it upF
He thinks the Radicals may be fairly
held to regard with fear the presence Of
black Senators and Representatives in
Congress. How does he propose to pre-
vent that? When he has formed his
party, the negroes, having an immense
majority, will do what they please.
Mr.. ALCORN has simply nothing to
give the Radicals in Congress, and
nothing to give the negroes in Missis-
sippi. These are days when men get
nothing without an equivalent. If the
old line Wings of Mississippi, and the
DOUGLAS Democrats, we're, like DUGALD
DALGETTY, to offer their votes for
sale, nobody would buy. If con-
densed into q party, it would form so
small a fraction Of the one proposed to
be organized, that it could hardly gire
itself away.
The purpose Of Mr.. ALCORN is, If We
gather his meaning correctly, to accept
the negro as an electOr and a political
associate, and, as far as possible to save
the Radicals of the North from the in
jury that might be done them if the
Southern States were all negro, and sent
negroes to Congress. He proposes to
oblige them by combining the high offices
to white men, and so relieve them Of the
apprehended Odium. The Northern
Radicals are quite aware that the men
who would unite with him in the pro-
posed organization will not need the
spur Of q tender solicitude for others, to
induce them to vote when they can, and
take all the offices they can get. They
need make no concessions to ecure that
dis!nterested and valuable assistance in
the South.
Nor do they need any consent Of the
old-line Wings and DOUGLAS democrats
Of Mississippi, to the adoption Of 3 con-
~stitutisDal amendment denying the right
Of Secession. Is not the Constitution
already q fossil, to which no one pays
any attention, having as little vitality as
the fossil fishes depicted by AGAssIz in
his great work, the ammonites and lepi-
dodendra? What do the Northern Radi-
Gals care for such an amendment? None
Of them propose it. They as little care
for "a F~guarautee of the s~auctity Of the
National debt, and they well know that
all the negroes Of Mississippi will vote
for their candidate for the Presidency.
It is for that they have given them the
/ right to vote. Who ever heard that any
/ one succeeded IN cOnciliating a free
booter or an italian bandit by Offering
him half the money in his pocket, when
it was in his power to take the whole ?
The man who should do what Mr..
ACORN proposes, /" grasp the bride Of
a runaway horse, and run on with it for
a distance sufficient to check its speed"
would be likely to find the horse swift
enough to out-run him, and strong
enough to run away with him, To
undertake to run with a revolution, in
order to check its speed, is worse than to
try that experiment with a locomotive
1t is not one horse that is to be stopped,
in Mississippi, but q herd Of buffsloes on
a stampede; and Mr.. ALCORN and his
old line Wings and DOUGLAS Democrats
will soon md themselves under the hOOfs
Of the mad and irresistible brutes.
Rou is his plan to ssve Mississippi
from q domestic radicalism wose than
that Of Tennessee? He proposes to
unite only a fraction Of the whites, with
the negroes. He proposes to ignore the
Constitution, accept negro suffrage, yield
to all the demands of Rsdios.!sm and Sc
cept ali its principles and its candidate
for the Presidency. Is that not domestic
rRdiealism? II not, what does be mean
by the phrase If be means not to &C
cept all their doctrines, but to demE at
some point, does he expect to control the
negroes, and induce them to stop also?
Does he imagine that the negroes, out
numbering the whites ten to one, will let
them control the stste and shape its
legislation ?
The hrst merit Of a plan proposed by a
Statesman, as Mr.. ALCoRs claims to be,
sneering at the pretentions Of others, is
that it should be practicable. His is not
80. If his party could be formed, the
z Congressional radicals would laugh in
its face, aad, according to the Turkish
phrase, spit on its beard. What sort of
negotiation" or treaty" could 1t make
with THAD. STEVENS? The day of ne.
COLLATION. is past; and that Of despotie
power, regarding Bothipg but its own in-
terests and will, has come. 'Rhe con
queror who can dictate terms, does not
treat with the ~vsnquished. Mississippi
is Known to be ready tOyield all that can
be demanded Of her. At least she is be-
Heped to be so.
We do not care to discuss the plan of
Mr. ALCoRN in its other aspects. It is
enough that it seems to Us emiuently
unwise, ever if it were at all practicable.
1t proposes to one part Of the people Of
Mississippi, who stood by their State in
her struggle Tor independence, to sepa-
rate themselves from another and much
larger portion of her people, who also
shared her fortunes, and to make terms
for themselves, leaving the leaders Of the
others, at least, TO remain DISTINGUISHED
until q sense Of justice, slowly and re-
luetantly returning, may induce Con-
/ gress to remove their disabilities. How
| indeed is Congress to do this, when Mis-
/ sissipsA sAall again have become a State,
and a negro o. Ting-stresked, spotted
and piebald legislature can impose on
/ them such disquslinestions as it may
please?
To mitgste the evils and iguominy Of
negro domination, it is proposed, by an
unequal alliance with them, uneondi-
! tionally to surrender all the powers of
the State into their hands. How is this
to mitigate the evils Of negro suffrage
and Of the ~desPotisn OF negro majority ?
II you ~recegnize them as political equals,
you must admit the omnipotence Of the
principle that the majority of numbers
has the right to govern. We hope the
day will never come in any State foun-
ded by the descendants of Euglishmen,
when their children shall consent that
a larger number of negroes shall govern
them. 1t is true, this seems To be ad-
mitted as a matter of right, when the
negro is allowed TO vote at all. Logi.
caIIy, and in reason too, it Is admitted. |
1t is a fraud TO say to the negro, you
are an equal, and you may vote but i'll
you become the majority, then we viii
rebel against yon, and you shall not
govern And yet that is what every
Northern State would do. And there