Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-16


4 year suggested the propriety Of hanging
as Union men all who were not in favour
Of immediate secession, especially if they
were born in the North, were little
rash and precipitate.
It's perhaps natural enough that those
( who were in so undue a hurry to get out
Of the Union, should be equally in a
hurry to get back.
There was a man in cur town
And he was monstrous wIse;
He-fualped into a oriar-buSh
And scratched out both his eyes:
Ard when he fOusd they both were outl
with all his might and main,
He'fum ped iutO another bush,
And scratched them in again."
1t is but a very little while since all the
conquered States, hardly giving the
question decent consideration, indig-
! nantIy refused to accept and ratify the
I Constitutional amendment; and now
as we are sorry to believe, but as too
many indications leave US little reason
/ 10 doubt, they are about to hasten to
swallow il whole, with other and more
/ nauseous Ingredients, constituting, with
/ it, such a hell-broth as never before was
put to any peoples lips, until, at least,
[ thev had been enslaved long enough
to have forgotten that they ever were
I free.
j It may be, as is argued, that there IS
no question Of honour or dishonour in the
case. It was said that there l0as such
a question involved, when the Constitu-
tional amendment was proposed to Us
and when there would have been no dis
honour in accepting that which we were
/ free to adopt or reject, that which no
master ordered US to accept, and to ae-
eept which we should not have had to
kneeI and crogch.
We do not discuss that question now.
| We impute no base motives to any one
who is now eounseling the Southern
/ people TO submit as to an inexorable ne
cessity, and unite in the distasteful work
I Of reconstruction. Men may, with very
| proper and pure and patriotic motives,
but not Judging wisely or foreseeing the
/ consequences 10 result, counsel a people
/ to adopt measures that will degrade and
/ humiliste it.
, We propose to speak now, only Of the
/ policy and wisdomaQf the course which
/ so many men Of unfnpeaehable loyalty
to the principles for which the South
fought, are now advising the people of the
South 10 tate, end which, We fear, they
will take.
Are not the people Of the Southi or a
/ least these leaders, again too much IN 8
hurry? Upon this question We may
stand on equal ground with those whose
SPLENDID services in arms give them 8
higher right to advise what action o
these states comports with selfrespee
and honour since It is not great names
Int reasons ouly, that esn demonstrate
tLe wisdom or impoliey Of proposed
course Of national Or individual conduct
"a wss the counsels Of men esteemeC
GREAT by the people, that led them t.
take the fatal step whioH brought upol
them general ruin.
Unfortunately, it is authority and no
reason, that determines the action of th'
people, at all times and under all cir
cumstances. Reason and argument G,
a very little way. It would be an idl
boast for any people, that they are no
addicted to swear by the words Of an.
master. They are always either led o
misled by their leaders and it seems t
be the fate Of the South TO be alway
misIed. Possessed Of none of the su
thority Of leadership, and our word
being read within only a limited circle
we might properly enough refrain from
saviug what can have little or no effee
uson the result, against the high author
ity Gfthe names that are quoted to prov
to the peopls the wisdom as well as Pre-
priety Of active co-opefsti2u in the wor
Of reconstruction, and Of so assistin
Radicalism to achieve entire success
and make utter and complete the lo'
Of the cause foT which we fought.
A Charleston dispatch to the Ne
York Herald says that, at meeting
the prominent citizens Of that place o
the "a instant, it was unanimousl
agreed that the freedmen should be ent
lied to run some one OF their color on IL
white mans ticket to the convention
the State Legislature. The meeting WI
composed, in a large proportion,
Old Democrats and Secessionists, al
General WADE HA5EBToH sent a lett
to it, urging the policy of giving the n
groes representation
Those who have committed themselv
TO the policy of active cooperation wi
of course. labour strenuously not to
discredited by the rejection Of their a
vice. Perhaps not entirely satisfied wi
their own position. it is essential to t
ouiet of their consciences that th
should obtain the general consent Of
people. 1t must somewhat have gall
An assembly of South CarOlinians
hear addressed to them such words
6 these, by the person formerly known
z uDAN S1cgLEs," notorious rather th
Z distinguished, as a New York Den
cratic politician, and otherwise, in form
davs. AT dinner given by the Charl
ton Board Of Trade, on the I'd of Ap
4 be said :
j! "I,et noe say to you, gentlemen, in
caudor, that one OF the first duties J
have TO discharge 10 yourselves and
your fellow-eitizens, is TO remove all {
J. trust as to your purposes, feelings, 8
- ;ntantfops in the future toward the {
ored race: this distrust is in my ju
mept The main obstacle to the .corC
= eo-oneratioR and good understanding
~ the two races. The causes for the ex
81 ing alienation should, perhsps, be lool
for in the early history Of your State
her former institutions. But these
considerations of the past. l do not
from my point Of view any reason y
fY. the undoubted identity Of interest
does exist, and must ever exist betW
md the white and colored races in So
Carolina. shall not result in their pul
INC in common all the ends Of socl
and government AS heartily and suce
EN rsliv as il the old relation Of master
slaye had never existed"
1t is pleasant to be thus gracefully
gS ninded of ones duties y to his
,rsa fellow-citizens. 1t was pleas
II slso. no doubt on the 1st Of April, to
/, ,s,,ise men Of Petersburg, Virginia,
- Inns instructed as 70 their duties
4r,sKy WILSON, os he is called, Of }
= soei,usetts. TO the whites he said
at will say to those who did me
borar 10 ask me to address them, in
, ,.uses .resen,,e Of my God, that l never in
, struggle Of thirty years had a sentin
If hostility to any OF my eo1ntryu
- - Ne olnavs acted as an abolitio