Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-26

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always credulous and easily deceived b,
the pretences Of plausible dishonesty
with the mismsnagement Of their al
fairs. Thus the mantle OF the good an
true, when they fall into errors of judg
ment, covers the base and vile, and en-
ables them to win in the race for hOnors
Whatever may be the intention Of tn
MaIignants a. to the Bill OF Confscstioi
Of the most detestable of the Revolution
airy leaders, and whether or not the,
mean, as zoe believe they do, to enact j
in good time into s law, it Is admirabl.
serving its first purpose Of acting as
terror and q bride.
AS a terror to all Confederates, par
doned or unpardOned, owning lands il
the Provinces, to whom it threatens con
hscation, at the same time that it, politi,
postponement to December, avOidin,
present disturbance and the 5trug
giles Of an sgonised despair, ais,
feeds the vague, and, we fear, vaiI
and idle hope, that it is no
really intended that the hideeus decreD
Of ~confseatiOn shall become final, unles
they should continue sontumaeious. I
Is therefore su immense bride TO pur
chase their cooperation and what i
worse, il is made the harder to,resist, be
cause the honorable men who urge upoI
the people to accept the terms dictated Il
them, are used by MaIignsncy as agent
to press this bride upon the acceptance o
those who look up to them for counsel
1t Is sad to contemplate the probabl,
fate of these ~coUnsellors, when the peO
: pie shall find, as ne beliege they oCiH
that it was intended to excite the hop,
4hat by submission they may avert the
threatened confscatiOn, and that it wa
also intended that this hope should prove
delusive. Nor will the people, when the
hope disappears, be able to point to any
promise or even implied assurance, OF
I the part Of STEVENS or any one o
bis su5alterns, upon which to charge
them with bad faith and deliberate
fraud nor their present cOUnsellors tC
any that gave them right OF reason &c
encourage such idle hopes. The men
who, after fighting by proxy for foul
years, to prevent the withdrawal 0i
States from the Union, now admit that
they did secede, and leaUs 1t to them
seJres to decide at the polls, and to the
negroes lGte5y Slaves, lchsther they WIi
remain indefinitely out Of the Union, OF
return Into Il, the party that annihilates
ten States by q clause OF preamble, and
establishes a Military Despotism over
PROSTATE Provinces, will not be deferred
BY any considerations Of law or mercy,
or by the certainty OF the detestation
Of the whole world, from coniscating
ali the lands Of the South, and dividing
them in part among the negroes. 1t is
quite capable Of any villainy, that the
Devil, incarnate in STEVENS, can suggest.
In other respects the Bill Of Recon-
~stTucti0n and its supplement are ingen-
ioUsly intended TO intensity alarm.
The negroes are TO be registered as loyal
voters. The registering officers will
visit the plantations, and urge the regis
tered negroes to exercise their right to
vote. Emisssries Of Loyalism will see
to it that they go to the polls; and these
and the candidates Of the Services will
enlarge upon the glorious certainty, TO
be achieved By their U0tss for he proper
men, Of an agrarian division Of the
lands Of their employers, and a distribu-
ton Of moneys to erect them houses and
assist them In farming. What a hell is
here provided for, whose fires ace are re-
quired to assist in kindling. Let those
kindle them who will! They will hardly
escape the flames.
The negroes are TO be armed, too; or
gsnized, perhaps, into militia, like the
Tennessee standing army TO which Con-
gress has voted a supply of weapons.
{" The negro must be able TO protect him
against the unarmed whites. As
the Lord lives, We DO verify believe that
STEVENS and WADE, whom Memphis
and New Orleans feasted), and that ma
intellectual eunuch SUMNER, and
BUTLER and LOGAN, COvODE and too
many others, do hope and mean TO have
many Ewes of ST. BARTHOLOMEW for
to sing TIE Deums upon the Ma
tional Thanksgiving for calamity and
the success Of crime, next November.
God knows, the promise Of such crown
ing mercies is sufficient to give them
joyful snticipations, and their ingenious
devices 10 make them certain are but too
likely to be crowned by successes, that
viii make the whole world shudder, and
he faces of all mankind whiten with
horror. And yet Gods angry Iightnings
10 not smite the guilty Capitol on whose
tome the gigantic statue Of Freedom
itsnds as a hideous sarcasm that mocks
he agonies Of half 3 Nation.
Nor is it only the negroes to whom
STEVENS, inspired by Beelzebub, offers
tribes but also all those obscene vul-
ures and hsrpies who are already reused
nd eager al the prospect Of gorging
battening upon the spoil Of those
shom the Northern pulpit devotes to
he Internal gods, as out Of the pale of
,hristian charity. Cursed be be who
back bis sword from blood. or
lis hands from pillsge :" has become the
ext for chsplsns Of Congress to preach
nd pray from and to despon Amalek
} the spirit Of the National Leeisla-
lre.
Loyalty, eager to be thus rewarded. bv
ommissionerships Of conRscation. and
Their lucrative offices and employmepts.
fording ample scope and verge for f.
ancial talent, by jobs and contracts, and
D~eculations In lands, stands on tin toe.
for the carnival of plnnder to
egin, and urged BY greed to more siren
0us e%xertioDs in the work Of recon
ruction. The field Of plumber is i'm
iense, and glorious in their eyes, as ,
70 those Of the impatient saints.
either will the harvest be Al once 7
aped Tor when each negro shall be
assessed Of bis fertile acres, the improv- !
ence and incOrrlgible laziness Of the .
&c viii soon put their lands and ken
Is in market, to be bought at private 8
le and under execution and decree, by !
e new Aristocrscy Of landed worth and O
g-respectability. Hon many among
DiN the promise Of diSfr0nchise- I
ent aud speculation purchases :
need not be surprised, nor revile
e common people, if their hearts fail s
at the prospect OF these horrors Il
souls are by vile fear sssailed. which 3
o ovsrcasis q man, that be recons
ron nobiest resolutions, like q besgf
It some false selnblance In the twusgAt q
gloom" b
But we utterly fail to see what's to be Il
ected by active cooperation in the q
work OF reconstruction, more Il