Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-23
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL


centrated villainies of Rsdicalism em-
bodied in the acts for the enslavement Of
the white men OF Southern States. 1t
may be that the North has yet left heart
and conscience, to be aroused by words
so true, and uttered with all the vehe-
mence Of q just and righteous anger.
Sir. a short time ago, during the present
| congress, the gentleman from Pennsyi-
vanis, Mr.. Stevens the gentleman
/ from Ohio, (Mr. Bingham the gentle
man from Massachusetts, MIR. Butler
! and gentlemen from every state IN the
union then represented here voted the
/ sympathy OF the American people with
! the people of Ireland, suffering under the
/ cruel wrongs and oppressive laws which
! England had inflicted upon her Ihat
| island is not much larger than the inst
/ three districts of New York, and has
population not exceeding five OF SIX
millions. Every representative on TINS
floor voted his sympathy with Ireland in
her sufFeripgs from British oppression.
But here are ten states, with popula-
ton more than twice the number OF that
OF Ireland, and ten or twenty times It's
/ extent our own territory, our own peo-
pIe. under our own flag, enduring
oppression such as no BRUSH
government ever attempted to force
1non Ireland. Why, sir, have
we not heard that 8 military governor,
under a law which we have now met
prOfessedly to make more stringent aHd
more despotic, has removed munlclpaI
and state officers without trial ana WIN
out any given reasOn2 Have we not
heard OF a military governor, uncer
law now to be made more severe, VINO
- ion fhnU
cured and consented to carry certsln
flag, to salute thadfag, uncoyering three
PAGES before reaching it, bowing their
necks as they passed it, and remaining
uncovered three PAGES beyond it2 What
would have been the consequences II
son1e Door fellow, blinded with dust and
bedizZened with its splendOr, had made
q misstep or a miscalculatiOn OF steps,
and uncovered only two and half PAGES
before approaching, and bowed when
half a pace beyond, l cannot tell. But
this 1 do know, that during the seven
! centuries Of British misrule in Ireland
no military commander ever dared
10 remove from office without Rccusa-
ton and trial, even an alderman CorK
or Dublin. or any other Irish city, and
Though the Irish people had cursed the
British flag in orstory and song, no mill
tsrv governor or tyrsut ever dared to
ask them to carry that flag in any OF
their professions, or to uncover or DOW
their heads while passing II. On, sir, IL
is a sorry spectacle to see the representa-
tiyes Of 5 republican people voting sym
Dathy with the sufferers under the mis-
Government and oppression OF our
1eighbors while planning and perpe-
trsting for our own fellow-citizens acts
p of tvranLzy and misgovernment sucn as
no monarch, emperor, or tyrant ever YET
inflicted upon subjected people, however
rebelliOus they may have Oeeh. II
British rule in Ireland were IS tyranni-
esI "a ours is in these ten suffering states,
every man, woman and child in Ireland
would be = Feniau. Ii Is with the deep
est sorrow l make this assertion. do II
to avert, if possible, the spirit Of oppres-
siye legislation, which, if practlced In
any other country, would call forth our
sympathy for the sufferers and our con-
domination of the oppressor.
doubt not there are 3 thousand Irish
men to-day living under British rule, for
whose victims we so recently Gnsnl-
uously voted the sympathy OF the
american people, who would appeal TO
the British parliament If introduced
upon it's floor, 10 overthrow By express
letter everything but British rule IN Ire
: land IS administered by her Cast lereag hs
, and Derbys, and would present tnas tne
very life would be crushed out OF every
lovsI maa il the Fitzgeralds, and Em'
NETS and O'Briens had succeeded in over,
throwing that British rule in Ireland
against which we so recently and unanl'
nously protested in this house and the
gentleman from Pennsylvania will not
, If he travels through Ireland, ind one
ont of every ten Of the loyal men IL
Ireland who feed and fatten on the pat
ronsge of British rule in their starving
country. who does not look to the Brit
: ish parliament to protect them and pre-
serve them from the calamity OF grant
. ing to Ireland her rights and noefles
+. And il is no argument TO me- that De
- cause some Irishman, who has lore
(. sworn allegiance to British power anI
British law, and fled from their oppres
siODs. has here become the apOloglst o
laws more CALLING and oppressive thar
those whose authors he fOTesWOTe, ina
!. l should see others faults and not m.
own; that l should join in voting con
20 demnation on our neighbOrs and cove
o I'D our own faults, equal, If not lar tran
seending theirs. / care not who such
man Is, he is not true Irishman; but
British -, you may fill the blank a
= you please.
Mr.. KeIley.-I did not say that tins
gentleman said he had fed from the OF
preston he spesks Of. apprehend tina
J. ike the gentleman, be came here be
te cause America was freer country ina
Ireland.
Mr.. Robinson.-I thank the gentiems
. Tor that word "was.n 1t tcGS q free
bara IN ola IlaU Whi
! when the democrats were in power, dali
n nrotesting against their attempts TO II
fringe the rights of minorities and tran
e. ME down the safeguards Of our eonstltl
-I ZION. but they never dared to tramp
Z. ON the rights Of their political opp
nents, thev never dared to override q
constitutional provisions to perpetus
s. tbair mower. as the party in maJoTil
rs here arc now doing. l was an oid-hI
whig then, and 1 would be recresl
u. and 2 coward If failed to deDounce no
enormities greater than those l then q
nOunced.
Sir, have some ides what these 10y
, southern men are who come here to invoi
oppression on their people. 1 kno" y
mower INSTRUMENTATION l know u
sfforts made to excite and keep alive
spirit of revenge against the people
the south by persons calling themselV
n southern Iovalists. I know the indigr
ties .heaped upon the southern peOpl
- and the threats made against them
they dared to complain. l know IN
when the gentleman from PennsylVan
~ made his speech to the people OF Mooll
ID ne said they must be quiet, for he hi
the military at his back. This nI
have been very soothing, and caleuist'
10 hasten reconstruction, when he
f,,rmed them that it might be necesss
10 urge home his arguments with {
bay0net.
Sir. t0e south is not represented he
TODAY. Loyal and disioyal are both e
cIud ed. though it is admitted there
people now waiting for admission y
g. merous enough, after STOPPING th,
Ss uecks to the military yoke, to eompri
ten states in our union. Jhe cnaln
eating into their flesh, the blood
oozing from their pores, while we,
narentIV infuri Sted into madness oy l
spirit of revepee, are dancing on tn
nrostrste bodies 20 the music of recc
struetiOn.
Mr.. Stevens, of Pc Unsyl vanis.-i 81
pose the gentleman is referring 70 n
dersonville?
Mr.. Robinson.-No, sir, / am
Those who shrek for more blood 3
suffering may unfold the CORY record
Apdersonville. That record il Terri
are enough, aud ever to be condemned I
Jaw there may be exhibited a worse Npi
than was manifested at AndersonvI