Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-02
uWPPEDN.


WHIPPED IN.
Only A little while, a few short weeks
sro. the Southern States, imagining
Themselves relnvested with the robes oi
Sovereignty, Iegislating, electing Sena,
tors. doing honour to their dead, and
otherwise endeavouring to delUde them
selves with the idea that they were
somewhat in the world, baughtily, per-
emptorilv. and with hardly a dissenting
voice. refused to accept and adopt the
Constitutional Amendment. No Uoices,
of hos l-ho had led or forced Their
safes into secession, wcre raised TO adj
rise the ign0minious humiliation. All
the ancient fre-eaters, relying on AN
DREW JOHNSON, and despisiDg Con-
zress, were jubilant and defiant The
south stood, with crest erect and
bsuehty port, ready to die, if need werer
but never TO submit to dishonOur. The
phrase, during the war, especially just
before a surrender, was " die in the last
dltch.n)
The Northern leaders told us, then,
that Hhey ,C0tRd 1ghip as into negro SUI
f-1gs. A few short weeks have passed
they have applied the lash, and the
south, We fear, is about to be whipped
in. 70 that and other humiliatiOns. Con
grsss reduced our States to the condition
of Provinces, and ali our stage-heroism
Of legislation, and our embassies
10 Washington and elections OF Senators,
reports and resolutions against the Con-
gtltutional amendment, and other MINI
tories Of Commonwealth s~elf-governing'
are flung together to rot in the limbo Of
vanity and incoherent dreams. L de-
crees the establishment Of a Military
nespotism over our Provinces, u the
President protesting against the measure
a. an intolerable violation Of the Constl-
tuition. and the loathsOme issue OF the
Calibau Of brutal ~usurpatiOn and he
Sycorax Of rank and shameless perjury,
proceeds 10 execute the law and obeythe
edicts Of Congress, in acknowledged vio-
lation Of his oath TO support, protect and
defend the Constitution.
Haushty and imperioUs as Rome pro-
uouneing the doom Of Carthage, the
Northern States decree the right Of SUI
frage to the negro, direct the making Of
new Constitutions, TO be valid only with
his consent and when approved by Con-
g-ess: and order us TO eat the leek, by
adopting the Constitutional amendment
which. only q few days since, our defiant
legislators and popular advisers, ready
10 die but not TO yield to force 8 hat self
respect forbade conceding, bad flung out
Of doors with loathing and disgust. The
North IS repayingi in indignitiesr is the
opnressor's wrsuE, the proud mans con-
tumelv." with injuries and insults and
bufsttings, the naughty assumption Of
superioritv Of Southern leaders in Con-
aress. for years before the war, their die
tatoriaIarrogance their supplementary
insults.
The last humiliation Of a people is, to
be so inundated and cOwed by mis-
fortunes, violence or menaees As to be
ready to purchase life and safety with
shame and ignominy, by the abandon
ment and sacrifice Of its chosen leaders.
That, too, the Congress orders. Ii is not
content asey to ~disfranRhise the leaders
OF the South, its Chiefs in all the fields
where intellect tolls and genius and
learning win influence over men. 1t is
not content TO effect this by a law or an
amendment to the Constitution, by
which our conquered people, powerless
10 resist Il, would not be dishOnoured
hut It insists that they shall do the deed
themselves: and whOsoever votes for
Delegates 20 a convention TO frame a
Constitution, votes for negro suffrage,
The Constitutional amendment, and the
Acknowledgement Of the men whom he
ought most Of all men to trust and love
and honour.
Understand, people Of the South, what
u Is thai you are 10 do, and why you are
imperiously ordered to do It! II is not
the blood shed by the North, and the
mourning in q hundred thousand Of its
homes for those who died to prevent our
winning nationality and independence, |
that are the chief causes Of the r~esolute
zTImAexible determination on the part
~ the conqueror to degrade the South
in her own estimation, 20 hUmihate her,
70 aishonour her in the estimation Of the
nations. Those who have the memories
Of dead heroes in their households are
too proud Of their glories TO harbour
malice for their deaths and the wounds
made by civil war are soon healed,
hardly leaving scars. But insults and
seoru, which one has not dared to
avenge, and self-respect wounded by
eontumely, sting the soul perpetually,
and people il with all the passions of
hell. The chastisement that LETT its
marks on the body OF SUMNER, the
blows inflicted by Rust on GREELEY,
the Heavy arrogance Of MASON, the pol
ished gibes OF BENJAMIN, the angry Vitu-
ueratlons Of {. c. CLAYathe unwise
Insults Of HAMMOND, the violent cunts
Of TOozrss, the invectiyes Of WI6FALL,
the imperious pomp aud landed man
uer Of SLIDELL, the sarcasms and
bitter, biting words and lofty airs Of pre-
I .ntious superiority Of scores and scores
u others in the Senate and House Of
CONSERVATIVES, for ten years before the
war: the insults, afronts and mortify-
ing sights ranking in the hearts Of the
Republican chiefs, are the concealed
causes, not the less potent because they
cannot be ayowed, Of the stern and set
lied determination On their part not only
that the men whose insults they resent
shall never again hold public station,
bat that the South shall so truckie and
crouch and humiliate itself, bess seourged
and dashed into submission, like the RO- j
man malefactors with the Easocs before
execution, shall so sneak and stink back {
into the Union, cowed and tanned apd
broken-spiritsd, 30 sbject, servile. exapi-
mate aud despicable, its representatives '
50 hating themselves, that none Of Them %
shall ever dare, until the present genera. /
ton has died out, to resent an insult mr. a y
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despOtism imposed rulers and laws on .
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