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

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policy, nor even, as is commonly sup
posed, measures 10 p~erpetuate h power
of a party. They are, on the contrary
parts Of a comprehensive scheme
of vengeance, dictated by n deafness
To d~isfranchise all who were
not faithless to their States, ~test-oaths
have been maintained, when no lawyer
worthy of the name could think that
they were or that they were not consti-
tutional, contrary to the great princi-
piles Of English liberty, and equally con-
trary to the pure principles of Justice,
and of enlightened wisdom and sound
The military power is still supreme
over the civil, whenever occasion re-
ouires, and the Magistrates" OF the
Freedmen's Bureau everywhere usurp
upon the courts and deny the right Of
the citizen to trial by jury and if Mill
tary Commissions are no longer to muir
der civilians never connected with the
m the exemption of the citizen from
this hideous and despicable tyranny IS
owing only to a majority of n on the
Supreme Bench of the United States.
To destroy the agricultural interests Of
the South, the tariff that gives %grstuities
TO Northern manufacturer levies an IN
constitutional tax upon cotton, although
ours could only compete with that OF
India and Egypt, when, by the best sys-
tenn of labor, for the laborer himself,
that the world ever saw, it could be pro-
duced and sold at from four and a half to
ten and eleven cents per pound.
And finally, to completely abase and
humiliate and ruin the Southern States,
they are TO, be declared Provinces, and
the right Of voting and holding office is
to be confined to hordes of ~semi-savage
negroes and a few "loyalists " and rene
gades, to the exclusion of the people at
large and this government IS to be
maintained by bayonets in the hands Of
negro troops. That this is a measure
dictated by hate, is palpable, since there
il no man so besotted as not to know
that the negroes of the plantations are
not fit to exercise the right Of suffrage,
and that to confer it upon them IS to inn
mensely increase the danger with which
unlimited suffrage even Of the white race
in tae populous States and cities menaces
the country.
We may accept il As q certainty, ina
our states are to become Provinces gov
erned by PrO-consuls, and their munich
pal and domestic affairs controlled by
negroes, legislating for the DISTINGUISHED
white men guilty of being true to thell
political faith and to their States; that
we are to be burthened with ~unconstitu'
tioRal taxes, imposts and stamp and eX'
| port duties that all our judges Of civil
and criminal jurisdiction are to be ap.
pointed by a Radical President at Wash.
ington, for terms so short as to ensure
their complete subservience, or elected
by negro voters or Legislators and tAa,
we are, in short, to be but foreigners
without rights civil or political, in on
own countryF olding wen our little leasl
of life at su~fferance, always under mill
tary surveillance, always suspected o
disloyalty, and free opinion being
crime, with the spies Of government every
where, and the devilish ingenuity 0
greed and malice combined seeking
daily occasion, by accusation, true o
false, to coniscate the property that Tia,
torch Of war and the hand OF the spOile
spared. Ruled by a radical oligareh!
chiefly composed Of men who hate tn,
States that they betrayed, and thes
sustained by hordes Of negro voters ant
a negro soIdiery paid by the Unite,
States, what shall we be but Helots =? il
what respect more fortunate than Irelan,
under CROMWELL, the Netherlands un
der ALvA, Poland under NICHOLAS?
We need not hope that this is not to b
our condition. It is the registered decree
Of resistless power, restrained by no con
s~iderations of justice or generosity, by n
lesson of history, by no inspiration 0
wisdom. The French Jacobins were no
madder, when they deposed God an,
worshipped a naked prostitute As th.
Goddess of Reason, than the American
Congress is. The Northern States wer,
so swift and eager to denude themselye
Of all their sovereign prerogatives, an'
their citizens of all their dearest civi
rights, in order to arm the National Gov
eminent with ample power to crush tn
attempt of the Southern States 10 VIII
their independence, that they are nov
powerless to resist the progress of con
solidatiOn or prevent a complete remod
cling Of the Constitution. The Demo
cratic party is contemptibly impoten
every where and the leaders of the ol'
Wing party are, as a general rule, among
the most Jacobinical Of the Radicals.
We need only add, TO complete tn
picture of our gloomy and apparent.
inevitable future, that the general de
m~oralization and corruption Of govern
ment officials, of which every day fur
nishes new assurances and additiOna
proofs, ensures us a general system of ex
tortion and plundering, such as CICERO
denouncing VERREs the P~roc0nsul, an,
BURKE and SHERIDAN prosecuting Has
TINGs, graphically described 50 tina
what once were STATES, "by the grac
of God, Free, Sovereign and Indepen
dent"i will be rather Pashaliks TO b
feeced and plundered, than Provinces t
be governed.
Why should we hope for better things
Already the dark shadows of the comm.
Future fall upon US, and the crucifxioi
Of the South has begun. Conquere,
Provinces have been so dealt with be
fore; and every day the evidence accu
mulates that men are neither worse no
better than they were centuries ago. Tb
race that manned and hung u~noffendinI
Quakers, prating at the same time abou
religious liberty, retains its old merciles
characteristics and intolerance ofaoppo
SITE OpiulO1i dAtuONSn Lhe BtIeIdl pin
ion OF the world, fortunately for US, for
bids their resorting in all respects to tn
savage barbarities Of the middle ages.
Thus anticipating, in order to be pre-
pared to endure, the worst, what are tn
duty and policy of the Southern people
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo,
dated the I'd, says; Col. Waterman
contractor, commences work to-day O
the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Calves
ton railraRd. Extensive preparation
have been. made to push the worl
rapidly. Immense quantities OF timbe
and rock are being delivered on boil
sides of the Missouri river for tile bridge
at this place. A large force is at worl
on the North Missouri railroad. within
sight Of town, and also on the tunne
! neal Liberty landing.