Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-26

for Il by the most barefaced and impu-
dent villainies, and the recognition Of it
by Congress as the expression and enact
ment OF the will of the people of Arkan-
sRs.
One abandons in despair the attempt
to express the disgust, the scorn, the
contempt, the Judgment of condemna-
ton, which measure so incomparsbly
infamous and villainOus deserves. IL is
to impose on the people Of Arkansas as 8
Constitution Of Government an instru-
ment which they had condemned and
rejected by their votes, and which in
their souls they losthe and hate. 1t is
to deprive them of the right Of self-goH-
eminent, and prescribe for them q fun
damentsl law which they hate, detest
and despise. It is to empower q small
minority Of the white men Of the State,
aided by the negroes, to disfrsnchise the
majority, to incapscitate them to sit as
jurors, to disquslify them to exercise
professions and the common trades, and
make them Parishs and HeIots in their
own land which the black and white
proletaires and vagrsDt paupers, issuing
from their kennels and burrows to vote,
levy such taxes on lands, Of which they
own none, as to be in effect eonfsca-
tions. These things are already pro-
posed in the scurvy collection of negroes
and white men that calls itself the Leg
stature OF Arkansas and Congress
knows it all and yet delivers over the
decent men and women Of the State to
be oppressed and prosecuted by the scum
and refuse of the Commonwealth.
These things, notorious to all the world,
done without shame, or even the decent
gloss with which hypocrisy wells the in
decsncies Of crime, sicken the heart and
sadden the soul of every man who once
idly dreamed that this was free cOun-
try, in which the rank abuses Of despOt-
ism could never strangIe the laws and
assassinate liberty. Wanting words to
stamp and brand these villainies as they
deserve, what can we do but invoke
upon their perpetrators the vengeance Of
the Almighty God, wait patiently, en-
dure silently and hope for the day of
That day is not very distant. No
iguoble despotism can last long. When
the first general election under the Re-
form gave the Grey ministry an over
whelming majority, as the returns came
in, the new danger, the great peril in
England, of too great success, broke
for a moment upon Lord Brougham's
mind, and be exclaimed, 1--WE shall be
too strong" The sequel abundantly
proved that these were prophetic words.
The ministry had to grspple with
q more insidious and fatal enemy
than the Opposition,-almost abso-
lutte political power; and they fell
in public opinion almost as rapidly as
they had risen. The first act of the re-
formed Parliament was to repeal the
Habeas Corpus act in Ireland, Substitute
for jury trials, and pro-
hibit popular meetings in the country +:
and the English people condemned these
as tyrannical, although they |
were to oppress the Irish only.
The measures for which the Radical |
party is responsible infinitely excel in |
atrocIty and tyranny, those Of the Grey |
Ministry and no such men as the Rsdi-
,al leaders disgrsced that Parliament. !
But the party was too strong. So is
1t has absolute political |
,ower and that will soon prove its ruin.
The avenger of blood swiftly and unre-
entingly pursues it, and there is no City
If Refuge for it, nor any escape from its
ate. 1t lives detested, and it will die
lccursed, for it will not leave behind it
he memory Of single good deed.