Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-10
MEMPHIS APPEAL
wATCnmANi WHAT OF TIE
Shall there TO our night OF Bcrrow
'i Be no glad and bright to morrow
% "a hope. even. LOST 70 DIXIE2

IS hope even, lost 70 DIxIEf
Every dark night hath Its morning,
Long though, OFT, delayed its dawning -
Wait! be patient! pray for DTxIE! -"
On the 29th of June the Legislature
OF the negroized State Of Louisiana con-
vened in New Orleans, a city over which
the castied flag of Spain, the hlied ban
ner Of France and the stars and stripes
of the United States have fioated in sue
cession ia State whose laws are de-
rived from the Partidas OF King Alfonso,
the old laws and customs of France, and
the law Of England,-a State peopied
with the generous and chivalric de-
seendants of the Latin, the Saxon and
Norman alike. The Senate was called
to order by DUNN, black negro, APP
! pointed Lieutenant Governor by Gene
raj Buchanan; the House by r. s. Isa-
belle, mulatto, temporary chairman.
Over the State Of brave men and lovely
women, a State crowned with the starry
glories nobly won il two great wars, the
oleaginous African reigns supreme, sus-
tanned by Federal bayonets, snd the
clutch of the Federal hand on the throat
Of the State.
It all well. South Carolina has a
negro Secretary Of State and q negro
Legislature. The DEVILS work is being
well done; and, as usual, he is deluding
his dupes, and win soon exact the penal
( ty of the bond taken from them by him,
when they secured his services, and for
the time imagined him their servant.
In the olden times in England there
was q Carnival of Unresson. There
seems to be one new in the United
States.
In North Carolina, "Gen. Candy sus,
ponds the test oath. He issues an order
| to Chief Justice Pearson to be qualified
before the United States Commissioner,
by taking the oath required by the new
Constitution, and to administer the same
oath to the other Judges and officers.
He appoints Holden Governor, in the
place of Worth, and orders the State Off
GERS to be sworn in"
In Louisiana, Gen. Buchanan, under
instructions from Gen. Grant, +" directs
that the oath prescribed by the Constitu-
ton, and no other, will be required of
members Of the scalawag Legislature"
The renegsdes and Iscariots who have
forsworn the cause for which they were
once so jealous, are excused from taking
the test-oath required by the Reconstruc-
ton Acts. They s-e deemed worthy OF
the high honor of assoeiating with those
Of whom the New York Herald speaks
in these contemptuous words:
The miserable and dishonest carpet
baq0ers n-five-eightbsO Of them the foul.
esf Scum o. hypoeTitical New England
who nov claim to represent the South
ern States in CCugIe ss, the Convention
of Cooper Institute will utterly repudi-
ate, denouncing their names as moral
euietie TO the conscienees OF all decent
men. They are not the representatives
of Statesmen representatives of any
thing but theft and tyranny, Ignorance,
brutality and violence. They were
elected by constituents not much more
intelligent and far less ViTtuous than go
rilias; while the true citizens OF cur own
blood and race lay pinned to earth under
the bayonets Of q soldiery no longer dis
charging its proper function, but now
compelled to act as jsilors, tOFtueers and
tyrants over a people who fought Us
CALAMITY and who surrendered IN good
faith, confiding in the promised Glenn
ency Of their cOnquerors.
By receiving into the Senate and
House of Representatives the persons
who claim the right to represent the re-
constructed States there, the country has
taken a longer downward leap, than
Rome did in the first hundred years
after Julius Caesar was asssssinsted.
Even before this determination Of Con-
gress, one would without being unjust
have asked, as Sidney Smith did with
respect to Parliament, " Is it possible for
a gentleman to get into Congress, at
present, without doing things he is
utterly ashamed OPP DECEASED still fur
ther by the wretchedly unfit and incom-
petent men who are now foeking into
the two Houses, from the Southern
States, with commissions that are the
fruit Of force and fraud, men without the
least right to pretend to be Statesmen,
and many of them actually disreputsble,
base and low, Of bsd character and dis
honest and Indecent lives Congress has
become perhaps the shRbbiest legislative
body in the world, except the scalawag
and negro legislatures Of the Recon-
structed States. There may be, among
these new accessions, q few respectable
and worthy men: but the large majority
are of that class who are always
purchaseGbls by power and ready instru-
ments of corruption and supporters Of
Jobs and all the dirty work of party.
The Representative is rarely much above
the level Of his constituents; and when
the intelligent and excellent men of any
country are prescribed and DISTINGUISHED,
and election to office depends on the
votes Of the ignorant and brutal, it is
quite certain that the standard OF quail
fication Of public men must become con.
tinually lower. It is true that no more
scurvy men are likely TO be elected to
Congress at any time, than are already
about to infest it from some of
the States; but in Others there is
perhaps a lower deep into which they
may descend to rake up candidates out
OF the sewerage Of the Commonwealth.
What hope Of dawn do these evils aud
misehiefs, that must soon become intol-
cradle to the whole country, hold oct to
the South? Taken in connection with
the coalition of the finances, the enor
NOUS taxation, and the shameless rob-
berry of the people By every means that
ingenuity can suggest, it is not possible
that they should not soon awaken and
arouse the people of the North, who GER
tainly can have no interest to maintain
mis-government, when TO do SO Is only to
crafty 8 barren and improbable re-
venge. II you go to Northern Ohio, you
will find thousands Of men who stil1 hate
and curse the people of the South, and
say that they have not yet been pun
ished enough. The lash Of the scourge
vii soon rebound, and l4cerate their