Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-09
dEM2uES APPEAL
RECONSTRUCTION a SUCCESS.
The New York Times saws:

important results have been secured b,
the plan adopted. Impartial suffrage
without distinction Of color, is an sccom
plished fact never to be annulled. Tn
loyal people OF the Soath have beel
given the foremost place, and it is Wit
them that the great treaty has beef
made.
We do not attempt to disguise tha
many things have been done that Nigh
better been left undOne. There has beel
too much Partisan handling of the busi
ness. The disfranchisementO of quartz
of million of Southern whites is 10
only unealled for and eowardly, but ex
ceedingly unwise. II this measure haC
any excuse Ia the first instance, 1t Ger
tainiy has none now. But, fortunately
its repeal rests with Congress and no
with the States; therefore there is hops
that ere long no elass-whatever its atti
tude during the war-will be excluded
from the ordinary privileges OF citizen
ship.
The most hopeful feature of the new
situation is that the processes OF civi
government will henceforth be carried
! on by the restored States, and that mili
tary government, with its expense u
unrepublican tendencies, and its many
usurpations, will no longer be necessary
The coil begins TO unwind. Political
disabilities will be removed by the nexi
! Congress. Military government in the
! South will speedily cease. And what
ever is unjust or inexpedient in the new
! Constitutions will in the course OF time
be eliminated.
The New York Times is, perhaps, on
1 the whole, the fairest and most rational
Radical journal Of the country. See,
nevertheless, in what an airy and Skim
polian fashion it treats the matter of that
damnation of the South, which it calls
+" Reconstruction"
1.-THE great coil is beginning to IN
wind" Aye, the reign of military des-
potism, in which there is at least some
thing like responsibility, is about to end /;
and the close of that despotisnl IS a mis-
fortune for the country aObich It has op-
pressed. The single sentence cOndenses
into itself matter enough for q volume.
1t condemns Congress with q sentence
like thst which Tacitus pronounees on
Vitellius. For the reign of Vitellius, in
which human nature sinks to its lowest
level and wallows in the ordure of base
ness, and is saturated With all that is
disgusting and detestsble, is commen-
cling In the South. "The coil is begin
ming to unwind" as the anaconda un-
winds its coil when 1t has crushed the
bones Of its prey, aud is about to COM
mence the hideous process Of degluti-
ton, covering its victim with its saliva
that it may swallow him whole.
"Certain important results have been
secured by the plan adopted" Undoubt-
edly,-if it is important" that gal
liant and generous people who have borne
adversity with noble eonstaney and he
roism, are crushed down into the condi-
ton Of the population of Byzantium,
when, under deprsved and cowsrdly
Emperor, they were governed by slaves
and eunuchs,-if it is important that
half of the Southern States are the
shame, the blot and the dishonor Of the
country, with negroes lolling in the
chairs Of IegisIatioB, and the scsvengers
of Jacobinism selected by them to infest
the Senate and House Of Representatives
of the United Ststes,-if it is "impor-
tant" that an immortality Of hate is Sc
cured, that quenchless thirst for re-
venge is created, that the reign Of the
Devil has commenced in earnest. 1t is
as If Priapus had expelled Apollo from
Olympus, and with his train Of Sstyrs
had deflled the ivory thrones Of the Gods.
1.-THE loyal people Of the South have
been given the foremost place, and it is
with them that the great treaty has been
made!" There is q devilish leering NAL
ice in the words. The negroes, invested |
with the right Of suffrage, which be-
comes them much as uniform coat be- |
comes an otherwise naked Congo savage,
are invested with the power Of eIecting |
rulers and making laws for the disfran-
shised descendants Of the Cavaliers, the |
and the gentlemen of France. |
Le impartial suffrage without distine-
ion Of color an accomplished fact,
never to be reeslled2 No! a thousand |
lines no! 1t will not last decade.
There can no more be permanent politi-
al equality bstween an inferior and a
race, than there can be social |
aquality. One or the other race must
yield, or one exterminste, exile or en-
,lave the other. Even Rsdlcalism can
lot repeal the laws Of God.
impartial sufIragep' when the Times
admits that a quarter of million OF
whites are disfranchised Impartial suf-
rage means the lowering Of everything
o the level OF the negro; that those who
eek to legislste and rule are TO crawl
md creep and grovel at that level; that
he basest and lowest of the white race,
Who alone will condescend so to degrade
are to swarm into the coun-
ills of the nation that in a little while
here will be hardly gentleman in Con-
yress FROM the South that votes viii
be everywhere for sale; that vagsbond-
lge, reeking with perjury and vice, will
make and unmake public men, and pau
lerism make the laws, and property be.
,ome what Proudhon called it, theft
md Mullins and Stokes become orators
md statesmen, by eomparisOn:with the
,aser sort Of favOrites and pimps Of Afri-
AN proletsrianism, fit to associate with
he constituents whom they well resem-
lie.
There is no hope that Congress will re-
move political disabilities, unless it ceases
o be Radical and becomes Democratic.
L Rsdiealism continues in power, dis
ranehisement viii continue also, as il is
continued here in Tennessee.
The Times thinks that the most hope
ul feature Of the new situation is, that
military government is about to end. Is
{ cause Of congratulations to the white
nen Of South Carolina, or to those of
)hio, or to the country, that military
in the former State gives
7sy to Legislature, q majority Of whose
nembers are negroes9 That any re-
~sctable journal, that any decent man,
an dssm it so, is so monstrous as to be
Imost inci- edible. Are the men Of the
-ortb such thriC Cs-sodden asses as to inn
zine that the deleters'aus influences Of
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