Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-11

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! lt to be free ever conceded to their
g rulers.
These things fiow from the impeseh-
ment trial. They are its natural Sc
, quences. The snarling and savage de-
= nunciatlons against those Republican
Senators who had the courage TO obey
their convictions and vote for scquittal,
remind ore Of the cry of Msrat to the
mob Of Paris A single reflection over
whelms me: it is that all my efforts to
save the people will end only in a new
, instruction. Seeing the temper of most
of the deputies in the National COnven-
ton, despair of the public safety" The
denunciatiOns launched against these
Senators are incitatious to their assassin
alton, which, indeed, Is already prophe.
: sled and threatened.
How far do the utterances which we
have quoted fall short in violence and
atrOcity of the worst of those of the ras-
cally actors in the French Revolution ?
Sumner proposes to declare that i'm
pesehment is political measure, and
the trial thereupon political trial, and
that the Senators are responsible to the
people for their votes, as to the guilt or in
nOcence of the accused. The doctrine is
abominsble and horrible, worthy Of the
defOrmed intellecto of that moral Calibsn.
It would be infinitely better to say, with
only the variations necessary to suit the
csse, what Dsnton, who was executed in |
1894, 10y the cOnnivanes of the more cum |
ming seOundrel R0bespierre, said Of the |
trial of Louis XVI: "The death of the
| King Is g political necessity. We have /
no right to be his judges, it is true; well,
we will kill him."
'' There are periods in revolutions"
said Robespierre, "when to live is a
crime" Is it not already deemed by
American Jacobinism a crime In Fessen-
den, Trumbull, Grimes and Ross, to live;
and how long will it be before such men
as these, crushed in the idle attempt to
stay the progress OF the Revolution, will
have cause to say, In the last words Of
Danton: "My object was to prevent
new Septembre and not let loose a
scourge upon mankind. Those Gains
knew nothing about government. 1
leave everything in frightful disorder"
There never was trial, attainder,
prosecution or proceeding in the world,
that struck so foul blow and with such
fatal effect, at great principles hsllowed
and sanetiied by time, and approved by
the general judgment of men as essential,
not only to the msintainance of private
rights and public liberty, but to the very
existence Of virtue and integrity In pub
lie men, as the trial of Andrew johnson.
Subornation Of perjury is q dangerous
and hateful crime, which the law pun
ishes severely and for it stamps indelible
dishonOur on the character Of the male I
factor. In what respect is it a less hate
ful crime, in what respect is itnot a more
dangerous one, to endeavOur, by csjolery
and threats and sinister influences of
every kind, to induce Senators, sitting
az Judges and sworn to render impartial !
decisions, to convict the accused whom {
their Osths and consciences command
them to sequit ,
Is it surprising that when the very |
foundations on which the peace and :
good order of society rest and the bases {
of government among men are planted,
are thus rudely shaken and disturbed,
and laws void and null because uncon- =
are claimed to be permanently 8
and to be obeyed without
question when it is ssvsgely demanded
that Senators shall stab the PROSTATE :
body of JUSTICE, as it lies on the altar of o
faction In the centre Of the Senate, Com o
nittees of the House of Representatives .
should exercise arbitrary power, and dis G
regard nrivate rights e
Yet the People sleep on. If they hear
hey do not heed, when the Press asks,
n the words Of the Ietelligeneer: . .
What is Butler In his present quality H
md labor with some of his associate y
Alts Vela conspirstors, but q rapaeious s,
over or viOlator of mems rights and Oh
property? What right have they to pry Ell
ut by letters and kilograms, and other W
,rivate papers, all the affairs of men and II,
gomen 10 their business, and in a thou ca
and other things more dear than money, SO
nd often dearer than lIfee Where will | 70
his usurpation end? How long is 1t be- pe
Dre the guanO impeschers or some other u
Drm Of Congress directory may assume -
seat OF power, and issue DEGREES, as II
hey were the executors of law, ali else
o the contrary notwithstanding The
cts of rulers of Europe, IN whatever E
lrm short of autOeratie rescripts, would
ot dare to call for what is being done in
ur midst by the guano impeachers.
Or when it says, in words that once %
'ould have shook the country to Its CEN
re-: NJ
Referring to the transactions in ques- DO
ion, which are, in fact, arbitrary seiz-
res of private papers and searches for
natter for charges against citizens, there i
yas nothing in the period of terrible Oar
lvil war, with suspension OF the habeas up up
DTpus, that spproximsted the pious But do.
RS villainy. 1t is now q time of peace. bot
he writ Of habeas corpus is not sus- IeI No.
ended. We are under the iegis of the pFC
constitution. In the shade Of the Capt.
D., the symbol of the nations power. =
rom it flies the national ensign. Now,
the guanO impeachers, thus sur
Ounded by the grand evidences of au-
lOrity 10 the land, can seize all the tel
graphic correspondence of a day, to in M
estigate as to the verify of q charge Of feSss
upon single member Of Con- Dis
ress, when Mr. Wsshburne, the mouth sos
iece and coDscience.keeper OF Gen. p
rant, has made, with perfect impunity ma
nd audacity, the charge of venality adc
gainst nearly the whole body, why may -s>
OF the offenders in question seize all n
ich correspondence for all the past -
inter, or for any and all past time,
lat they may lay their hands upon
Vhy not go into private houses and do
kewise? Why not 90 to the postofflce
ere, and to the postoffiees Of the coun-
y, and examine them through their -.
eatures of the military or the Freed M
ems Bureau, or the standing army of
)stal office-holders themselves? Why m
)t thus examine all letters ia such Of
,es, or those that shall come there for a
time named.
1t has always been the single Victims
power and despotism, whose deaths No