Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-03

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King. and 70 the British Colonies in
! North America, which we're prepared by
BURKE in l777, upon occasion Of a pro-
posed secession from Parliament, Of the
members ia both Houses, who had
opposed the measures Of Government in
the contest with the American Colonies.
Il is difficult to understand how, with
the words Of wisdom then spoken in their
memories, and in contempt Of the en-
phatic warningsO OF history and the univer-
sal opinion Of the wise, a body Of Ameri-
can white men could have Iegislated as
Congress has done, in regard to the
Southern ~subjugated Provinces. But it
is "as sport to q fool to do mischief -
and the Jacobin is 4" rs q mailman who
casteth irebrsnds, arrows and death. "
History and the wisdom Of ssges are
wholly lost upon our task-masters and
all their kind. 10 every age there have
been scourges Of humanity with whom
God has afflicted and punished the
human race; and there is a strange and
mysterious mutually of attraction
between evil and aocursed natures,
which when = nation is organized and
tortured By calamity, brings these incar-
nations Of malice and mischief together
to yex and plague the country from
whose loins they came, and whom they
unnaturslly hate.
The registers Of infsmy OF the human
race contain no names more detestable
than those Of STEVENS, SUMNER, WADE,
NYE, LOGAN, ASHLEY, WILSON, and
scores Of others, Of the igno5le cuRgus,
who screech and bsbbls Ia the houses OF
political prostitution al Washington.
The long rolls of Roman se~oundrelism
under the CEsARs contain no names
more d~espicable.
For these men have read and thought,
and 0 o Of the fearful consequences of
their villRiny take them by surprise.
They and al Of their kind knew, IN 1850
and 1861, that the eleven Southern States
which re-assumed the entirety Of their
original sovereignty and independence,
had a perfect end complete right to do so.
They knew chat every drop Of blood
spilled Oh either side, in attempting to
force those States 20 weld together again
the broken bonds Of union, stained their
souls as indeIibly as the blood Of bis vic
tim stains that OF the midnight muir
derer,-not the soul Of the soldier who
fought for his flag, but that Of the politi-
clan, who, to effect his sinister and pitt
fuI purposes, plunged the country into
an e~xhausling and ruinous war.
These are some Of the heads that BURKE
proposed 10 speak to the King, aud to the
Colonists who were then struggling for
their Independence, as the Southern
States, q little while ago, we're struggling
for theirs.
He proposed to say to the King:
1--WE know and feel that arbitrary
power over certain regions is not with
out the competence, nor to be exercised
sgreeably 70 the lave, or consistently
with the spirit Of great popular assem-.
blies. II such assemblies are called &c S
. hUAAAnEA 61GAE IA III E1EAGA1E VI E0LAi
power, in order to screen, under general
participation, the guilt OF desperate
measures. il tends only the more deeply
10 corrupt the delibeEstive character OF
those assemblies, in training them TO
blind obedience in b~sbituatiUg them to
proceed upon gFoundsO Of fact, With which
they can rarely be sufficiently acquaint-
ed, and in rendering them executive in
struments Of designs, the bottom OF
which they cannot possibly fstbOm.n
We beseech these who read this ar
tee, 70 hiru back now, and again read,
slowly and gnd0rstsndingly, the last
paragraph. It is got the Congress of the
United States that Is ruinOusly legisiatiRg
for the country. 1t is a faction Of not
more than q dozen men, who present TO
the two Houses what measures, already
determined en- by these managers, they
shall ratify. The members at large have
only s nominal share Ia TIE business Of
legislation; which, with q pretehce
Of decent respect for forms OF
] legislation, they are allowed to have,
niB order 10 screen, under general
participation, the guilt Of desperate mea-
sures." And nov else are we to account
for the fact that the most iHfaMous and
abomnablei measures, which, ia faci,
shocked the moral sense Of the House OF
Representative, and would, if pressed
when a. first proposed, have been reject.
ed by large meIoriues, with great indig-
nation, we're finally accepted by them
with an obsequious and seryi!e acqueis
auce, the will OF q msu becoming the
law Of the House, than upon the hypoth.
Gals that STEVENS rules as DANToE,
MARAT, and RoBEsPIERRE did, by " cor
rupting the deubeFative character Of
Congress, " training chem to a blind
Obedience" and making thsH the &C
live " executive instruments Of designs,
the bottom Of which they could not pos
sibIy fathom."
We once thought, when, many yeaTs
ago, we looked on the fRIf side II human
nature, that it was far better than 4
seemed, and that history was a Islander
upon it. We have lived 10 learn that it
is no better now than it was in the days
Of the later CEsARs.
BURKE further said. end his words are
singula-ly applicable TO the United States
and Of those people whom their legisla-
ton has made foreigners owing them no
allegiance and repaying tyranny and op-
preston by bate and detestation:
"To leave any feal freedom to Parlia.
ment, freedom must be i0ft 10 the Colo
mics. A military Government IL the
| only substitute for civil liberty"
That was profoundly true then, and it
is a. profoundly true now. There al be
no real freedom in Congress or the North
ern States, If no freedom is left to the
Southern Provinces: and unless these
are restored to their rights and preroga-
tives as States Of white men, regulating
for themselves all their domestic affairs,
q Military Government is the only prac-
teal alternative. Reconstruction with
negro Suffrage is q merely prepOsterous
farce.
Burke further said "Tbat the estab-
lishmenS 0f such q power IN America
viii utterly u4ln our finances Though
It's certain effect Is tie smallest part OF
our concern. II will become an apt,
powerful aud certain engine for tbs des-
%tFuetioD OF our freedom here. Great
bodies Of armed men, trained 10 a con-
tempt Of popular assemblies representa-
tive of an English people; kept up for
the purpose of szaeting impositions
without their consent, and maintained
by that exaction; instruments ia sub
ysrtinR, without any process OF Law, /
o1egk dacfeRt establishments and res
Seeted forms Of government set free
f,om. and therefore above the ordinary
EnRiish Tribunals Of the country where
fbeV serve; these men cannot so trans
sorm themselves, merely by crossing the
80. as 70 bshcld ViIh love aud reyeTenee,
and sabmit with profound obedience %
ths very same things IN Great britain,
in Amenea fhsy had been taught
n desoise. and had been accustomed 20
aud humble. All your MajestEla
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