Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-03
rRoUnLEs OF IAcoBINIsM.

Times:
A Congressional Jac0bin caucus viii
be held on Monday evening, TO consider
when. Congress shall adjourn, and
whether any change shall be made in
the revenue laws during the present ses-
sion, and to lay out the programme for
the Presidential campaign.
Aside from the reduction Of the tax on
whiskey, OF which there now seems to be
a probability, there is but little reason to
believe that Congress will attempt any
financial reforms. Upon ali questions OF
finance, and upon the Jacobin policy of
reconstruction, the ruling party must
fight the battle Of this summer on he
grounds 1t now occupies.
The question which at this time most
sorely perpIexes the majority in Con-
gress is the one regarding the admission
OF the excluded States. The opinion
seems to be daily gaining ground with
Jacobin Congressmen that, II Those states
be admitted, and the President be left in
control OF the military, unrestrained by
the reconstruction acts, the whites IN the
South will control enough OF the negroes
to carry the electoral votes OF all the
rebel States, except Louisiana and South
Carolina, for the Democratic ticket. On
hnC OAuEL nhAug AOt " a4nliA e1O -
cluded States will be for the Jacobin
party to confess, on the day Of election,
that its reconstruction policy has been a
blunder as well as an tiffany.
We E5l0w that some of the Radical
leaders in Congress were in great doubt,
a few days ago, whether it would do to
admit the reconstructed States before the
Presidential election. They not only
thought it pretty certain that Virginia,
North Carolina and Georgia, if not Ar
kansas and Texas, would vote against
the Chicago nominations but they
had grave doubts, also, whether
the North would stomach the cleo
ton of a President by negro votes
against a Northern electoral majority
the other way. We had it on good au-
thority that one prominent Senator dis
tinctly told a Delegation of Scalawags
from Virginia and Georgia, that none of
the Southern States would be admitted
until after the election. But the bill ad-
mitting Arkansas with her rejected Con-
%stitution has passed, and all the rest, We
presume, will follow. The whole matter
is one about which the Jacobin leaders
are greatly exercised and distressed.
They have the wolf by the ears. 1t is
difficult to hold on and dangerous to let
go; and they think, we suppose, with
the Irishmsn, that the best way to
avoid danger, is to meet it plump in the
face. The device of trsmmelling the
negro States with the condition that
they shall cease to be in the Union if
they ever deprive the negroes Of the
right to vote has been resorted to in sheer
despair, and with a full knowledge that
under the Constitution it is mere idle
thunder, q menace that cannot be car
ried into effect. Michigan cannot have
rights in that respect which are denied
to Arkansas.
The man who does not believe in 8
r~etributive Providence, is virtually an
Atheist and that belief must be want
ing to the Radical leaders. The success,
or that which seems to be such, Of their
own measures, viii in the end prove
the damnation Of their party. It is thus
the Devil deals with those who serve
him and he never had more faithful
servitors than Stevens and Butler. For
those who so serve him, he turns the
fair fruit of success into the apples Of
Sodom, filed with ashes and the salt of
the Dead Sea. He scOurges them with
their own scourge, and makes their
success defeat, and their own measures
the instruments Of their swift ruin and
destruction. The withes with which the
bound Sampson were snapped
by him like threads Of fax; and when
they had cut off his hair, in which his
strength lay, and put out his eyes, and
caused him to grind for them in their
mills, and brought him from his toll to
make sport for them, he pulled down the
Temple of Dagon on their heads. Ifthis
be a parable, it will be profitable for the
North to study it.