Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-11
GEMPHES APPEAL
IMPEACHMENT-TH CTRST WITCH
SYIORAX AND HER BLOOD.

q member Of the Society at session {
! the National Convention on the Sth {
February, 1873, urged this considerable
} in support OF its prayer for the psrdo
and release Of the assassins."
Speaking Of the events - of Septem
Der, it said:
"If morality eensures them, polio,
ljustifies them and so it will always b
when the people, which in its just ven
geauce may err, is opposed instead O
being sustained Z; and, as one OF yOB
members, Isnard, has said, 'POpula
vengeances are q supplement- of tn
silence Of the laws We ought L
obey the law, undoubtedly but if tn
law is vicious, we have s right to protes
against 1t. and to invoke the suprem,
law, the welfare Of the people,"
Chsbot said, In 3 revolution, mel
do not at first know where to halt; ant
when one commences, every one ha
reason to fear that his head may comt
to the block"
When, on the 9th of March, 1898, tht
National Convention decreed the estab
Iishment of "sn extraordinary criminal
Tribunal" the prototype of American
Military Commissions to hang women
" for the purpose Of trying, without ap.
peal or recourse to the Tribunal of Casa
ton, conspirstors and coEnter-revolu-
tionists," when Cambaceres declared
that to save the republic actips and gen
erdl means were necessary; and said to
the Convention, a. All the powers Of gov
ernment have been entrusted to you !;
you ought to exercise them all there
should be no separation between the
body that deliberstes and that which
causes execution OF its DEGREES. We
are not now to be governed by
ordinary principles when Buzot
declared that the purpose OF the
measure was to constitute despOtism
more frightfll than that OF snarchy -
claimed the right to save his own men,
oTy from dishonour, by voting sgainst
the despotism of the National Conven-
ton, and said that any power which
concentrated in itself all powers, and
could be restrained by none, was by that
very fact despOtie; and when Vergniaud
said, When it is proposed to you to de-
cree the establishment of an Inquisition
q thousand times more to be dreaded
than that OF Venice, we will all die
rather than consent to itj''-Amar said,
" This measure alone can save the peo-
pie; otherwise it must rise and its ene-
mics fall by its hands," Duhem said,
q Bad Is the Tribunal may be, it is still
too good for tins assassins Of the coun-
try ;" and Danton ssid that extrsordi-
nary laws were necessary, to SieFm the
rebelliOus and reach the guilty. Here,5
he said, 1.-THE SAFETY of the people de-
msnds great means and terrible meas
ures.n
The end was, that after the establish
nent OF the Revolutionary Tribunal,
Danton, on the 9th Of March, declared
that the National Convention must be-
come e revolutionary body, and declare
mplacable war Ggsinst domestic enc
mics. He proposed to decree thGt when
aver the counter-revolution was mani |
ested, whoever should be audacious |
enough to encourage it, should be out
AIRED and he said, Whoever shall |
iare to attempt the destruction Of liberty |
hall die by my hand, If it bring my
lead to the scsfold."
Aud this decree was voted: 4" The Ma
iOnal Convention declares that it is
irmly resolved to have neither peace
Tor truce with sristocrats and enemies Of
he Revolution. 1t DEGREES that they are
Under the guidance Of the chiefs of the
acObins, the United States az. march,
lg on the saine road which France
raveled in 1892 and 1898. 1t is nom
snse to say that free government can
OF be overthrown here, and the gov
rnment of s single will substituted for ,
!. The people are fonder of license than
liberty, and their Republican instincts
re rapidly dying out. The Jacobins, !
no east an immense vote, are willing to
west Congress or the House OF Repre-
alone, with all the powers Of
lie French National Convention. They
e without impatienee or concern, or
ly other feeling except that Of ap- I
-Oval, the Executive and Judiciary put 8
1der the feet Of Congress, and are will !
g to trust General Grant with all the !
1wers Of Dictator. The white men Of (
N States are Outlswed. When the de- I
zee Of outlawry, of 1898, was adopted,
3 intention was declared to be that the
'dinary forms Of law should not be fol-
wed in trying cOunter-revOlutionists,
itlawed by it, and not that any one
no pleased might put them to death. !
! those ten States, the people have no \
rejection Of the laws. They may be v
rested and imprisoned at the will of c
le Military Commanders, tried by NIL !
ary Com omissions, and depOrted to the 4
ry TOrtugss in chains. Tue law does p
deed forbid the General in command I
put them to death; but if he chooses Z
disObey it, and to execute men even h
ithOut any trial, there is no Court of T
stiee that has the power to save their
yes.
The suspension Of the privilege of the c
rit Of Habeas Corpus is despotism, and
cry Military Commission revoIu-
mary Tribunal. What was there in =
e dark days of France, when the gull. a
tines daily streamed with blood, more .
ghtful than the trial and unjust judg- :
ent of Mrs. Surratt, than the refusal Ii
the President to permit q writ of Ha- Y
as Corpus to be executed, and the muir II II
r to be delayed until q Court of the +,
nited States which issued the writ, Ct
uld examine and decide whether she n
ID been lawfully convicted and could =
wfully be executed2 ? a
What is the Board OF Managers but q a
Tribunal or Committee of
Iblic Safety ? True, it does not fling OF
victims out at the door of the Com b.
ttee room, to be cut to pieces by its ii
but it incArcerates men Ia pt
3 Capitol, for refusing to answer ques- ty
ms which 1t has no right to ask it 81