Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-13

of. Not unlikely the attempt will
renewed and enforced during your pre-
ent meeting.
There should be discrimination e,
ercised concerning those who were
rebellion. They are not all alike cUlpl
bic for the past, nor untrustwortby fl
the future. For those who were inyo
unfairly drawn into the service of Tebe
lion, and who, since its utter failur
have given evidence that they Gccel
the results in good faith; that they al
good citizens, quiet and laW-abiding
that tney have strictly observed the
parole; that they wifi not use polite,
power to prescribe aaj degrade thcs
whom the war has emancipated and il
vested with the rights of citizens-fc
Z disfFanchised persons of this descTIptlo
the franchise might safely, and therefor
/ wisely, be extended. The extensIo
should, however, be applied with suit
able guards and checks, that advantag
could not be taken of its liberality to th
! danger and harm OF the State.
AS to the other class of rebels, VIII
entered into it voluntarily and continue
/ ia it from choice until their arms wer
wTenched out Of their hands, and who
since the surrender, and in moral viole
work for the lost oRuse-whO are Festles
agitators, who have fomented violenc
and laWlesspess, who have melted Z
public disquiet and restiveness the cues
ton of their restoration to full civi
gigi4ttls, i, ,isl yeEY different. II the. -Usai
thus restored, I Submit that it would
probably be when the last dollar of tht
national debt incurred L. suppressiL-- tht
rebellion mas been paid, and when thesl
unTepentant, unrecOnstructed rebels hat
restored to the ballot box the half mil
lion voters who now sleep in premature
graves.
These suggestions are made in no win
dictive, implacable hostility to thesC
persons as men. They spring from con
sideraticrs affecting the public welfare
the peace, stability and honor of tbs
State and nation. Withholding th;
franchise from persons who have proved
by four years of bloody resistance sgsins
the government, and by four years o
uncured hatred against it and it's de
tenders, that they cannot be safely in
trusted with it, is to be regarded not 81
much a punishment as it is wise and
necessary precsutiOn for the safety anC
welfare Of our civil institutions.
THE INSANE ASYLUM.
TIE noble public charity known as the
HOspital for the Insane, located 10 thi:
Vicinity, has done much for the relief o.
the unfortunate. Il has deservediy re-
ceived large assistance from the State.
There are now over three hundred pa.
uents under treatment, rendering the
institution quite too much crowded fol
the comfort and Improvement of the in
mates. This is true of both the male
ana female wards, and also Of the de-
psrtmsDt Of the colored insane, who; ere
as really insane, requiring proper care
and treatment, as an equal number Of
white lunaties. Should the Ezsll farm,
living contiguous to the hospital, be pur-
Chased, which l advise, the chronic 'oOl-
ored insane Of the male department
might be taken to the farmhouse on thai
tract, which, with slight expense, could
be nsde to accommodate twenty-five OF
thirty of them.
Better provision is needed to enforce
Daymsut from those who enter their
friends ss psy-patients, and who give
the required bond, but from poverty Of
some other cause, fail to pay more than
the amount of the bond, and pay thai
only sfter long delay and vexing snd
costly suits. the Superintendent should
have authority, by law, TO return such
patients to their friends, or to require
new and larger bonds.
The friends of many of the patients
here from surrounding Southern State:
during the wsr, are doing their utmost
eude2vOTs to evade payment Of their liza
bilities. Such patients were throwH un'
svoidsbly upon the institution when care
- A. Ion
have served bankrupt notices on the in
stitution, and collection is, in variou;
WAYS, delayed and resisted. The amount
thus due the institution is in the neigh
borhood of forty thousand dollars. 1t IL
quite unfair that tie citizens of Tennes'
see should be taxed to support the lndl'
gent insane Of other States.
therefore advise that al appeal be
made to the Governors OF the respective
IS sstes concerned, 70 pay for the care and
maintenance of said patients, and, in the
event that payment IS declined, that the
Superintendent be instructed and author
iZsd to return the patients to the locaIi
ties whence they came.
West Virginia, subsequent to the war
paid the State OF Ohio-the Institution O.
Coiumbus-fiye dollars per week for the
care Of her insane during the war
Nothing, it seems TO me, can De mere
lust than that cur neighbOring States
should pay for the care OF their poor in
sane in cur hospital.
EsThe crowded condition Of the hospitG
REQUIRES that an additional building
upon a smaller and less costly scale, b
at once erected. Questions Of economy
public convenience and humanity indi
cate that IL ba done and soon, From IL!
greater pOpulCusness and facilities FOL
building, IS well a. sslubrity, East Ten
nessee would seem TO be the better en-
Hi!ed 70 lis location there. / therefor.
recommend that 1t be established in Eas
Tennessee.
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