Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-04

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Tur WEAKNESS OF EXPIRES
Economists are the strength Of wise anu
n.0nanimous nations; and the weakness
- besrtIsss and rapEciOus or sordla anu
oues. Provinces that can oniy
bsruled by military coercion or oy SET
sing small portion Of the people over
tbs body oft, to be taskmssters ana op-
Drsssors, have always been the shAul9
I'd thu weakness Of Empires. Inc
Netherlands were no source OF strength
a snsin. nor Italy to Austria. PolAhu
ia the weakness Of Russia, i IreiSnu
the weakness Of England.
The course Of the United STATES To-
wsoss he conquered South has been
marked by neither wisdom nor magma
,Iritv. Compelled in self justification 10
asaert before the great tribunal Of puoiic
onlpiou Of the world, that the desperate
struggle of q whole people for ~indepena-
amos was the rebellion and treason Of IN
divIduals, the people Of the victorious
States have dealt with those Of the van
oulshed ones as feloDs whom 1t Was
generous not 10 hang; and still propose
70 try for treason, by 8 jury Of negroes
ana before q prejudieed and desPicaole
Judge, the man who was for four years
the President Of eleven c~onfederated
States. and the COmmander-in-Chie OF
nys hundred thousand soldiers in the
field.
We have shown, by repeating the
words OF the wisest and greatest OF
English statesmen, what It would have
been wise in the United States to do,
when they had overcome the South. We
have shown in what manner wisdom
weuld have governed the South. What
the people of the Northern States have
doua. al men too well know,
for US 20 need 70 recspitulste
the folIiss and cruelties, the insults and
fufsmies Of their legislation, every step
Of which has been q blunder or 3 crime.
The sudden and forced emancipation
Of the negro race, unfit and u~nprepared
for unrestricted license; and the stipend
ousc crime oflnvesting them withthe right
Of Suffrage, and the power to d~isfranchise
and govern the white race, could not but
be followed by terrible consequences, not
onlv 70 the States directly sfiicted with
the presence Of the race thus invested
with power for the purpose Of abusing It,
and because they are wholly unfit 10
posssssi t, but also to the victorious States
themselves The Southern States are
the shame and weakness Of the Union
and II they do not prove the ruin Of ali,
Il will be solely because the President has
ia sOrle degree thwsrted the mad pur-
poses Of Congress.
The Congressional impolicy Of recon
~styuetion has already proven a miserable,
seutemptible and disgusting failure, pal
rsble 10 sIl the world; and its authors
only persistin it because the scourgings
~ inexorable fate drive them onward
Nth a force that they cannot resist, to-
yards their doom. The names OF a few
among them will be remembered to oe
sxecrated but the sentence Of the larger
,.rt. already pronounced and registered,
q that Of the fallen angels:
by doom
.geuceued nom Heaven and sa-rHd memory,
lea AnHE nLNHENnu TOT mem 0aHAn
FOR strength, nom truth divided and from
t.S,tls nought merits but dispraise,
= ysip -siorious, and through infamy seeks
-1sl1f5rs eternal aienos be their doom"
Al the plan OF government and re
CONSTRUCTION for the conquered States
wss not adopted for the purpose Of con-
s,listion, but was dictated by hate and
i,,snded TO insult, degrade and exas-
y,erste, it csDnot be said 20 be a failure
because It has completely a~lieDated the
Dsople Of the Southern States, and made
~. relations between them and the
states and people Of the North 10 be that
Of fear on one side and force on the other
g-to white men Of the south would Be
-o,s or less than men, II they die not
49, those who have put them under the
government Of the animals who we're late
p ,b.sr slaves, and made them the infs
gore Of Africans. The legislation OF
q always crime and folly and no people
"a ever guilty Of 3 folly comparable to
shIs The North should either have
so,0ht 70 coneIlIate the South and heal
wounds Of civil war. OF have exteF-
-,,,ated or exiled a people whose hatred
..nnot long be harmless, because they
carrot long be POwerless.
Congress bad 8 right to create Terrific
al civil governments over the South,
necessary, to sustain them by the
-uitsrv mower OF the country but II
- = ,41bt TO establish military des
-.t,sms. and II 1t had had it, to do 81
ro.Id stiIl have been an immense blum
T~agislating, as It admits, outside Of
- constitution, Il has placed the South
~-scIsely in the position OF a foreign
r.,ntrv subjugsted, and without any
-. - the protection Of the Constitu
- Nv this It makes the people for
- and releases them from the1
a%-s-a.. because allegiance Ia thh
.or1try Is dus to the Constitution
-. Who cannot appeal to 1t or claim
1. upder It, al owe 1t 10 allegiance
=, mere terrible blnnder han thb
'.sls have bssn comnittsdY
t-.a.msnt Of the people since the
@--~s~f has fully justified their ehoH
I - tbeir independence, and has amply
800 tseir distinctive feeling o
EoFen ruiu 10 themselves by re
ans-s. she urion was well-foundeo {
saanzn .,,stiaza 10 themselves aud in !
~ wsaa ler e3dsavouripg
q raj bouad them to a People /
- lssialasian that no"
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