Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-29

and Infamous laws and the patronizin,
Of political and pecuniary villainies seen
as much in the course of things as tn
poison borne by nightshade. Whel
Voltaire was called upon for story, il
a company amusing themselves witt
tales Of robbers, be began, g Gentlemen
once upon time there was a Farme
of Taxes" and then stopped: PRO
coed ! Proceed :" was the cry: q"
have DONE" said the Wit; 81 hav,
nothing more to say; you know all tina
is to be narrated of robbery, when
have told you that there was once on 6
time Farmer of Taxes"
So, changing somewhat the words o.
FOnblRnque speaking of Tory Ministry
all that can be said Of misgovernment il
| included in the fact that the Radical
Faction governs the Country. 1t acts
according to its kind, and as it cannot
be other or better, its particular offences
for the most part escape under the odium
OF its notorious nature. Hence, instead
Of expatiating on the indecency and
villainy Of any new exploit of Congress,
it almost seems enough to observe, after
the manner of the brief example of Vol
taire, that We have d Radical Congress.
1t does not surprise US, it hardly ex-
cites an emotion of any sort, to hear that
another stupendOus ViIiainy has been
contaminated, by what is termed the
admission of the State OF Arkansas into
the Union. 1t is, as every one knows,
the imposition upon the people Of that
State, of a Constitution OF Government
that is the foul and l0athsome issue Of
force and fraud, Caliban, whose sire is
gcallawagism, and its dam an Ethiopian
prostitute.
There a0a8 time, in this now de-
bauched and degraded country, when
the rumor of such villaiDy practised on
the people of even the smallest territory
would have ruHg through the land like
the clangOr of a trumpet, and the p. o.
ple's blood would have risen to a fever
heat, and their Indignation have shriv-
elled up as the fire shrivels up leaves,
the paltry and despicabIe scoundrels
who had dared to sit in their
dishOnOred seats at Washington, and
write such sentences of slavery against
three hundred thousand white men, dis
them in ten States and max
ing the issue from the obscene loins of
Africa their masters.
Bat now these viliainies are perpetrs- !
ted and excite no mans wonder. Alarm !
there can be none, to those who have |
endured the worst and would not step |
aside to avoid death. Outrages which, |
six years ago, would have stung and cut |
10 the bone, which no man believed pos |
'ible, which no man, not even Stevens
9r Butler, thought any other man or
,ven himself, base and mean and vile
md low enough to commit, are now,
when done by military UPSTAIRS, only the
occasion OF half an hours gossip among
be babblers of the pot-houses. .
Never, in all the ages of the world, not
wen when England bribed and bought
he Irish Parliament to vote for Union
which finds its like only in that which
g now being consum mated in the United
3tates,-a Union execrated and hated by
very true hesrted-Irishman, from the
lay when it became fact accomplished.
Until to-day,-never has there been q
more Internal outrage perpetrsted than
he making of the Constitution of Ar
KANSAS, the obtaining majority OF votes
or it by the most barefaced and impu-
lent villainies, and the recognition of it
y Congress as the expression and enact
nent OF the will of the people of Arkan-
as.
One abandons in despair the attempt |
0 express the disgust, the scorn, the
ontempt, the judgment of condemna-
ion, which measure so incomparably
Infamous and villainOus deserves. 1t is
D impose on the people of Arkansas as a
constitution of Government an instru-
lent which they had condemned and
ejected by their votes, and which in
heir souls they lOathe and hate. 1t is
, deprive them Of the right OF seIfgov-
and prescribe for them a fun
amental law which they hate, detest
nd despise. It Is TO empower a small
minority of the white men of the State, l
ided by the negroes, to disfranchise the
Majority, to incapacitate them to sit as
Irors, to disqualify them to exercise
rOfessions and the common trades, and
lake them Pariahs and Helots in their
WI land while the black and white L
and vagrant paUpers, issuing
ON their kennels and burrows to vote, 4
Wy such taxes on lands, of which they
Tn none, as to be in effect confisca- a
ons. These things are already pro- Z
Dsed in the scurvy collection of negroes q
I'D white men that calls itself the Leg Il
lature Of Arkansas and Congress
nows it all and yet delivers over the
ecent men and women of the State to e
: oppressed and prosecuted by the scum v
I'D refuse of the Commonwealth. il
These things, notorious to all the world, D
one without shame, or even the decent q
oss with which hypocrisy wells the in e
of crime, sicken the heart and v
'dden the soul Of every man who once d
ly dreamed that this was free coun- v
y, In which the rank abuses Of despot- Il
M could never strangle the laws and n
Isassinate liberty. Wanting words to
amp and brand these villainies as they n
sserve, what can we do but invoke ii
pom their perpetrators the vengeance Of Is
ie Almighty God, wait patiently, en- "
ire silently and hope for the day of Ct
Irritation? 81
That day is not very distant. No Il
noble despotism can last long. When &
% fret general election under the Re. h