Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-08

4NlEttL-lnA6 OOAN EnAA0A
self in sympathy with all the oppressed
people which are struggling for their
rights.
rhirteenth-That we highly commend
the spirit of magnaDimity and forgive
ness with which the men who lave
served in the rebelliOn-but VINO now
frankly and honestly cooperate with US
in restoring the peace of the country and
reeonstructiug the Southern state gov
ernments upon the basis OF impartial JUS
tice and equal rights-are received back
into the communion of loyal people, and
we favor the removal of the disqualified
ton and restrictions imposed upon The
late rebels in the same measure as their
spirit OF loyalty will direct, and as may
be consistent with the safety OF the 10y
al people.
great principles laid down IN the I'M
mortal Declaration OF Independence So
the foundation OF Democratic gov
eminent, and we hail with ~gladness
every effort toward making these pm.
ciples q living reality on every inch oil
American soil.
The first resolution states two pslpabie
falsehoods. The reconstruction policy OF
Congress has not proven a success. 1t
will probably result, not in the re-admis-
sion into the Union of the Southern
States, but in the admission into it, on
UNEQUAL terms, of new States under the
old names, composed principally of ne
groes and Northern adventures, with
the white people Of those States disfran-
chised. South Carolina, as admitted,
would much more properly be named
I Haiti or Liberia, or Congo or Ashantee.
1t is the people that constitute the State,
and the people of reconstructed South
Carolina will be for the most part ne
proes. DISTINGUISHED and denied protec-
ton, the white men of the State will be
mere resident Foreigners, Subjects and
Vasssls, owing only that allegiance which
binds the vsnquished TO submit to the
law Of force imposed by the conqueror.
Successful is a success of the same kind
as that Of Alva in the Netherlands; as
that Of the High Priest and Pharisees
when they had procured at the
hands Of Herod and Plate, the
Hebrew King and Roman Pro-
Consul, the release Of Barabbas and
the crucihxion Of Christ. 1t is the kind
of success that is the worst Of defeats, the
success that ruins and destroys.
The success Of the reconstruction policy
Of Congress is not assured by the adOp-
ton In the majority of the Southern
states OF Constitutions securing equal
civil and political rights to all. No such
Constitutions bave been adopted any
where. Nowhere have the people OF the
south, those who stood by the South, in
the field or il council, in her great strug-
gle, equal civil and political rights Sc
cured to them by these shameful COnsti-
buttons. By some of them they are ex-
pressly deprived of such rights: under
others, held at s~ufferance, they may be
taken away by the Legislature. Does
even the Constitution of Tennessee " Sc
cure to oH," equal civil and political
Does that Of Arkansas which
disfranchises thousands Of its citizens?
One wonders at it that any body of
men should have been bold enough open
ly to publish statements so universally
known, 30 easily proven, to be untrue.
To be profitable, a lie ought not to be OF
easy r~efutation. 1t ought not to be
known by all men to be what it is.
II the resolution had declared that,
right or wrong, it was essential to the
success of the Radical faction and to the
maintenance of power in their hands,
that the reconstruction impOlicy should
be persisted in, and that it was Of very
little consequence to that faction wheth-
er the ultimate result was to be benef-
cial or ruinous to the country, it would
have told the plain truth. To assert that
the Constitutions forced upon the South
ern States are precisely the opposite of
that which they are in reality, as a rea-
son for insisting that they ought to be
sustained, is by a malignant falsehood to
endeavour to perpetrate an infamous
wrong; and to urge this on the ground
that otherwise those States will be re-
mitted TO a state Of anarchy +" is 8 mere
humbug. It is reconstruction that is
anarchy.
At all events, this Resolution amply !
enough commits the Radical party and
its nominees to the continuance of the re-
construction policy, justifes the %uncon-
stitutional legislation of Congress, and
pledges the party to the imposition on
the people of the South Of Constitutions
that do not express their will, but have
been conceived in fraud and brought
in iniquity.
The second resolution does so still more
emphaticslly. 1t declares that negro
suffrage in the South is right and shall
be maintained, whatever the will Of the
white men of the South may now or
hereafter be; but that in the Northern
Congress has no right to impose
it on the people. It is for the people of
the Northern States to decide whether
they are willing to be associated in q
Union with negro republics, when, by
the Constitution, every negro citizen of
q Southern State, removing to another
one, is entitled to all the privileges and
immunities of citizens OF the several
among which privileges and i'm
munities, according to "the immortal
Declaration Of Independence" as con-
strued by Thaddeus, King Of the Scala
wags and High Priest Of ~Jacobinism, is
the right to vote at all elections.
When negro Senators sit in Congress
and their votes confirm treaties and reject
appointments Of white men of the North
to Office, and enact tariffs TO plumber the
West, Northwest and South for the ben
eft Of pious and philsnthropic New Eng
land and when negro electors turn the
Of Presidential elections, and make
Presidents and Vice Presidents against
the will Of Northern white men /: and
negro votes, sold in market overt by the
score or the hundred, like eggs or her
ring, become the dagger that stabs at
the prosperity Of the free white commu.
mites of the North, the men Of that re-
gion, whom Radicslism now misleads
and deeeives and lures to their ruin, may
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