Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-09

man in the North, and the Seslawsg
strength in the lower House of Congress,
and in voting for President will, OF
course, be largely increased. The whole
Of this vote will be for sale. win it not
be vastly agreeable to Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois to have the free voices of their
people stified by the votes of Southern
negroes, until they cease to have any
voice rs to the destinies of the country
for which so many of their SONS, fearfully
in error, laid down their lives. An hum
dred thousand young men of the North
west have died, to put the Southern
States under the government of negroes
and enable the beastly representatives of
African constituencies to sell votes in
Congress to the highest bidder.
Military government is about to disap-
pear in Arkansas. What succeeds e?
Such government as has no parallel in
ancient or modern history. A govern
ment that has come into being reeking
and rotten with fraud. Two men sit in
the Senate of the United States, as SEN
ators from Arkansas, who, IL they bad
even that small degree of shame which
prompts an Australian savage to hide his
nskedness, would sneak out of the places
(which, unfortunately, they cannot dis
grace, while that Ieper of humanity,
Sumner, and those blasphemous +" scour-
ges of God,H Stevens and Wade, sit
there), and stink by by-wsys home, to
tell the scurvy vsgabonds who sent them
there that they are capable OF much, but
not Of everything and that there Is a
depth of ignominy to which they can
not descend. In the House, the erea-
lures who represent Arkansas may find
congenisl souls, since the average re-
spectsbility of that body has sunk SO low
that q sorry gambler who still pretends
to retain the relics of lost gentiIity con-
siders it an insult to be mistaken for
member of Congress, and would wash
his sright hand IL it had come in contact
with that OF one at least of the misera-
ble devils who sit as Representatives
from Arkansas in the central cesspool Of
corruption of the Republic.
The Times thinks that military despot-
ism has " sglrepu5lican tendencies" The
mild euphuism of the phrase is excel
lent. 1t is as If we were to say that the
despotism of the Devil, If established on
earth, would have "irreligious tenden.
eies."
Better, as we have said before, better,
8 thousand times, military despotigm
than negro equality. One can only op-
press the body and destroy such souls as
are not worth the saving. The other
kills the soul Of the commonwealth, and |
eorrupts its blood. The man who &C.
cepts the negro as his political equal, ad-
mits himself unworthy the race to which
he belongs, and denies its superiority to
the barbarian and savsge. Lost to all
sense of self-respect, he is no longer fit
10 be free. Political fellowship with the
negro is the last curse that malignity can
nfict upon proud and brave people.
We congratulate the Northern States
On their new associations, and hope they
may find their partnership with negro
Common-ills pleasant and profitable. If
negro suffrage is, as the Tines says, "an
fact never to be annulIed,"
We congratulate the vast mass of white
men in the South who cannot vote, on
heir disfranchisement. They are re-
ieved Of all possible temptation to sell
themselves to the devil Of Radicalism,
md cheat themselves into c belief that
he proioundest degradation, voluntarily
accepted for profit, is at least cousin
german to semi-respeotsbility.