Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-30
SENATOR'S.


for the long term was quite the contrary.
It lasted three days and thus gave ample
opportunity for full sweep. Msckey,
SAWYER and French was the order IN
which they were set out, all three being
confident, frona promises Of voters, Of
their being elected. This failure 10 keep
promises produced 3 great deal of bitter
ness and personal recriminRti0n, and
sometimes the scenes were stormy
enough. Harsh words were S2ndied
with great license. Candidates were &C
cused of buying votes with money, and
one OF our State newspapers hiss stated
the prices paid by one Of these candi-
dates as being from $50 to $500 for each
vote. have never seen such ambush
ing purchase OF favor, and doubt il such
has ever been presented by a legislative
body before. The success Of the Con-
sentative Republicans in this election of
Senator SswyGA will doubtless so eXas-
perate the extremists that we shall soon
see yet bitterer fruits from this tree.
Cor. " J. Tines.
This picture Of the election for Senators
in South Carolina, under the recon
stIuclion acts Of Congress, furnishes =
fair illustration of the process and means
that were employed in the other South
ern States, and presents 3 sad common
Radical rule has brought about. 1t Is the
testimony Of Radical witness, writing
from the scene Of corruption, who is GER
tsinly not inclined 10 eXaggsTate the
shortcomings of his own political friends,
or 10 paint their defOTmities in stronger
cOlOrs than really exist.-NdtjOHdL IN
telligeacer.
Dr.. Albert G. Mackey is a South Car
GILMAN by birth, and was the President,
while Collector Of the port of Charleston,
Of the body Of negroes plus some whites,
called the " Constitutional Convention -
OF that miserable State. Sawyer is
NOrthern-bOrn, and one Of the set who,
in 1868, threw up rockets as signals TO the
Federal fieet, when bloCkade-runners
were about to put 10 sea. We should
like to see the Conservative Repub-
Iicans who elected him Senator over
Msckey.
The IRteHigeRceT asks:
What must honorable Senators and
members in Congress, who really rep
resent States and constituencies, and
who feel just pride in forming q part
OF the National Legislature, think Of the
body and Of themselves, whatever may
be their party Abilities, when forced 10
recognize, with only here and there an
exception, the veBal adventures, con-
vIeted knaves and characterless 4" scala
ways y who have been sent here by
force and fraud to Iegislate for All out
ragged and oppressed people? Who can
look upon such but with scorn and con-
tempt, knowing that they represent
nothing but the tyranny Of military
power and the Infamous practices Of the
Freedmen's Bureau?
The Rump Parliament was an assem-
bly, Of Demigods, compared to the Con-
gress Of the United States, since the
miserable devils who pretend 70 repre-
cent the South, have crawled into the
two Houses, aud pOllute the seats-wheTe
honorable men once sat. The Senate is
even worse than the House, because the
proportion of sealawsgs in it is larger.
The IateEAgencer well says, Of these
creatures, the eoitred political cretins
whom force and fraud hsye lifted into
high place:
When the legislation Of this vast coun-
try is committed b such hands-tu uneu
who are bound by no high moral or pO-
liticsl responsibility whateYeT-what is
TO be expected but a more extended sway
OF venslity and % villRiny? These fab
ricsted Senators will WELD an immense
influence by concentrating their strength,
aud, in the divisions incident to local and
other causes, may hold the balance of
power upon many questions OF national
magnitude, and involving hundreds o.
millions Of money. They will vote IS
interest directs, and il will not require
much experience for them to discover
where il lies, or 10 find prompters who
have long since found loyalty" 8 most
profitable trade, as well as q convenient
profession. When New York, PennsyI-
vania, Ohio, and the mighty West fiud
out, ~ they soon must do, that these be-
gus Legislators, who have been foisted
into Congress by the most barefaced
frauds, can negative their votes and
voices in the public councils, and by cor
rupt combinations may impose upon
them the most serious burdens, they
will be apt TO think that negro supremacy
Is q twO-edged sword, which, while III
vented to cut down the rights and liber-
ties Of the South, may be equally poten-
tial IN destroying the prosperity ard in
over-slsughing the representation OF the
North. Then We shall see how they will
relish the medicine which has been 50
cruelly and wickedly prescribed 10 3
crushed and Impoverished people.
There has been such body before, as
the present Congress OF the United
States. There have been such success
SORE, as our Senators are, Of the Statesmen
and Heroes who made q Commonwealth
iIlu5triOus. That body was found in the
Roman Senate under Caracalls and vi
tellius, and Caligula and Commodus.
Such a Senate was possible when the
horse Of the Emperor was made Consul.
Then the basest Of the base and the vii
est Of the vile were the SUCCESSORS Of Cato
aud 81 e yols, Of Cicero and Cesar. But
Rome required thousand years 70 siBk
it into that pit Of degradation while the
United States have needed only eighty.
l. is time to shut the book and read no
further.
We said, lately, In an address delivered
to an audience in Mississippi:
"Rsturn, days Of the Golden Age Of
the Republic, when the States were
Peers and Sovereigns, and sole parties to
the solemn compact Of the Constitu-
"Young men, it is for you to bring
hack these golden days. The South is
our land the North is a foreign and
hostile realm. Stand at the altar Of
your country. Swear eternal hatred Of
its oppressors. Swear that the day shRll
comes when the Susquehanna and
Oaio shall be like rivers of trs, rs they