Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-11

low aud company, who are the jeer aud
the SCOT. not only Of the Democratic
Northern ssoundrels aud liars aud
of the moderate Northern Republicans,
bat also Of the whole continent, and all
tho world besides. To us the carpet
baggers, to US the homemade place
hunters, vampires, and scurf, which the
ebullitions Of the war have thrown forth,
to us the soallawags, who were unknown
before the war, and are since known
only for greed Cor Office and spells, as
vermin devouring the products Of indus
try, to Gus" aud such as "us must you
Democrats look for rights you ever
get any. ~ =, =
Now we tell these miscreants two
things, first that there is no evil so great
as the loss Of self respect, which we should
suffer in "humbly" submitting to them,
and that rights, which cannot be secured
without such dishouor as that would inn
ply, have no value in our eyes; aud,
second that zoe are not poicerless, We
have on our side the members OF the
Democratic Northern party, who, in fact
and greater part, won the battles OF the
war, we have the most respectable por-
ton Of the Republican party OF the
| North, we have the President the Con-
stitution, the law and the courts, and
what is better, the conviction OF our own
consoiences that we are in the right IN
demanding what is couceded by all these,
and what the interests of statesmanship
and common humanity, peace and WE'LL
being alike demand. Ifihat is not enough
to give courage against few insignih-
cant homemade scsllawags, with their
importations, then we shall be chick
en- hearted indeed, aad the growls
of the dogs in our msnger, who
are resolved the State shall never pros
per, or lis people have any rights until
they are surfeited, will doubtless keep us.
in,imidsted so much that we shall never
dare ask any rights even when 1t is no
longer disputed that we have some. we
shall never again claim even the rights
of aliens in the land of our fathers.
Will any intelligent and competent
man Of The Republican party step for
ward and AFFIRM The position taken by the
Bullefin9 viii Maynard or Fowler do
it? Never. II thereis man OF ability
in the State lion-hearted enough for that
we should be proud like David to take our
sling and go forth to meet him. Men
who can think strongly and acted disin-
terestedly, regarding the public good
above their own, will coneede and do
concede the justice of the demand
of Tennesseeans that they should
be restored to the franchise. They
will cay that there will not be,
and cannot be, and ought not to
be any lethargic quiet and peace IN len
uessee without the concession. We have
asked no more. The disfranchised citi-
zeus ask no more. And this they intend
to have, with what aids they can get
since they have some rights, not forfeited
or legally taken away. And this is one
of them. We have made no. threats
and advise and intend peace and pa
c;6c counsel TO all. They that take
the sword it is who shall perish by the
sword. It is these men who scott at the
Constitution, trample down the supreme
law, disregard and set at naught the In
defeasible rights of man, which are above
all laws and constitutions, and seek pelf
at the expense of wrongs and the hazard
Of what may come, that take the sword.
And they, with their ill-gotten gains,
shall perish by the sword. They have
no divine commission to tread on the
necks of the Southern people, and their
occupations gone" They will do well
to heed the warning. They may treat
our admonition as iscendiary, just as
hand Of assassins would frown on the
pacific counsels of one who had not be-
come accustomed to the greed with which
they shed aud lap their blood. But
their day of reckoning is at hand.
There is no considerable portion of the
American people who ceuntenance the
diabolisms practiced 10 Tennessee, or
who will further support or allow them,
And the people of the State themselves
will not. The franchise, or the official
heads of the plunderers