Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-01
TO THE OLD wHIes AND DEzO.

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CRATS OF TENNESSEE.
Permit as once more to reason with
Won, in the cause OF the country.
We find this in our ~telegraphie dis
patches:
AUGUSTA. Ca May 29-Six citizens
Of Hsmburg, s. c., were srrested yester-
day ior refusing to allow negroes 70 hold
an od1eiai " political ? " meeting IN the
Union CHURCH in that town. They are
to be tried before q Military Commission
at Aiken, S. C., by order Of General
Canby.n
Major Power commandant Of the post
at Holy Springs, in the Province Of Mis-
slEsippi, has, it IS distinctly alleged by q
responsible party, caused the arrest, 81
the instance Of ~vagabond negroes, ofsev-
eral respectable young men, charged
with the crime Of being Suspect Of
belonging to the Ku-Klux Khan snd
an order for the arrest Of Col. David C.
Cross, Of Cross county, Arkansas, was a
few weeks sgo Issued by the officer in
charge Of the Frsedmanis Bureau, upon
3 charge Of the same sort, made by s
negro.
"Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes OF thOrns, or figs
OF thistles? Even SO every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit where
Zero by their fruits We shall know them.r
l. It not time that the Upas-tree Of
JacobiDism, which brings forth every
where such evil fruit, should be " hewn
down and cast into the fire ?"
Did any Of the Wings or Democrats o.
Tennessee dream, even ten years ago.
that the day would ever come in any
Southern State, when a military Satrap
invested with the powers Of despOtism
would proclaim it to be a crime for eiti
zens to refuse to permit a political meet
ing Of negroes to be held in a church
dedicated to the worship Of God, and th'
orgies Of semI-bsrbarisns to be held
around HIS Altar ? or that, for such al
offence against the majesty Of military
despotism, the actors would be ordered
to Be tried by 2 military commission anC
probably sentenced 10 some years. i'm
prlsonment on the Dry ToTtugas?
We viii not assume that the sever
young Alabamians, heretofore gentlemen
Of good repute, who, not very many days
ago, by virtue Of the sentence Of one O.
those convenient engines Of despOtism,-
Military Commission, were conveyed
chained together, on the deck Of 3 steam.
er, like gslley-slaves or Botany-Bay
~conyiets, tosn imprisonment Of two yeart
in that ~aecursed Province Of Hell, ths
Dry Tortugas, were innocent OF offence,
and could not have been convicted il
any Christian Court, although We do be,
lieue it, and that tine whole procedure
their arrest, their trial, their sentence
would have disgraced the sdministrs,
ton Of injustice by = Spanish Soutt
American Vieeroy, dealing with muffin
Gus Indians, or 3 subordinate devil 0
Cortez or Pizsrro, or an underling Q
Verres, when that wretch lorded it owe
sicily.
Bnt we do ask the Old Wings an
Democrats Of Tennessee, whether it
not Main to them, that when over To
broad extent Of a whole State, the Con
stitution and its guarantees have disap
peared, as the blue Heavens and thei
stars do When the tempest RACES wheI
the laws are either wholly abrogated, 0
exist and have 3 semi-vitality, only Q
the suGerance of shoulder-straps, jack
boots aud the sabre; when no one, rebe
T LOYAL, can avail himself Of the priv
Ieee Of the writ Of Habees Corpus, an
the Courts sneak into eoverts, and palte
and equiyocate under the pressure c
military power, and even the Suprem
Court bends like a reed before the impe
rious will Of Congress, so that a citizeI
Of a Province, or subject Of the Centrs
Despotism which by the worst Of me
m~isgoverns the country, cannot hav
redress when arrested and imprisone
by q General, for impeding reeonstruC
tom or the guilt Of Jese Daojeste i
speaking plainIy Of His Imperial High
ness faUitsi when in ten States the pee
pie ksre 50 governed, no men any wher
are ssfe and secure in the possession (
their rights Of English liberty
Are gou safe, ia Tennessee e? II for tb
assent not destroyed, or deprived
vous rights, is not your immunity at su
~fsrsace, and because you sustain n