Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-08

auy Otner power, IOr huJ purpose Wnht'
ever, and instead Of riveting despotism
upon one party, to give liberty to all, in
the bonds Of one Union, and under the
egis Of one supreme Constitution.
| We arraign the Republican party for
this separation Of ten States from the
rest, taking them from under the Federal
Constitution, depriving them absolutely
Of all civil government, placing them
under the government of the sword,
thereby consigning them, tyrannously
and by force, to the merciless dominion
OF an iron despotism-and all In time
Of profound peace. We arraign 1t for not
only crime, but cowardice; for doing. by
these Southern States, because il had the
power, what Il dared not do by the North
ern States only because it had not the
power; for. in the eve of the Constitution
all the States in the Union, whether North
or South. are alike in dignity, independ-
ence and privileges
For these ten Southern States the Rad
ical party passed series of what they
called Reconstruction measures. The
very name carries with it monstrous
violation-nay, complete overthrow of
the Constitution, so far as these States
are concerned. What we're these laws
meant for, and what do they actually do?
There is not man on American soil
whose blood should not dash with indig.
nation through his veins as be reads the
dark, brutal, malignant, and revolution
ary record What do these reconstruc-
tion laws do ?
They tear up by the roots all civil lib
eriy in the ten Southern States, which
means: i afii aAi
The anniRilation, at one blow, of the
State governments. sl
The disfranchisement of every white
man who will not be party to the dis.
franchisement Of all the rest.
The enfranchisement of the entire
barbaric horde of lately emancipated ne
groes, thereby putting the States under
their control. ~
The importation Of yenal wretches end
uDprinciped adventurers, residents of
other States, and making them, in con-
junction with the blacks, the high and
low officials, there being, in many cases,
not enough undisfranchsed white resi-
dent citizens to fil the Offices necessary
for carrying on the public service.
The suppression in toto of courts of
civil iudicature. e'
The denial of the writ of babeas COR
ms.
: The denial of the right of the people
to keep and bear arms.
The denial of trial bv ;orv
The liability of the citizens To he
dragged at auy hour of the day or NIGHT
from their homes-if homes those places
NAV he called where men. women. and
children lixe by mere sufferance-.im-
INJURED in places of confinement. and
held, without the power or the right 10
question wby, subject TO the despotic
will of pettv military officer.
Trial by military commission. ual
ways." as Mr.. Webster has said. "or-
panized 10 convictn
The denrivation as the resnlt of dis.
franchisemept of renresentat;on in bo,b
Houses of Congrass ,bongh toxed Cor
the Government sun oort. with no voice
in either the oenarai oovarnmant or tbe
government of their own States-Sta,es
where thew and their wives and children.
their fathers and prandfatbers were horn
and lived and where those who have died |
The nrobibition Of free speech
The sunnression of a free nress
The taxing awav "tbe rigbt of the |
neonle 10 he secnre in tbeir nersons
bonses nersand effsots aga;nst nnraa,
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ali tbe;r rights and i;bsrt;ss tbe;r lives
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