Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-12

! Texas are under military Governors,
and Georgia without representation
in Congress; peace restored when JUS
tice is administered by drum-head
courts martial; the Constitution main
tanned, when we know the Supreme
Court Is only waiting an opportunity
TO declare the reconstruction acts un-
constitutional. l oppose the adoption
! of the fifteenth amendment, because
! its material radical change in our sys-
! tenn of government destroys the rela-
! ton of the States to the Union, de-
! grades them, takes from them,
/ without their consent, that essential
attribute of a selfgOverning COM
munity, the right to determine who
shall exercise the right OF suffrage; be-
cause it was intended to and viii in
troduce negro suffrage in Ohio against
the will of her people. Two years
ago the people of Ohio, without
distinction of party, and by an i'm
menSe majority, refused to amend the
State Constitution. After arrange
ment and consideration, / see no rea-
son to believe they have changed their
opinion. object to its adoption, be
cause, by its strongest implication, 1t
cOnfers on Congress and reserves TO
the States rights to exclude from the
ballot-boX persons of our own white
race, because of nativity, creed, want
of education, or poverty, and prohibits
the exclusion OF another race; and If
the Interpretation Of Senators Morton
and Howard be correct, under this
amendment States may exclude Irish |
men, Germans, Catholics, Protestants, |
or poor men; but not negroes or Mon |
golians. / object to its adoption, be- |
cause ii is part and parcel OF a scheme !
TO food the country with a forced I'M |
portation of immense numbers OF
Chinese coolies, and bring into our |
midst an alien race, and repeat, in a |
more difficult form, the social and gov !
ernmental questions which have so |
unhappily divided the people, The |
last report Of the Secretary shows he is
boarding SI0l, ,2I4, ,43G in coin and |
1914, 900 in currency. Why? of
what benefit are the customs Of a half
year, while the people are paying six
per cent in gold rs interest, and the
Secretary is boarding this immense
amount? Each month, with great
parade, he sells six or nine millions,
and with the proceeds he buys bonds,
giving twenty-five per cent above par; (
they are now redeemable on their face
by law in equity; they are payable in
legal tenders; holders gave legal ten
ders for them when legal tenders
were not worth more than half what
they are now contraction gives a uni
versal fall Ofprices in goods and labor,
while debts, taxes and mOneyed Obli-
cations remain fixed; the man who
has money becomes richer. The sys-
tenn is radically unjust. 4 debt con-
tracted on our expanded currency
should be paid in the same currency;
the dollar which Is paid
should be the same as the dollar
which was loaned. The whole pol
lev Of the administration should be
reversed. Pay the debt according to
contract; pay il in money as valuable
a. that which was received for it; pay
il in legal tenders; abolish the nation
Il bank system; pay off the bonds on
which they are founded; save the
Yearly interest; use every appliance
If economy and management in adj
,ancing this policy; then when the
lebt is paid, the taxes reduced-when |
twenty-five millions suffice for the
when all property Is
subject to lust rule Of taxation, if it
De advisable to contract the currency
and resume specie payments, it can he
Effected without disaster and inevita-
Die suffering and can be borne"