Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-17
PRESIDENT GRANT.
wendell Phillips Endorses the
President aud Cries for
Vengeance.
He Wants the South TO Brink the
Blood of the Ku-kIux.

From the Anti-slavery Standard.
We have felt and said that the course
Of Gen. Grant was open to grave criti-
cisn But we have always Judged him
by his actions, always allowing that he
meant all he said and would do all he
promised.
We propose the same rulo in time to
come. We shall take his words for
earnestly meanti and we ghall wait for
action before we criticise him in his new
office.
Thus far we have only thanks to give
him. For three things in his inaugural
we desire to give him credit. With full
heart, end most earnestly, we thank him
for his frank, prompt and hearty endorse
ment OF the UOnGt!t1tiOnal amendment.
The words in which he refers TO .t show
that his heart is in the right place, and
that he CO. daily accepts the lesson OF
the war, IF emancipation made Lin
coin the slaves President, 5he precious
ststesmanlike words made Grant the ne.
gro's President.
We hail with similar feeling his asser-
ticn that his policy looks to the citizen
shipu Of the Indian. Let him cover the
Iodian with this shield and give him, for
the present st least, Department in the
Cabinet which shall watch his rights,
and President Grant will have met these
two great problems Of race with brave
and wise, as well as Just, statesm anship.
The third pledge Of his inaugural we
hail is that which promises vigorous
and rigorous execution OF law. We
trust that here his words mean literally
al they say; and only wish they had
been more decisive and unequivocal.
Our com Ipiaint Of Grant hitherto has
been that he held power without using
it: that he has sat and seen Union men
murdered unavenged. s me OF his friends
excused him on the ground that Presi-
dent Johnson crippled the General. At
last The Ku-KluX have lett the White
House. Those midnight towards need
only half dozen summary executions
in as many States to disappear forever.
II we were in the Ssnate we would con-
Arm no man for any Office from any
Southern State, Kentucky included mot
even Holt, till life was as safe there as
ia Vermont. Shoot and hang first
nominate and confirm sfterward.
We say amen, most heartily, to all the
inaugural contains about public credit
and payment in gold. But there is q
debt lust as sacred as the bonds, the debt
we owe to the S ,uthern loyalists, black
and white. This debt is their immedi.
ate and perfect protection. IL either
debt is entitled to precedence this comes
first in obligation and Importance. This
is to be paid in blood long bsfore the
other is paid in coin. The bOndholdei
only gains Ly waiting. For these other
orediio every hour of danger and agony
cut short IS sn indescribsble gain. The
| GovernmenUs faith with the bOndholde7
has never been broken. Toward this
other creditor the Government has been
peTjuTed and fsithless for four bitter
years. we beseech Grant to send men
South whose very names shall mean
vengeance, deep, terrible aud most ef-
fective vengeance. Pat aside sham Gov
ernors and psltering officials, and give
us the peacsn which is sure to follow
[ the drawn sword in the hands OF a
I prompt, honest man.
/ The bondholder paid will give us credit
/ to borrow in case of another rebellion,
/ This debt promptly paid will renter an.
/ other impossible. Il will fl )Od the South
with capital and brains, the two enemies
against which she rebelled, and which
| her madness and Johnson's have been
striving to get along without.
! Congress cannot reconstruct the South
law can. Safety for money and men
will. Such man as Butler in New Or
leans is worth now more than mule
! losd Of laws. Hang twenty assassins in
every Southern capital six hours after
they are arrested, and you will empty
half the bank vaults Of ChristendOm intC
the South, you will light up all its iorget
and crowd its exchanges with business
men. This is the way, Soldier OF the
/ Wilderness, to hammer" the rebellion
/ to pieces. Make yngr vengeance 81
swift. sure and terrible, that the mere
/ mama of Union mani may be as ample
protection even on the Del Norts as tina
! OF a " Roman eitiz5nN was to 81. Paul
Jerusalem.
The Cabinet gives no indication to tht
! Presidents plan. It rather shows tina
/ he has none, for it means nothing
/ Massachusetts furnishes all the first-ratI
trains it contains.
Thomas Campbell made a selection
] from the English Poets on the plan o
excluding every piece any other previou
compiler had taken. Of course they, tn
first cOmers, had taken the best, ant
accordingly all CampbelPs pieces ar
second rate. Grants Cabinet follow
this copy. BE excludes every one tina
anybody ever thought of. or course b
takes the leavings.
But this only means that the peopi
are, as hitherto, to do the work.
Press the Constitutional Amendment
Push the Executive for a strong arm o
resolute law throughout the South.
the South loves blood, let her sup full 0
it, only let it be the blood Of asssssins
Sheath no sword until honest Unioi
men, black and white, nativeand foreign
alone and in companies, on lonely prai
ries and in city streets, sit each unde
his own vine and fig trse-the Stars an
StFipes-with none TO modest or max
them afraid. WENDELL PHILLIPS.