Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-14

THE promised condition of the two
Carolinas is so alike deplorable thatit
is difficult to choose between them.
In North Carolina, its scalawag Gov
ernOr is begging the President for sol
diers, asks Congress to suspend the
ha6eas corpus, and pretends that mar
tial law and troops T necessary to
enforce peace and order. The people
are peaceful and law-abiding all over
the State. But that is nothing-they
will not vote right, and what is the
matter is, that the carpeters and seal
awags, whom Grant has taken under
his wing since he cried out, let us
have peace" are in danger of losing
their offices. The people are not fond
of the rogues, though they are peace
able, for ali that. Here is the proof,
in the declaration of the Conservative
Republican members of the Legisla-
ture, made in their address to the
people of the State on the day of their
adjournment:
The Chief Magistrate of this State, the
head and front of Radicalism, has seen fit
to declare one of our ountie in a state
of instruction, and to call upon Congress
to suspend the writ of hGbedS corpus
throughout the State. We declare there
is no sufficient cause for this eXtraor-
! binary action of Gov. Holden; there is,
/ and has been no armed resistance, no up
rising of the people, no outbreaks to dis
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civH law. We assert that there is moi a
county in the State in which any sheriff
or other peace officer may not go unat-
tended, and with perfect safety, and exc
cute any process upon any citizen of the
State. 1t is true that murders and out
RACES have been committed; but they
have not been confined to any particular
locality or any particular party and
when Gov. Holden represents to the
President and Congress that these acts
are evidences of disloyalty, he is guilty
of a wilful libel upon a people whose
rights he has sworn TO protect,
In South Carolina the condition of
things, though somewhat different, in
a more complete and supreme RCdi.
cal control, is even 0 depIorable.
There ignorance and corruntion 90
hand in hand with fail and undis-
puted sway. Pubic affairs are con-
Quoted after TIE Washington fashion
as nearly as the negro legislators
know how to approach it. The cor
ruptlOn Of the Legislature is notori-
Gus, open, unblushing and unserupu-
logs. And whether thar~ :, ory
hopeful remedy Is. oh1ono
e.. for State officers IS to
ne off this fall which IS 10
test whether oppression is to
grow on what it feeds, and, lengthen-
ing its strides, augment injustice and
intensity the prevailing distress
and ruin. The conservative press,
with the body of the intel
Ugent white people, unwilling to sur
render in despair the State forever Il
the spoilers, are urging an eficr 10
d~eliverance by harmonious and con
certed action. And the whole cOun
trv will look on their coming struggle
with strong prayers and anXlou
interest for their success. The Charles
ton Courier, in an able article, from
/, which we clip the following para
. graph, urges every well-meaning ma
; to the front:
We know of no more appalling pictur
. for the people of South Carolina, OF what
T. ever race or previous condition, than
/ rule which has hung like an incubusu po
the State during the past few years. lie
any man realize what another two year
e of such sway means, and can he hesitat
to feel that there should be some eommo
and united effort for its overthrow an
; for the attainment of some degree OF Sc
. curity for person and property III
: effort cannot be attained by inactivity
C This is worse than useless. II is OF n
g avail in itself. It can neither remedy nc
redress. 1t cannot overthrow a sing
evil element which exists. 1t cannot pt
rify the political atmosphere, or preVeI
the ruin which impends. IL is no IN u
q men of inaction, but in those who, realii
inc the whole extent of the danger an
y its consequences, and who are prepare
10 cast themselves in the breach, in IL
hone of an honest and economical govern
Il ment, that any prospects Of deliveran'
are to be found.