Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-19

ent temper Of our people, be the part
of wisdom; yet we by no means in
tend to depreeate an uprising Of the
people of this country against the
future aggressions of the faction now
dominant at Washington. On the
contrary it Is our deliberate conyic-
tlen that all further ~aggressions and
usurpations OF Congress should be
checked, If it can be done in no other
way. BY the mighty voice of a popu-
lar revolution. We speak these words
advisedly. They embody the doc
trines for the ~vindication of which the
founders of the American re-
pulic staked their fortunes and
their lives, and it becomes the people
in every State to cling TO them now,
despite the menaces of the faction
which wields the purse and sword of
the nation and controls the corrupt
currents flowing from what, a short
time since, was great fountain of
justice. What is loyalty to-day is a
barren lie, and true patriotism means
stern resistance to the unlawful acts
of the powers that be. Is there never
more TO be opposition to arbitrary
rule ? Is there never more to be a
limit 10 subservient submission :?
Must amendments to the Constitution
procured by force and fraud be ac-
cepted as law? Are the majority Of
the citizens of this country to refrain
hencefortb from having a voice in its
affairs? Is the Radical faction to be
suffered to obliterate the COnstitu-
ton altogether and forever and to
trample at will upon the rights of
tWO-thirds of the people? Have the
Legislatures of three-fOurths of the
States voluntarily and of their
own free will given in their adher-
enee to the neW-fangled notions of
Phillips and Sumner-of Beecher and
Greeley? If they have then we
might, perhaps, fold cur hands and
''accept the situation" If they have,
we might also raise the cry of 'NO
discussion of dead issues" and accept
the amendments as accomplished
facts" But what is the truth in re-
gard TO the matter? How and by
what e were the amendments
adopted? BY force and by fraud! by
the exercise of unlawful power ON the
part Of Congress and the administra-
tion-by open and unblushing bri-
beryl
1t would seem So, if two of the
most tyrannical measures with which
we are acquainted are to be cOolly
classed among the ''dead issues by
and accepted as "facts'
beyond and behind which there is to
be no inquiry and to right which the
only truly libeTty-lOving party does
not feel inclined. We believe the
time to protest is now. Now or never
those who would stop this mad Radi-
cal revolution must act. This year
the people must reconstruct Congress,
or rather substitute a better one. No
has ever more m~anifestly
abused the power cODfided to him for
the public good than has Congress
none has ever rendered himself more
Justly amenable to popular indigna-
ton and punishment than the leaders
Of the Radical faction.
They have overthrOwn the public
avs and time-honOred chartered in
They have cruelty OPP
pressed and wronged thousands of in-
lOcent men. They have, by trickery
md violence, forced upon the people
IF various States rulers whom the lat |
.er justly and cordially despise. They
AVE wrested political power from the
lands of the white man, and con-
erred it in large measure upon the
They construct and overturn
Governments by their own des-
,Otic edicts, regardless of the
will or right of the governed. They
the masters of this land, and If
hey be not now called to account, the
American freeman must soon sink
ntO the political serf. We do not be-
ieve in admitting anything that is
lot true-in recognizing anything that
5 not right; and the sooner the peo-
lie of this country set their faces
ternly against the treason and fraud
which eliminated in the adoption of
he Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
lents and oppose the amendments as
he fruits of a base and ignoble crime
the Constitution and laws of
ur country, the better it viii be for
hem and for the world.-BTidgepOJf
Farmer.