Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-16
Opinions Of the Press upon the Pro-
posed Reconstruction Of Ten
Ressse--Where and How
il was Planned.
What Republican and Democratic
Newspapers Have to Say about
So VillainOns a Policy.
tits Denounced by Democratic Or
ganS and Assurances Given by
Radical that our State will
not be Disturbed.
Grants Promised Interference in
Tennessee Contrasted with his
Gonductin Missouri in 1857.

From the Knoxville Press au0 herald
lam credibIy informed that DR.. J
B. Young (col0red) and Eldsd Cicero
Camp (white) left this city together
on Saturday last, for Washington, ii
order to do what they could TO destroy
business and create anarchy in Ten.
nessee, by so misrepTesenting the con-
dition OF the State and the sentiments
of the people as 10 induce Congress to
interfere with the present State Gov
ernment.
lam also credibly informed, Messrs.
Editors, that on the evening previous
TO the departure OF the two worthless
named, a caucus OF the leading spirits
in this movement was held at the
room of Dr. J. =. Young (cOlored), on
Market Square, Knoxville, which was
attended by William Rule, Nj. d.
Bearden, Z. c. Camp, ii. L. w. My
matt (sll white), and other colored
men.
Now. Messrs. Editors, I am Re
publican and voted for Gen. Stokes
Tor Governor. But with Gen. Stokes
I am sin favor OF the removal Of every
mans disabilities" ! ana glad that
my neighbors can vote. l bear testi-
mOny that We have had quieter and
better times since Senter was elected
than We have had in Tennessee since
the war. 1 am utterly opposed, both
on principle and in Justice, TO the at
tempts OF theseparty hacks TO fOment
trouble and bloOdshed in the State.
Now, Messrs. Editors, hereby call
on Mr.. Wm. Rule and Mr.. II. i. W.
Mynatt "a say publicly if they favor
Congressional interference in Iennes-
see. Hundreds OF As good Republicans
as ever voted in any election want to
know whether these men, candidates
fOr office, favored the sending of Mr..
Young and Mr.. Camp TO Washington
on their nefariOuS errand. Times arc
SO hard and taxes 50 heavy that il is
all an honest man can do to make
enough money to give his family the
necessaries Of life. Send Tennessee
back to military rule, or disfranchise
three-fOurths OF hSr white population,
and we have disorder, want and
frouble from one end Of the State to
the otter. L want to know; Repub-
Iicaug waEt TO know; Conservatives
want to know; the newly entran-
chised rebels want to knOw-all good
citizens desire TO be Informed whether
these candidates for th5ir suffrage are
thus secretly working TO fomenT dis
cord, dislranchise their neighbOrs ana
take bread from the hard-workiHg
farmers. mechanics and IabOreTs.
Unless these gentlemen make a
speedy denial Of what l have above
stated, the public must draw the IN
ference.
a AMARRET SQUARE REPUBLICAN.
KNOXVILLE, March 10, 1870.
From the New York Herald Of the Ilth.l
A delegation of coloTed people from
Tennessee called upon President
Grant yesterday and asked for mill
tary protection in that State. He re-
ferred their request to the Secretary
of War. but stated that any proposed
interference with the civil law was a
matter requiring very grave cOnsid- !
Grafton. In this he Is right and prac- 4
teal as usual, and We suggest that /
Butler, Maynard and company give 4
the matter very grave and serious |
CONSIDERATION before they determine I
TO reconsir ruct the State, and then, 4
probably. theT viii conclude not to |
do it.
From the Nashville Union and American /
OF the 18th.
If the purposes Of Maynard x Go. /
should be accomplished, the iRst !
August election would be declared a /
fraud, and all the acts OF the present |
Legislature would be held null and 4
void. What would then become Of /
our State credit? Where would then |
be our tax laws and our internal inn |
prOvements ? Who can calculate the |
effect upon our industrial pursuits and !
interests OF again placing Us under I
the dominion of those whose rule was /
marked by the most gigantic frauds, |
the most unblushing corruption and a /
reign of terror 1t becomes every |
citizen Of the State, every weIl-wisher |
of her prosperity, to correct the false /
reports shat are 50 busiiy circulated /
by the political charlatans whose only /
sTish IS TO continue in power. 1t be- /
comes every one TO 50 conduct him /
self that there shall not be the slight
est ground for the malignant a5per- |
sions Of cur accuSers.
From the y. Y. Telegram Of the 1lth.l
WANTED, TO AID IN THE RECON
sTRUCTION OF TESEEss EE.-EOur /
cases OF niggers hung, three Of niggers /
scaIped and skinned alive, and two of /
niggers' hearts cut out and the owners /
compelled to eat them raw. Minor /
cases purchased at low prices. Ad-
dress Il. g., Tribune Office, or B. +.
B., Washington. y. B.-Payment
made in Treaties on Political EcOnO-
my and Pub. Docs.
From the New York World ofthe l0th1
To permit Tennessee to 90 on in her
present eOurse is TO assure the vote OF
that State beyond all peradventure for
the Democratic candidate in 1872, and
meanwhile to permit the election Of
eight Democratic Representative in
the Congressional elections Of this
fan, with a Senator of the same faith
in the place Of Parson Brownlow !
when that venerable old rogue drops.
Such things are not TO be permitted,
Of course. Perish the thought. 1t is
nothing that, under the new regime,
Tennessee has for months enjoyed a
p,ace and order TO which her uniOr-
tuuate people have for years been
strangers: nothing that the Ku-
Klux have vanished out of the
columns Of even the remOtest country
z,aper: nothing that the late adjourned
convention voted down every reac-
fionary proposition, and finally sub
mitted q State Constitution which
gives the suffrage equally to all. These /
things are as dust 10 the injection of
fresh life into the morbid veins of
Radical supremacy in Congress. But
Ter drives to the work of disorganiza-
ton: and unless a voice, irrespective
of party. comes up against this new
deVilment. we may look to see Ten
nessee once more not only in herself
,I;et,,rt,ad hint tho eausa Of Disturbance
in Others, the head-center of more
trouble South, and, by consequence,
the occasion Of as much damage to
Federal finance as re-openlng OF the
reconstruction sore can compass.
10 n the Washington Correspondent Lou
is,i 'ie COurier-J Ournal, l3th.l
Gener,Nl Butler will submit to the
tiOn Committee the draft
Of a hin he las prepared for the re-
Construction OF Tennessee, when the
COMMITTEE meet 30 consider the mat
ter an Tuesday. Its effect is to throw
ont az mower so much Of the Tennessee
State Government as was electrd IN
August last; but to reach this end IL
does not propose to put the State un,
der military control nor territorial
laws, The bill declares in its pream-
bic that Governor Senter was elected
bv fraud, and that the acts of Congress
were violated in the registration OF
voters, aud it therefore proposes 10
declare the election null and void, to
order a new registration and new
eleeti on, and that United States OFF,
Gers are TO execute the same. This
intended interference. with a State
government fully represented in Con-