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

was there more unanimity of sentiment
among the people in this State than on
negro suffrage. Any proposition to give
votes to negroes, to constitute them II
arbiters between the political parties OF
the white rscs, would have been rejected
by an immense majority of the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania. The Radical
they never for one IN Thought OF
taking the vote which the Consultation
required. They looked to force and
fraud to iasten negro suffrage on our
country. Force was directed against the
Southern States. 1t was argued that this
black dose of negro suffrage should De
forced down the Threats of the Southern
people with the bayonet, as 8 degrading
punishment of the Southern States for
the crime of rebellion. But lest the
North might take the alarm, 1t was eX-
pressly and solemnly declared in the plat
form which the Radical clique cooked up
at Chicago, that 4" the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs to
the people of those States" The infamous
violation of all these oaths, pledges and
obligations is too notorious to need re-
hearsal. The Radical wire-workers, when
they had finished with the Southern
States, turned them against the North.
Each forced ratification of those Mill
tary Districts " was counted as the spOn-
IdDoOus TAbiuCdl1On OI - oLdLt WHICH, bno
Constitution requires
But this did not give enough votes, and
fraud was used to get more. The ruling
Radical clique directed their followers in
the Pennsylvania Legislature to adopt
the Fifteenth Amendment instantly, and
without submitting it to the people. But
this was to violate their Oaths, violate the
| Constitution of.the State, nay, even to
violate the lately promulgated platform
of their own party. All this the scoun-
drels did; they broke their oaths, they
violated the Constitution, they betrayed
their constituents; and this was not the
/ commonplace rascality of individual
knaves, but the deliberate act of a party,
under the guidance of its leaders. This
was their calculation-their plan, they
thought, was sure of success; n then
Ssmbo would be the great arbiter between
political parties. He would excuse any
villainy done in his service; no wide view
of the grander interests of truth and pc
litical Integrity would trouble his brain,
To-day Radicalism falls down before the
negro; thrusts him by military power
into the Senate of the United States; and
cries, Oh! pardon our sins committed In
your service, and save us from the conse-
quences of theml We say to all White
men, to all honest men, to all who honor
truth and prize political morality, for the
sake of the future of yourselves
and your E7ddren, pass an
emphatic judgment upon this
wrong. If you cannot right it, at least
condemn it. To give immunity to crimes
because they are accomplished, subVerts
public and private safety. ALI murder
ers may plead that to punish them willnot
bring to life their victim; true, but 1t may
prevent like crimes. So of this murder
of the Constitution, there are men who
are busy crying, it is done, say no more
about it," "It is done; do not, for what
can't be helped, desert your party" We
say to honest Republicans, if you meant
something by the pledge inyonr platform
it was not yoar party that did this fouI
deed that you are asked to pardon and
ratify. 1t was the new party of unscru'
pulous Radicals men, most of themi sc
personally infamous that their mock phi
ianthropy is one of the grossest hypocri-
sizes of their foul lives. For a share Of
the profits they would gladly sell al
Africa into slavery; and it is to make g
political profit foi themselves out OF the
negro that they are counting his vote anC
insoIently thrusting him into offices greai
and small, over the heads of white men