Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-23
POLITICAL

Mr.. Julian's female suffrage amend
ment to the Constitution is known in
Boston as ''the sweet sixteenth"
The Radicals are afraid that the ne
groes in Delaware will not get to vote
in the election in that State next fall
on account of the peculiar character O
the registry and assessment laws o.
the State, and they are importunine
Congress to intervene"
Earnest" a correspondent of the
JacksOn(M Miss. Pilot, Rad thinks the
people OfMississippiar too ignorant to
be intrusted with the election OF their
county school superintendent and di.
rectOrs. God help them if they don't
know more than III. r. Pease, the
State superintendent of Education!
Ex-Auditor Wickliffe, of Louisiana,
is said to have gone on a little pleas.
ure trip without leaving word where
letters should be addressed to him.
This oversight is much regretted by
numerous persons to whom he sold
$l50,GO0 worth of State bonds, which,
in the hurry of preparing for his Jour.
ney, he inadvertently took from the
wrong pile.
A statement of the gross collections
of internal revenue since the org III
cation of the bureau, in 1863, shthss
the amount collected to June 80, mort
to be 81, 297, 1925, S38.01. The recertek
of the present fiscal year are estima-
ted at $l75, 900, 900. Some idea can be
formed from this statement of the tax
able virtue Of the people of the United
States.
Senator Sumner has a bill prepared
to simplify and reduce the rate of
postage, to abolish the franking privi-
lege, etc, which makes a reduction of
the postage to one cent for half ounce
letters, and substitutes for the frank
jng privilege a system of stamped en-
velOpes. 1t is to be offered as a. sub
stitute for the pending bill to abolish
the ranking privilege. +.
An exciting fall campaign In Mary-
land Is predicted. Radicals in WAsh-
ington are boasting that they WiII
carry four out of the five Congrs-
sional districts, and that the negrota.
will vote with them to a man. TkA, :
will be no stint of expenditure
lack of stump speeches to "rede6
from the rebel Democracy:%
as the Radicals term saddling the
State with carpet bagism and expos
ing her treasury to plumber.
OK" the Washington correspond
emit of the Baltimore Gazette, says on
the 18th instant, Judge Holt, in q n
editorial published in the organ of this
morning, announces the Radical creed
upon this point thus: ''The people, in
their fundamental law, in
expression to their will in a
Constitution, retained all powers nee
essary to continue the United Govern
nent and charged the General Gov
eminent with the responsibility of its
own preservation. The extent of the
power possessed by the peopie-that
the General Government-fOr self
preservation, was not fully known I'M
il tested in the late rebellion, when it
ully appears that this supreme power !
extended not only to the use of the
and fortunes of individuals, but
# their very lives" And this is pre-
isely the doctrines advocated by SUM
Ter, Drake, Morton and their fellow
evolutiOnists in the Senate for the
'ast year and win certainly be applied
s well to the powers of the States, as
o the Supreme Court, and finally to /.
be Executive.
Governor Wright, presiding Chiafl
f the ChSetaw Nation, In a messaoa
, the Legislature of the Nation, in
xtra session, on the 2Ist of March.
lakes the following suggestion 10 his
with the view to their meet
~ the views and wishes of the
United States Government as TO the
hristianizing and c~ivilizing of the
Indians, and their admission To cit;.
He says: "Just as sOov, "a
e shall have adjusted our lar : mos,
on, we will organize o." ,saives a.
ace as the State of o. taIbnmSms
80 of the ON as one of the
1nest 49, Onion. If it is the
oyepnase of the United States
- snt to have us become citi-
~ u the said American Union, she
: Il acquiesce in our petition for adj
Mission. This, in my opinion, Is a
etter and surer way TO test her sin
in her wishes of our becoming
citizens. To carry out this object,
would recommend the propriety Of
lviting, by a resolution, all the
,ibes of Indian Nations interested on
his subject, to meet in general con-
ention at an early day, for mutual
insulation Should other Nations
unwilling to go into State at once
ithout going through the ordeal
Itelage, / would further suggest that
le Choctaw and Chickasaw Nst'ons
organized into a State, for we nave
country large enough for that pur-
use. In the meantime l would re-
'mmend that you enter a protest
'ainst any territorial government at
'esent, for the reasons already stated,
i'd submit the same to Congress and
the President of the United States"