Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-21

Mr.. Bingham on the Georgia question,
which resulted in the defeat OF Butler,
we are inclined to believe that our
State win not be set out in the cold
again, but that Congress will seek to
control the elections in the State by
means of the Butler bill which is now
| before Congress, to enforce the Fiji
teenth Amendment in all the States.
This bill gives the general govern
ment power to appoint the Judges
and officers of election in every pre-
cinct in the whole country, and they
hope by selecting. their men to be able
to count the vote in their favor whether
it is given that way or not. If they
do this they can retain their central
lied power in Congress without plae-
ing Us again in a territorial condi-
ton.
From the Winchester Tenn. Home Jour
nai.l
Old Beast Butler and Spoon Butler,
has drafted bill for the reconstruc-
ton of Tennessee. Its effect is to
throw out of power so much Of the
State Government as was elected in
August last; but to reach this end it
does not propose to put the State un-
der military control nor territorial
laws. The bill declares in its pream-
BILE that Governor Senter was elected
by fraud, and that the acts of Con-
gress were violated in the registration
of voters, and it therefore proposes to
declare the election null and void, to
order a new registration and new
election, and that United States o1h-
GERS are to execute the same.
Let these tyrants and outlaws do
their worst. the more Outrages upon
the Constitution of the United States
(if there be such an instrument nOwl,
only furnish the Democratic party
with 50 much capital to be successfully
used in the approaching Presidential
contest, which contest Is TO determine
whether this shall be an empire ruled
by ignorant and revengeful despOts,
or a republic ruled by honest, humane,
and liberal Democrats.
From the Clarlzsville (Tenn.) Chronicle.l
The telegraph announces that troops
have been sent to Tennessee for the
suppression of crime. OF course that
is no part Of the object of this military
excursion. In proof that it Is not, we
see that no troops are ordered TO
Philadelphia, where the annual Jail
report shows the Incarceration of SS7l
culprits. We doubt whether the
State Of Tennessee can show a greater
number OF criminals than the single
county of Philadelphia. And if crime
be z violation of the reconstruction
acts, United States troops are more
needed North than South for its sup
preston. Then, it being proven that
it is not to put down crime that troops
are sent here, it follows that the OBJ
ject is purely political, and that Radi-
cal communities may murder and rob
with impunlty whilst those not 4tadi-
cal must be made, even at the point
Of the bayOnet, TO vote the Radical
ticket. This is all of it.
From The Jackson West Tennessee Whig.l
Our own conviction is that it means
a restoration OF the State TO RADICAL
rule. with Gov. Senter or SECRETARY
Fletcher as Military Governor, the
up5etting of the work of the COnsti-
tgtioual Convention, and the efIectuaI
oVertbTOW OF all the forms Of State
government within our borders. We
expressed this belief in conversation
with our friend Gen. Robert g. Foster,
OF Nashville, on the streets of that
atty on Monday last and the events
u bicb have ainee tTanspired have only
strengthened our convictions.
Our State government has now no
representative at Nashville, in the
Executive department. Gov. Senter
is gone, Secretary Fletcher Is gene,
and the Governors private secretary,
vino usually runs the machine-as the
3" late lamenteGW used to call 1t, has
gone: ana if anybody has been de-
Dutea to run the State government, IN
the absence of the GOVernGI ana his /
two deputies, we have not been ad- |
Vised OF the tact, nor have the public. !
We have believed for a week past,
and still believe at this writing |
Thursday afternOOn-that the State |
will be put under military rule within |
the next week-if it is not already I
as a consequence, all the |
work of cur late Convention will go |
By the board, as SO much work done |
for naught.
From the Gallatin Tenn Examiner.l
It is thus 4
that we are menaced by a miserable |
gang OF plunderers who seem deter |
nined TO bring about our ruin. The |
country never was in more peace |
able and orderly condition, and they |
know it; but that is precisely what |
they don't want. They crave Tor dis |
order, and to fOment mischief. They |
would wish nothing better than to .
have a few hundred negroes murdered |
every DAY. They are enraged that
the Legislature and the Convention |
have acted with wisdom and pru-
dence, that the rights of the negroes /
have been secured; and frenzied that |
10 opportunity IS given them to get /
up row, and hence Iying-dOwnright, |
STAINLESS, unblushing lying, that even
the old father of lies cannot SurpaSS-
is the only resort. We shall not mincc /
words. Il IS time to cease being po- /
lite to 5landerer5 and wOuld-be mur- |
derers. for they seek to bring about |
bad blood, and to plunge us i'll
We cannot fOre5ee the end |
of this.
From the Humboldt (Tenn.l Headlight.l |
Now we are honest enough to admit |
that many atrocious crimes, unjusti |
fled and unjustifable, have been per-
Detrated in Tennessee; that bloody |
tragedies here and there have been |
enacted in real life, damaging TO our |
reputation as a civilized people and |
horrible in all their details and in ev-
cry view; but viewing the matter in |
every light and from any stand point, |
we unhesitatingly affirm the belief |
that the reduction of nennessee to the |
condition of a territory by act of Con- !
gress, would be greater crime aga inst |
right, justice, principle and man
kind than all the crimes ever |
in this State COM |
bined. 1t would inevitably lead |
to financial ruin, commercial bank |
ruptcy, infidelity, moral degradation, |
midnight marauding and systama-
tized assassination. 1t would poison |
the very fountains of liberty, and send |
sweeping over the whole State a |
deluge of crime. These things mag
come upon us. Who, looking back |
upon the legislative records of the |
country since the war, can feel conf
dent that ii will not be our doom?
But be this as it may, the people |
ought to ratify the new Constitution,
and then, if not enslaved by Federal |
interpositiOn, go faithfully and reso-
lutely forward in the protection of
all citizens everywhere-pOOr, rich,
obscure, prominent, black or white;
and III The strict enforcement of civil
law against all men or combinations
q -, tlot dnf,r II nhis is the road |