Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-11
TEXAS.
The Militia Garpet-Bag BiII---Tbe Lives,
Liberties and Property Of tho
Psopie In Danger.
from the Colorado GitiEen. ]

from the Colorado 6itizen.l .-.s-
The Legislative act of Radical infa-
my has at last become a law. The
lives, liberties and property Of the
citizens of the State are now at dis
posal Of the. Executive. What his
course will be can easily be fOreshown
by his special to the loyal Black Re
publican on the 29th day of June.
His declarations indicate clearly the
use that will be made of the arbitrary
power conferred upon him by this
partisan nuisance. The means used
and the ends to be accomplished are
a fair index Of the feelings and inten-
tions of the factions at the helm of the
State. The militia, police, school and
appointing bills crown the uSurpa-
tfon of the Radical faction, and lay
the ak at the root of constitutional
liberty. Every citizen possessing in
fiuenee and standing in the eommu-
nifty where he lives will be marked as
victim to Radical hate, and some
preteXt will be trumped up TO author
ize the factioniStS to crafty their
malice and destroy the victims. The
courts of the country are to be closed
to the redress of grievance, and the
Judiciary bOlstering up illegal, cruel
and iniquitious acts of tyranny. With
the militia and police to enforce the
mandates of Radical tyranny, and the
enormous taxation imposed to meet
the claims of despOtism upon the
people, will infiict such lasting injury
upon the country that bankruptcy and
all its attending misfortunes will
inevitably follow. It is highly
probable that the burdens of
taxation will be raised so high that
the people will be unable to bear them,
in which case the administration will
have to resort to the expediency of
using the credit of the State to raise
the necessary funds to carry on the
State government. But one course
remains for the people to pursue to
eounteract these iniquitOus and op-
pressive laws, and that is to refuse to
pay the State taxes, and thereby
withhold the means to perpetuate
their enslaVement. Let the people
acQuiesee in the matters that they
cannot help, but by acting so as to
! embarrass the administration they
can avoid great many OF the DANA
ges intended to be inflicted upon them.
Let every creditor and person who
credits the State, know that the peo-
pie will repudiate this revolutionary
and corrupt legislation, and never
pay one cent of the debt created to I'll
| the Golfers of the vampires who now
are draining the life-blood of the
State. Let the world know that these
debts and large donations to mOnopo-
lies are violations to plainsprovisions
of the organic law, and will never be
carried out; that the white men, who
own the property in the State, from
whom the taxes are to be collected,
will in all future time control the des-
TIMES of this State, and that they will
not indorse or pay any debt illegally
contracted or contracted for illegal
purposes by the present usurpers.
| The provisions of the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the Constitu.
ton of the United States will be found
very effieacious in the emergency thai
will be certain to arise from the en-
forcement of these acts of tyranny and
usurpation. The decision of Judge
Bradley in the slaughter-house mon.
opoly at New Orleans gives US a rem.
| W CON<btC oO1iIC NAAC Ak1O 41NCAO-
ed to be imposed. We trust that in
every instance when an arrest is made
without authority of law, or when any
citizen is tried before a tribunal un
known to the Constitution, the partie:
may apply to the United States courts
for relief, and that every violation oi
the civil rights bill, and the laws O
Congress to enforce the Fifteenth
amendment, will be brought before
the United States Courts. These en-.
aetments, that were passed for the op
preston of the people of the South
may, in the end, be the salvation OF {
large number of our citizens. Let thG
old motto of the sages of rs be oul
watchward until the last vestage o
tyranny is banished from the land
and every usurpation punished, anC
the rights of the people secured.