Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-24

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Auv-GeaTC Criminal C5asI-LUEEE. WRIGHT.
Election to take place on the 18th May. No
registration OF tax certificate required,
THE Radicals and the Independ-
ents are still abusing the Democratic
party and laboring to prove that the
south owes it nottingham it IS no
more our friend than the Republicans.
Let US briefly recapitulate facts which
win show that the Northern Demo-
Gratis are our friends. 1t is true they
supported the war after it was begun.
But it was their duty, under the most
rigid construction of civil anG polItl-
cal obligations, to follow the authority
to which they professed allegiance,
be it State or Federal, and both de-
manded their services. But the facts
show that Northern Democrats did
their utmost to prevent the war, 10
mitigate its horrors, to bring it to a
speedy issue, to make the issue endu-
rsbie for us and to help US since the
issue. To elaborate these positions
would be to write the history OF nine
eventful years; but we design show
ing, in a few words, wherein the Dem
ocratic party has been the friend OF
the Southern people. In the first
place, it is a historical fact that the
last effort to compromise the differ
ences between sections on a peaceful
basis was the famous project known as
the Crittenden Resolutions. These
were voted on February p, 1861, in
the House, and March ,, 1861, in the
Senate. Every Republican in both
Houses voted against these resolu-
tons. Nearly every Democrat in both
voted for them. This was the first
occasion on which the Republican
party had occasion, after its first ma
tional triumph, TO show its feelingst to-
ward the Southland it took the side
Of enmity-the Democracy that Of
peace toward US.
Among the earliest of the fragrant
land now admitted) despotisms which
marked the conduct of the war, was
the unauthorized arrest and barbarous
imprisonment of citizens, without
even the form Of a trial or the OppOr-
tunity of defense, on the charge of
sympathy with the South. In De-
cember, 1862, this matter was brought
to the attention of Congress, and the
effort to rectify the outrage was de-
feated by motions to lay on the table,
introduced and unanimously sup
ported by the Republicans, uniformly
opposed by the Democrats in Con-
gress.
In May, 1863, Vallandigham, an
Ohio Democrat, was tried by military
commission, for alleged sympathy
with the South, and banished under
pain Of death if he returned. The act
was everywhere applauded by Repub-
licans; everywhere denounced by
Democrats.
In February, 1868, the act suspend
ing hG6eaS corpus, an act VIGOROUSLY
designed to punish southern sympa-
thizers, without trial, was passed
every Republican Senator voting for
it; every Democratic Senator but one,
against it.
In March, 1868, the first act was
passed indemnifying Federal officials
against local responsibility for their
war acts. Every Republican in the
House but one voted aye; every Dem
Ocrat but two voted nay.
On the 29th Of May, 1864, Congress
took action on the wholesale suppress
sion of Northern newspapers for the
crime Of Southern sympathy. Every
Democrat in the House Of Represen-
tatives voted a rebuke to those sup
pr~essions; every Republican sus-
tanned them.
Few things has the South suffered
more from than military interference
with elections. Now, on the 22d Of
June, 1864, a bill TO prevent that in
reference was introduced in the Sen
ate Of the United States. Every Dem
ocrat voted for it; every Republican
but six against it.
Virginia was severed in twain by
Republican votes in both Houses, the
Democrats vainly protesting againt it
and with unanimity.
The Freedmen's Bureau was among
the greatest curses to both whites and
blacks at the South ever devised. 1t
was not only the creature of Republi-
canism, but when the bill to prOlOng
this Institution was proposed, carried
and vetoed, the veto July I6, 1860,
was overborne, against a unanimous
Democratic protest, the Republicans,
with two exceptions, favoring the bill.
The greatest fiscal outrage Eve per-
petrated against the South was the
direct tax on cottOn-as plainly un-
constitutional al it was unjust and ty-
rannous to the South. Yet both the
bills of 1866 and 1867 were introduced
and carried by Republicans, the
Democrats almost unanimously OPP
posing them.
Each Of the new amendments 10 the
Constitution, all designed in some
form as punitory Of the Southern peo-
pie, were the work of the RepubH-
cans, and vehemendy and to the Bit
ter end opposed by Democrats. Z
The ironclad oath Of Congress andq
the proscriptiVe oaths of all the borderR