Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-20


far Is to p~ronounce '~reSoIdtion in dis
guise," and the entering wedge to ere
pesting the errors Of The past civil striGe's
is as follows:
Resolved, That the Southern States
should be Immediately restored to their
rights under the constitution of b
United States as sovereign States OF the
American Union,
This resolution IS too true to be plsusi-
bly, denied. But he demands that the
people of Tennessee should pursue my
polieysli and kneel as beggars at the foot
stool Of the imperial throne. "My
policy " was originally to refuse general
amnesty, and hold at his feet, for his own
purposes and by the power Of the con-
queror, the whole wealth, intelligence,
and thus, the power, of the South. He
seeks still TO carry it out. AS President,
he desired the South should crouch as a
supplicant at his feet, and his policy was
TO put southern leaders in peril and
terror accordingly. He Imagines him
self still on the throne, and de-
mands from a great State a craven sub
/ mlselOns hulCu Nc las AOs u
tual vigor to enforce from its people
any more than he could from a Radical
| Congress, and which he never had the
capacity or cunning to WIN, except by the
arts of the prince of Demagogues; and
could not then, but for the fact that the
people. who made him and gave him all
the honors be ever had, hsd not found
him out, and did not know his selfish
meanness and capacity for treason TO
them. Now, that he is KNOWN and the
cloven foot is out, the decree of the peo-
pie of Tennessee is made, and he is q po-
litical leper, finally and forever fallen.
The second resolution OF the platform
is like the first-s simple assertion of
sound policy, an indication of what, not
magnanimity alone, but the best states
manship and the soundest wisdom inn
peratively demanded for the purposes of
unity, fraternity and the prosperity of all
our sections and peoples. 1t is as follows:
ReSoLUed, That all citizens of the United
States under political disabilities should
be Immediately relieved therefrom.
Who doubts the truthfulness of this as
severation, or the wisdom of its utterance
by the Convention2 Not even Andrew
johnson has pretended that this is g nevo-
luton in disguise" And yet in accordance
with his theory that Tennesseeans shall
not at this late day stand up and make a
manly declaration of their convictions as
to the true policy of the government,
what less is it than the first resolution
/" revolution in disguise, " and repeating
the orrsrs of the past civil strife?" One
resolution declares that the States should
be restored to their rights, the other that
the people should be restored to their
rights. If this is a crime, then we are in
Iced all serfs and slaves. If Andrew
johnson thinks and believes it, as he
has declared, then the proof he has
furnished from his own lips, that he is
a tyrant at heart, that he was a tyrant
when he won good will by playing the
~demagogue before the people, and that
he will be a tyrsnt if aver to the hight
of constable he again reaches the power
TO act out the instincts of a towering
ambition for self, combined with weak
ness which forbids and prevents its
concealment. The two resolutions have
equally the air of independence, SOW
ereignty and truth. They speak as a
great and free people may speak, with
rightful authority. They declare truths
without a if or an if my master plesses."
But it suits better this plotter for power
hat a condition of things should
exist in what the people shall be made to
cringe and blench in the fear of some new
outrage of reconstruction, just as it suits
the Radical vsndsl carpet-bag birds of
prey that storm shall rage destructive
to life which may bring d~ecomposing
food for their consumption. This preten-
ious loverof the people cares for them as
the butcher for the lamb, or the hyens for
the carcass. Hence he invites calamity
by predicting it, and would foster dissen-
tions, without which he can never hope to
regain power. He has been tried in the
balance and is found wanting. He has
committed a weak blunder, which
is 8 crime, for which purgatory
Will not suffice TO atone. Had he been
faithful To- his Democratic professions,
Tennessee had still further honors in re-
serve for him. But he win never regain
the confidence of the people he has be-
srayed and wronged. His doom is sealed.
He stands in his proud eminenee the po-
htical Judas of Tennessee.