Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17

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lress-The Answer-DemOeraoy to be
set Upon its Legs.
Special Correspondence Of the Memphis
Appeal
WASHINGTON, Wednesday.
Senator Fowler stated this morning
that there was imminent danger OF
the immediate application of the hOr-
rible process of reconstruction to Ten
nessee. Stokes and Fletcher and their
myrmidons, gathered from every pOr-
ton of Tennessee, are active, persist
ent, ubiquitous. Stokes sat in the
Senate Chamber to-day while Howe,
of Wisconsin, pronounced studied
Grafton addressed to the basest pas
sions of the basest swell mob ever
gathered in an imperial capital.
Stokes hooked features were wreathed
with hideOus smiles, and his sleek
Uranium glistened like that of Their
sites. Rays of light nlumined the
shrunken. sharpened, mummy-like
features Of Maynard, who smiled on
Sumner, who smiled again, while
Howe read the negro vagrant code
enacted in 1866, wnen Sharkey was
Governor, by the Mississippi Legisla-
ture. While Howe, who is more
cruel TO the Kings English,
which he tortures mercilessly,
than ever was a slave driver
to an African, painted Southern char
acter as black as the esubjects OF alleged
Southern. ,harbarity, another more
savage assault upon LOuisianians was
made in the House by the representa-
tive of Cincinnati. This Cincinnati
gentleman I could not learn his
name) grew pale with rage. Arrayed
in ghostly robes of the Ku-hluX Khan,
he bestrode as his Pegasus the pale
horse of Revelations, and rode lore
most in this mighty steeple chase Of
Radiealism over the South, all stained
with negro blood and studded with
negro skulls.
THE EFFECT.
II made ones blood freeze while
forced TO listen in silence to these IN
blushing falsehOOds. Think Of it, that
multitudes hear and read these I'M
founded statements and perversiOns
of facts and character, ana must give
credence. I saw pretty girl shudder
and grow pale while Howe recited in
cidents of some stupendOus crime, as
black ia all hideOus defOrmities as
that recently perpetrated in In
diana, as that which startled the
country when the village of Seymour
became another GolgOtha or as that
which makes New York city, at this
hour, the scene of a trial involving
every crime that shocks the sensibil-
tiles of decency or violates the DEGREES
of God.
THE ANSWER.
The code of Mississippi which so
delighted Stokes and made the ghast-
Iv MAYNARD rub his yellow hands in
an ecstacy of supreme beatitude WIS
enacted Immediately after Mississippi
was OVerrun in every direction by
mighty multitude Of ignorant, idle,
helpless negroes. suddenly liberated
by the lightning stroke that rent
every bondsm8ns chain assunder.
Msnumitted without anticipating
freedom, filled with a vague unde-
fined idAa that freedom affected the
-761tsic1I. ralher than the moral man,
each negro abandoned his plantation
home and Mississippi was infested
everywhere with Yagrants. 1hey
could only live by petty theits: NO
white man of the South deemed lar
ceny, committed by negro, crime.
The idea of sending a negro to pen
stontiarv for such offenses, for two
wears after the war, never seriously
entered a SOutherner's head. Other
wise a penitentiary whose walls en-
the State would have been
by the necessities OF the
hour. BrOWnlOW was forced, even IN
Tenn nessee, where negroes are re-
Istively few, to take out patent for a
arSOning machine and run ii by steam
IN his mighty-African menagerie at
Nashville, What conduct, different
from this, could have been anticipated
on the mart Of untutOred blacks never
having any more clearly defined ideas
of y,leIfyq Il ttflfll than Senator Howe,
of the proprieties OF the English Ian
guage. What recourse against famine /
and against depredatiOns upon f1ockS
oS cattle. swine and barn-yards, had |
whites, save in these dreadful Vagrant |
acts? Why did not Howe tell the |
whole story? Why not say that worse |
than Egyptian lOcusts, than Indian /
thieves whom Sheridan butchered, |
swept over Mississippi? Why not
present the complete apology with the /
frightful crime? Is Howe q liar?
jytiDpressiO reTi est SUggesttO JCkSi. |
More generous than Howe, who eX- |
hsusted arts of vulgar demagogism |
an the Senate Chamber, once cOnse- |
Grated 10 honest worth and statesman |
shin, | would say that laws enacted IN 4
1866 in Mississippi would be, if un-
repealed at this hour, needless and |
SGmbo, like Sunset |
Cox, has grown weary of change. |
he (Sambo, not Cox has re-
turned to bis cabin, and Dinah /
sheds about him the fragrance |
OF her charms. Virginia, with all its
''breakdowns" and hallOwed memo
ries of jigs, gOurd fiddles and elysian
tobacco fields, is abandoned, and sam /
DO finds bOundless visions OF unal- I
Ioyed delight In negro crowded dis
tricts of a sultrier cline.
ANOTHER BCGBEAR.
The Ku-KluX Klan had origin in
the very facts that OyercrOwded
penitentiary and gave
paternity to the frightful vagrant code
of Mississippi, which the unworthy
Senator Howe read to a startled au
dience. Young men, in ghOstly ap-
DareI, confined superstitiOuS predatory
negroes TO their homes after nightfall
and at length rOgues and kn@ =, who
sloughed of from both armies, and
shreWd negro thisveA themselves
adopted Ku-Klux habits, and in this
IN ise perpetrated many crimes. If
Mr.. Iowe were a proper Senator and
4 worthy representative OF an honest
people he U,suld not have given pub
ficitv TO perversions and suppressiOns
Of truth which tend iaore to dissever
ties of union than every outrage ever
inflicted upon helpless white or olack
men.
DEMOCRACY.
Measures will be adopted at an
aarly day to infuse a share Of vigor
INTO the somnOlent Democratic par
" As II exists II Is simply a life
ess adjunct Of Radicalism. Its policy
and purposes want clear definition.
The unity of the Federal Constitution
nas been sadly impaired. State OH
,ers should collect Federal taxes. MI
1orities should have protection in the
,ouptry's organic law. The tariff sys-
Iem should be thoroughly reformed or
abroVated. National Banks are ma
tionaI nuisances. But why extend the
.atalogue of subjects in reference 10
which the Democratic or Old Line
Whig party rsdipiuus should define
nresent creed. We will have con-
vocation of all elements Of true con-
,ervatism within the month, and new
ne will be impaired to all elements Of
hostility TO Radlcalism.
RECONSTRCCrION.
Ciol Movers. of Memphis, late Of