Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-06

the swords and arms which were
used 50 Wellby US in billoWing Ireland
with the graves OF Federal and Con-
federate soldiers may, if used again,
strike only at the common foe.
THE sque8kers for " accepting the
situation" and who twaddle about
accomplished facts" were reinforced
yesterday by Grant who sits upon his
throne at the White House, with all
the power Of a sceptered king.
The President has issued one o.
his regal mandates, in the shape
Of a proclamation, in which he
says: " It is my earnest wish that
peace and a cheerful obedience 20 law
may prevail throughout the land, and
that all traces Of our late unhappy
| civil strife may be speedily removed.
These ends can be easily reached by
] acouiescence in the results Of the con-
| dict. now written in our Constitution,
and by dueand proper enforcement OF
/ equal justa and impartial laws in every
part Of our country" o, most wise
and Just Potentatel The President
wants peace7 but it must
come by an aoquiescing in
all the infamies Of Radical usurpa-
ton. The above extract must have
been stolen from an editorial ia some
Of the independent Democratic jour
nails, for it Is nothing but a nat
demanding an acceptance OF the sit
uation. and a craven submission to
accomplished facts. "Order reigned
in Warsaw when the mailed hand
Of despotism crushed out life and
freedom, and Grant would have
peace in the South by annihilating
the rights Of the States, violating the
Constitution and pining down a dis
armed people with his bayOnets. He
has no more respect for the genius Of
our institutions; feels no more vene-
ration for the Constitution, the splen-
did history and glorious traditions Of
the country, than does the carrion
crow for the noble form Of some dead
charger, whose glossy skin he tears
with beak and claws. Yet he issues
his DEGREES and invOkes peace, and
hypocritieaIly whinesaboU unhappy
civil strife" 1t viii be seen from the
extract, copied from Grants procla-
nation, published in yesterdays AP-
PEAL that the President, and those
Democrats who propOset TO "accept the
situation" are fr~aternizing As pleas
antly as the rattle-snake and the
prairie-dOg which III said to keep
house together upon the great plains
OF the West. We presume they will,
for the future, eat and sleep and plot
and hunt together, until they become
a foul mosaic of political depravity,
for Grant says We cannot have peace,
and ne threatens to enforce the recent
Ku-Klux bill unless the South acqui-
esces in the Constitutional amendments ;
and the truculent politicians pat him
on the back and eXclaim brav0l The
President says that the Constitutional
amendments are the results of the
war, and by submitting to them all
traces of our unhappy civil strife will
be removed. In other words if the
Democratic party viii accept the sit
uati0n" there viii be no further party
divisions, the era Of good feeling viii
have returned and Grant viii be
elected President without opposition.
The President and the s0aptail Dem
Ocrats have at last struck hands and
met on a common platform: but
this foul and natural embrace
of political harlots viii only
nerve the Democratic party
with renewed strength. When
the fundamental principles Of govern
ment are violated; when it is sought
to re~vOlUtiOnize the existing order Of
things, and erect q new state OF
affairs; when it is attempted to break
down all the barriers which a written
Constitution interposes to prevent the
exercise Of arbitrary and unlimited
power; when it is attempted to eslab-
lish a central despOtism on the ruins
of a constitutional Republic of SOve-
reign States, a great political crime is
attempted; issues are made which
must be met with the mind and spirit
al freemen. The President has done,
is doing these things. lie has tram
pied upon the Constitution, and is
seeking to maintain his power by
changing the Government into q CEN
trail despOtism. This is the mighty
issue he has forced upon the C0uu-
try, beginning with the recOnstruc-
Jion acts and ending with the enforce
ment acts, crowned by the infamous
measure lately inaUgurated in Con-
gress, which proposes to make Presi-
dent Grant virtually the dictator over
this great country,