Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-24
APPEAL
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITY.
PEACE rs DEATH To RADTCALTsM-
II CAV LIVE AEIK nv STRIFE.

II CAN LIVE ONLY BY STRIFE
The news from South Carolina
sickens the heart Of the patriot and
the phiIanthropist. Before the last
Presidential election General Grant
said, "Let us have peace" The Rad
icals promised the country repose-
rest from the evil passions and the
conflict Of extreme opinions-the
abatement Of strife, and the rep-es-
sion by the mere power Of dignified
example, OF violence of all kinds.
We we're told that Grant was a mag
unanimous cOnqueror, and that his rule
would be mild and gentle, that as the
broken bone, when well set, becomes
stronger than ever, so would an es-
tranged people be bound in closer af-
lection. The people trusted; Grant
was elected. He has been in Office
nearly three years and instead of the
promised rest and tranquility, we
have anarchy, strife and discord.
His administration has given no re-
pose TO the country, and instead of
clear, bright sunshine, we find the
country shrouded in gloom; bayonets
bristling over the whole country, and
despotism with its heel upon the
necks ofthe people.
And why is there nc peace? 1t is
because human nature is the same,
everywhere, in all ages. A brave and
proud people, who have laid down
their arms, after assurances of honor
able terms, will chafe at despotism
and the effort to establish negro
dominion upon the demolished
governments Of the whites. The
Turks and the Russians, by their
cruelty to the Greeks and Poles, made
themselves the seorn of Christendom,
but, by the more refined atrocity of
placing negro barbarians over the
heads Of southern white men, the
Radicals have achieved a far darker
infamy. And there is no instance in
history where the soldier has given a
prompt, eager and ObsequiOus aid to
the despot, that he has not shared the
OppressOr's infamy, and been gibbeted
in chains alongside of his master, and
his memory blackened with the curses
Of posterity. The experiment Of years
ought to satisfy the Radicals that
persecution, wrong and outrage is
not the road to peace. Statesman
ship and a lofty patriotism can restore {
tranquility, heal the wounds OF the /
war and unite the American people
into 8 homogeneous community. But
this is the very thing the Radicals do {
not want. A normal condition Of So {
ciety would be death to Radicalism, {
which lives by agitation. Its leaders '
realize, none better, that, coincident 8
with restoration, is the dissolution of I
their party. The cohesive power of I
plumber is, of itself, not strong G
enough to keep an organization so 7
rsvenous together. Disappointment t
does its work Of d~isintegration as f
efectually with Radicals as with 2
Something else is needed, 4
and that is agitation, disturbance, t
actual or fictitious. OF what earthly r
use, except for this, is there in ku-klux g
Investigation, now that the President &
las all the power he ever asked for? Il
It is to furnish stimulating food to a fC
nOribUnd patient; to give an excuse t.
or ~prOtracting an existing state of n
and deferring the only curative Il
fundamentally that can restore, not b
party, but the common veal. II
In a crisis like that which exists in ID
,Outh Carolina, to talk TO the fanatics, "
onsumed by a lust for power and Ii
,lunder, about right, justice. the 70
constitution and the law, is like &C
reaching honesty to a high v
7syman, or casting pearls be- of
IRE swine. But it is a relief in the In
our Of despotism and usurpation for m
he people of South Carolina TO know IFS
rat if the constitution fails to throw sh
round them its protecting egis, it is du
the government is admins no
red by perjured despots. Martial pc
W, says the great English commen- for
tor, Blackstone, is entirely arbitra- in
2; has no settled principles, and, in are
1th, is no law; in the language of lea
ord Loughborrough, cit does not ex- hel
in England at all" Martial law. out
thus described, can only exist in bel
e United States by virtue Of a clause thu
the constitution, which vests in des
ngreSs alone the power to suspend of
2 writ Of ha6eGs corpus, when the ;als
Bile safety may require it IN cssos mn
rebellion or Invasion Congress it cur
I has no power % suspend the writ the
OF Race. This being a dele sue
ga power to Congress, Congress Ger
mot delegate that power to either viii
the other two coordinate branches our
the government. Nor could a hay
re efectual humiliation of all the har
neiples and theories Of free govern The
or a more deadly assault upon bios
letter and spirit Of the constitu- be T
be made, than that of vesting in that
executive, in a time Of profound tenn
this despOtic power.