Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-29
NEW DEPARTURE.
The Most Violent Bolt In the DIFeC-
lion OF DisintsaratIon.
Tie Hoyement Of VsIIandIsham Re-
views by an Old Friend.
The Federal Aulharity Has Already
Presumed TOO Much
From De CLEVELAND IOhiOI CTisIs.I

From the Cleveland (Ohio) Crisis.l
There are certain uneasy bodies
among the politicians of this country
who are never so counfOrtableas when
they are unhappy, ana who, while
/ willing to sacrifice all relationship to
! principle for self-interest, totally mis-
apprehend the elements of their own
! strength, and thW8rt the just en-.
dpavOrs of friends in their behalf.
! There is q noisy kit Of demagOgUes in
Ohio who rest uneasily out Of Office,
and who would abandon the foremost
of virtues for success. Success, in the
I estimation Of these gentlemen, con
sists less in the triumph of principle
I than in the accumulation Of the
psltry profits and empty hOnOrs Of
official position. By what rule Of
! honor or Justice such notions can be
/ coupled with the preteuse of ad-
! herence to principle we admit our
I inability to understand. To sCUttle
I the ship and transfer its flag to an
| enemy may belong to such tactics as
! have recently come In vogue, but we
/ confess an aversion to them not to be
overcome by a transitOry prospect Of
! success.
Mr.. Naliandigham, for whom this
| paper cannot beaCcused of having any
! prejudice, has seen proper to make the
/ most violent bolt in the direction OF
! party disintegratiOn that any member
has yet ventured upon. In a series Of
/ resolutions drafted by himself, and a
/ speech characterized by his usual force,
both delivered before the Montgomery
County Convention last week, Mr..
/ Vallaudigham, with transcendent
! cO0lness, proposed the abandonment
Z OF every principle for which the
I Democracy of Ohio have commended for
/ the last ten years, and, more suFpFis-
1 ing still, such was his force and infiu-
I ence that he carried with him the ap-
/ proving voice Of the sOTely oppressed
I Democracy Of that unfortunate cOun-
/ ty. This astonishing gsummersault has
I been heralded in all the sensational
/ papers as q new departure and the ab-
sOlute transfer Of all the heritage
Of white men to the enemy-the
aucUiOneeriHg Of the Ohio Democracy
| to some ambitious bidder or bank
rUpt shOddyite C0ntssting fOr its good
name. The infstUity that could sus-
tain a proposition so prepOsterOus is
not far removed from the fauaticism
that suggests the grOssest perversiOH
Of true principle and the tamest acqui-
escenCe in the dirtiest fraud.
In bTiei, the propositions submitted
by Mr.. Nallandigham, and adopted
by the Montgomery county DemOCra-
cy, are to abandon all opposition to
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fif.
teenth Constitutional Amendment
frauds, and aCguiesCe in these infamies
as among the accomplished results of
the war; and this abandonment to be
coupled with a totally inconsistent
opposition to the laws, by which It is
sought to enforce the measures! III
the amendments are legitimate addi-
tiOns to the Federal Constitution, all
opposition to the enaCtmeuts of the
Federal Congress by which it is pro
posed to enforce them is frivolous, |
factiOus and absurd, III the amend I
meuts are acknowledged to be
finalities, all their component evils in
the shape of laws must be admitted
to the pale of our approval. If the
amendments are valid, the laws en-
acted in pursuance thereof are equal I
~ binding; and to approve the one |
while opposing the other is to enact q |
freak of luuacy that must inevitably |
aggravate pity into contempt and abb |
hOrrenCe,
No one Of the several amendments
to the Constitution to which tits now
proposed TO submit without OppOsi- l
lion, was ever legally engrafted upon
the fundamental law. Not one of
them was ever fairly submitted to
the people of the States by q duly
authorized Congress, or by any other
representative body, as the COnstitu-
tiOu itself explicitly requires all
amendments to be submitted, No one
Of them was honestly adopted by
even q majority of the States, and all
were forced upon the people against
the pronounced viii of that majority
Of the people to which the advocates
Of these measures persistently appeal. .
The Constitution explicitly requires
that any amendment to the fUnd8-
mental law shall be submitted
to the States by Con
gress composed of two Senators
ana at least one Represeu- /
tatlye from each State i'm the Union.
The vilest man OF straw connected
with this administration, cannot be
found willing to swear that this posi-
tive TequisltiO1 was complied with in
The submission of the three bogus
amendments, in the enforcement Of
which We are invited TO aCquiesca. !
They were never legally or justly
c0nCurred In by the States. In the
South q conspiracy Of escaped con-
victs, trade-lgllen scall8W8gs, carpet /
b8ggers and thieves, pretended TO /
r8tify the amendments, with as little [
right to do so as his Satanic majesty /
had to give away the dOminiOns with I
which he tempted the Naz8rine. ln I
the North, some tribes Of as dlsrepU- |
table merCen8ries as got into the Ohio /
Legislature, deied the will Of the |
people. and sold out, 4" dog cheap" to |
The Federal usurper5 who desired the /
passage Of the suffrage amendment for |
merceusry and sOTdid motives only. /
The entire history Of these amend |
ments, and the means by which they /
were adopted, reek and stink with 4
inHmy and fraud; and to acqUiesce !
in them as accomplished facts. is to /
compound felony and become accom-
plices in the assassination OF liberty.
When Thomas Jefferson made his 1
mighty and successful struggle ID 1898 I
against the pretensiOus of Ohm Adams I
and his formidable crowd Of Federal 1
henchmen, he did not bow in humble /
submission TO what he most opposed, /
but levelled bis heaviest artillery at /
the heart Of-sthe evil which he per |
ceived would prove a cancer to the 1
body polite. Oar new departurists
seem to think they can cOncilate cancer
and compromise with fraud. The /
one gave us the emblem Of our civil \
liberty; the other would cOnsign Us to /
infamous chains; the one was q pro-
test Of great men against q manifest /
wrong; the other is q concession Of |
timid minds TO ign0ble possibilities. I
The Federal authority has already 4
presumed too much; the local inter
ests are already too cheaply sold; the 4
politicians who should defend the /
State against the usurpatiOns Of a ne
gro agency at Washington are already 1
TOO eager TO barter their plebian garbs /
for official purple. All such should /
5a eusDected. The Federal agency |
has exceeded its legitimate boundaries |
and powers; it now becomes the peO- /
pie to circumscribe its pretensiOns, |
mspgle its powers, and if possible re- /
duee III TO some degree Of submission /
10 the popular behest of its makers. /
To begin BY c0nceding all 1t requires, |
Is to gslvanize a beast that viii never /
60 down sgain at snybOdy's bidding. /
II i'll becomes Mr.. Nallandigh2m TO 1
nurse or nOurlsh this Federal reptile /
ia ms bosom, and abandon TO its /
mercy the adherents that cheeriuly /
gore the hTunt OF principle when it 1
was more oelOus than now; bUt II be !
90 chooses, be may be informed that i
no gaHrfna with ~