Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-20
ESTABLISHED 1910.

sentatives yesterday, upon the hu-
KluX bill, as reported back by the
Conference Committee, was short but
fierce. The result was its defeat by
the decisive vote Of 106 nays to "A
yeas. For this We are indebted TO
many Republicans, among them
Messrs. Banks, Bingham, Blair, Of
Michigan, Conger, Farnsworth, Fin
klenburg, Garfield, Hale, Hawley,
Hooper, Packer of Pennsylvania, Po-
land, Sheldon, Strong, and Townsend
OF Pennsylvania. These men viii be
remembered by a people grateful for
the least aid in their herculean efforts
to preserve the integrity Of the States,
andsave the country from the anarchy
TO which we are drifting through
the vindictive, merciless and merce-
nary legislation Of the Radicals in
Congress. Mr.. Brooks, Of New York,
very causticaIly branded the implaca-
ble majority in the Senate, and in
doing so, in part only, gave expires
sion to the curses that will rise to the
lips Of every just man in the Union,
as they contemplate the possible
results Of such measures to the trade
and business Of the country, already
PROSTATE under the ignorance and
stupidity Of a Secretary Of the Treas
ury, who could better manage his old
cyOss- reads grocery than the finances
of a nation of traders, spectators,
manufacturers and farmers. But what
care your Beast Buffers, your cigar
smoking Grants, your history-making
Summers or your financial-diJet0nti
Shermans, what care these for the real
Interests Of the country if through
the blood, the sweat and agony Of the
people they can secure a release Of
powSr and perpetuate a party which
is theirs only as it secures them spOils
and plsce. What cares the unblush-
ing thief and villain who disgraces
Massachusetts, and blurs even Radi-
caIism by his presence in Congress,
whether millions of good, honest
maple are thrown back in the
race Of life, that their prospective
gains turn to losses, and all their in
dustry barely sufices to maintain life?
What cares the rufian, who repeats
his blasphemy Of the women Of New
Orleans in the house, what becomes
Of the industry Of the South 80 that he
gain. his ends and by the severest
and most samptuary laws, rides into
higher place upon the backs Of the
fools. ignOramUses and asses who
believe all the falsehoOds Of liars,
like Maynard Of Tennessee and Hol-
den of North Carolina? Would that
the Paris " Reds would sit in judg-
ment upon these mere huckstering
politicians, and so sitting enforce a
righteous Judgment Of summary exc
,eutiou. o, for a Cromwell to adjourn
the Beast and his tribe forever, that
the country, after eleven years OF trial
and trouble, might draw a freeIbreath
and address itself unrestricted to the
development Of its destiny. We can
sympathize with Mr.. Brooks, a me-
thodieaI and conservative man, sur
prised out Of his habit to the use Of in
vecuve in speaking Of the men in the
Senate who disgrace the places
sof the dead and living worthless Of the
Republic They are indeed without
clemency, mercy or tender compass
sion, such as should characterize the
cOnscript fathers Of the Republic. But
they have failed, and happily for all,
there is vouchsafed US, perhaps only a
brief respite, perhaps a perpetual
vCstpOnement, of the vile bill, which
will go down 10 history as shaming
and Outrsging every constitutional
principle, and as worse than any q
the acts OF the penal code by which
Rngiand depOpulated Ireland Of her
worth and intelligence, and forced
upon her q darkness Of Ignorance out
Of which her children are only now
emerging. Let US hope that our last
f'perhaps" may be turned into certain
wand that Grants departure for st.
Louis to-day may prove an augury that
he, too, has become sick Of this eter-
nal strife, this unequal struggle for
perpetual mastery and gives up in
disgust and despair. There is yet, we
believe, a bare possibility that the Ku-
Klux bill viii be allowed to rest quiet
ly between the pages on which it is
printed, in the document room Of the
Capital.