Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-05

published in yesterdays APPEAL, an
nounced that General Blair had reit-
Grated his Broadhead letter; and we
publish this morning a letter from the
Missouri Senator, in which he avows
himself in favor Of the complete over
throw of the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth amendments to the COnstitu-
ton, and the various laws which have
been enacted for their enforcement.
The letter, we publish elsewhere in
this paper, is written with great eau
ton; but it is impressive, logical and
incisjve. It is the production of a
/ statesman-like and philosophical
mind, careful in its facts, calm in rea-
sOning and conclusive in its deduc-
tions. Senator Blair's -utterances are
calculated to make no ordinary i'm
preston on the public mind, which
has at last been aroused from its dan
gerous torpor TO a sense Of the duty
which now devolves upon every true
Democrat. The last National Demo-
cratic Convention declared slavery a
"dead issue" secession a "dead is
sue" and whenever Hoffman and
Hendrix and Blair, or any other Dem
ocrat, allude to such "dead issues" the
sOap-tail Democrats announce that
they accept the situation" and sub
NIT to accomplished facts" Blair,
Hoffman and Hendrix, and all true
Democrats, concede that negro slav-
cry is a ''dead issue" that secession
as a practical remedy for Federal
wrongs is also a "dead issue" But
Blair and Hoffman and Hendrix and
all real Democrats proclaim, publicly,
privately and in their letters and
speeches that the reconstruction mea-
sures Of the Radical party are in di-
rect violation of the Constitution Of
the United States, and rest for their
support upon nothing but open and
bold lsJvpatiOH-the more glaring
and hagiti0us from the fact that they
have been in direct breach OF the sol
emn declaration made to the world
by the States North, of the object for
which the war was waged by them
against the States SOuth-which OBJ
jet, as they declared, was for no pur-
pose whatever bat to maintain
the integrity, so-cslled, Of the
Union, "with all the dignity,
equality, and the rights of the
several States Uuimpaired, - under the
Constitution. These m~onstrous out
RACES upon the Constitution, by which
ten Of the c9-eCual States Of the
Union were driven from the Federal
councils, denied all representation
therein, and put under military
satraps, we, in common with the
Democracy South as well as North,
have held and do hold to be most
Infamous UsurpaEons of power, utter
~ destructive Of public liberty and
therefore "nlaH and cold" This was
the public and solemn announcement
Of the Democratic party of the United
States in their last general convention
In 1868. "Junius," in one Of his mas
terly letters, said:
Never suffer an invasion Of the po-
litical constitution, however minute
the instance may appear, to pass with
out a determined, persevering resist
anCe. One precedent creates another.
They soon accumulate and constitute
law. What yesterday was fact to-day
is doctrine. Examples r supposed
to justify the most dangerous meas
ures, and where they do not suit eX-
actly the defect is supplied byanalOgy.
BE assured that the laws which pro-
tect US in our civil rights grow out Of
the Constitution, and they must fall
or flourish with it.
A rigid observance of the COnstitu-
ton is the substrdtum of the Demo-
cratic creed, aud the aboves eutime
should be emblazoned upon every
Democratic banner. Submission to
one violation of the Constitution is
an invitation for another. The re-
funding OF the fine imposed upon
General Jackson at New Orleans, and
the adoption Of the expunging reso-
buttons, were not essential to the vim
dicatiOn Of General Jackson's fame;
but the Democrats regarded the fine as
and the resolutions c~ensurfng
the old Hero for removing the Gov
erument deposits wrong, and after
years Of agitation the fine was re-
and the expunging resolutions
adopted. The Democrats warred upon
the infamous Alien and Sedition laws
until they were biotted from the sta
tute books they d-isgraced. When f.
AIr. Jefferson was triumphantly
elected President he treated them Gas
constant utilities" BY his executive
order there was a general Jail delivery
of all prisoners %wrongfully suffering
the operations Of an ubiquitous
md unconstitutional law. When the
authors Of the Alien and Sedition laws
we're consigned to obscurity by
he righteous judgment Of an
outraged people, agitation did not
even then. The usurp-
rs were agitated for a generation
.fterward as one Of the most effective
weapons, Of not only keeping the al
Of those measures out Of power,
'ut Of keeping out Of power all who
leld ike principles Of Capitalization
md empire. So il should nor be with