Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-10
The Biffsrsncs-HarIlal Law only
for tie SOu,h-Ths Ku-kluX Blll
Killing the South.
The Appeal and its Policy Of 0pPO-
siioB to Accomplished Facts p
Representative Vaughan and
ether DemOCrz Its.
Beast Butler and his FslloW-RspUb-
iiesus-Ths G0d-iiks Webster
and the Sei0ns Of
Other Days.



Editors ABDeGl-As yOu may nat
urally expect to hear from me aitel
nearly three weeks absence, 1 must
summon the courage to write. Aftel
spending a couple Of days in Wash
iugt0n, just as Congress adjourned
where I had only an opportunity o.
looking on the closing scene and
making the Acquaintance Of q few Of
the members, [ srrived here in due
course, and msie my debut In New
York tumbling down the marble
steps Of the Glsey House, with the
fun Of getting bruised and sprained
and Gmping somewhat in conse
guence fora week. This was q de-
cidedly inconvenient denOuement tC
begin with, and made me advise car
petiug. sand, tar, etc, and in conse
sequence il was with some difficulty
on the street cars, that Irose to give
seat to q lady Of my own color, on
taking the hint from seeing q city
Bssux Brummel rise TO give a 'cOl
oreGr' lady a seat thereon. 1 found
afterward, however, that this was
only the greeuness Of
A BACKwOODSMAN,
who had not fully learned in Rome
TO do as the Romans do. 1t is not
the fashion here To rise for the accom-
modation Of white, but only colored'
ladies. I suppose the reason IS, that
in this city Of shOddy and snObs, only
such white ladies as ride q Ia Stewart
or Helmbold, in gilded coaches with
q driver and two foOtmen, two horses
abreast and three tandem in the lead
with whips cracking like Bull Run
and startling the plebeians like Sum
ner's dream ideal Of the Shareholder IS
lash, are q considered respectable
enough to be treated with any
more consideration than that due tC
Door white trash. "POOr, but honest
is too high c0mmendatiOn to receive
much attention in this quarter, where
money is the only god that is devoutly
w0rshiped-it is played out. In the
money and palace line, with coaches
aud exquisites, it must be confessed
that New York excels Memphis al
most as much as it does in hypocrisy
aud deviltry, conscientious meanness
snd pharfseeism about religion and
isms nobody cares anything for, and
the exhibitions Of the Police Gazette
and the criminal calendar. The stone
miners strike has startled cup town,
and called out five hundred Of the two
thousand policemen to suppress it.
But so far IS I know General Grant
has not proclaimed
ALARTIAL LAW
over the Empire State or ordered g
single soldier TO this quarter. There
is an outcry against violence, which
the State authorities 40 not put down
and yet the civil wrongs bin is not
enforced against these Ku-KlUX. A
case rather amusing, IL a tragedy msy
be so. Is now all the rage and making
as biz a sensation as the Brinkley
ghost. One Putnam was knocked in
the mead and killed by a rough, IS he
was al ghtiug from a street car, in re-
veuga a- protecting" a lady. The
rich pau af the story is that he did
nothing but cover and blauch when
the lady in his charge was Persistently
assaiIed By the rufian Foster, and all
the protection" afforded was by the
lady herself changing her seat so as tc
put her valiant protector in harms
way instead of herself. If the man
Putnam had been anything but a COW
ard the rough would have fallen In
stead of himself But for this distin-
guished service some think all the
mothers and daughters should raise
MIN a monument and place his family
above want 1 suppose their con
cIusion rests on the conviction that
the prudence Putnam manifested
was the better part Of valOr,
and on a disposition to honor
that venerable maxim Of profound
wisdom So happily illustrated in his
case that she who fights and runs
away. may live to fight another day. T"
1T was iu the very dO-nOthing and
runaway pat that he got killed
bv being a non -cOmbatant, Just as
be mihgt have bsen BY the
faU of a thousand of brick which
he did not apprehend, because,
fn his tame innocence Of doing any
thing u0sitive as heshOuld have done,
he was unconscious Of any sufficient
excuse which the brick could have
f9r committing such q deadly assault.
We have had almost incessant rain
for "a week. with houses "tO let. al
over the city and no little complaint
of hard times. People VIII learn after
"a while that passing
KU-KLUK BILLS
TO rreveot the Introduction Of capital
spd labor where it Is most needed, ln
the d0miui0ns of king cotton, VIII
not build up slOddy or lessen the
danger that the people viii demand
Of the bOndOcrats that they s. TO pay
ing taxes like other lglks. Taxed
here four per cent. 0u q basis Of as
aassmeut of uue-third the valuation Of
DroDprtv. complaints are loud Of the
hardship and especially that the rich
asf eseaDe altogether. People open
tbair ewes and stare when told that
fba DaGDIe OF the South, pr0spsriug
Iess are having still more per cent.
~ III assessed basis OF full values.
Tbev cannot zee how such taxation
can he borne by getting used 20 II, un-
- the arebels" have Rs many hFes
- csrs. 1 have not 90 far attempted
.sV,y evpIanatiOn. Perhaps the eXecu-
fion al tbe Ku-KluX law may help 70
solve it byshOwiag how muen noLI--l IL
nature Is capable Of enduring Ols ~
thing Is certain-that however lieoiy
AZ NAV punish the Innocent y
wilI never reach the guilty. Only
f.a execution OF State laws can oo
fEef Another thing I imagine VIII
--ove equally true, that while y may
fsDress and iujure the south ana pre-
--sl5f fbe influx Of emigEants ana cap
fte5 II cannot be So executed ana So
-,--e-e - ~ he ballot boxes Of the south
- = - eIeet General Grant for a second
t5-r,e 81 give any great satisfaction TO
- 80, ,,,sCnie of the north, who, being the
e0ndueTors, stiu suppose tnSy ~ ~
- and are beginning % ~ lllas - -e
-rbe eenRot be President WltAOlA - -
..F 49, Ku-KluX bill can never De
pIs---ssidenf - with0ut By the proeesa as