Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-30

son SAID WOulG leave tennessee uefense-
less.
HIS SOUTHERN RECORD BRIEFLY.
So we see him balloted for in the
Charleston Convention. The Union and
american correspondent said:
believe johnson stands second 70 Douglass
and VIII he nominated u Tennessee delegates
sand firm.
We have presented extracts from his
fiery speech Of 1859, made Just before
the Convention at Charleston, attacking
Trumbull, and bidding for the Presi-
dency. We find him fercely support
ing the candidates Of the seeding De-
moeracy, c~anyassing the State for the
Southern candidate, and yet he said
during the war in his letter Of accept
ance for Vice-Presideney in 1854:
At the beginning OF this struggle I enter
tanned the same views OF IL that I do now. The
clamOr for southern rights was not to secure
their assumed rights under the Constitution,
but to disrupt the government. The disrup.
ton OF the government has been for years past
the cherished purpose Of the Southern
leaders.
He quoted from Jackson:
The tariff is a mere pretext. and slavery VIII
be the next pretext.
If it was a pretext, he knew Il, andhad
read what Jackson said as well when
he labGred for the election of Breekin-
ridge, with Rhett, Yancey and Toombs,
as when he wrote his letter Of accept
ance.
THE wAR-HE VIOLATED EVERY A
OF COB M MAN.
This is his course up to the beginning
of the war-a peoples man, aver talk
1 f,w 1f tho vfobfe of tho panpIa Inf dnfpn
| nothing for them, leaving on record no
measure Of practical craftsmanship and
naught save his receipts for his salary,
and his inconsistent speeches melting TO
| revolution with one breath, and appeal
ing for Union in the next, to mark
where he has spent his forty years of
public service. Ever crying peace and
| Constitution, war the great talisman at
whose touch men stand disclosed 10 true
colOrs, brought him like a dark cloud, all
shoulder strapped and armed-this man
Of peace, whose peace truly passeth I'M
derstanding-with a Brigadier's COM
mission, to insult his former supporters
and Cypress his adopted State.
BECOMES MILITARY GOVERNOR.
Where was the Constitution when he
accepted the unconstitutional position
of Military Governor, unheard of be-
fore.
ernor with authority to exercise and perform
all the powers, duties, and privileges ofthe
office, including the power to establish all
necessary offices and tribunals.
Ed. NJ. STANTON, Secretary Of War.
A Gar! A Military dictator-this
man who protested a love for the Con- |
stitution. How was this power welded?
Congress had declared:
This war is not waged In any spirit of op-
preston, nor for purpose Of conquest or sub |
jugation, nor purpose Of overthrowing, or in
uerfering with the rights or established insti- |
buttons of the states, but to defend and main |
tain the supremacy OF the Constitution, and
preserve the dignity and rights of the several |
States unimpaired.
Thus the law making power directed
that the Constitution should be observed
even in the war, but he trampled the
law and violated every Constitutional
right OF person and property.
May 8, 1865, he issued the following
proclamation:
In every instance where an Union man is
arrested and maltreated by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, /
five or more Rebels, from the most prominent 4
in the Immediate neighbOrhOOd shall be ar
rested, fmpTIF0nei or otherwise dealt with and
loyal to the United States is taken or de-
full and ample remuneration shall be
made out of the property Of Rebels in the vi
entity who have sympathized and given aid
Signed. ANDREW JOHNSON.
Military Governor.
Union, Nay 10, 1855.
This brutal order led to wrongs and
expressions innUmerable. 1t was only
necessary to say a quiet citizen was a
Rebel; only necessary for sOme pre-
loyal man to swear he had lost
property or had been maltreated, to
nave innocent men suffer for crimes
they did not commit. What a warrant
here for foul murders by his Infatuated
guards. 1t does not command murder, -,
)ut artfully suggests that they may be
. OtheT1O5Se dealt NTH" This was not a
preventive Of crime, or q punishment,
)ut a mere wreaking of vengeance on
he innocent man unfortunate enough
o live near a scene of crime. Who
Knows the crimes, the expressions, the !
wrongs to person. property and life $
which it caused. The list would fill a !
yolume. Here is one instance: :
A Union soldier was lately fred at in Muir c
r~eesbOrO, and twelve Secessionists were Z
lrOmptly brought 10 Nashville and lodged in 2
all; among them a brother OF Mns. Polk. a
-Na5hriHe Union, Nay -, 1862. Z
Charles r. Gillespie writes TO Gov s
IlDI JOuLSoH LOH IuiHShls Il
That a commission had been held to inquire u
ntO the destruction Of merchandise Of j.. H..
'oineer, a Union man, by Morgan. They as [
e5sed the damage at one thousand two nun :
req anu si1ty-tWo dollars and eighty-eight :
ents, which they ordered to be paid by the I
uthoriues. and failing that to make the {
mount cut OF the property Of certain Rebel /
ympathizers-Cnf0n, NAY =, 1852. L
CLARKsvILLE, September 10, IS2.-I was ar
ested in 1858, am an old man, was kept five a
in the Penitentary-was a citizen d
ali no connection with the war beyond my o
ympathieS, am a farmer-I knew Mr.. I0hn-I K
on, having piloted him through Dickson 81
ounty during his canvass for Buchanan, 1 d
aW him, urged the uefenseless condition OF h
" familyI was kept dve months charged II
18th no crime, and finally released on pay
lent Of six hundred dollars by g. c.. Ealii-
rnors ONCE on which / was promptly re- il
iased. Il. r. ROGERS. +,
GAINESVILLE, September I6, l872.-I was in Z
re Penitentfary during the war-was n mem
sr OF company G.. eighteenth Tennessee Reg q
~nent-Colonel Palmer. There were there AZ
twenty-five or thirty citizens brought into the
eniteutiary. Most Of them were old men,
ur fare was a small allowance Of picked
Jrk and peas. Several Of the citizens went Al
see johnson under guard, and told me 81
hen they returned that he would not even Ii
we them a hearing, that he had abused them q
ltrageOusly, and said they were id Rebels, "
I'd he did not want to look at them. They Ii
ere confined for no crime, except being c
luthern men. one OF my ~neighbors, Ben. m
onlAH1lf aetu nAAb1-uNrsA QUIET peAceADle. i ~
nd feeble man, who never did anything but
yn his southern feelings, was combined there
oul the prison life killed him.
RICHARD ANDERSON.
Montgomery county, formerly OF Dickson. Il
These are a few examples hastily j.
up. Thus was violated the u
institutional right of trial by jury, of
he presumption Of innocence, Of free n,
pm from seizure OF property, of per- pi
liberty, and even life, not from u
ny military Necessity. No military U ~
Id could be furthered by these arbi- 50
AIRY acts. Fl
PREACHERS IMPRISONED. hC
On June tW~enty-nine, 1852, this man ~
no cared for neither God nor man, pro- to
cted by armies in front, imprisoned CT
R. B. c. Howell, DR.. Sehon, DR.. -
ord, DIR. Sawrie, DR.. Baldwin, Rev. w. II
=. Wharton, ministers of peace, pursu-
z their holy calling, far from the
med hosts of the South, enduring ~
it'll their foclIs undaunted the horrors ri
q captured city. Neither holy calling V
lr sacred Master secured immunity er
him. pc
SOUTHERN PREACHERS INFAMOUS. "
Read the following brutal order about IN
e imprisoned ministers: ~
have 20 request that you will issue string +,
1 orders prohibiting all visitors, to the cler- VI
this day sent 10 the p~enitentiary, except Jt
ch rs have special permission land ! would ~
d that this should be granted only on good nr
d sufficient reason. / would suggest that II
encouragement be given to that spirit I'd
lich is manifested in the numerous Offer RI
gs OF delicacies by s-ympathizing rebel n,
ends. They are there as enemies Of the w
Ivernment, and should receive only such pu
as attaches to a person guilty OF | Bl
ANDREW JOHNSON, L.
Military Governor. Ja
This in a public order! What did he at
IN private when women came sup ga
.ant before him, or old men came
.mbling, asking to return to their ]
mes? I'M
RESPECTS NOT EVEN DEATH. III
One lady, a respectable married lady IN
Nashville, went, accompanied by arr
other lady, to ask that M Of the i'm IN
.s0ned ministers be released long ma
ough TO perform the burial services at GO
e funeral Of q child. He drove her I
IN him with clenched fists, denounc- m
z her as a rebel who ought to be i'm ma
too. Out Of Difference to her COZ
her name is not given, but it can be sshP,,
.ablished II disputed. He said in a be
eech: ms
punish parsons Elliott, Sehon, Baldwin res
d others because they are traitors, and 4
smies Of society, law and order. They have IN,
and corrupted boysand silly women, v
fnculcated rebellion. IN,
Where was the military necessity that TN
npelled the arrest and Imprisonment am.
these men of GOd2 rat
INSULT WOMEN. III.
He insulted women in his speech. He the
q. thI
he conduct OF rebel women Is astonishing. cal
W dare you breathe treason and Insult the all.