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

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refuse 10 commission him after ordering
the election, at which he expected a
| Union mar to be elected, go he commits
stoned him and sent him to jail.
WAR UTrERANcEs.
He said in 1863, before a war-crowd in
indianapolis, then bidding for the Vice
Presidency:
know Il has Deeu said one portion Of our
I people have been deprived Of their rights.
| Whit privilege has been lost, what right I'M
this work OF demolition. They have precipi-
lated revolution, making slavery the pre-
/ text.
He thought many of our rights had
been violated in 1860, and said that the
~anti-fugitive slave-law States were in
open rebellion.
In his indianapolis speech with his ac-
customed facility to ride the popu-
lar wave, be Endorsed the eman-
cipation proclamation, and denounced
as traitors all who objected
to its unconstitutionaiity Nashville
Union. March 8, 1868.
HABEAs CORPUS.
He denounced in his New York
| speech Of 1868, when he was seeking
the nomination of the war party all who
objected to the suspension OF the hd6eGs
corpus. He had but one objection TO
Lincoln-"he had not made arrests
enough"
COERCION DURING THE WAR.
He had disclaiHed the right to coerce
a State in 1860. He said in his Frank
lin speech lin August 25, 1859:
You talk about the bug-bear Of coercion.
I Goaraa a Efafas aOarpa an individual let bur-
| glars and assassins talk about coercion. The
man who cries about coercion Is either a char
lRtan or a knave.
The following oarse letter stated his
thirst for revenge. 1t was written to
| him and given to the Union for pab-
LEGATION, to be enjoyed by his loyal
friends:
The new prison OF Knoxville was dlled when
l left. Cummings, Branner ,Mahry and q host
Of other id rascals were in. Burnside is
going to arrest old Bob Mckinney; ] hope he
Will be in Jail when l get back. Hundreds
Of the ~seOundrels are gone, Old DR.. Ramsey
among them.
Robt. Mckinney is the able jurist.
His pure life and peaceable character
should have preserved him from insult.
DIR. Ramsey was the venerable historian
of Tennessee.
EAST TENNESSEE oUTRAGEs C-OUNsELED.
He talk of constitutional rights, Of
leniency. He said in his speech at
Knoxville. NASHVILLE Times. April
%, 1854:
The time has arrived when treason must be
made odious. When traitorsmust be punish
ed-impOverished, their property taken from
them, whether il be their horses, lands or ne
grOes, and gwen to the innocent the honest,
The loyal, upon whom the of this
wicked rebellion have fallen. It is easy to
stand here and declaim, but l am not de-
claiming. II is easy TO utter bOmbast, but l
am not uttering bOmbast. You know some
thing OF what I have already done for East
Tennessee. You must join hands with me,
and with one another, ana swear TO do what 1
have already told you must be done-to make
treason odious-to make traitors suffer as you
have suffered, as your wives aAd children
have suffered.
There was advice to the lawless in
East Tennessee to do what they did do.
Terribly did they make them suffer.
Whipping ministers, killing men, wo-
men and children. This wa the first
advice to them out Of which grew such
fearful atrocities.
This was rough language to use to a
brave but ~defenseIess people, first inaug-
urating that negro supremacy that has
cursed US so long:
Henceforth all men shall have a fair
start in the race for life. This corrupt
slave arlstOcrucF OF NaSnNllle EAunb the Il
friends of free labor with negro equHli-
". Walk along High street, among the
people whose sons are now skulk1ng /
in guerrilla bands close to our city, rObbing |
children as white children bearing IN
mistakable resemblance TO some Of Nashvtlleis /
aristocracy-Speech twenty-fourth OF Octo-
Der, 1863. /
He said speeches, p. 81;
It is wrong that Mark CockrM and W. G.
Harding, by means of fOrceu and unpaid labor, |
shOuld have monopOlized 50 large a share Of
.he lands Of tennessee, and say II their i'm
,cled ont amongst a number Of free, indus
rious and honest farmers, it would give more
rood citizens 10 the Commonwealth.
1t was TO a crowd of negroes that he
lhus wanted to parcel the lands Of their
masters.
BITTER IN PEACE.
He said april 2I, 1869 to Morton, in
reducing an Indiana delegation:
To illustrate by a sad event, who would say
# the assassin who has stricken down one be-
owed and ravered by all, that ne should not
utfer the penalties Of his crimes Then, II you
AXE the life Of one who has murdered anOth-
II, what should be done with him, or them,
VINO nave IA the life OF this nation,
composed OF thirty millions Of peOplef Irai-
Ors must be made odious; treason must
,e made OdiOus; traitors must be punished
nj impoverished. They must not only be
Odious, but their social power must be
.estrOyed; and l say, that after making trea-
on OdiOus, every Union man and the govern
should be reimbursed out Of the pockets
I those who have inflicted this terrible wrong.
This was after the war was over, and
o show that President JOhnSOn's policy
not mitigated by peace, General
irant, in his testimony before the House
on the Judiciary, July IS,
S67, said that he
gsr-,,raaeVv- b.a t@g,~.r.,.T. g. E.v.-,F 7 %.
other parOled officers, on The ground that
heir parole, so long as they Obeyed the laws,
rejected them from arrest. he wanted to
now when the time would como when they
nould be punished. He occupied the ground
hat they should be tired and punished. I told
i'm not so long as they ODeyed the law. He
Insisted that the leaders must be punished.
General Lees application states his
eadiness to be tried, understanding he
to be indicted, but had supposed the
erms Of his surrender protected him.
ieneral Grant Endorsed il:
Forwarded with earnest recommendation
nat the application Of General Robert E.. Lee
II pardon and amnesty be granted.
And further: L
In my opinion, the officers and men paroled
A~ppomatox Courthouse, and since upon the [
terms given TO Lee, cannot be tried so Z
lng as they observe the terms Of their parole. y
God faith as well as true policy dictate that
e should observe the terms Of that cOnven- Y
on. And l would ask that Judge q
Underwood be ordered to quash all indict- :
tents found against paroled prisoners OF war,
nd 70 cease from further prosecution Of them. {
q. :. GRANT, r
Lieutenant-General. y
Mr.. Doolittle, in his speech Of May 70, .
at Philadelphia, explains why Mr.. 7
ohnson was lenienti why be did not >
y the leaders: i
they say he has not tried them. Why :
a. he NOT tried than Gpma gnv no nrrrhf ~ 4
ave tried them by a c-oUrt-martial. The Su- {
-eme Court of the United states has decided a
at civilians, persons not in military service, | 4,
be tried and condemned by a court d
artial. Who does not know thai Mr., john
n, from the beginning Of this COngress-ay,
ON before the begtnning-was urging upon
lie Of the Justices of the Supreme Court, TO l 4
I'D a court in his circuit in Virginia, so that / :,
me Of the leading traitors might be brought :,
trial? Mr.. johnson cannot compel a Judge b
hold a court, and he canno try one Of these a
imInals without a court. l say, therefore, -
e charge against him is ~groundless. =
MCCLELLAN ELECTORAL TICKET-A =
BURNING WRONG. 4
As another example Of his open and T
violation of constitutional g
ghts: Himself a candidate for the y
ice-Presidency, and also Military Gov o
nor, with his brethren and old sup p
trampled under foot, Nashville Il
as his armed camp, the soldiers respon- d
We to his commands, and he supreme z
Tennessee. An electoral ticket COM Il
,sed Of some of our best citizens, was Il
out in opposition to Lincoln and q
on which was Ex-Governor \,
I'M. B. Campbell, a stern, uncom- i
'Omising Union man, but one who, in CO
70 midst of war-himself a Federal 4,
rigadier-remembered the constitu- s,
ln. The rest Of the ticket were the
Ire T. A. II. Nelson, Carter, Williams, W
lizard, Henry Cooper, Bailie Peyton, W
Etheridge, Perryman. Mr.. el
ihnson determined to carry Tennessee, Il
ID used his w position and power to Il
in his end, issuing the following: g
PROCLAMATION EXTRAORDINARY.
That the voters shall be the follow n.
3, ami no other, the same being free white
twenty-one years Of age, citizens OF the y
lifted States, and for six months previous to II
g election citizens OF Tennessee. al
who have voluntarily borne =
ms IN the service Of the United States during 10
g present war and who are IN theservice, or dt
We been honorably discharged. n
the known active friends Of the :.
yernment in each county. to-
the citizen voters designated
the foregoing resolution, shall. at least Il
teen days before the election, register their -
mes with an agent to be appointed in each "
unity, and no citizen not thus registered pt
al be allowed to vote. such registration Al
All be open to the public for Inspection, and =
executed according TO such regulations a. al
" be hereafter prescribed; provided, the al
icers Of the election may reject any party so er
on proof Of SislOyalty.
such voters shall subscribe
, following oath: " 1 sOlemnly swear that Jl
7ill hencefOrth support the constitution of D.,
, United States, and defend it against y
} assaults Of all enemies. M I am PC
active friend of the United States, A
d the enemy Of the s~o-calied Confede- M
e States; that I cordially desire the 81
OF the present rebellion against IN
United states; that 1 sincerely rejoice in be
triumph OF the armies and nayies Of the \;
ited States, and IN the defeat and over I.
OF the armies ard navies Of the So II
led Confederate States; that I viii cordi-
y oppose all armistice or negotiation for IN