Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-29
MEMPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1879


les, the uprising Of the people in his be.
hall. has extorted from the Radicals thi:
reluctant justice to the South. The fol.
lowing is the vote in the Senate on the
amnesty bill, which had already passed
the House: the bill, thirty-eight:
against the sTo; absent, thirty-four
TIE black list n o voting against am.
nesy are Mr.. Charles Summer (RadicaD
OF Massachusetts,, and Mr.. James w
Nye (Radical), Of Nevada. By this bill
amnesty is universal, with the follow.
ing exceptions:
First-SenatOrs and Representative:
Of the Thirty-Sixth and Thirty-SeventI
Congresses.
Second-Oficers in the judicial, mill.
tary and naval service.
Third-Heads Of Departments.
Fourth-Foreign Ministers.
General amnesty is, therefore, at last
an accomplished fact. The bill is not
what it ought to have been, for il should
have embraced all, making amnesty
universal. The amnesty bill which has
thus become the law, relieves the politi-
cal disabilities of upward of one hun
bred andffty thousand persons. Among
the more wei know connected with the
late COnfederacy, who are by its terms
now entitled to vote and hold Office, are
Alexander H. Stevens, Of Georgia; ex-
Governors Letcher and Wise, of Virgin
ia; General Forrest, Benjamin Hill, of
Georgia; General Wade Hampton,
William Herschel, Of Virginia; General
johnson, Hon. r. BarnweIlR hett, Hon.
James A. Seldom, ex-Confederate Sec
rotary Of War, Hon. Allen T. Carpen-
ter, Of West Virginia; Colonel G.
A. Henry, Of Tennessee; A. G.
Garland, Of Tennessee; Hon. A. r..
Wright, Of Georgia; Duncan F. Ken
ner and John Perkins, jr., of Louisiana;
Chiffon and Dargan, members Of the
rebel House; Ex-Governor Henry S.
Foote, Of Tennessee; w. P. Gentry, b.
cock, Pryor, Lenke and Smith; Hon. J..
c. Breckenridge, Judge John a. Camp
bell, Generals Joe johnson, Bragg,
Cooper, Hardee, B~eauregard. G. w.
Smith, Wood, Gusts Lee, Fitzhugh Lee,
Garry; also, Captains NJ. F. Mamy,
Semmes and Brooke; ex-Secretaries
Jacob Thompson, Graham Of North
Carolina, Conrad Of Louisiana; ex-
Ministers Forsyth and Jackson, and
VIVA. Preston, of Kentucky. Those
s-il under the ban number several hun
bred among whom are: Jefferson Da-
us, ~az-SeHsJors Clay, R. w. johnson,
YUlee, Mallory, Toombs, Iverson, Benja-
min and WigfaIl; Representative Pugh,
Cuuy, scott Crawford, Lamar, Vance,
Miles Bonham, McQueen, Reagan, De
Jarnett G. ". Jones, J. V. Wright of
Tennessee, Hon. James Lyons, John
G59de, j., Hon. John B. Baldwin,
Walter r, Staples, Fayette McMullin
and J. p. HolcOmbe Lewis; E. Harnie,
w. W. Crump and Charles Bruce of
Virginia; c. @. Memminger and G. A.
Secretaries of the Confederate
Treasury Department; Thos. b. Watts
Of Alabama, George Davis Of North
Carolina. Confederate States Attorney
General and others. 1
The passage Of this bin is intended to I
head on Greeley who has been clamor-
ous for universal amnesty. There was S
no magnanimity in the act. 1t was not
psrformed-as q matter Of right and JUS I
tee 70 the South, but simply as a party ,
strRtegic movement. The passage Of this
bin was intended to spike a gun I
with which GNAley was doing much I
damage. The object is to steal Greeley's t
thunder by showing when he +
amnesty that the Radicals :
have already given it. Grant can {
not win back his lost popularity by t
following in the wake of the Lib I
eral Republicans. 1t is true the amnes- {
ty bill removes the political disabilities 3
from many thousand American citizens, i
but upon the whole, it is the merest {
sham possible. 1t is a thing Of little I
meaning and Of less worth, for while it /
assumes to enfranchise the South the {
kuklux bill absolutely aims TO prevent a 8
fair election. The ex-rebels are given {
the right to vote, but they can exercise i
that right only as Northern bayonets c
direct. The passage Of the kuklux bill
virtually deprives the South Of all
right to seif-goyernment, and sub G
the bayonet for the ballot. 1t is Z
something more than folly-it is su- y
preme wickedness-for national legisla- l
tons to declare at this late day hat the
South must be ground down under the ]
heel Of the military because Of a rebel t
ion which was ended seven years ago. q
such a declaration is a mere p~retense a
hold q people in subsection, to Cypress I
md humiliate them, in order that GER Q
ain political ends may be advanced :
which are rs unwise and inexpedient as 4
hey are dishonorable. This unholy cant il
Il patriotism has had expression long t
in reconstruction laws and other \
lets Of Congress framed specifically for 2
the whole Southern people in O
lbject subsection. Onthe eveOf ageneral b
election, TO extend a law which destroys
he civil power Of the Southern States,
md makes them solely subject to the viii
T one man, which suspends the hG6eas
and places the polls under the alb '
control Of the one person most \
lirectly interested in the result Of that q
lection, is one Of those acts of manifest s.
and improperly which no por- Is
Of the American people can regard "
With favor. But the amnesty bill, which d
.aszed both houses Of Congress, is good q
2 Gar - it goes. 1t releases thousands g
Z the bestmen Of the South. The Ass u
&c OF the amnesty bill is the first tri- g
mph of Greeley over Radicalism. The o.
is indebted 10 him for this tardy q
ct OF justice. 1t "a an suspicious com a
leucemeut in the work of reform. This o.
-iunlph presages future victories in the W
for the constitution, restoration 70
nd peace II
OUTHERN STATE INDEBTEDNESS. el
In an editorial in yesterdays APPEAL er
Greeley on Carpet-Baggers - cl
Re gave some facts sustaining our posi- la