Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-05
ALABAMA.
The Legal Legislature Organized at Last
and After Three Months Delay.
Effect OF the Radical Party Programme
People Leaving the State for Texas.
Bad Government and URcOnsciOnable
Taxes Running the Best Interests
of the People.

Bad 60Yernment ana OhcOhsciOhaDie
Taxes Running the Best Interests
of the People.
Montgomery Advertiser and Mail, 3D.
The Radical insurrectionists have at
last allowed the two Houses of the Gen
eral Assembly to proceed to business.
After unseating the Conservative from
Butler and COneeuh District, in the
manner already fully described by US,
and now known in all parts of the State,
there was no further inducement to
maintain their course of lawlessness and
wrong. Already the House of Repre-
sentatives had been organized by the
Conservative members acceding in good
faith to the plan of adjustment of the
Washington Cabinet, and by depriving
General Martin of his seat in the Senate
and introducing a Radical in his place
while Pennington still retains his seat
secured by enormous frauds), the SEN
ate, in the absence of any Senator from
the Sumter District, stands equally
divided between the two parties with
the casting vote in all eases of tie in
the possession of the presiding officer.
Having thus a majority, practically, in
both houses of the General Assembly,
which the Radical leaders have man
aged to keep disOrganiZed for nearly
three months, at a heavy expense of
money to the people, and a still heavier
expense in credit and morals, these au-
dacious and bad men have at last con-
sented to allow Alabama to have & legal
LegislatureI Yesterday the House noti-
fed the Senate of the organization
which il completed more than a month
ago. and the Senate went through
the farce Of again sending the House a
formal notice of its organization, al
ready spread a month ago on its Jour-
nal! These facts indicate the manner
in which poor Lewis and his fellow
conspiratons have dared to trifie
with the best interests of the people of
Alabama. They have trampled on the
laws and threatened the peace of the
State, and have piled up a debt of thou
sands of dollars, to be paid out of the
taxes of the citizens, in the pursuit of
reckless schemes of partisanship and
personal plunder and power which they
resolved to carry out. law or no law.
The Radical party is now clearly re-
sponsible for the Executive and Legis-
latiye government Of the State. The
very fact Of Radical success in the ma
uonal and State elections, and the
prospect of the continued domination
Of the Radical party in the nation
and State, have filled every Southern
State, and particularly Alabama, with
gloom and dependency. Many OF
our citizens are emigrating, delusively
hoping to find some relief from suffering
in Texas or elsewhere. All perceive the
gulf of social and political ruin We are
fast approaching, and all fear that it is
useless to hope to be able to escape an
unhappy destiny of bankruptcy, demor-
alization, and mongrelizatiOn! They
have lost faith in the truth, in the law,
and in the right, and know well that
neither remonstrance nor argument will
in the least avail to avert the cOnsum-
nation of any measure however evil in
its nature or injurious in its effects upon
which the Radical leaders at Washing
ton may determine. They have strug-
gled manfully TO relieve themselves from
the dreadful influences of Radicalism, but
the majority of the Northern and West
ern people still insist on voting the Rad
ical party in power at Washington, and
it has been and still is the policy Of that
party, without the least regard to the
present or past condition of these States,
to Radicalize them as rapidly and thor
oughly as possible, having no other view
or feeling in connection with them but
to use them as political instrumentali-
ties to preserve and strengthen a hostile,
cruel and disastrous rulei Hence, in
their despair, many Of our citizens may
be seen wandering about from one
State or locality into another, hop.
ing to avoid in one place evils SO
torturingly felt Ia others. But our peo.
pie had as well learn, first as last, that
Texas is no better off than Alabama
and that both of these States, as well as
the whole South, are being impover.
| ished every year more and more, and
actually blighted by the bad govern
ment to which they are so relentlessly
subjected. 1t is not the difference il
land or climate, nor in any natural o.
physical circumstance or fact whatever
1t is simply bad government! For proc
of this we have only TO state tha
while cotton is selling for twenty cent
q pound, rich cotton lands in Alabami
which ought to command from thirty
to fifty dollars an acre, are selling, fo
three or five! Nothing can explain sC
| extraordinary a phenomenon as this
but the bad government Of the present
with hopeless future before the people
We therefore expect but little from tn
Radical State Government in the hand
of poor Lewis and his friends. Thel
could bring us very little relief, even i
they honestly tried to do it. We onl,
ask them to keep from plundeTing ant
stealing just as far as Radical human ma
ture will permit. Here is the danger! Thi
is what we fear! We know it is useless t,
expect a Radical Legislature to pass suel
general laws for the Preservation Of NOR
ais and property as the well being OF tn
State now imperatively demands. w,
| know it is useless TO ask for an homes
election law A white Radical know
that his party was established to get off
ces by negro votes, and he thinks tn
whole duty of a Radical legislator ful
1 filled when he passes some act he sup
i poses will secure for him the ballots 0
the negrOesi We anticipate no publ
good from the session Of Radics
Legislature in Alabama, and we shal
only be too glad to escape corrupt an,
open robbery. We trust, therefore, il
view Of the great expense already sad
died by Lewis & Co., on the people c
the State by their insurrectionary Ope
rations, that the session may not extern
over thirty days as the longest perio
before its dispersion.
|
District Attorney Phelps states tha
he has afIidavits in his possession alleg
ing t.Iat five of the Jurors in the Twee
case were approached, and also allowe
/ themselves to be approached durin
the trial. It is further charged that th
action of these jurors was governed i
consequence. When further proof
obtained action viii be taken by th
District Attorney: The counsel for pros
ecutiyn say that they were powerless
prevent bad men from going on th
jury, because under the new jury laI
\ they had only three challenges in a cas-
for misdemeanor like Tweed's. A neV
jury bill is soon to be presented to tn
Legislature for consideration.
j Mr.. Poland, from the Committee o
the Credit MObilier Investigation, pre-
sented, in the House yesterday, the evi
denee taken, and moved that It
4 printed. He also offered a resolution
that the evidence affecting members {