Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-21
NEW ENGLAND AND THE SOUTH.
The Civil Rights BsIl KILLED By Brown-
lsw-Wbat He and johnson May
DO By Uniting their Forces.
We Need an Andrew jackson Revival
Ihe Financial Policy OF Grant
COudemned-The ROnd-H Hold
tDg ArfstOcracy.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June Is, 1874.
Senator BroWnlOw's letters have killed
I the civil rights bill here, showing the
influence Of moral courage in 8 public
man. There is one thing about Brown
low that is atisfsctory-when he does
! speak, he leaves no mistake as TO his
meaning. He has never adopted Tai
I leyrand's method of using words to COW
er up ideas, or Van Buren's foxy notion
Of leaving a back door through which to
retreat. IL is difficult to over-estimate
the influence Of this one mans utter
ance upon the fate Of the bill passed by
/ the senate TO degrade the people Of the
south. The voice came from the right
quarter. 1t is that Of a Union man who
Ia public life has so far accommodated
himself 10 the current Of events as to
seem equally responsible with New
England's fanatics for the policy pur-
sued since the war. The true
south has had but imperfect rep
resentstiOn in congress, and that more
than neutralized by the carpetbsg and
negro misrepresentation The native
Union men have been Overawed by the
overwhelming power Of the Republican
party, aud submitted year after year to
acts Of oppression which CALLED them
but which they could not oppose with
out severing their party relations This
would have thrown them into assOeia-
tion with the other side, where they
could have no hope Of cordial recognl-
ton. For long time back they have
had to steer between Scylla and Cha
rybdis; but Senator BroWnloW has at
last broken ground, and thousands OF
them are ready to follow his lead. They
realize that the northern politicians have
treated the southern L nioniscs with no
greater consideration than they have the
Southern Tebels-that they have never
consulted their wishes with reference to
measures operating upon the south, but
have passed laws Intended to subjugste
the southern States to northern capital
isis, negroes and carpetbaggers, and
hold them in perpetual slavery without
political power or hope Of resurrection,
and TO degrade the entire southern peo-
pie by sectional legislation, compelling
associa ion with negroes and ultimate
miseegenatiOn. The north is not affect
ed by these measures. The negroes are
so few there that they have not the
slightest power, and therefore not the
slightest recognition. They are not per-
mitted to stop at irst-class hotels or Ob-
trude themselves anywhere amongst the
whites, and could not get redress In the
courts for any invasion Of their rights
under this sO-called civil rights bill. 1t
is true the law makes no distinction on
account Of color in Massachusetts, but
there is not color enough there to base
distinction upon. Two neatly clad quad
room or octoroon children in a school Of
four hundred whites DO not establish the
principle Of equality which is sought to
De established in the south by forcing
the negroes into contact with those OF as
good white blood as circulates in the
veins of the best of BostOn's society.
It is certainly a humane, missionary
work to try to educate these southern
negroes, and liberal on the part of the
taX-paying whites to do it; but why any
one should wish to compel children OF
respectable white parents, born IN viz
tuous wedlOck, taught to respect charae-
ter and lineage as the basis OF respect,
and whose tastes are refined by
association and cultivation, to mingle
daily for eight hours with the
bastard offspring of slave race, ignOr-
ant, without character, smelling badly
from the inherent OdOr Of their bodies
God made for them, repulsive in asnect,
and without any appreciation Of the
[ Icsnuot see. The next effort will be to
compel white women to marry negro
men on the asking, for il we may not
select our childreB's associates, we may
not select their husbands and wives. |
And in reality this is part OF the game
OF the New England school Of politicians,
now dOmins ting the Union, to hold con- |
troll Of the government by degrading the
half Of the Union, destroying Its polltl-
cal influence by the want of character in
its represent tatives, and keeping 1t IN |
subiection to northern capital. 1t is
time We had q new school of politics IN |
this country, and a revival OF the Ten |
nessee school, of which Andrew Jack |
son was the founder, would be great |
blessing to the Union. hat was loyal |
To the Union with well defined views OF /
the limitations imposed on the Federal /
government by the constitution, and OF /
lie rights Of the States under 1t. The /
adOption of the tWo-third rule in the /
Damocratic convention of lS44, handed /
die party over TO the South Carolina 1
school, Of which Calhoun was the great /
aposte, and tue fugitive slave law and |
bred Scott decision were the result, two /
OF the most centTaliZing measures ever |
nut into effect since the government was |
framed, Notwithstanding the State SOW
reipDty views of its founder. This ultra
school was entagOnized by the Mssss-
cbusetts abolition schOol-henee the
civil war. Cannot the Tennessee school
be revived2 BrOwnlOv and johnson,
who msy now be regarded az running
on parallel lines il not on the same
cgurse, might do much toward 1t; and
surely they would greatly advantage the
country 10y doing so. We have oeen
ridden to death by New Englandisms.
The modern Athens, as she claims to be,
like that Of old, is trying to consolidate
an parts in its own hands by first De-
the States, and then hold
lug control Of the finances Of the coun-
trV. her rule has been disastrous to ali
except herself, New York and
PeuIsylvania. but even the last revolts.
Forney ia bis Ire8s dsnouDces Grant as
the attorney Of the credit class and op-
uressor Of the debtor class" Kelly and
cameron are on the rampage. Grant Is
the exponent only Of the securely rich.
Even the New York EJeS3fRg Post q I
and contraction paper, says
his uolicy set forth 10 his letter 10 Jones, /
of Nevada, would involve the country |
in ruin. that il is cruel and crude. L I
must not be led off, however, from the /
main point Of my letter, and that Is TO /
thank Tennessee by its prompt, hearty /
and unanimous respond to BrOWnloW's /
letter for driving the death-bloW 70 the /
monstrOus civil rights or rather civil /
wrongs bill. II the old man had been \
in the senate he could not have done as /
effective service, as by making this 4
stroke at home among bis own people. |
Their voice adds to the volume, and ls
heard rom one end Of the Union to the
other.
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