Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11
LETTERS FROM HE PEOPLE.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Party,

The RadicaI-RepubIiean Party.
EDITORS APPEAL-Someo of the things
with which they are chsrgeable in their
conduct toward the south are: They dis
regarded, violated and set at naught the
solemn stiI uiations fer surrender made
by the general commanding their army
in the field. While one department OF
the government in their charge hes uni
formly held that there never was a mo-
ment when any southern State was out
OF the Union, and constantly owed al
legiance to the constitution, the other
departments have held the reverse, and
put In force their system OF reconstruc-
ton, the most hellish system OF wrong,
outrage and plumber ever devised by the
act OF man. They have ignored the
constitutional rights OF the States, ap.
pointed over them military governors,
backed and sustained with the bsyonets
Of the army. While asserting that the
States owed allegiance to the con-
stitutIon, which draws to it
protection, they have denied
to them all constitutional guarantees.
They have flooded the States with ar
mics of office holders and office.seekers,
and with the ordure of q retiring army,
sent their vilest men to lule over
the people. These man, for their own
base purposes, have been the busy work
ers up of strife, by Installing into the
minds of the recently liberated negroes
tie most deadly hatred and lust for re-
venge against their former owners, who
were and desired to be their true friends.
To secure this power, they, by the aid OF
the bsyoner, forced upon the people or
ganic laws, by which large portion OF
the intelligence of the States were dis
franchised, and the negro placed their
superior at the ballot box and in the af-
fairs Of State. They have thereby thrust
men into place and power who, under
the false pretense Of enforcing law and
preserving order, have committed the
most horrid ctimes-murder, rape, ar
son, robbery and larceny. They
have forced their minions into
office by placing the polls under the
surveillance of the soldiery of the nation.
They have by amendments to the con-
stitution-some illegally proclaimed,
even if the vote had been fair-disfran-
chised many Of the best men of the
south, and Inundated her people by ele.
waiting their former slaves above them
in political standing; and for the effectu-
sting of this they have INDUCED in class
legislation Of the grOssest and most un-
Just character. They have quartered
soldiers in our midst not oily to "est
out our substance" but az terror to our
people and to carry out their designs of
cruelty and oppression. They have
levied upon the products of cur soil un-
equal, onerous, illegal and unjust taxa
ton. They have Impoverished our peo-
pie, broken down our commerce, ard
turned our fair land into deserted fields
and waste places. They have loaded the
States with illegal and fraudulent debts
They have disposed of the obligs-
tons of the States so illegally
made, for their Individual purposes,
in fraud, corruption and theft
They have corruptIy increased taxation
to an extent that the country cannot
bear, resulting in almost universal
bankruptcy of the States, counties and
cities. They have paralyzed every
branch of business and trade. They
have murdered our men. They have
ravished our women. They have burned
our houses and stolen our property.
They have, with studied and most he'll
ish purpose, sought and produced dis
turbances and bloodshed between the
races, and then attributed them to us as
horrible and atrocious acts of a brutal
their vile purposes, and, in turn, have
robbed them of their hard earnings by
means of freedmen's banks and other
meaner devices. They have not sought
to improve, but to brutalize the
negro. The legislative and judicial
records and journals of the States
which have been under their dominion,
are black monuments alike to their ig-
nOrance and to their corruptions and
villainies. They have made our courts
to be places where judgments were
bought and sold like meat in the sham
bles, and where the lives of our people
might be had for price. They have, ia
the highest places, developed corruption
such as would make the corrupIest man
of the most corrupt times of Old Eng
land blush. And there sre men who
are, and have been in Office, high in
their favor, compared with whom b.
con, Jeffries, Scrogg5 and Hastings were
shining lights Of purity, and the humil-
istiDg spectacle is given to the world Of a
besotted President, stained with corrup-
ton. They are now seeking TO hold on
to power by stirring up the worst feel
ings Of the people, engendering hate all
over the land. Tnese things have, as
far as possible, been shut out
from the masses Of the north,
but their truth tens of thousands
of the best men in the south can avouch.
Unless the best people of both north aud
south unite as one man to put this cor
rupt party out of power, they have star
ing them in the face the most corrupt
empire that the world has ever seen. If
the people of the north lose republican
liberty, let them beware how they let
Lofr hofo 40 he n 81 hoo
from the work of huIling these bad men
from the sanctuaries of their liberties be
fore it is too late. "Too late" will be a
horrible wall to go over this broad land;
yet the end of the present Presidential
contest may cause it to go up from
Maine to Texas, from New York to Cal
ifornia. Let reason, the love of liberty,
justice and pure honor guide our acts.
OLD LINE WING.
DOK.KnI1ng and its Cost.
EDITORS APPEAL - Your columns
being always open for the protection of
the injured, [ beg to make the following
complaint, knowing that it is one OF
many that should have been made be-
fore, and believing that your condemna-
ton OF the practice will put stop to its
continuance, suhjoin particulars: The
writer owned favOrite dog-a gift of a
friend-and fearing that he 1.-THE write1)
might lose him, had him chained in his
yard, which is surrounded by a very
high fence. Now, some OF our invaluable
police who are appointed purely through
merit, sneaked around, threw poisoned
meat to him, and, as a matter OF course,
killed him. 1t strikes me that such con-
duct is an abuse Of authority, and were
Chief Athy's attention called to it he
would limit the power of his SUBJ, some
Of whom would not kill many dogs il
there was much labor attending the
operation. 50
DIR. j. w. Rogers, Jr.,
Late Of. Paris; OF st. CHARLES college, Lon
don; and of the University (medicaI) Of
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