Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-13
For the MischievOug Doctrine that the
Army Is Necessary to Public
Liberty, and the BayOnet
and the Bullet are Es-
sential to Personal
Freedom.

Vance thus rldlculed that precious document:
To illustrate their absurdity, let US frame
them into the semblance of mathematical
propositions, thus:
Proposition First: Theorem-The troops
of the United States are two thousand miles
away on the frontier, and couio not be used
to control elections If they were wanted
Senator from Maine.
The troops could not be used if they were
here, as the law forbids it. ] promise not TO
use them.-The President
Hence it Is revolutionary and dangerous to
liberty and purity OF elections to pass this
bill forbidding such use of troops.-Q. E. d.
Corollary First.-The necessity for troops
at the polls to secure fair elections is In pro-
portion to the squares of the distance of their
present location. e., the greater the dis
lance the greater the necessity.
Corollary Second.-The necessity for the
presence of troops at the polls Is also in pro-
portion to the legal inability 10 use them If
they were present, and if the President is
determined not to use them at all to control
elections, the necessity becomes absolute.
Corollary Thlrd.-The revolutionary and
dangerous character of law consists in the
fact that it is useless, there being already in
existence laws sufficient to affect the purpose.
Scholium.-In the above it ia assumed AK
lomatically that the terms elderly" and
purity" are synonymous with the term Re
publican party" Prolonged laughter.
Proposition Sacond-Tneorem-T right
of citizens of the United States to vote shall
not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of race,
color or previous condition of servitade.
Section 2. The congress shall. have power
to enforce this article by appropriate legisls-
tion.-The Fifteenth Amendment, quoted by
the President.
The supreme court In the United States
against Cruikshank, and in Myers Us. Hap
persett, have declared that the only right
guaranteed by this amendment is the right
that citizens shall not be Disseminated
against on account of race, color or previous
| condition of servitude. Hence national
legislation to provide safeguards for free and
| honest elections IS necessary, as experience
has shown, not only to secure the right to
vote to the enfranchised race at the south,
| but also to prevent fraudulent voting IN the
large cities of the north. The President.
CoroIlary First.-It follows that if John
Smith gets drunk at an election IN North c ar
| DINA and punches a negro's head, he imme-
diately, by Presidential logic, becomes the
| State of North Carolina embodied, in the
| flesh, and he, or 1t, dlscrlminates against the
said negro, within the meaning of the consti-
tuition, and the guarantee is called for at
once.
Corollary Second.-If it be a white man
whose head is punched by the embodied.
| State-of- ] ohn-Smith:No ORTIZ Corolina, 1t is a
discrimination of all the same, provided the
| said white man was about to vote or had
voted the Republican ticket, that being the
true meaning and Interpretation of the words
race, color or previous condition OF servl-
| tude.'
6orollary Third.-It follows necessarily that,
| if the New York repeater votes the Demo-
| cratic ticket FIVE times In one day, he be-
comes likewise the State of New York Tin
Guiding the senator) or, conrerSo. the great
| State of New York becomes the repeater,
and, by so doing he discriminates (the Lord
| knows who) a vote on account of race, color OF
| previous condition of servitude, and the only
avenue opened by which this guarantee can
! be enforced is to send in the army and John
ny Davenport. [Laughter.l
Scholium.-The previous condition" re-
ferred to in the foregoing is that of Republi-
canlsm, and implies, also, present condition
that is, being Republican.
| Scholium Second.-Enforcing the right to
vote by soldiers is not an interference with
elections"
SchoIum Chird.-This doctrine Of eds
elimination" does not apply to the State OF
Rhode Island, where white man s right to
vote may be freely abridged on account of his
present condition of impecuniosity.
Proposition Third-Theorem-T The practice
| of lacking TO appropriation bills measures not
pertinent to such bills did not prevail until
more than forty years after the adoption Of
| the constitution. 1t has become a common
practice. All parties when in power have
adopted it. The public welfare will be pro-
NOTED IN many ways by return to the early
| practice of the government and the true prin-
| ciples of legislation.-The President
Hence the practice of lacking legislation to
appropriation bills having been practiced by
all parties for more than Iifty.years, it should
| be Immediately abandoned when disagreeable
| to the President or Inconvenient to the party,
its antiquity not being sufficient to justify it,
| though greater than the period of its non~use
| Corollary First.-It follows, therefore, that
the practice of using troops at the polls, which
! did not prevail for more than seventy-fve
years after the adoption Of the constitution,
| should now become of general and indis-
pensable use-fourteen years being simply
| sufficient time to legaIize it, and it being now
absolutely Necessary for the preservation of
| the Republican party.
/ Schohum-For the purpose of the next
Presidential election fourteen years of mill
tary interference are equal to seventy-fVe
years of free and unrestrained elections, on
the well established principle "that circum-
stances alter cases. - The Lawyers Bull vs.
| the Farmers Ok; One Webster's Ell. Spell.
n. BIT is said on high authority that
the secretary of war and secretary of state
once held this problem unsound, but were
| eoerced into asserting to it by party neces-
sity. But quieu Sdbe! Laughter
So much for the absurd deductions which
may be logically drawn from the premises
contained in the veto message and the argu-
ments of the senators.