The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-24
THE PARALLEL BETWEEN IRE.
LAND AND THE sOUTMERR
anAHHn


draw in this article will show the
striking similarity Of the history Of Ire
land and the Southern States. The
war between the States ended in
April, 1865. One cf the issues decided
by the war vas that the States were
indixoluble; that the Southern States
we're never out Of the Union. Accept
ing this as an accomplished fact the
Southern people renewed their ale
glance TO the Uuion and undertook TO
restore their former rela ions 10 the
government AS the States were
never out Of the Union, the Southern
people c1simed that the autonomy OF
the Southern States was unimpaired
aud that there was no power to PIE
vent the people from exercising the
rights guaranteed by the Constitution
to every State in the Union. President
johnson concurred in this opinion,
aud the soulhern people elected
Governors for their respective
States, Senator's and Representa-
ivts to the Congress Of the
United S atls as an earnest of their
determination 10 renew in good faith
their allegiance to the Constitution
and laws OF tie Union. But the Re-
publican party in Congress, drunk
with power, blind TO all sense OF JUS
tice and inhamed by the mad passions
born in war, scornfully repealed all
these patriotic overtures for peace and
restored national brotherhood, and
with satanic malignty, carefully de-
vised, deliberately passed and Iigldly
enforced the reconstruction measures
known to be unconstitutional and 80
declared by the Republican Supreme
Court OF the United Statss. These
measures were infamous in their oru-
city and despotism. They were in
tended to humble the plide, crush the
hopes, break the spirits, paralyz, the
energies aud destroy the man.
hood of the Southern people.
White men were DISTINGUISHED,
proscrib ID, iusult,d, Prosecuted,
robbed and plundered. Negro govern
ments were established over the South.
ern States and patriotic aud intelligent
white men disfranchissd, and those
who paid the taxes were imprisoned
and insulted by negroes and carpet.
baggers. The people Of every Southern
State remembers with vivid distinct.
ness the frightful scenes enacted dur.
icg these fearful days. Ienorau No
groes, just liberated from slavery, and
white carpetbag thieves filed all the
offices. There was q saturnalis Of
plumber, corruption and rascality
The horrors OF war were nothing com.
pared with the agonies Of this fright
full period. Impressed with the be.
lief that the whites were crushed, hui
inflated and demoralizsd, and that the
negro governments were firmly estab
lished, military support was withdrawn
Thea this miserable party began to rot
with the rapidity Of decaying carcass
under midsummer sun. At eacf
succeeding election the honest taxpay
ing white people arose in their males
ty, and one by one OF these corrup
State governments were buried in thu
sitting stencil OF their own filth
Home rule was granted the Southern
States and they bounded into new life
as If by magic. Wonderful an(
marvellous was the change. Tit
Southern people are peaceful, prosper
Gus and happy, and with steady tread
are still marching onward aud upward
With home rue the South hal
bounded into prosperity. With mill
tary rule there would still b, o,rrup
ton, barbarism, ignorance aud pow
erty. In 1896 the King OF England
concocted precisely the same sort Of
'reeons measures" for rulinI
and destroying Ireland that the Re-
publicans adopted in 1865 to rule and
destroy the Southern States. He
sent standing army into Irs.
land, with instructions to check the
growth OF the country in trade
and wealth. This army was as fata
to Ireland as was the rule OF the car
petbaggers and the negroes to tht
South. This English carpetbag army
took a malicious delight in persecut.
ing, breaking the spirit, paralyEinl
the energies and destroying the man.
hood OF a people whose only crime
consisted in asking for the blessings oil
home rule. The wonderful resources
of iceland lay dormant. Any effort to
develop them was suppressed by the
carpetbag army, Ireland is capabC
OF illlmitable possibilities. But she ia
poverty striker aud unhappy be
cause "the despot's heel is on hel
neck" But st last the day dawn II
breaking; the long night of thraldou
Is surely passing away. Ireland will
soon be given the blessings Of home
rule, and then her people, like those
of the South who passed through the
same terrible ordeal, will emerge into
peace aud prosperity unknown ant
by their fruitful soil, miues OF boundless
wealth, genial climate and sbuudant
water power enrich the story of Eng
lands greatness
The Scott Failure.