Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-04
THE DIsr1TEGRATsoNo ~ EmPIHE.


earth. Europe had just recovered from one Of
those periodical shocks which m0naEehs are
obliged to avert by terrific wars, and the en-
Payment in battle Of their revolutionist ele-
ments, and now to the new world Of the occi-
dent their eyes were turned for a solution Of
the experiment which a vigorous young Peo-
pie were making.
The elastic minds and mongral mixture Of
American population had full scope to develop
the new idea. A simple form Of government:
was established, and all kingly ornaments were
cast aside. The utmost freedom was The boon
Of its people, ard in tie brilliant future they
sought the hight CT superiority. Upward and
onward was the ~!avorite cry Of its people, and
wealth and prosperity attended their efforts.
Peace spread its sweetness over the land and
the peerless prize OF liberty was the palladium
Of their worship But with wealth came pride,
and 2 cormoraRt crew Of man-worshipers
taught us the plea ure Of Boujed WORDS, which
masked revolution and destruction. They fat
tened on the Injuries gained from the base
prostitution az genius and wealth TO Che inor-
dinale vanity which became q peculiarly Of
] UHE NG.IoLEI GL@laLlCls 4AlhNatub AlCNAA'FJ
propagating the most outrageous sentiments,
were accepted by the excitsble fanatics and We
nal agitstorsi in the Nolthcrn States. The bes-
tiaIized debris and the iUcsndiary madmen q al
nations, sought there an asylum from justice
and governments which were most fortunate
in being rid OF !heir presence. There they
vended their poison, and succeeded in making a
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hottest corners every disease Of tue human
mind bad a representative.
Now cane the lust for power. The infant
republic stretched its Briarean arms abroad
and clatched at the golden beauties that
dazzled before its eyes. GIuttonOus for The
accumulation Of wealth and domsiD,it Cra5ped
the cobweb fabric Of misruje, and with uneX-
smPled greed, in The ignobIe pursuit. Of dis
honest gain, dishonorea lie Hame at hona and
abroad. By treschery and miserable cunning
It sought to supplant all nations. By being
hrst at lie feast it secured all the deiicacies,
and ungeHerously scorHed the protests Of It's
comPeers. In supreme contempt of all national
rights, and with the daring Of inpuleHce, not
courage, It builded a throne OF Commercial and
governmental power, to which they required
absolute homage, and to whose rule they de-
manded the acquiesence Of the world.
Foreign powers we're supposed 70 be iube-
Gle and panic struck at the exhibition CT P5w-
ct and would iHterPose no obstacles TO
tie hsugbty ambition Of the western empire
Tie commercial and industrial masses re7eled
in the lsxuries their capital and industry Sc
cured them. In the pride Of wsaItl, power
and excess cf numbers they dictated to the
sections on whom they were dependent. The
very life element on which they s~ubsistsd they
sneered at. They coatemPtuously demanded
obedisnre and tribute from the South, claiming
it as q mere la5oriDg or producing province
over which the rich and powerful North was
the Iaw-msker.
Their sneers and conlumeIy eventually
pierced the honor Of the needless South. is
sunny climate had made its people l~istless and
careless. Within its borders there could not
be found the mongrsl elements Of discord which
cursed and sgilated the society OF its icy north
ern brother. In its social life was seen a pic
ture Of eontentment and comfort which be-
came to the infdels CT the North a political
element, on whose basis the revolutionists Gre
ated a question which insugurated the disintc-
grafton Of The federal empire. Conquest, pur-
chase and commerce had exhausted every
political idea which could make party; sunptu-
airy laws had found but few advocates, and
those only among s]scetics; hence, when red
and Observation-Disclosures struck compact to
sgitats this ether pretended questi 2 Of moral
ity, and the bloody refugees Of ali nations cast
Into the common fund their stock Of transcen-
dentalism, it readily smalganstel with the
msudlin ssntimsntaliam which deifed a novel
ist's caricatuTe and established a strong arm
in government which legialatet to destruction
and gloried in misrule.
Within the last decade we have seen The re-
s1lt Of this gross misconception Of power. A
nation, once first in rank, among the most
powerful and e orious on earth, now dismem-
bered IFS insignia Of power trampled upon
and The prestige Of its greatness gone. On its
salient points Of excellence and the traits Of
beauty, the traditional msri's OF our ances-
try's wisdom, the South has built a temple
whose simplicity will make it The pride of Ra-
tions md within whose sacred fame we will
treasure the virtues and nobility Of true liberty. .
For The insane North We can only see a
wreck OF despair and blight. L has the ele-
ments OF IVclPers'iou but its greatness is
gene. 1. has proved It's incapacity for self
government; 1t has too much infIel element
in its sgitatiDg socialism. We presume l. viii
find avenues for expansion, new lands to sup
ply with their productions aad that, event.
ually, its elasticity will place it iU an amiable
position Of excellence but FIRST it must suffer
the refining process Of depletion. It must de-
stroy its discordant elements il must be re-
generated politically AID socially.
The proportion Of immense empire to which
TIE United States had inflated, necessarily en-
g%sndersd every vice the world can know; not
the least Of these was tyranny, and this drew
the last wedge which upheld the platform Of
our noble fabric.
Al nations have the elements Of disorgani-
cation within Themselves, and we see them tot
ter and fan when tyranls have de'hr0Ded all
vastiges Of liberty and reason. Thus il was
that the tyranny Of the P~HAEAoHs lost to them
their most valuable people Thus it was
when DIoNysIUs destroyed The greatness #
his empire. THIS element dfsin5esr3ted the
glorious fabric Of R1me's greatness when NERO
tyrannized to its fall. Thus it was when
NAPoLEAE traEscendsd the ] cense of reason.
snd in a single decade deposed five monarcbs,
euthronsd eight, and dictated terms to nations
about whose venerated cspitols ivy Of a thou
sand years cIus cred.
Thus it was when George III, in a seven
years fit Of luaaey, endesvored to make the
beautiful ~vestments Of liberty the ceremeuts
With which to enwrsp Der in a tomb. It is il
obedience to a madness Of tyranny, that the
new era Of war 10 upon rs. Nations ever must
disintegrate when they become loathsome and
efete, and to The empire Of he west the day
Of doom has come the sc,pter Of it's iron
power is broken. The wi ling desPot and tool
Of a MachiayeIian rrenier, a pecu'ating war
secretary, and a vain renegade war chisftain,
will descend to the tomb Of the sccurssd, his
ePitaph:
LINCOLN, THE TYRANT!
e r. Wiley HI', rcsj4tng in The north
western part Of Neshobc county, Mississippi,