Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-24
THE PROGRESS or TEEEOEsISM
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It has been but a little over a year since
CALsB CUSHING, in his famous Bangor letter,
waraed his countryncn CT the North that, in
the event OF the triumph Of aboiitionism at
The bsliot-box, there would ensus a reign Of
terror throughout the Black Republican States
that would be ua,ousl to anything OF its kind
eyer witnessed on the American continent.
Z" Social commissions, hostile combats in the
town streets, predatory gBeriila bands rowing
NJ aac down The country, shooting and hang
ing,0 were among the predicted evils-to wind
up in " cruel War-wsr at home, and 10 the
perspective distance a man on horseback with
a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic
CK-sR. or CRoMWELL OF Napoleon"
To-day The horrors, foreshadowed in thatlet
ter, press ike an incubus upon the expiring
corpse Of freedom, accompanied by atrocities
Il tie anticipated at The time by the pen indit-
ing It. TIE most apprsbensive Find could not
then brook the thought Of utter lawlsssness,
mobocracy and anarchy, prevailing among a
people, once under the benign sway Of a repuo-
lican government, to such an extent as is now
witnessed in the North. A violated CoHstitu-
ton, q military dictatorship, the suspension Of
the writ of hGbeGs corpus, the arrest and con-
hnement Of innocsn citizens, the suppression
OF independent newspaper presses, with the
cruel msltrratment Of their conductors at the
hands Of the unlicensed mob, are stern realities
Of TIE day not included among Mr.. CUsRING's
forebodirgs Of The future.
TIE mind OF even Yankeedom itself would
once have been appalled, in contemplation Of
these fe~ rful scenes-scenes TO which we can
never become enured, save b. utter personal
dshssement and the abdication Of our manhood,
What will the courts of civilized EiroPe
think OF the recent arrest Of Mt. Faulkner
by the authorities Of the Washington desPo-
tism, wi hout specifying the charges Of which
be is alleged to be guilty7 What OF the es'
tsblishment Of Fort Lafayette as a B7stile, II
which to coafae al persons suspected IN ih'
slightest CT not sympstEizing with the iufa
mics which tyranny may seek to Perpetrate
Nor need they look With less adherence ans
c u1empt spoR the infatuated mob in Mesa
ehu-e1ts. which but a few days since, uDdeI
the combined Inspiration Of ~rtas-whisky am
mtlgnity to The South, tore down the office n
a new paper, tarrsd and fe8thersd the editol
after the most approved G yle, gratui'ousiy
TO e him upon a rail, and exacted from him
at he peril Of bis life, an oath to support il
the fu-ure every act Of government, boweve'
uncoas-itutiona or even dishoDorsbIe and in
fan ia All these outrsgss are peTpetrate'
witbou b. least protest from the federal o.
S ate authori les, who aid and sbst ratheI
than seek to prevent them.
We are complacsnfIy told, il fact, by tbr
dsra cbps fri Washington, that hereafter
sill newspaper attacks upon the President anc
C bret will be regarded az assaults apol
0the couEtry'-a coatemp'ib and paltTy spol
ogy or the further reign % violence, sltOgeth
er " rby OF The disrsputable source whence
It emin ties. CROMWELL thought that "psps
sbots7 could never do serious damage to
good government LINCOLN evidently feaa
them quite as much as he does the iron one
from the rifed coluubisds Of the Confederat
army.
Not less inhumsn and barbarous are thes
ncid-ntg Of terrorism than the late seizure o
certain citizens Of Missouri, at Commerce, il
that s ate, urder the authority Of one Of Gen
FRgMoNT's ~underlings, with the threat tina
they should Dc hung il an attack were mad
E3on him by the southern forces under Gen
JEFF. THoMFsOS, vino we're at The time sup
posed to be advancing for that purpose.
History will pronounce these atrocious Fro
ceedings Of t%erroTl-m and violence as sscon
only to iho,e Of the DARK ages, or OF tb
F.elch revolution.