Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-21

Ferrible Denuneiasion Of 1ae ssoHe FleT
Expedition SE gAd BOE1Bu tDuTseFt IA
ssid-asiHe Wing Organ
The Boston C%osrieT, an opposition, 0id-iMs
Whig Journal, has ,he 6Iowing article:
The criticism 10 which tire planet tie choking
up the hartOr OF Charleston is subjected by the
London ETa1liaer, on our frs: page. with which
we perceive other foreign Journals coincide, &C.
serves much more tlaH TRANSIENT consideration.
We may ind the carrying ont If this deieHda
et Carthage policy a HIch more serious cause
If hostility, and even of haired toward US
among all civilized nations. th3a any deviation
from a doubtful principle Of International law
We had supposed when we have glanced az the
accounts OF preparation for Ibis expedient, and
until quite recently, tt5c it was lliT intended
for 3 more effective bUt s.il. temporary blocksie
than could well be put Ia force By ether means
but we did NOT imagine that tbg object was 10
change ihe very geography Of Estaiu in a pOia-
so essential. We eau 0uiF pu-oH-r record against
II our uT1syailiug rauOGStrauce. The scheme Is
more than Lezlhsu. when old Cato repeated 10
the end Of avery sDe1c6 his perpetual formula,
even in a Roman Senate there was a Scipio a.
ways 70 re-ort, And NY opinion IS that Carta-
age should stand
We hold with Scipio, not with Cato. But
even the purpose Of the cruel old Roman was
Af1-H W ~Ao- n At"1altl hA 4EHrAAaAn NNT
destroyed by ordinary means, may 5s rebuilt AID
be % other generations, if n0t low, theseat OF
comfort, prosperity aud happiness But tins
choking up forever uatu.1s channel Of life.
Intercourse and plenty IS a measure dictated
0y neither wisdom nor any feeling with which
Christian principles could have any sympathy.
It viii make us expressly exeers5ed as it b.
comes known ~ all The civilized world Nor Is
10 TO Dc overlooked that other nsii0us may ansgo
- ~ e. anH IL
answer You can blockade your ports snd ey-
ciGde Us for a Une for yo,ir sdysntsge Or from
your necessities, rom commercial benefits ordi-
nariiy free 10 ~ usnEiud. But yoa have no
right 10 ChauE5 sWe ordinance of Eatgs, 50 as 20
deprive MS and all maaLi0t E-crer of these ben
sH-s. If you On, we ean go 'ocger regard yon
~ Of thc family cf nsfi0us- rstheT, Ike
some savage beast retiring % bis den. whom
hose who are able TO hive q rtglt to assal and
desroy-alt5r you own example.
is for the article quoted trCm re New York
Tsmes, there is a depth Of Unearthly mahgniTy
about It which we 90 not remember ever to have
read IN any composition. Even were the deed
necessary in itseil, TO peTpetrats js with such
feelings and motives would be to surpass the bar
barity Of the most remorseiess savage.
THE OsT OFFICE DEFICIENCY-Congress is
likely to reduce the rates of postage. If the def
tIEatN III lAr NtNN NALNE NatA NN.e--aAal any EaAN-
ment for such a reform. We learn nat the post
ofice receipts OF the Couisdera,e government
have fallen off about half & million Of dollars.
compared for q corresponding period OF time
under the Old government, n0twlras sDdlng she
excisiOu Of the ranking privilege, the fact that
since the first June last there have been more
petty OFFICES discoutuuedthau established, and the
amount Of public and private correspondence in
duced By the war and incident to the army
The only exp.icabie cause Tor this falling OF Of
receipts, where all other Caus5s have c~OnEpITed
% enlarge them, can BE- IN the excessive rates Of
Confederate postage the effect Of high postal
being always to diminish correspondence in
more than an inverse proportion 90 the increased
rsIe, thereby reducing the revenue derived nom
this branch of the public seTlce-RehM0aa
EramiEcr.
THE AMERICAS NaPoLEoS."-The London
Chronicle, Of the 25.h Of December, before the
surrender Of Mason and SideI 5y the Yankee
government, employed the following Isng1ags :
The army of SIX hundred and hhy thousand
has dOneuothing; the " Yankee Napoleon has
not had his Waterloo; and to quail at the frst
word of his disDieasu-e from Great Britain would
be for the successor Of Washington and of Jack
son to incur irre-rieyable disgrace in the eyes OF
mob. But even If they should discern the utter
h0pelessness Of their present course, Mr.. Lincoln
and his -acc0mplices may think 90 back cut Of L
by sin more wicked resort The notion Is
tlat they might turn tHeu young Napoleon upon
Great Britain in Canada, give their army Of six
hundred and fifty thousand something 10 90 be-
fore it is disbandsI, and ihus. even If they
scramble 10 a hssly peace, still have something
Of military leeds to report before taey wind up