The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-11
JUSTICE AND INIUsTICE.

AMI AN0O0AAC6s
"No man need fear injustice from the Uni
ted States whose steps henceforth are loyal
Such is the first clause of the concluding sem
tence Of an article in the able and consistent
cotemporary which the occupation of Mem.
phis by the Federal forces has bestowed upon
US. That no man loyalin the future need fear
injustice from the United States, is true; but
in this specification it seems to be intimated
that the disloyal should fear injustice at the
hands of the Government. The Government
deals justly with all, loyal or cisloyal; and if
it. h As in some cases sacrificed justice to mercy,
il mas been only in the cases ofthose who, after
preaching rebellion, calling men to arms, and
seeking prominent places as rebels, come forth
now with the false and whining apologize lie
that they were forced to it. As husband
granite delictu, when she plead compulsion,
"My dear, he may have compelled you
to sin, but could he compel you to come and
seek the san again and could he compel you
to accept, nay, to cork both for the sin and tbs
cages thereof?' Psha the veil such men
seek to weave between their dark treaehery to
both the nation and the rebellion, is too
Himsy to need rending a mere rushlight will
shine through it.
No man need fear injastice-" unless he has
been guilty of some overt act, by which he is
obnoxious to the penal code of the Govern
ment." So says the same excellent authority,
but it seems to us enormously. If man be
indeed obnoxious to tk.' M , code of his
country, it is justice, and 'tice that he
has to fear ffom his &C" i. For the
sins of the past rebellion ~...ed for emolu-
ment and profit, at the sacrifice Of the internal
harmony of this republic, the penal code in its
justice notin its injustice, inficts punishment.
II is only unjust tOhsn il Furnishes one rebel and
sralts another. It'll painful to US to see such
consistent journalists as the proprietors of the
BstLIctin adopt the later course of the Aua.
Lanche, and seek to carry water on both
shoulders, by playing conciliationist, and pray
ing that the offended law OF the land may not
vindicate its outraged sanctity. Does justice
require no sacrifice of double-faced politicians
to the names of the dead heroes Of Donelson,
Shiloh and Richmond? Shall il suffice for
sinner against the noblest government man
kind in its progressive steps was ever enabled
to form, that he should say, like the school-boy,
Tommy made me do it, when he willingly
stood forth inviting, urging, praying in the
name Of the God IN Heaven, that others may
do as he, and that men would go forty miles
TO meet the coming legiohs of liberty, which
he blasphemiHgly styled vandal hordes and
hosts of invading ruhians; aud shall it be
reckoned injustice, if the government is spar
ticular of the past" Of such men? vs. onlya
pray for such injustice in plenty.
One man with bayonsts around him aids
HINDMAN to compel the banks of city to
supply funds for the organization of the rufian
bands that now deselate Arkansas, and he
pleads that such eiritiGss as he should not be
reekoned belligerents-"th war should be
confined to the armies in the field" Another
steps forth and says he only sought to recog-
nize rebellion to crush it by parliamentary
debate and he thinks injustice need not be
feared at the hands of the government, unless
the party is obnoxious to its penal code. We
can only say if the preaching of rebellion, the
calling of men to arms against the country, the
seeking of leadership amid rebels be not is OF
noxious to the penal code" the government of
the United States would better cease war
waged only against such offenses. And if it
is the injustice rather than the justice Of the
code that such rebels have to fear, in the name
Ia, 1an.. L ~.
devil does the praysr-book.