Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-23
FOR GOVERNOR,
THEY KNOW WHAT THEY DO.

The feeble attempts made in the North
TO supply the starving people of the
South with food, have generally failed
OF course they failed, and will continue
to fail, though half our people should die
of famine. In the City of New York,
the centre of finance and commerce, and
the metropolis Of continent, only pit
lance has been contributed. One hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars is less
than a piltance there, Aston and Van
derbilt, and others, count their wealth by
millons.g Stewart alone, might, if
SO disposed, rescue whole counties from
starvation. But we have not heard that
he has contributed a cent In the aggre-
gate the wealth of New York is almost
too great to be counted The South has
given the greater portion Of it, and daily
pours to that point her vast streams of
trade. We have bought everything there,
we still buy there; but what is the re-
turn2 The New Workers have paid to
Black Crook alone, money enough to
rescue from famine one OF the States of
the South. Ristori returns to Europe
with three hundred thousand dollars Of
American gold. Everything for the
Black Crook and Ristori, but nothing
for the thousands at home who are dying
from hunger That is the motto of the
North
An attempt was made in Chicago to
raise famine fund, but it failed. One
devil, in the shape of man, expressed a
willingness to send, in lieu Of bread,
arsenic to the South. The clergy made
nm experiment, but Chicago was true to
herself. Arsenic might be sent down,
but no bacon and -four Some good in
tentioned persons in the metropolis Of
swine made desperate attempt to send
o few barrels of pork to the scene of
rapine and famine, but it was soon given
over. Cincinnati, greasy from center
10 suburb, aud odorous all over with the
smell Of pork, had not cent Of money, |
n joint Of meat, or pound of -four TO
give. All, but there was one thing it did |
give. It gave Radical majority Of five
thousand. And so that city, that grows
rich on Southern trade, has nothing to
give the South-nothing but that
which confseation shall leave and
rapine overlook,
In every Northern city, every effort to !
relieve the South has failed. Heaven,
as il in accord with the earth, sent its
floods to sweep away the little that had
been given. 1t is all right, no doubt 1t
may be all right for the millionaire to
laugh at race of skeletons, We may
have the history Of Lazarus and the
rich man repealed-perhaps with the diff
ference that there are no dogs kind
enough to lick the ulcers of the South.
The rich man spurnei the wretched
Lazarus from his gates. He died, and
as his mortal sight closed on earth, the
scene Of his revelries, his immortal
vision opened on the plains Of burning,
limitless hell. Lazarus went straight into
Abraham's bosom. But the rich man
did not do that which will forever be tho
shame of Chicago-oifer arsenic to the
beggar. Scripture has not defined the
crime of that city, Inspiration itself |
appears to have been ignorant of the last
degree Of human deprayity. The angels
have now something new to weep for.
Christ, in his expiring agony on the cross,
excused his murderers or the ground
that they knew not what they did. Chi |
eago, Cincinnati and the North, are
without the excuse Of the murderers Of
the Savior-,hey know what they do.