Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-01
Neutrality-suspicious.

e A single sentence OF ls - WoraiAa Rhoi
a grafton of that shan-C1cERo. Wrong
; headed as he is, he en- say a good thin
: and a true thing at ines; and he say
{ them in a pithy aid pnngent way
I which men remembe.
: He has lately delivered a lecture a
: Chicago, fan Of extraagant ideas, bite
and bigoted, but in witch yet are thing
; useful to be read. Some things in regar'
to the South be sees, to which man!
, others are blind. 1t 4 better for Us 4
know what our enemiessa ofus, than q
listen only to praises a,d batteries from
our friends. Weeommnd the following
paragraphs to our thoughtful readers:
A man is better, now and then, fol
listening to what he don't like. 1t stir
the soil around the rooi Of his opinion
and gives him robust faith. The Iyceun
makes no difference between black and
white. It welcomes sex without distinc,
ton. 1t now presents the eloquence o
the matehless American orator, eolored
though he be-Fred. Douglass-Or i
blows to the spell Of Woman's elOquenct
in Anna Dickinson, and anon Is melted
by the pathos of that Florence Nightin-
gale, Clara Barton. In the northern
states there are 200 Of these lyeeumsi
each of which has an audience varying
from 500 to 5000. The United States
government would not have been able
to get through its late war except for this
power Of its Hceum. No nation AOl
] having a culture as deep and broad as
ours has ever been able to sustain such
an institution. South Of Mason and
Dixon's line such an OutgroTth was
never possible.
One virtue of aristocraey is its pa
tience. To day, in England, n thou
sand disciplined, Watehful men are lhe
government. They will wait through 9
generation for the complete harvest Of
success. But the trouble with demoe-
a is impatience. Democratic MASSES
must see some result Immediately. We
forget that we are planting seeds, and
must wait for growth. Governments
grow, like an oak, from habits, laws
customs, aud a dozen other things. A
government is not made in an hour.
When we talk of reconstruction, VI may
properly use the words of a dead states
man, TIt's a big job.n The sin Of q
century has left tie American people
this work. The conflict of two ciyilisa-
tions, of two ideas, brought about our
late war. In 1855, Mr.. Seward, before
he lost his Trains, properly
characterized slavery. In 1861,
was revealed the irrepressible an
tagonism. 1t was IS il u fathers had
filed a cannon half full of powder and
the other half with live Goals, and
hoped it would not explode; bus it did
Beeeher says put the pieces together
with the powder and Goals again and
hope it will not explode again, What
We want is to conduct the matters Of the
state on the principles OF commO ens
If business men shsuld try to conduct
business in the manner in which the
th~irty-ninth congress has conducted its
affairs, they would be bankrupt in ninety
days. What congress has omitted il in
making the fast step toward reeOnstrue-
ton. Ithas pe~rtinaeiodsly refused to lift
its hand to do the business which the
nation expected it to do. We have lost
at the end OF the past TWO yesTs OppoF-
tGnities which can neYer be regAined
except at the end of another war as
bloody as the ope which closed in 1858.
what il true in 1867 is this, we have a
north solemnly determined on its prin-
we have a south equally deter
mined. We have a south convinced
that her barbarism is as rood 6 hsF
C. gilizatloE. wade hampton believes
that to teach the negro is a dangerous
The south does not affect to be-
lieve this. It does believe iE. Pickens
said capital should not hire laGoE it
own ii. Another southern man
the nsrth is n plain the south Is a
pyramid. These expressions indicate an
%undoubted faith in these things, and a
man with a conviction is a force. The
south contains a race with convictions,
devilish convictions, it may be-but con-
.vietions rs strong a. those Of New Eng
lana men. after one hundred Bull
Runs, Massachusetts would say, after all,
all men are created equal. This is just
true Of South Carolina. ToOmbs and
Memminger and jeff. Davis said they
would extend their civilization over the
north. Had JEFF. Davis conquered he
would have had the right Il do this.
We have conquered. What is oar
right? To cram Faneuil hall down his
throat.
The secretary of state has never had
any lonVictong, aud it is lust as well to
pelt Gibraltar win coioGne water a. to
put such a man against Wade Hampton.
The north is - reconstruct the south
exactly as the ea& constructed the west.
Where did we get the right9 From
victory. The i~on4GeTiDE idea has a
in a civil war, so 10 remodel the
conquered idea that it shall never raise
any trouble more.
When the south counted the votes up
for Lincoln, it saw its hour had struck.
1t said it must conquer inside the gov
erument, or it must 90 out. That Is the
meaning OF 1851. jeff. Davis never
meant to go out. He meant to hold
Washington, the navy, the army, the
government. He neEaA-R 20
Oat. JefnD Davis knew very well there
was no Element that melted all the peo-
pie of this government together like the
.reeollections OF 1776 and our own nation
atty but the south were in too much
of a hurry, and they failed. They have
fould, after IA experience OF five years,
that they cannot via their battles against
the nation but they do yet believe that
they can win in the nation.
Congress has wriggled It's way up,-no-
body knows how and when it goes out,
it will go like a rocket, knows
where,
Congress is proposing amendments to
the constitution but grant the amend
ments, lay them up in Washington, sign
them and proclaim them, and of what
value are they ? The south never
obeyed any section OF the constitution
she did not choose to. There must be
something that will make the south
obey.
He talked of universal suffrage in the
south. But suffrage in the south was
not all that was needed. Let the suf-
frage be given to the middle classes Of
England and they could hold their own.
But the negro was in an abnormal state.
He had never had education or wealth
enough TO create in him the feeling Of
self-esteem and selfrespect which grew
from the recognition Of equality. Both
these be needed. Let the suffrage be
given TO the negro and he could not
hold his own for the south was not to
give up their idea after ID defeat only
The adberents of the Stuarts Ia England
went through four Fehellions before they
So it had been in France.
So it had been in all other countries.
Those battling for an idea never gave IL
up after defeat. III the north sue
ceeded in e%Onquering the ideas of the
south by n effort only il would be the
first instance of the kind TO be found in
history. No people, however intelligent,
however patriotic, had been able to
clutch from n successful revOlutien
more than half its legitimate fruits.
The American people would be a marvel
of history if they were able TO carry
opinions down to the gulf after n rev.
olution only. Still they were bound to
do it. The way TO do it was to put Il
northern man at a central pOint-at the
head OF the executive department.
What were governments for? They
were machines that the ingenuity Of
statesmen had invented in order to say
things with safety. 1t was q dangerous
thing to impeacli a general or the head
of q state. Our fathers knew it when
they mode the constitution. They knew
it was dangerOus-that there never would
be a president without a party. OF course
they knew that when q president should
be impeached two parties would come in
opposition. But the danger was all in
the first movement. Let the united con-
gress impeaeh any man, and his power
would sink and collapse in an instant
before the impeachment. There was
not a man strong enough or popular
enough to stand against the wishes OF
the masses. Every man that had kept
his eyes open last fall, knew that the
millions who had thrown their vote
would straHgle any man that opposed
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