Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-31

Of an unconstitutional tax, and whose
sordid eonsciences do not sting them for
holding fast to estates thus acquired.
They are those who have come to the
South as the vuItures and wolves flock
to the field Of battle after the conflict is
over, to feed and batten on the mutilated
corpses, and wrangle with each other for
the choicest morsels. They are those
who live upon subsidies from the public
treasury, the vorscious official cOrmor-
ants that Radicalism pensions at the
public expense, exacting from them the
knave's service Of lies and libels in re-
turn. They are those who, at the outset
Of the war sold secession papers, estab-
Iished their loyalty to the South before
committees Of inquiry or vigilance, were
amazed that that loyalty was doubted /;
those who denounced the attempt to
coerce the Southern States as tyrannicsl
and unconstitutional, and crOaked aud
clamoured to Kentucky and Tennessee
to resist ; those who persuaded young
men to enlist in the Confederate service,
and who proposed to raise and command
Confederate regiments.
They are not those who love liberty
and detest tyranny to whom the one is
the radiant Angel Of God, and the other
the dark offspring Of hell. They are not
those to whom the Constitution, with the
brief stern guarantees Of individual lib
erty which the States insisted should be
annexed to it, is the great and radiant
beacon-Iight of the Republic. They are
not those who, like the first Brutus,
Would have brook'd
The eternal Devil 20 keep his state In Rome,
As easily as q King"
They are not those whose souls are i'm
bued with the great lessons Of liberty
taught by the old Ssges Of the early days
Of the States, and by the great men Of
the two great parties, the thunders of
whose ~eloquence in later days shook the
Senate-C Chamber, and gave the hope that
the Republic might endure.
But they are those who listen to lying
oracles aud bear allegiance to revOlu-
tionary demsgogues, prsting rhetoricians,
snowy charlstsns, malignants more e
omous than ladders. They are those who
approve of the obliteration from the map
Of the world Of four Of the old original
thirteen States, and six Of their younger
sisters who admire the workings Of mill
tary despotism, and justify the establish
ment Of it over ten States, and the sub
stitution in those States, Of the arbitrary
will Of one man, as CESAR and legisla-
tor in the place Of Constitutions, Laws
and Judicial decisions.
They are those who, coming from
Northern States to work the Southern
States, az CalifOrnisns work a mine, inn
pudently assume to govern a people
among whom they are strangers, and by
whom they are detested and despised as
publicans and tax. gstherers commits
stoned by tyranny and inspired by ra-
pacity. They are those whose presses
are supported by contributions levied in
the North, and by subsidies from the
Treasures OF the Natien and State those
for whom Offices new and before un-
known are created, hat they may be
fattened at the public cost. They are
those who arm the negro with the bal
lot that he may with it destroy himself
and ruin the republic who mislead him
to his undoing, fOment hostility between
him and those to whom he must look for
employment, array the blacks against
the whites, and labour with a devilish
assiduity to inaugurste 8 war Of races
that will make the whole fair Southern
land a hell. They are those who are so
lost, so dead, to all feeling Of true love
for liberty, as to demand the perpetual
Acknowledgement Of immense numbers
Of the best men of the South,
Are these men, whose acts defsme
humanity, and who so pride and plume
themselves on the chignOn of a mOngrel
loyalty which they wear, men of mark
and note, entitled by intellectual supe-
riority to rule yer tributary provinces,
and hold mems lives and fortunes in
their hands, administer the revenues and
consume the resources Of the Common
wealth? In Arkansas, at least, there is
not a man Of mark among them all. In
Tennessee there are those prominent
among them who are OF that class OF men
that never rise to the surface except in
Of civil eOmmotion, and like pus~
tules on the body are the outward symp>
toms OF disease that poisonously infects
the Commonwealth.
It is curious that men for the most part
pride themselves on those things in
there is little or no personal merit.
they have been proud to be ~patronized
by the Courtezsns Of Kings, and vain Of
The titles that accompanied the right to
30 mental Offices to Royalty. We have
read debates in which Senators and Rep
-esentatives, .~legislating for the nation,
claimed it a the highest evidence OF
merit that they had never faltered in
heir allegiance to the creed and plat
Iorms Of the Democratic party. It is not
strange, therefore, that very worthless
men should claim it as the loftiest virtue.
hat they have been loyal to the Union
where it was not only unpopular but
dangerous not to be 80, and that they are ]
loyal to a revolutionary tyranny I
which is subverting all the principles Of :
be Constitution, because it maintains 4.
hem in place and power, and enriches I
hem with the moneys wrung by a {
hamefuI and shameless legislation from
IN oppressed and impoverished people. !
such loyalty pays well. The service Of I
he devil always does, until the time
'omes when he forecloses his mortgage {
n the soul, and seizes the pledge in sat !
Of the bond. {