Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-23

should be active, eager ana Ohsequious
in accepting their ogn dishonour and
when before was it made a plea for rot-
amtarY acceptance of q degradation worse
than death, that If not voluntarily ac-
cepted, it would be imposed by force?
"The restoration Of these Southern
States to the Union" says the 00rer Of
artesisn wells, "cannot give the South
ern people more satisfaction than it will
give to the country generally" All the
world and {" the rest of mankind, are
to be gratifed by it,-theS Southern States
not being part of 1.-THE country gen.
orally " in the Popish way Of looking at
things.
We are very well aware that speedy
reconstruction, under the gentle iDfu-
ences Of Papal infaliibility and the psiac
forte ct dare of Military " protection, p"
WHI give great satisfaction to /" the eoun
try generally
For it will have proven the efficiency
of the rod as a means of discipline, and
how easily those refractory spirits could
be tanned, that only a few weeks ago spit
upon the constitutional amendment, and
denounced those in favour Of it as the
peers Of JUDAS Is0ARIoT; who are now
fully converted, and eager TO be allowed
to swallow that and whatever other nau-
seous compound a gracious Congress may
see fit to prescribe.
twill have JUSTIFIED the resort to Mil
itary Despotism as a sure means O~frecon-
gtruction, and Of compelling Se~cessionists
to become Radicals in practice, however
they may privately continue to whimper
about State-rights in theory.
1t will " satisfy I" "the country gene
rally" because it viii have effected that,
without which their victories won by
overwhelming numbers, encirciing their
brows with no aureolss OF glory, setting
on their heads no imperishsble ~laurels,
would have been forever as unsatisfac-
tory as the honours heaped on HA1rAN
were, while MORDECAT sat in the Kings
gate. The Romans were not eouteatt to
conquer the Chiefs~Of Gaul and the
Kings of Germany shd Britain, unless
they could also lead them in chains
through the streets of the Eternal City,
10 grace the triumphs Of their Consuls
and Emperors. TAMERLANE, we believe,
used the back Of BAJAZET as a foOtstool,
10 enable him to mount his horse conve-
nientIy. The zest of victory is to de-
grade and'humble the conquered. There
is, it is true, a nobility Of soul that does
not desire this; but it is rare, and God has
not seen fit to give it to our ~couquerors.
Therefore it rU give great satisfaction
to " the country generally " to see those
men humbled, who, when ven little
worthy, intrinsically, Of eminent on
sideration, assumed airs Of superiority
over all Northern men, as a right inheT-
ent in those born IN the South; who Offen-
sively manifested that consciousness Of
superiority, by arrogance and insults and
slapping the faces Of Northern men in
public places who presented canes to the
fustigators Of the SUMMERS, in secret
session branded WILSON as a coward,
and in open session offered the bitterest
indignities Of language 70 SEWARD. Il
always gives men the greatest satisfae-
ton to repay cOntumelies andindiguities.
by greater humiliations imposed on the
crest-fallen arrogance that was once so
ready with the fierce retort, the biting
insult, the jeer, the jibe and the seof
and also it gives the master Of the slave
the greatest satisfaction to whipthe OBJ
stinacy and sulkiness out Of his ehsttsl.
ii We are n6t in reality thus eowed and
tanned, orr conQuerors viii boast that
we are so, and so the whole world viii
have the right TO think, and admire the
sanitary influence of 3 little despotism
judiciously administered.
Reconstruction under the lash will
give still greater satisfaction to the
country generally" because if the resort
to Militery Despotism had proven a
failure, the Northern States sud Rsdi-
ealism on the rampage would indeed
have won the elephant and had the wolf
bv the ears. II the leaders had not
received assurances from Southern men
vbo Aoeked 10 Washington to counsel
with them, tSet the South would subside
into humble scquieseener, y persuaded
to It By Q jgdicious application Of forge
spd a threat Of ~Gpnescation, these mill
tarv governments would not have been
resorted to. OF course, it will be emil
nently gratifying to the miscreants who
havs established them, if they shall
rrova successes and &c ignominious
failures if our people, by an aetive
acoulescenee extricate their tyrants from
difficulties whprefrom there IS for them,
without cur help, no possible escape
and Il we make thst TO be for them firm,
hard, dry land, which otherwise must
prove a Serbonian bog. or those
quicksands OF the Canadian, in which
aud animals struggling ineffeetu-
tually, sink aud disappear.
OF these men and their measures, and
OF OlfseiNesi Oh "nOA II 0SmP@SN "
impose the humiliation of accepting the
aecursed thing, as If we were grateful for
ignominy and Insult, we ought 10 say,
In the words Of that noble patriot, JOHN
MILTON; GAS for such as are unjust and
tyrannieal neither was. Ged ever 50
an enemy to mankind, Is to enjoin
! necessity of submitting to them nor
there even any people so destitute of
al sense, aud sunk into such a depth OF
as to impose 80 cruel a law upon
themselves and their posterity.p
Like slight shudGerings that preeede
he earthquake, ths depreciation Of
.tocks, unessiness al taxation,
diminishing dersand for goods, the ex-
here and there Of b national