Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-30
THE ENDS, If Eor THE END, OF RADI-
CALIeM.

colored coats, aud strong minded womeI
in bloomer costume, met in convention
once upon time in the neighborhood o
Boston, to such as Glanced to happen IL
these primitive councils the naturalnes
with which abolition, free love, spirit
ualism and womens rights in those day
harmonized and commingled, the ther
existing affinity, so to speak, between
one ism and every other number OF The
ism family, was striking, II not sugges
tive. But 10 those days people who
minded their own business, or had
business of their own to mind, were dis
posed to give very little, If any, heed tc
either or all of the subjects which were
disturbing the consciences and turning
the heads ofNew England fanatics. Since
that period, and in the lapse of seem
ingly a few years, one ism, begotten from
the same prolific womb and nurtured at
the same breast with its sisters which are
as yet comparatively but nurstlings, has
like q rank and poisonous weed covered
the face of the whole country, Slapped
it's very life blood and engendered en-
mites and hatreds between communities
and sections which once dwelt in peace
and harmony together. The soil from
which it sprang was wonderfully fertile,
and by more constant culture, a greater
amount of howing and watering, it out
grew its sisters, of the same bed.
How long it will be before they, one or
all, may astonish the world by like
growth and Acknowledgement perhaps
BY a nice calculation might be sur
missed from present indications in parts
OF the country where the moral soil
and climate are most favorable The
affiRity between isms is none the
less strong since the one outgrew
the balance, and we see an astonishing
willingness on the part Of the larger and
stronger member of the family to &C
knowledge the relationship existing, and
take the hands of its weaker sisters and
lift them to its own eminence, giving
them growth with its growth even as the
vines that coil up the forest tree. We
have in Kansas, for instance, the issue
fairly made up in the campaign being
conducted in that State between negro
equality, female suffrage and liquor pro-
hibition on the one hand and Democracy
on the other. Here are three of the four
or FIVE members which make up the ism
family, transplsnted from the soil of New
England to that of the far West, and
happily united again after seeming
separation of years, At other
points a similar reunion is going
on, and the day may not be
far distant when the national
conventions of Rsdicslism shall en-
brace all the elements which we're repre-
sented in the primitive councils of the
Puritans, when strong minded women
and long. haired men held love feasts in
and about Boston. They are represented
now, and have always been represented,
in individuals who have gone to make
up these bodies, but we look for more
than this. Their representatives., here
tofore silent, will begin to speak out, and
there is not an ism which will mott time
find its champion, if that champion does
not End his followers. The devotee at
the one shrine viii compromise with |
those who bend the knee to a kindred |
one, and thus the idols of fanaticism will |
be grouped in one temple, and who
soever worships therein must bow
to this psIyonamous god. To such an
end the current of events is strongly |
tending, and to those who have studied the
history Of fanaticism since the creation,
such an end cannot seem as at all i'm
possible or improbable. We find conso.
lRtion in but single fact, which, if APP
picable in morals as well as physics,
should inspire the country with hope.
We believe it to be conceded that no two
diseases can exist in the system at one
time-the one Of necessity eradicating
the other, the weaker giving place to the
stronger. In its effort, then, to infect
the country with second poison, Rsdi.
calism may be administering an antidote
and a curative, which may, in time, have
the most salutary effects, if the patient |
does not peg out altogether under the
treatment
B&r 1t is conceded, we believe, that
corporations have not souls. On the
same hypothesis, we presume, corpora
tons can't sin, which, if really the case,
must take right handsome amount Of
work off the hands of the recording
angel. But as we haven't the law, and |
are in some doubt on the subject, let Us
suppose, for a moment, what would be
the result if corporations could sin and |
their misdeeds we're duly entered and |
recorded for reference on the great day |
of settlement and final squaring of ac-