Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-08
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snip OF stare, Tor us u OUT eniutehi =
bark, like that OF MILTON lamenting
for LYCIDAs, "built in the eclipse, and
rugged with curses dark - and if, after
the cyclone has struck it, 1t shall lie
helpless and water-logged on the frantic
surges of the ocean of calamity, with
| ssils rent into ribbons and masts gone
by the board. and the seas like noun
tains breaking over it. we shall but have
I themore companions in our evil fortunes;
and these will have brought their ruin
upon themselves.
But we shall not need to exult in any
unchristian spirit, at that by which the
innocent would suffer for the knaveries
and follies of the guilty. There will be
1 legitimate cause, cause ample and album
dant, for national thanksgiving, when
the tempest smites the arrogant North
ern land. Like the elemental eommo-
tons. it and its lightnings will pass
away, and leave behind them serene
skies. They, and they alone, will settle
the controversy as to the re-sdmission
Of the Southern Provinces into the
Union. They and they only will rescue
the country from the hands ofthe charla-
tsns and sharpers and political gamblers
into whose power it has fallen n II
the popular Indignation hangs to the
llamp-posts the worthless c~arcasses OF the
miscreants who are running the vessel Of
State upon a lee shore, and to certain
shipwreck, it will be only aH act OF diia-
tory and imperfect justice.
For other reasons, a financial explo-
sion is desirable, and will be legitimate
cause for rejoicing, fruitful though it
will be Of temporary distress and misery.
/, An irredeemable inflated paper-eur-
rancv causes all business to degenerate
into the meanest and most u~ncOnscien-
tious gambling. Its value and the APP
narept value of everything bought and
sold, huctuate every day, and every day
the Government, by this ~fiuctuation,
robs the debtor who pays or the creditor
WIN receives. There never was a u
try. in any age of the world, where
every man was so continually engaged
in plucking and ~pillaging some n
else, as that which is called with q sar-
casm worthy Of Satan, the United
States In Turkey the SOoltaun is
Thought to have lone an act Of stu
pendous rascality, in deprecisting the
value of the copper coin. With Us, the
vaIue Of the miserable shin-plaster
fractional currency, with which a
fractional Congress Of fractional ftates-
men continues 10 adiict the country, is
made TO vary every day, by some new
abomination Of legislation and thus
every day the bread is taken from the
MOUTH Of the poor, and labor is ROB
bed OF part 81 its poor pittance
of dairy wages, and inc sOal of
the country IS ~burthened with the curses
of those whom it obsand starves. OF all
the DEVILS institutions Of modern times,
the toek-gambling and gold-gambling
of Wall street aud other kindred lOcali-
ties where thieves and s~counerels most
do congregate, are the most ingenious
and the best adapted to petrify the soul
and deaden the conscience Of a people.
The disease begins, and is difased from,
these centres of corruption but il per-
meates every part Of the body Of the
Nation, and COMMUNICATES all its atmos-
phere. Our inflated paper currency is
an uumitigsted curse, a leprosy that rots
the very benos of . country, and breaks
out in pustules and syphilitio sores, and
nauseous ulcers iEfeGts legislation, fos-
tiers Iuxuries and the follies OF women as
well asmen, to be afterwards atoned for by
bitter tears; eoroupts the young and de-
moraiizss tbs old, aud makes the whole
land one great lazafetto.
The cotton-planter finds himself
afflicted with the double cusre, Of a
d~uetuatiDg currency and of distant specU-
lations il cotton, that by means Of Con-
gressional and Executive knaveries
managed for the purpose and paid for,
raise or lower the price Of that on which
his ~sustenanee depends. He never
knows how much per pound his cotton
is to bring him. The Government
throws gold upon the market to serve
the purposes of banks that want money,
by diminishing its market price and APP
parently increasing the value Of the
the rags Of lts insolvency. Tariffs i'm
posed to protect particular interests and
give ~monopOlies even to particular
manufactures, diminish the value Of his
cotton, by making it eXchangeable for 3
less quantity Of imports. The Govern
ment, tG make the fluctuations in the
value Of It's paPef-Pf0Rises greater
pOurs its gold into the arteries of bust
ness with one hand, and with the ether
takes it back for duties, refusing to re
ceive, and so depreciating, its Own notes.
OF course, ali this acts i%njuriously, nay
r~uinOusly, on the labouf CT the South.
So does everything that is consequence
Of the immense National debt, which
would have been not twO-thirds as large,
if the operations Of the war had been
honestly conducted, and il Patriotism
had not considered itself entitled to be
paid 6y Plumber. That debt, which folly
regards as a public blessing, lies on the
bleeding body Of the country, like OssA
and PELION on the giants E~NCELADUs
and TYPHoN, and, if not repudiated, viii
crush the lie ont of it in the end. Ih
consequences are high taxes and higl
duties, stamps and licenses, and especial
liz that rank injustice, the ~cOtTon-tax
the eonstitutionality whereof we should
like to see taa sporadic Radiealism OF
Tennessee attempt to aemOnstrate.
But, injurious as all this is to the
ruined and exhausted South, it is still
more so 70 d4s prOletarian portion Of tn,
population Of the Northern cities, {,
whom a small change in tks astHal value
Of the copper or fractional pRper-cur-
rency has the most serious consequences;
and who viii suffer most when the great
p-aper-currency LGhble ~cOllspses, and
things rush back to the specie standard {
II there are not, by and by, emeutes and
riots and clamours for work and bread.
viii De because new laws have beer 4
enacted by God for the government o. {
the world, and that OF cause end conse
quence has been repealed.
The prudent Sea-captain, when th' I
mercury ID the barometer suddenly {
sinks, or he SEES on the horizon the por
of approaching tempest, shortens G
sail and prepares TO lie to Or Faa before '
he sale, according as circumstances may I
y is time for the South to Pre- {
pare. Everybody is living as if Their,
we're no judgment-day for the unjusl a
Nations. But there Is one eOialpg for {
he United States,-for God is neither '
lethrone1. Dor has abdicated, nor does q
His justice siesF, When the storm l
the North, it wiR howl over the s
south also, and hunger will bake its {
black solves savage, as well as the r
white ones Of he North. Each mar $
IhOuld husband mis- resources, contract d
lis business, an dremember dat the tenn {
which levels the palace passes harm b
ess over the roof the Of cottar's hum Il
BE home. We live rs though there was 9
o Sc 10 more adversely We sue each q