Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-11
CONFEDERATION FOE THE PEOPLE

CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE PEOPLE
OF ARKANSAS
"THE WORD OF TRUTH AND SOBER.
ness
"But Con, Is we have cause 20 trust
viii put other thoughts into the people
and turn them from giving ear or heed
70 these merccnary noise makers oi
whose fury and false prOphesies we have
enough experience, and viii incline them
&c hearken rather to the voice Of honour.
calling them 10 liberty and the flourish
ing deeds OF q reformed Common
wealth. MILTON.
The people Of the Southern States are
now, indeed, under tyranny and servi-
tude, as wanting that power, which is
the root and source Of ali liberty, TO dis.
pose and economics In the land which
GoD has given them, as masters Of fam
lily in their own house and free inherit.
ance. Without which natural and essen
tial power Of = free Nation, though bear
ing high their heads, they can in due
esteem be thought no better than slaves
and vassals born, in the tenure OF an.
other ~inheFiting Lord, whose Govern.
ment, though not Illegal OF ~intOlersble.
hangs over them a. , Lordly scourge,
not as q free Government, and therefore
TO be sbrogated.
1t Is quite true that the condition Of
the people Of the Southern States, and
that Of Arkansas not less than theothers,
although Il is possessed Of a more decent
and wel-bred despOtism, is much worse
than that Of slaves and vasssls born, u
Is much so as that Of a negro who, born
the slave and reared the dependent Of 8
generous gentleman Of Virginia OF North
Carolina, wss by some cruel trick Of for
tune put up for sale and purchased by
some canting and svaricious Down
easter, married to a Louisiana widow,
after being her slave-driver. It is a ser.
vitude beyond comparison more ignOble
to be the thrall and vassal Of an assem-
bly, Of tyrsnts representing the passions
them low and base men, pulled up and
swollen with the uuwonted possession Of
3 power rarely entrusted TO such hands,
than to be the born vasssl Of . heredi-
tary Monarch. There is a responsibility
in being the servant OF a born Hob!eman
none In being the valet Of q pdrUeHu like
TTrT.EBAT TITMOUsE. The servitude
OF those over whom Praise-God-
Barebones, and Hold-fast-to-tbe-Faith
Somebody, and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Flesh other Somebody, and the Ramp
Parliament Of such creatures, doIni-
neersd OF Of those whose lives we're at
the disposition Of R%oBEsPIERRE, the
little advocate Of ARRAs, CARRIER, the
Butcher Of Lyon, MARAT, the Friend Of
the People, CoUTHOS, the lame prOto-
type Of THAD. STEVENS, and BAERERE,
Tie eezyitude and thralldom and vas
sslage Of these, like that Of those VINO
trembled at the nod Of the Neapolitan
fisherman MAS AEIELB0, OF Of JACK
CADE, was far more intolerable than
that Of the Roman, not under ANToNI-
NUS Plus and HADRLAN even, bit under
CoMMoDUs and VITELLIUs and there
has never, since men began 70 tyrannize
over one another, existed a more Wi
A abject, sordid and proletsrian domi-
nation Of low tyranny,-sgualoTe sordi-
dior.-than that under which the South
era states DOW gToan.
Nevertheless, eveB such q tyranny is
preferable to that sbnegation Of princi-
MA and abandonment Of right, whose
sitter consequences are eternal These
are forbidden as, - crimes are, alike by
our duty 20 ourselves our children and
o.r country. To our country, because
~ honour Is in the especial charge Of its
children, and our duties 10 ourselves are.
not the only nor the most sacred ones
we owe:
o Non nobs solg5a Hat siaaas 9rH1qie
Fossa DaT1eo pfatrtd raA-
W. are not Born for ourselves alone but
also in part for our country.
Neitser need We despair. For Tyran-
nies heretofore were permanent; but they
- Q sbort-myed. It is only necessary
n endure = little while, and the day Of
relief or vengeance comes. II the South
4 tr,e 70 itself it cannot long remain
ensIaved. HH takes tie fatal step ofeon-
senting 70 the euervation OF its States,
h rivets he fetters upon its own limbs,
and seals he indentans Of its bondage
thenossorwasd to be forever the vsssal Of
lie NORTH II TIE people Of the South
A. tb.t. Islerty, Or whom they once