Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-09

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among Us with hypOcritical pretences OF
kindness and the vulgar and ostsntstiOus
self-cOmpiacency that chiefly values as
the fruit Of victory the insults and humiI-
iations which it can with immunity heap
upon The conquered, gives US renewed
reason to rejoice that we made the effort
to separate from them, and only 10 regret
that we struggled in vain. The insOlenee
ofthe victOrleaves Us nothing to Tegretb but
failure and We appropriate to ourselves,
with hardly the change Of a word, these
fine sentences Of GRATTAN, in his speech
on lhe Triumph Of Irish Independence :
" These were not grievances, but spolia-
tons, which left you nothing. When
you eontended against them, you con-
tended for the whole Of your condition /;
when the Master asks, by what right?
we refer him TO our Maker. We sought
cur privileges by the right which we have
to defend u property against a robber,
cur life against q murderer, U country
against 81 invader, whether coming with
civil or military force-a foreign power
OF a foreign legislature. This is a case
that wants no precedent; the ~revobsion
wanted no precedent; for such things
arrive 10 reform q course Of bad prece-
dents, and, instesd of being founded on
p~recedents, become such: the gazing
world, whom they come to save, begins
by doubt, ami concludes by worship"
The demands Of the North at first
were moderate and not very unreasona-
Die. Il was not certain that the South
might not resist again; and the possibil-
ity of this operated q salutary restraint.
But when it became evident that no
further resistance was to be appre-
hended when the whole Southern pee
pie had been disaTmed, and the North
ern soldiery bad the whole Southern
land helpless in its grasp, then the vul-
gar virulence OF the politicians who had
heard no bullets hiss, and especially Of
the known arraut towards among them,
displayed itself, ~rapacious, ignoble and
disgusting, aad, fred and frenz;ed by its
mutations, the Nation became 3 To-
matte, and resorted to force, terror and
oppression as a means Of restoring the
Union. Since then we have had one
long Saturnalia and Carnival Of Mis-.
rule and Unreason, the President vainly
endeavourlng, ell the time, to restore the
Nation 70 its senses, the Courts as far as
possibIs avoiding collision with the mad
rage Of the Infatuated ~populaee.
The South, ready, two years ago, to
return into the Union, and to restore the
old good humOr aud br0therly relations,
now desires to return, only to escape from
what it enormously regards as g worse
despotism and heavier misfortune. In
1852, GRATTAN said, "The question is
not whether we shall show mercy to the
Roman Catholics, but whether We shall
mould the inhabitants Of Ireland into q
people: for so long as we exclude CathO-
lies from natural liberty and the COM
mon rights Of men, we are not 2 people:
We may triumph over them, but other
nations viii triumph over Us. If you
love the Roman Catholic, you may be
sure Of a return from him but if you
treat him with cruelty, you rus always
live in fear, conscious that you merit his
just resentment. VIII you then go down
the stream Of time, the Roman Catholic
sitting by your side Un-blessing and I'M
blessed, blasting and blasted ? or will
you take of his chains that he may take
Off yours? will you give him freedom,
that be may guard your liberty? '
That is craftsmanship like the spleB-
did oracles of BURKE. Pity there is not
enough of it in the Northern States, to
serve at least as salt to save the soul of
the Republic!
When the war ended, the United
States owed an debt, much
more b~urtheusome every way, in pro-
portien to their revenues and means of
payment, than the National debt Of
England. This debt the masses Of the
voters are not interested 10 pay, but to
.repudiats, and the exemption from tax
alton Of the bonds furnishes the dema-
gogUe who advises reputation, with an
excellent topic wherewith to arouse the
popular ~prejudices against the favoured
class, the bond-aristocracy. To lessen
expenditures, restore industry, re-invig-
agriculture in the South, and
diminish taxes, the restoration Of peace
and harmony was indispensable.
An immense amount Of public debt
consists iugovsrnmentnote and in those
Of National Banks issued in lieu Of bonds.
The whole Of this is irredeemable 10
specie, and only confidence in the per-
manency and stability Of the Govern :
ment, and peace and tranquility in pub.
lie affairs, can prevent the immense
mass Of paper from ~TuinOusly depreciat-
ing and overwhelming the country with
widespread and general ruin. !
Common-sense, which is a great deal
thar Stste-eraft, plainly enough !
dictated 10 the North the adoption Of all I
such measures as should tend to an i'm
mediate restoration Of the Southarn !
States to the Union, and to the renewal .
Of the old relations Of amity and good (
that the red footprints Of war
might disappear as soou as possible, and :
all bitter and revengeful feelings be tenn !
pered and softened down. :
But the North had entrusted the powers i
Of government TO a set of lunatics. The :
were free, and it was only neees- +;
TO make it certain that they should I
be again reduced to slavery. Every
thing else would have settled itself after 9
a little time. The Courts would have :
protected all the rights Of the freedmen. Z
But the Lunaties imagined that the {
negro would be oppressed, without The :
Freedmen's Bureau and the ballot. and :
70 secure him the curse Of the latter. {
were willing to do everything that could q
prevent a cordial and harmonious resto- !
ration Of the Union. Those who desired :
to see the good faith Of the Government S
5acrediy maintained, ought to have been 2
unalterably opposed to an immense in !,
crease Of the popular vote in eleven 3
States, by investing with the right Of d
suffrage half or three quarters Of a
million Of ignorsnt negroes, easily mis-
and much more likely TO favour Z
reputation than the payment Of an inn a
nense national debt. Yet q compare =
lively small number Of iunstics have !
oeen able 70 infect the whole .
North with their madness, and to
induce them to insist upon fore p
ng unqualified negro suffrage upon ?
he whole South. By this determination :
o achieve a mischievous and mad pur- 8
pose, they hazard the defeat of all at D
st reconciliation and jeopsrdize Y
he present and future peace of the cOun- \
~. Nay, they make continual dissen-
ions, tumults and troubles, and ulti- O
nateiy q renewed civil war, or a war Of q
aces certain, when unless peace aud l
rider and the settled rule aud supremacy Ii
4 the laws are soon restored, the whole p
urrency Of the country, based as it is on s
be credit Of the country, must begin to -
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