Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-22
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Editors Memphis Appeal;
How rapidly ruin envelopes the land I!
DeReneracy, disorganiZation, the res
Iigiou of hste," national malignancy
| Great God how much crime Is the off.
spring Of convenient Godliness, fostered
! IN the churches, and organized in the
name Of Jesus Christ and humanity
/ rejoice 10 the energy you display. I
read after you with the deepest interest,"
vet, sincerely, Lhave no hope, no hope.
/ am enveloped in profound despair, A
few duties, light and trihingi indeedj, 70
one in this mood, constitute al see 70
! live for now. would. die now, and be
| done with all, but that ] see no use In
that, either. 81, d,
| Confidence is already dead. All things
seemin0Iv are becoming unreal; yes
ali things moral and mortal, civil, social
and human. Logical sequences seem no
Ionqer certain even in nature. To my
consciousness and my sight, and my
feeling. Ia mind and in matter, any logi-
cal. ICED. forcihle certainty, seems per-
| ishing away. The atmosphere Is flied,
morally and socially, with wants and
craving--the whole horizon, intsllectu-
aIly, with profigaey, recreaney, and the
activity of squirming Fottenness, and,
politically, with hate raneor and venge'
! fuluess.
But NV love for yourself, my sympa-
| thies and eonfiding reliance, and my fond
memories Of the acts, facts and feelings
| of the past, are of the features in life that
/ vet have reality; and cannot resist the
| inclination to inclose you scrap from
Tom. Moore. It Is so appropriate, SO
| Iife-Iike. that it will not fail to please you
and no one could fail to apply it rightly
in DAYS like these
.THE PEoPLEl All, that Freedoms form should
stay
That a" a false smile should play around The
And fusk the features when the soul hatI
When Rome had lost her virtue with hel
When hsf foul tyrantsl sat on CaPrs@i
Amid bis their ruflan spies, and doomed u
Each noble name they blasted with thei
Even then In noekery Of that golden time
When the Republic rose revered, subifme,l
Even then the senate and the Tribunes stood
Insulting marks, TO show how high the Hood
, OF Freedom fow,d in glory's by gone day,
And how it eboed-foreyer ehbed away
Look but around Though yet tyTant
/. 4
Nor haHnts our sleep, nor glfttsrs Ger on
] board
Though blood be better drawn, by moder
0uacks,
With Treasury Ieeches than with sword OF axe
, Yet say. could even PROSTATE Jrtb unes pOWe
, or mock Ienaie, in Rome's serv1Ie hour,
: In ult 50 much the claims, the rights OF man
I As doth that fattered MOB, that Tree dtvan,
or noble tools and bonOurable knaves.
} / OF pensioa'd patriots and privileged slaves :
. That party-coioured mass which nought ca
warm
: But rank corraption's heat--whose quieirene
: Spread their light wings in BIibery's golde
, sky,
. Buz for period, then lay their eggs ana die ,
That greedy vampire, which nom Freedom
, tomb
, Comes forth with all the mimicry OF bloom
Upon its Iif-less cheek, and sucks and Grains
A Peoples blood to feed its putrid veins
2 80 Is there no Eghts" thou ask'st-" no H"gerb IL
) spGrk
" OF ancient fire 10 trarn uSs LiDss there none
" To act a MdrreTs pGrts "-Alasl not one.
, Tapiace and power all public spirit tends,
IN place and power sll pubic spirit ends.