Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-29
s. COrENG EVENTS CAST THEIR
SHADOWS REF0RE.-

We were so much struck, some years
ago, with two paragraphs in e Northern
magazine, as to cut them out and pre-
serve them. No Civil War, nor Military
Despotism, nor States corrupted into
Negro Commonwealth were then an
ticipated and these veritsble oracles
are more impressive now than when
they we're published and no man re-
garded them. The writer said
"Nisgivings that have been latent,
distrusts long concealed, and shadOwy
ap~prehensions that we feared to COM
mune with, have been thrown to the
surface, and are now defined realities.
Such among our thinking men as have
projected themselves by force Of strange
impulses in advance Of the cTOwd-men
whose lonely to-day carries in Itself the
future of the multitude-such men are i'll
at ease. They see visions and dream
dreams. FOrebOdings alarm them, and
mysterious phantOms court their medi-
tstive hours.
1.-THE gloom and commissions of chaos
must return, IN part at least, whenever a
new order Of things is about to be estab-
lished. Through strife, through agony
worse than m]artyTdOm, We complete our
periods Of successive growth, and pass
from a lower state TO one higher and
uobler. The evils Of our intellectual and
moral condition, our moUrnful failure to
respond to the unequslled privileges Of
position and fortune, our w]Oridiiness in
trade and education and religion, our
bitter Discussions, and want Of genial,
generous brotherhood, Utr staggering
craftsmanship, these are not yet visited
on our nation, but they are laid as q
heavy burden on minds and hearts gifted
from above to mark The impending
danger, gifted, too, to see the pathway Of
escape. In every part Of our extended
domain such men are found; and al
though they differ widely as to the minor
points of religious creeds, although they
hsve been trained under very dissimilar
circumstances, and reached on other
subjects opposite conclusions, yet there is
oneness Of sorrow aud ene Of senti-
meut SIS 10 the intellectual and moral
mslady that pTeys on the vitality Of our
people,
When sre the United States to reach
their higher and nobler stste| Is that
state to be reached by the creation Of
nuisaDces and lazarettos in the shape Of
negro States2 The fO~rebodings Of the
wise and thoughtful are being sadly real
lied; and we are staggering blindly
through the ruin and desolation which
they dimly foressw, still led by the same
blind guides, who now can only counsel
the people to win safety at the expense Of
self-respcct, to submit forever TO the ne
cessity Of negro suffrage, and run with
the movement for a time, in order to be
by and by enabled to stop it. Aye, that
is the way in which many men ran with
the South and even ahead Of her people,
when she was rushing onward to take the
perilous leap Of secessionl Then these
blind guides strained at q gnat, and now
they are eager to swallow a camel.
Its the feast Of BELsHAZzAR, and the
handwriting is already on the wall.
The clock Of Doom has struck, and yet
thereveBers dance on, unconscious Of the
coming fate. National bankruptcy is in
evitsble. Population OF the immense
debt Of the Government Is openly advO-
csted, and orators hold up to excited
audiences the bonds Of the nation, and
tell them that it was TO load themselves
with debt they fought, and that whenever
acOupon is torn from 3 bond, the blood OF
those sacrificed to incur the debt driPs
from 1t and the words Of the speaker are
greeted with wild and tumultuou5 ap-
plsuse. The National Banks are unsafe
and unsound. Capitalists will not per
m~anentIy invest their wealth in Govern
ment bonds, and are exchanging them
for State and railroad stocks. Taxstion
is e~xhausting the energies Of the nation.
The huge debt, like PELIN piled on OssA,
weighs on the heart Of the country, and
no man can zee when and how it will be
materially diminished. Fortunes consist
Of the paper promises Of a Government
that insanely levies a tax almost prohib-
itOry Of production on cotton, EFFORTS
money from the people by unconstitu-
tional means, sells one-eent stamps to
grocers, issues its promissory notes Of the
denomination Of five, ten and fifteen
cents, while it refuses 10 receive in its
own paper the duties it leYies on imports,
and compels payment Of them in coin,
which has become an article Of merchan-
die.
Neither can any man say how long
Radicalism can rule without producing
another civil war. 1t seems drunken
with rage and 8 very maniac, blindly
resolved to have its will and way st
whatever cost. The widest schemes, the
most violent measures commend them
selves most to its weak and crAzed INTEL
lect. Raging the more madly, the more
it encounters opposition, and not salts
fed with the ruin Of ten States and the
investiture with regal powers Of five
military despots, it is resolved, at all
hazards, to impose negro suffrage upon
the Northern States, and Coolie suf-
f,age on California. Itrages against the
barriers which GoD himself has inter.
posed between two rsces that cannot ex-
fst toget her as equals, and impiouslv en-
cal of Hia lam.