Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-31
MERIT OF
OF THE EXCELLENT
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aTbe-e cannot a worse state Of things be i'm
sgined, thar where wicEedness c1mes 70 %
legitimate, and assumes. with The magistratel
permission, the cloak OF virtue. -AOhtdtgpe'
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypO
critics = for ye are like unto whlted Sepuichres
which indeed sppesr beautiful outward, bu'
Are within full OF dead mems bones and Of al
uncleauness. Even - ye also outWardIy ap
pear righteous unto men, but within ye are III
OF hypOcrisy and iniqulty.
I~nteIigently to discuss the merits Of
any quality or characteristic whatever,
it is first necessary to define the word by
which VIC mean 10 express it, 90 that the
mind Of the reader and that Of the writer
may have one and the anne thing in
view.
We do not mean by the word 10y
ATTY that fidelity to principle, that
firm adherence 10 even the losing cause.
that honour, probity and good faith, that
d~evotedness to the true Interests, honour
and welfare Of the Commonwealth
which were expressed by the cid French
word Loyaute.' The meaning Of word;
changes with the lapse Of time and the
mutations Of affairs; and the word
Loyalty for our present purposes
mesns, not that devotion 10 the Union Of
the States which the fathers idly deemed
they were making more perfect, in 1857
not fidelity 10 the Constitution, as q com
pact between the States, 20 the main
tensnce Of which the good faith and
honour Of each State was pledged not
allegiance to the great principles Of Eng
lish and Constitutional liberty but that
profitable fidelity to power which Rsdi-
cslism now xacts OF its v~assals, and
which 80 greatly commended and en-
deared Sejanus TO TiberiDs.
We mean, for our present purpose, by
the word LOYALTY" what Jacobinism
means by it mot loyalty to an idea, as,
for example, TO that Of the Union or Of
fhe rights Of every State; because many
are now super-eminently loyal, to whom
nothing Of that kind has the least value.
who at first sided with their States
against the Union, and afterwards
sneaked over to the stronger and more
profitable side, to hate and persecute
those less worldly-wise than themselves,
wearing their shame and dishonOur
proudly and h~auntingly, like 8 jewelled
ornament but self-condemned to an i'm
mortal self-cOntempt, and IN their inmost
souls hating and despising themselves as
miserable apOstates and perjured rene
gades.
We do not mean that loyalty to the
flag Of the United States, which aetuated
the true soldier who fought for it be
cause he loved it, who did DO act Of cru.
elty OF baseness to dishonour it, and
against whom there is no ranking
malice in the Southern heart. For the
foreign mercenary and the domestic
hireling, who did for the bride Of a
bounty what he would not do for pa
triotism, and the renegade who was at
first bold and blatant for secession, are
now more intensely loyal than the
SCARED heroes Of many battles and
manv Of the bravest defenders Of the
flag despise the herd Of white-livered
mltcfeLuE VINO hVh CAa%tcL AAA HGE|
in the national menSgerie ike apes and
cockatoos, establish military despotisms,
and below for Acknowledgement and
cOnhsestion. The true soldier despises
the poltroon, the liar, the renegade and
the oppressor, and those who, like the
acumO Of the Senate, are very bold TO strike
q PROSTATE and unresisting enemy and
therefore many Of the old officers Of the
army are not loyal, in the Radical &C
~eeptstion Of the word, for they still re-
tain some lingering regard for the Con-
stitutiOn, and some love Of genuine Eng
lish liberty and fair play.
The objects of human ambition are
manifold; and human nature is not vain
Of beauties and ~exeelIencies only, but
also Of defOEmities that dis6gure, and
parasitic vices that degrade. The Hot
tentot female Is vain Of the unsiehtlv
p-rotuberance on which she seats her
shild sstride behind her: the eonrfisr N
the King Of siam, lie The hatterer ~ an 4,
s-xsrsersted mob, y VAN Of the nayt.o-