Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-20

and by the harsh training OF ca lamity,
is slowly learning patience, the fortitud
that endures, and the wisdsm from
which alone flows the enduring prosper
ity of States. The discipline continues
because the lessons written in fire an
blood on all the face Of our once fair an
fertile Southern land remain unread, 0
if read are forthwith forgotten. Our pea
nle still worship the same idols as OF old
and follow the same blind guides, who's
; North Star is e~xpedieney and the profi
a, Of the hour. They are not yet wear,
of the compromises Of self-interest
; which bring to Nations and men aliEl
, only calamity and shame. Likethe chill
dren Of Israel in the DESERT they year,
for the aesh-pots Of Egypt, and strive Z
become parties to all the c~orr1ptions OF
government whose legislation is without
honesty or honor, and which they now
know only by its expressions and exae
tions. While our chosen leaders are IL
prison or exiled, the people whom they
served. and for whose profit they are sac
rideed. are eager to become responsible
for that which is now their misfortune.
hut will be. when they shall have con-
sented to it, their indelible shame.
If the Southern people would have
made anv further concessions, and hu-
initiated themselves any further, in order
IN oain re-admission into the Union, TO
escape from which they fought for years,
we should thank the Radicals for pass
ing the acts by which they propose to
establish military governments, and to
exclude from any participation whatever
in the recreation OF State governments,
all who we're in any wise concerned in
the secession of their States, or in HOSTILE
ties against the United States.
Out Of our present distresses and
eaIamities will come the salvation Of the
Southern States. Slavery, prevented
from extending into new regions. and
the rapidly increasing number of slaves,
presented to all thoughtful men a prob!
lem for grave consideration, since it
threatened u children with terrible
consequences. That problem is solved,
and we are not responsible for the direful
consequences OF sudden and universal
emancipation TO the negroes themselves.
RELYING less and less every year upon
the labor Of the black race, our people
must needs become more and more self
reliant and energetic. They will learn
patience and firmness, and the silent
heroism of endurance, contempt Of the
ignoble baseness that Expresses them,
hatred of military and popular tyranny,
detestatiou Of dishonest politicians, en-
thusiastic love Of constitutional liberty,
contempt Of death, and that poverty and
labor are no dishOnOr.
We shall become a graver and soberer
people, less given to folly, extravaganza
and show. Adversely alone ean temper
the gay Athenian into Spartan manli-
ness and indomitable perseverance. We
shall probably have cause enough to be-
come what DR.. JOHNSON liked, good
haters. There is plenty Of the old
rugged Morse and Saxon nature in our
people ; for the race has not dwindled or
deteriorated as it does in great cities,
and amid mines and manufactures.
The war partly walked up the Southern
people. They were brave, dashing, We
/ hement they had all the elan of the
Frank, but not the patience to prepare
for permanent cOnquests by thorough
discipline. If they had had, their
chargers might have drunk the waters
Of the Northern lakes. Adversely tenn
pers men, as fire tempers the steel.
They have had the baptism of blood /;
now they are undergoing the discipline
that enables man to glory in Martyrdom.
On the other hand, the delusive pros
perity Of the Northern States is the
spring out of which their ruin must
certainly flow. The day will soon come
when they must atone for their manifold
crimes. The cup Of wrath is nearly
ready for the sensual lips Of New Eng
land. As yet she has the hollow pros
perity of SOdom, with more than the
sins Of Gomorrah to answer for. She
has yet to account for her persecution Of
Quakers, perpetrated when she hypo-
critically pretended to have left England
first and afterwards Holland, for the sake
Of freedom OF conscience. The intOler-
anCe and NrangliBg temper OF the Sain[s
made them n|uisauces in Holland, and
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new homes, under Indictment skies,
where they made free opinion a crime,
and judicial murder good service to God.
She has vet TO account to the Divine
Justice for the merciless and inhuman
determination of the Pequods and Mar
ragausetts, the numbering Of their chiefs,
the Draining OF their women, and the
selling Of their children into slavery in
for the multiplied horrors of the Middle
Passage, and the atrocities Of the slave
trade carried on by her ships and for
accepting the monopoly Of the carrying
trade as a hribe for her consent to the con-
tinuance Of the slave trade for twenty
years after the adoption of the Constitu-
ton. She has to answer for all the
abominable doctrines, hostile to morality
and curses of the country, that have is
sued like serpents from her teeming
womb. To her the horrors and aLroCi-
ties Of civil war were owing to her are
chargeable all the present miseries, the
relapse into barbarism, and the future
determination Of the negro race.
Her selfish greed for gain, grstiied at
the expense Of her sister States Of the
North, peop!ed in part from her own
loins, and in part by the subjects of
European monarchs, is causing all Of
them to detest her, and to loug to see her
influence in the Union end.
Unless there is no longer any con-
between cause ami consequence,
unless the great law Of Gods justice is
repealed, the doom Of the North is
pronounced. 1.-The burden Of
Babylon. Howl ye; for the day OF the
Lord is at hand it shall come as a de-
,truction from the Almighty" If that
destruction were confined TO New Eng
and, there would be none from among
he nations TO pity her, and ever the
States that are now her allies would
at her downfall and mock st her
.alamity. But all these are alike en-
ssged in the destruction of the COnstitu-
ion and the establishment ola despotism
lpheld by negro bayOnets, owe ten or
States. Anarchy, and thedespot-
sm that follows it, will rain their curses
Ipon all alike; and another chapter in
history will be written indelibly in blood.
THE NICHOLSON PAVEMENT.
We are glad 10 see that there is a pros
rect Of this great discovery in the paw
lg ling being introduced upon our
Wherever it has been used il
las become at one popular as 1t is
heapeT, m r durable, less noisy, cleaner 4
heater. In San Francisco, Cal, it {
superseded all other kinds, We have 1
cen informed, and many streets which {
paved with it several years ago, &
Though constantly travelled upon by I
he heaviest vehicles, appear TO be as !
I'M a-d as neat as when first paved, not [
ct requiring repair, or appearing as IL c
ley ever would. Upon the peculiar soil a
our streets this pavementi is said 10 suit S