Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-23

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healthfnl, in~vig0rating, ~salGbrious ID
productions rs varied as there ere seed
to be planted It's rock ribbed mountain
rich in all the vast treasures of the earth
God Almighty, in the pleRtitude OF hi
power, and the boundiess munihcence o
his ~benefzction has lavished upon Thu
land his choicest and most bounteoul
gifts. Oh! should we not struggle hare
to cherish, revivify and rehabitats q land
like this? Let no one then think 81
leaving IL to hunt a better; my word tol
il, they will never find il. Those who
have wondered into distant chimes with
the vain hope OF doing so, sooner or later
return satisfied that after all IL Ia the best
OF all. And it is the best Of ail-crushed
| though il be beneath the iron heel OF
\ despotic power, it II still the best. The
trident Of oppression will oEe day fall
from the palsied arm and withered grasp
of power. Let usstick OF. then through
thick and thin. Encourage immigration
rather than emigration. II can again be
made 10 bloom and blossom brighter and
better than before. Some may say how >
I answer, in the first place, by making
ourselves independent. BY going to
work In earnest, and raising within our
| selves everything we want to eat and
wear, and let cotton alone.
How was il during the war; Not
withstandiDg every abIe-bodied man was
in the army or supposed to be, yet there
was plenty of provisions raised in the
south to feed, and almost elothe, the
army and the people, And why? Be.
cause the whole agricultural energies OF
the country were directed to raising food
and clothing; and the only reason there
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either among the people or in the army,
was the want of transportation. Why, /
have myself seen mountains Of corn ac-
tually rotting because it could not be
carried away. Why ia it, now that
transportation Is everywhere untram-
meled, and the army broken up and at
home, and { work for two years, that
In many portions Of the country we hear
the cry of want and famine? Even
the very Egypts OF the land, that then
grOaned with wasting corn, cannot now
feed their starving stock. 1t is simply
because to the utter neglect of raising
something to eat, the whole country has
everywhere pursued the ignus fatuus Of
cotton. How could we prosper? How
could any people prosper, pursuing this
fatal policy? Buying every pound Of
meat, every bushel of corn, every barrel
of flour, every horse, mule, COW, hog,
sheen, every implement of h~usbandry,
everything that we eat, wear and use,
and that, too, at the most exhOrbitant
prices when we have q country and ma
teFial capable Of producing them all as
well as any in the world. II will never
do. This policy must be changed, and /
am glad to see a manifest disposition to
do so. MAY not the calamitous floods
which have so recently deluged the fair
est and most fertile fields of all the south,
be blessings in disguise to give wiser
direction to the agricultural labor Of the
country?
But upon the youth Of the land, those
whose political " transgressions" have
not worked their everlasting political ex-
communication, will mainly deYolye the
high duty and rest the vsst responsibility
of lifting up this PROSTATE land Of ours
and placing it again upon the proud emf
nenee Of prosperity and happiness. Itis
to the rising generation, to you, young
men, who are to give future conduct and
control to the government and directisn
and shape to her laws, her institutions
and her liberty, that the country must
look. Never before in the wide range OF
the history OF parties and OF the country
and Of the world did such mighty re-
sponsibility rest upon the coming men,
nothing more nor less than the redemp-
ton Of their country; her restoration to
ali those moral, physical and political re-
latiOns to which she has so high a claim
and so just Q title; to breathe into her
new life, and put her again upon q new
career of material prospeTity-a mighty
work for the young and for the old, but
especially for the young.
am proud to say that neye before in
the history Of any country was the trade
of war so suddenly tuEned into the
peaceful pursuits OF every day life with
so little Generalization upon the part of
the Young men of the country. Every
where they went TO work like men, with
but little or no faint OF the. evils Of the
or the vicious influences of q sol
dier's life. The better the soldier the
more obedient 10 the law the citizen. 1t
gives great earnest OF their capacity for
useful citizenship, and Of their ability
and determination to direct Alright the
ultimate destinies of their country.
And whilst il lie both pleasing and
profitable to forget for a while the eager
pursuits of business, and the fretful cares
Of life, and devote adsy to these pleasant
pastimes-these manly and interesting
sports-especially when their objects are
so laudable and their results so harm
less-let us not lose sight Of the great
duties whh1 lie before, to which 1 have
but barely alluded. The building up the
waste places Of our country. The devel-
Of her vast and varied resources.
The propping up and cementing together
again the crumbling pillars of her con
stttution. The reminding again those
vestsl fires which have so well nigh died
put on the sacred affairs Of civil liberty.
o a word, to bid her rise in her majesty
and beauty, and make her what the
great God intended she should be, not
to herself but to the nations of the
earth.
And now most gallant knights, you
win proceed to dispute with each other
.hS Ppalm, and for the prizes, in the noble
and manly sports in which you are about
engage, and for the still higher guer-
lon of decking the brow of beauty. And
know that you viii remember that
many a fair maiden's heart beats quick
and high for the success of her chosen
and leRpa responsive to your own
your championship OF to-day.
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