Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-16

Ing the father and mother, forces
daughter TO we'd him. There Is a curse
prououpced by COP against such unity,
produced by force. The Norsh misns
ali well clasp q dead corpse 70 70 Us
bosom. The nuptials, in such case
should. OF right, be celebrated IN hell.
Nothing can come Of them but misery
and crime. What would be Thought OK
the wisdom of one who should under
take to force another, by robbang ana
manning him, to renounee his enmlty'
to continue to be his friend or TO rene"
\ relations Of even ordinary commereiA'
partnership When, before, was an
immense price paid TO secure an map
pessable hatred, yelled by a detestaDie
hypocrisy. in a household? To hold the
Southern States as Provinces, Is to stat
Freedom 70 the heart in her own house.
ONLY Dsspotism can hold States in sub
~jugation and to hold them SO is to feed
the burning hatreds Of hell and the hery
Iongings OF revenge.
By what great error has the country
been brought, in less than seventy years
TO this horrible condition ? Nothing that
can De now said upon this question vii
arrest the march Of events. The fate o.
Z this Republic is sealed. But some phiio'
sophie historian shall hereafter write th'
story Of its ruin, tracing it to its spring
/, in the past ard the history 50 written
and the example so presented may b
. useful TO future generations.
e The opinions we shaH express as to tn
Constitution and it, trainers, will u
r. doubt shock many minds. That Consti
!. tuition has been invested with a singula
. sanctity, as the perfection Of politiea
wisdom, incapable Of improvement o
amendment; with a spleudour like ths
Of the sun or the glory Of God on Sinai
. that prevented the eye from gazing OF
It and the intellect from criticising il
On the brows Of its trainers have reste'
aureoIes of glory, as though they wer
Demigods. or these illusions was b7rl
8 blind and unreascning faith, a be
= numbing Of the reason, s vague stupid
amazed idolatry.
3 But the Constitution was not the per
lection Of human reason. It had, fron
the beginning, grave defects, which
concealed for q time, have now beeom
a manifest 10 all, even the least observani
d Thirty years ago, the President was on
le uipotent, and domineered over u
Senate. To-day, under the same instrU
Of ment he is the slave of Congress. Nevs
le before was q Constitution Of GOvernmen
d established, with these two question
wholly unsettled -" Who made it an
le are The parties to H9-WhGt Is Il, IN q
K nature and essea0s,-a compact betWee
J. States or an enactment By People?
le It was not the harmonious produetio
OF a wise legislator, or Of a number {
r wills eonverging to single purpose oI
a COMPROMISE Of selfish interests, ba.
suced against and -eompensating esc
n other: in which principles were bartere
for price in material advantages I
e, States and sections Of country. Con
le promises Of claims and interests al
le necessary, desirable, laudable. ComprC
II misses Of ideas and principles are CAS-
le immoral, ruinous the most signal, di
h sstrous and deserved Of failures. How
/ ever pure and good the motives, Il
j. effect and fruit are always the same
Is of that political ecleetism,' Of whie
l. SoUvEsTRE speaks, which attempts
10 fuse ideas like liquids that tartutisn
Il the secret compromise between cor
d science and fear; that kind Of Jusi
IS miller between honour and infamy
J. which constitutes the political herm'
y phrodism Of true parliamentary par
dours.' A chef deHUre Of politics
As science can be the issue of Ii
rs struggles of opposing selfshnesses' nj
J. tuaIIy striving to overreaeh, circumveI
:. and outwit each other. Grapes and fs
At do not grow upon the thorn and th
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