Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-01
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God LIS imposed it on man as bis
highest duty, that he shall be loyal to
Truth and to Liberty. He who IS not is
the guiltiest OF traitors. To this, all
Loyalty to q Sovereign, a party or 8 Gov
eminent is sUbservieut, and becomes,
when the two conflict, sycophancy and
servilitv. To hate Fslsehood and Ty-
ann is the highest OF ali duties and
he who compounds with either is
damned before his death, il, indeed, bis
soul survives his body, when tainted
with the leprosy of so great a b-aseness.
Ignoble compliances infect and rot the
soul and mental cretinism is contsgi-
Gus.
The Loyalty aud Allegiance Of every
American Citizen are due to the Consti-
tuition and this loyalty is confirmed and
enforced by the oath Of allegiance,
which is neither to King or Congress,
but 10 support, protect and defend the
Constitution. Nothing a release a
y man from the duty Of hating and 9ppos-
ling despotism, and especially that des-
pouism Of guobs, which has not even a
plausible pretence Of authority by Divine
right. To obey a despotism, when it
can be successfully resisted. is q crime.
Voluntarily to accept base men a.
ters is a bideous degradation.
For many long years, Emperors and
Kings were deemed to reign by divine
right: and loyalty and faithful service
t. them were held to be religious duties.
1t is not long, no longer ago than lT78,
since the great new principle was estab-
Iished that " institutions are made FOR
men, and not men FOR Institutions" It
is not a hundred years since Loyalty and
Allegiance % Truth, Principle and Con-
stitufioDaI Liberty were substituted in
the stead Of Loyalty to Thrones; and
already, in the very land where this i'm
mense revolution was wrought, it is
claimed that loyalty to the popular viii,
however unreasonable and tyrannical
1t may be, shall be substituted for 10y
slty to the Constitution. Compared to
the old heroic loyalty 10 the monarch,
this slavishness is the aduladon Of the
Kamschatkan idol instead Of that Of the
Olympic JUPITER.
We have said heretofore, and we re-
peat, that whenever a despotism is es-
tabIished over q people before free.
whether - the issue Of fraud, ~usurpation
or conquest, there is no duty Of Loyalty
or Allegiance TO the Tyranny Of Force.
GOD has forbidden it. It is 8 crime
against His law and the parasites OF all
such ~tyrannies are the enemies Of the
human race. Those who obey the tyr
amy and submit 70 the force are not
criminal and dishonoured, only when
resistance would be unavailing, and un-
successful rebellion would strengthen
and consolidate the despotism.
Allegiance and protection are recipro-
cal and that protection means the
securing TO the governed the free posses
sion and fun enjoyment Of all their
human and constitutional rights.
When the AnglO-American Colonies
rebelled against the Crown, they declared
in the most emphatic terms the great
principle that the adoption Of a system
Of tyranny, the establishment Of a des-
potism, by the sovereign, is a forfeiture
Of all bis rights 10 the loyalty and ale.
glance Of the subject. These pripcinlas
are the supreme law Of the United STATE
qyaev. al least, cannot repudiate them
ar hold them to be erroneous; for upon
.hem the foundations OF their constitu-
,ional liberty repose. II they are not Of
r,s4 and absolute truta, the revolt of
- ,lonles was a crime, and the guilt
f,eason clung TO the souls Of the
rsther until the last moment OF their
- To repudiats these principles is
a6bononr the memory Of our great
sd and 10 crown the names Of the
T,ries Of he revolution with ~aVreoies OF
glory. ~
parsons case, IN 1863, " who annuls
EfsaIiows laws Of 50 salutary a nature,
49,, being the father Of his people, de-
-.aerates into a tyraot, and forfeits al
81 o-sedieDce.n Thus be struck the
e-.oote Of TIE American Revolution /
a,,osine counsel cried aloud to the
"The gentleman has spoken