Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-20

Speaking of Senator TK5MBULL's res
olution to appropriate one million
dollars (which would only be so
much returned, out of the mill
lions plundered from the South
last year by unconstitutional tithes on
cotton, mercilessly demanded by the best
Government in the world, the Chicago
Times says:
Soon after the war with the South
broke out, the government sent a ship
load of breadstuffs TO the suffering
operatives of England. The operatives
looked that gift-horse ia the mouth, and
incoutinently threw it overheard, as
being a donation prompted by arrant
hypocrisy. How far these offended
and sensitive operatives may have been
correct we will not undertake to say. 1t
may be added, as having a slight bear
ing upon this matter, that there have
been, both before and since that time,
great cases of restitution, of a nationaland
a more limited character, in various por-
tons of the world, and the United States
sent no bread to relieve them.
The inhabitants of certain portions Of
India have, during the last year, died
from starvation by hundreds Of thou
sands. We have not heard hat our be-
nevolent government forwarded so much
as 8 biscuit. Last year a tremendous
cyclone devastated enormous areas in
the French Antilles, and all civilization
laid Itself under contribution to relieve
the consequent misery. We except the
philanthropic government Of the United
States, which did not contribute q sous
to Rmeliorate the effects of the deyasta-
ting hurricane. Not long since Quebec
was laid in ashes and from everywhere,
save this country, relief poured in for the
sufferers.
Our legislators may have borrowed the
idea from the Indians whom they are
rushing 30 speedily toward extermina-
ton. These Indians, when they capture
q man, always intersperse their tortures
Of the prisoner with a square meal of
venisOn and parched corn. After they
have amused themselves by making him
the gauntlet after they have en-
a little season spent in sticking
splinters under his finger nails, they I'M
bind him, and then appropriate "
something to relieve his appetite.
Before leaving the matter, it should be
noted that the appropriation has only
passed the senate. 1t probably never
will pass the house. But then the report
will have gone forth that one branch of
Lhe American congress appropriated a
and a half of dollars for the
,uffea ng south, and great will be the
establishment and admiration of "des-
lOtic Europe " over this act of legislative
nunihcence. In the meantime we shall
continue to decree real stripes for the
packs of the wicked, rebellious SOUTH /
nm - whfIa ura Efanfaffa.rD1 r-1N, FoE /
lloUs and hypothetical amounts for the
hungry stomachs.
It will be quite right that the House OF
Representatives should refuse to relieve
hose women and children whom they
intend to mureer by wholesale by a gen.
raj confiscation. When Cromwell had
knocked on the head ali the officers of
he garrison of Drogheds, and given
riders that none Of the men should be
pared, so that two thousand men were
hat night put to the sword, and one
hundred of them having taken possess
of st. Peters Steeple, and a ruined
over next the gate, called st. Sundays,
e had ordered the steeple fired, and
urned them up, he concluded his his
Of " this great mercy v~ouchsafed to
So by praying the Speaker of the House
f Commons to remember, "that it is
God that God should have all the
1t would be a pity, by relieving
in the South, to deprive God of
by portion of the glory of a general
arvation.