Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-08

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Office and honours since he whom th,
desire Of these only ~actuates, will always
cease to serve the people, when it The
most needs his services, and when TO b'
its benefactor is most noble, because it il
most dangerous and least profitable.
No public man in the North can now
truly serve the people. The popular rev
oIutions roll onward with an irresistible
momentum, and crush all who endeav-
our to stay their ftful and terrible ad.
vance. If there are men in the North
who have the gift Of foresight and
prophecy, their cries Of warning are
unheeded. If there are truly great men
there, fit 10 be the guides Of nations, the
time has past when they could be Of use,
The real statesman is aware Of the first
! breath Of revolution, ard listens for it as
the old Prophets listened for the word oil
I JEHOVAH. There were none such in
power in the North, tc interpret 20 the
people before it was too late, the signs
and portents that preceded the organic
disturbances of the State and the sham
leaders, who did not read them, nuOw,
at the utmost, only keep q little in adj
vance Of the immense mass that rolls
blindly onward, no longer able even to
direct its course, but only to increase the
momentum and velocity Of its progress,
and accelerate the crash Of its ruin in the
day Of doom.
The people Of the North present to-
day for the contemplation of an amazed
world such a spectacle as it has never
behOldeu heretofore, a spectacle detest-
able and hideous as il is extraordinary.
It has often before seemed as If tyrants
and their creatures were the ministers Of
an Internal vengeance wresked on guilty
Nations; but never before were the leg
i~slators and Statesmen Of a Republic so
Enthusiastically enlisted in the service Of
Hell; nor had a country ever before 80
plainly sold its soul to the a~rch-enemy Of
GOD, for the privilege OF Cutting its
hatred, revenge, and avarice.
To corrupt the moral nature Of the
young and with the poison OF vice infect
the soul Of innocence and assassinate it,
is one Of the most hide0us occupations
Of sunken and debased humanity. The
entertainments Of CIRCE changed the
companions OF ULYSSES into swine.
Tyrants have often succeeded in making
tyranny acceptable to a people once free;
but we remember no instance IN history,
OF q people, themselves free, who estab-
lished an unmitigated despotism over
States that lately were part Of itself, and
deliberately engaged ia the strocious
work Of e%orrupting q whole people, with
q devilish ingenuity making a military
despotism acceptable to them, and recon-
Cling them to their condition Of slavery
and submission.
II THADpEUs STEVENS had held his
commission and received his instruc-
tions from the arch feud himself, the
cunning Of the fallen archangel could not
have dictated a course Of legislation and
Of policy better calculated to debsuch q
people, and make them love the gilded
infamies ofslsvery more carefully calcu-
lated to attain that end, than. those
which, inspired by a hatred at the depth
and vehemence of which one shoulders
as at the recital Of q monstrOus crime,
that malignant minister Of the powers Of
evil has invented and a Congress OF NAL.
e~iactors has put in practice.
The process OF debauchment com.
meuced by the investiture of the negro
with the right Of suffrage, and the dis
reimbursement Of most Of these 10 whom
the people would instinctively turn for
counsel and advice and by making the
pe-petuity Of this infection Of the State
with the pestilentisl r~ottenness of negro
equality, the inexorable condition Of
from the government Of the single
Military WIN chat is as despotic and IN
and irresponsible as that Of the
later Caesars. Whatever abuses of that
absolute power are to be anticipated, it
is Infinitely preferable, because there
will remain a hope Of some day over
turning it, and because the atrocities OF
the reign Of C%oNuioDUs are not to be ex-
pected, even under a SICKLEs oraSHER-
rDAS, but only, at the worst, those Of the
times Of TIBERIUs and his ~favourite Sc
rANUs,-it is infinitely preferable, this
despotism, T. that cliuging
,urse and poisonous contamination Of
suffrage, from which, when it
hall once have been fully accepted,
here is to be no escspe except by taking
efuge in that mitigated despotism Of an
which will be its inevitable con-
equence and grateful fruit,-grateful,
BECAUSE it will bring peace and safety,
under it there nay be some self
To familiarize a free people with a des-
'otism is Of itself sufficient, in no very
oug time to reconcile them to it. since
It the beginning policy viii always in
luce it to bride and buy the allegiance
f the people by seeming 10 be, and in
ONE respects by being indeed their
~'eDsfactor. The single despot need not
esort TO the rank iDjustices Of popular
e~gislation. Who would have believed,
en- years ags, that the excellencies of
government would be urged in
epublican journals, and that the people
Z South Carolina would accept with
ratitude at the hands Of a military des-
these grattiuies which relieve while
hey dishonour the people who receive
hem, because they violate the rights Of
reditors and free the debtor Of the obli-
alton to perform his contracts, and
Ter premiums for r~aseality, and profit
5 the price Of degradation and the re- F,
ard Of shame? ,
There will no longer be any people in }
South. With the addition Of the !
rs q voter, the whole becomes 5 {
opuiace, in which the great majority 6
lust find a common level, and that the :
vel Of the lowest and the basest. Rome, !
ITS worst days, had no worse material I
r lie mobs, than the negro. These are 4
.ady to submit wits ~esgerness to the /
,vernment Of one will, if It viii but =
ed and pamper them and this a vul- :
r despotism Is already doing. The con- 5
ut Of these does.not need to be asked. 81
is given already. They viii be per-
,tly happy under q government that
Is them on a level with the white d
an; and that is only possible where all .
We together. The negro thus secured, "
s only Decessary 10 corrupt the white o'
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