Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-21

| than their ancestors hhd Tor the Wnlte
men who differed from them in religion
and politics; their pretended love for
the blacks is only the offspring of their
| determination to use them as instru'
ments for maintaining aud increasing
their wealth and political power. Their
illiberality toward, and persecution and
prescription of, foteign.born citizens is
proof positive that their zeal for " i'm.
partial" or universal" suffrage is al
hypocrisy and humbug.
BA- When Mark Antony craved the
body of the dead Caesar at the hands OF
his murderers, he addressed himself
directly to their sense of propriety and
humanity, and by this means accom-
pished his end. He simply asked, :" To
bury C@sar-not to praise him" and
thus he reached the hearts and gained
the ears of the excited rabble, into which
he poured the incendiary eulogium which
turned the current of events in the Ro-
man empire. Even Brutus, who had
plunged the fatal blade into the bosom of
his "angel" for the sake of dear lib
erty," followed in the funeral train and
performed the kind offices of burial with
hands still reeking with the blood of the
corpse. Seldom has the passion Of hate
or revenge outlived the object Of its
occasion. Rarely the man who has slain
becomes the ghoul when his enemy or
his victim lies helpless at his feet.
There are, though seldom, however, in
stances where those who hated the man
have hated the corpse, and would actually
smite the senseless remains of those
"powerless to resent or further to offend"
But the tyrants Of the ages of pas
sion and inhumaniiy have found grave
in the realms they ruled with merciless
despotism, and burial at the hands of
those upon whom they brought the ex-
tremest misery. The graves of those
at whose misdeeds humanity revolts are
but the evidences of the existence of that
humanity itself. They cannot become
the shrines of the humane so long as
men are led to look upon their inmates
acts as wicked and ignoble, "The evil
that men do lives after them" their
vices aud infamy are not transformed to
virtues or to fame by the simple event Of
death. Have nations, then, and the pow
ers of the earth to hide the dust and
bones of their criminals lest by their
consigning them to the grave or the
vault they thereby locate Mecca and a
shrine at which pilgrims may bow to day,
and for which they may strike tomor-
row Are governments to be affrighted
by the ghosts of convicts who, for the vio-
lation of law, have been made to suffer its
extreme penalty ? Is the phantom of
the executed potent to marshal disaf-
fected masses, who, with the hollow
watchword of his name, shall strike at
the life and peace of the country, then
it we're we'll that as few we're hung as
possible, and that the graves from which
such dangerous spectres may be looked
for should not be known.
Within the past thirty days the re-
mains of two individuals, now no more,
have been requested at the hands of
government authorities. This boon of
inanimate and senseless dust has in
both instances been craved in the
name of humanity" and has in both
instances been withheld The Austrian
admiral, in the name Of his disconsolate
and widowed empress, asks the body of
Macmillan. A brother, inspired by his
own sense of duty and propriety, and
anxious to satisfy the yearnings Of an
aged and afflicted mother, Graves for
burial" what remains in mortal shape of
the assassin, Booth. Tegethof receives
at least the assurance from Juarez, that
the ashes Of the deceased emperor shall,
on certain specified conditions, be given
up. Upon no conditions do the author
tiles at Washington propose to accede
to the desire Of the surviving Booth.
Are the two cases in any manner par
allel or susceptible of similar construc.
tion2 Both request simply
ITO bury Caesar"
and we see no ground why the dictates
of humanity, the ground on which both
are based, should not operate in the
one as we'll as the other instance. But
one difficulty may arise. The ability Of
Juarez TO comply with the request made
him is not questioned; is the ability Of
the United States Government to do
likewise questionable 2 Has the gov
ernment after all, the remains Of Booth
10 give up7
b6- The Northern Radical papers are
ev;dentlv in great alarm as TO the effect