Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-06

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Of peace 1t proves worthless TO protec
any one aud it is even deemed disloya
to insist upon the benefit Of its provis
ions.
We need not recite the recent Iepisls
ton of the Congress that represents tn,
tyranny Of the majority and utters il
lunasies a. laws. Is Is entirely to,
familiar TO those who suffer under ii
and are grateful for the term Of Militar,
Despotism which delays the full inaugu
ration Of the tyranny Of the negro.
The people Of the North approve an,
exnlt over the establishment Of this Mill
tAry Despotism over the conquere,
States, and enthusiastically admire th,
dashing legislation and administration 0
SIcKLEs and LIE Beau Ssbreur. They d,
so because they have no more a true Low,
Of liberty than the soldiers Of tanner
LANE and the Caliphs had. Those VIII,
themselves truly love liberty, hate Des
potism everywhere. The people Of tn,
North only love it, as is said, pa
daonrs. And IL they so little value tina
political liberty and free government
which one race only of all the races o
men has ever yet known how to wiz
and keep, as to be willing to entrust it
preservation to millions Of ignorant AZ
ricsns only two years since slaves, they
are no wiser, in political wisdom, thar
the A~ustralasian savAges.
They are today ready for the Empire
and when one attempts to play the par
ofCEsAR, If he fails, twill not be the Low,
of republican liberty of the people of the
North, that will defeat him, but the riva.
aspirations Of other chieftains or civil.
ians, themselves aiming at the same
prize, or whom be has not taken the pre-.
caution to purchase in advance. The
rhetoricians like SUMNER are in the
market now.
We have the heap Of shifting indiyid-
ual sands, instead Of the granite Of the
commonwealth; the working mass OF
vermicnlsr selfishnesses, in which each
preys on the other and mammOn is the
only god the public interests subordi-
mated to private greed and the lust Of
ambition the swarming hates, the hol-
low prosperity, the intolerable burthen Of
debt, the eternal incubus of e~xtortionate
taxation, the plunderings OF the public
treasury, the legislation that pillages the
people to enrich individuals and corpora
tons; the decay of political virtue, and
the prevalence of political debauchee-
ism the prostitution of public Office to
partizan and private ends the rank in
justices that cause the people to hate and
despise republican government in which
the division Of responsibility destroyspub-
lie honor and makes the public faith of less
value and sanetity than q dlceris oaths !;
the conquered Provinces to be despoiled I;
the ignorant negro ~populace ready to
serve under the flag Of the usurping
chieftain, and meanwhile demoralizing
all who need their votes the loss of con-
idence in the honesty of the courts, the
uncertainties and icklessness of the
laws the bread dispensed to p~roletaires,
the attempts to regulate the prices of
and the revolts Of labour against
; the 'irrepressible conflict be-
tween white and negro labour the an
tagonisms of race and their constantly
diverging interests the venal Senators,
the Fhetorieisns ~supplanting the States
men ; the nameless crimes that polluted
Rome ; the free-love communities among
the low ~hypocrisies of Puritanism /; the
ambitious Generals ready to ape CESAR /:
have we not anarchy enough, and love
for constitutional liberty little enough,
and corruptions more than enough, to
make despotism a necessity?
And in what direction are we to look
for any dawn Of light ? Where is any
reformation to begin? What effort or
action is there that can arrest the down
ward drifting Of the huge, ~fiuctusting,
turbulent mass, to the bottomless pit Of
Derdition ? How reason with an insane
Dopulace, in its highest access of delir-
.um Where is there any thing, any
sign, any CLEAN Of Light, to give US the
light to hope9 No-wHERE,-if the pso-
pie Of the South agree to negro suffrage,
md ensure q chronic anarchy in their ten
states. Then, indeed, we may well yield
despair, and avert our eyes from the
uture, to lament the days that are no