Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-20
THE HERO or ~ pUcK.suor va

its detestable author, exiilting over the
final success Of his bill, asked the
Speaker if it was in order for him 10 in.
dorse the declaration Of the good old
LAERrEs, that Heaven yet ruled, and
that there were gods above.
TIE Deums have been chanted, before
now, in Cathedrals, for the massaereinp
Of heretics by the loyal and it is pos.
sible that CARRIER also believed " that
Heaven yet ruled, and there were Gods
above" when he loaded his boats with
the victims of the Ncyades Of Lyon.
Tire wholesale murders Of CROMWELL
were always browning mercies.' One
would fain believe that STEVENS Is a
fanatic, who really thinks that he Is
doing Gods work, when he is
doing the DEVILS, if we did not know
his antecedents, and that he is no more
honest now than he was when he took
up anti-masonry and prosecuted inno-
cent men for pecuBiary profit. He is
simply a blaspbemous knave.
Before the war, he was a person very
little considered, and certainly not
thought OF for a leader. He has neither
a high order Of intellect, nor any degree
Of eloquence but so neither had ROBES
PIERRE or CoUTHON. The former lie
does not go much resemble for he is not,
as ROBEsPIERRE was, incorruptible; but
we know Of no base character in history
whom hes so much resembles, as CoUTHoN,
the club-footed ~demagogue, whose voice
was always for murder.
The most d~etestable Of despOtisms is a
low and vulger one, andsuch, the follow
ing paragraphs show, is hat OF THAD-
DEUS STEVENS over the House Of Repre-
sentatives;
DELIBERATIvE BODY.
The Pennsylvania Enquirer gives
the following notice of the in.
PRODUCTION OF Senator Williams
bill, making military districts OF
the Southern States. Representative
Thad. Stevens brought the bill to the
HOuAk and about 4 pm. rose to a ques-
ton " privilege, and reported the bill ID
the House. 1t was read amid perfect
silence in the House, and with great at
AEAAAgAA nun NA4G AAA1A-A1AAeF
who were somewhat taken aback at the
introduction OF this bill.
Mr. lie Blond wanted to know if it
was to be passed to day. Quite a ciu:-
ter of Republican members had GATH
cred around Mr.. Stevens, who answered,
Certainly, if there vas no objection
made" Mr.. lie Blond said that be DE-
manded on behalf Of the American peti-
pie time to debate the measure.
Mr.. Stevens said he would give half
an hour tomorrow. [Great laughter.
Mr.. lie Blond somewhat discOmitted)
replied that he did not want to speak
himself, but he wanted the American
people to be heard on it.
Mr.. Stevens said if any man wanted
any light on this question he was will
ing he should take up the Globe ard
read it through; but to morrow he
should ask the House to pass the bill,
and he thought that would be long
enough time to hear from the American
people, and so the House adjourned.
Must not the Representatives from the
State of Tennessee feel honoured in be-
ing SERVING brethren in such a body as
that? Can any man from a State not
yet represented really desire to sit
there, to be insulted and broW-beaten by
a scurrilOus and Incorporate dema-
gogue? Far better endure the tyranny
Of such men than the curse of their fsl-
lowshipI The letters that were fastened
on Mr.. DAVIS did not dishOnor him ::
those clasped on the limbs of the South
will not dishonor her. To cons6rt with
thoSe who fastened on the fettRrs, BELTS
those only who are insensible to shame.
NORTHERN HONESTY.
The following article states facts that
Tobsbly new to many Of our reld-
ers, and certainly very discreditable to
the United States, As every citizen Of
the United States is in law supposed to
consent to all acts Of Congress, and they
are in law his acts, one has a right in
his transactions with another, 70 avail
himself of the law making ~greenbacBs a
legal tender. But to pay debts due for
igners, who were NJ parties to che law,
in deprecated paper, may not unjuatly
be stigmatiZed as dishonest and disgrace
full:
AMERICAN SECURITIES.
The United States * regarded in Eng
land as occupying a financial position
much better than tEat of Russia, ard vet
United States securities are discTedited
in the English market by comparison.
E~udeavoriug to account for this fact, the
London Times gives 4 reason as follows a:
lImustbe acknowledged that there pre-
walls Il certain OistrIst of the American
nation in keeping its engagements, and
IL IS well hat Americans themselves
should Know the reasons which excuse, 4
if they do not Justify this distrust, ia
order that they may do all in their power
to remove them. Investors are an imi-
tatiye, a gregariols body they fock
together and inspire each other with
confidence at one season and with dis
trust at another. If one has been bitten,
all take the alarm. We are not sure
that the old acts of reputation do not
even now deter capitalists from trusting
the American nation. Americans may
say with perfect truth that these dishon-
rsttricks were, for the most part, com
iSniHed in the south but we are only re-
ferring to a fact which may or may not
be wholly unreasonable.
There Is, however, q more recent and
a juStifiable occasion of suspicion. EpF-
lishmen had almost learnt before the Z Re
war to forget the bonds Of Alabama and
Mississippi, and had again invested
in state securities. The war
came, and interest soon ceased to be paid
in the south, in consequence Of a force
'Hdjctre of which no creditor could COM
plain. But the b~Ondholders of the north
arn states found that they did not essape
l~nscathed. Congress passed an acl au-
-hOrizing the issue Of incOnvertible paper
and declared il to be legal tender. Every
state in the north, with the honorable
exception of Observation-Disclosures is
among the faithless fOund-availed itself
promptly of this law, and paid its cred
tors in a deprecated currency. Thus
he English creditor who had lent $1,000
N gold to the state Of New York UPON
he promise Of six per cent. interest-that
5, Of an annual payment of S60-re-
$50 in paper, the value of which
at n time nc more than S24 in
gold, and ven now is very little more
han $40.
Worse than this, if the bond became
he was paid off With a sum varying
rom twO-inns to tWO-thirds OF what he
lens. Instead of getting back his /,
thousand gold dollars, he received from ,
our to six hundred. 1t is true that a
was raised in America itself.
The example of Massachusetts, was and {
3 a standing rebuke, and we believe sn n
fer was made to the state of New York .
Y some leading merchants and bankers d
I New York city to lend w~batevei. sum
1ight be necessary to make up the diff il
ereBce between coin and paper, d o re- il
a promise Of repayment en- the :
erminatiOn Of the war. Had it been a u
uestion of personal honor, the offer
7ould have been accepted, if, indeed, it {
Ould in that case nave been found nee q
ssary but the morality of a legislature !.
determined by its worst members. :
IRE Artificial Propagation of Fish.
rom he Montreal Gazette, February 4, a
This Is a subject which is Attracting
ttentiOn in Canada, no less than ia ,
lany other parts of the world, ST. the
resent time. Notices have occasionally s.
ppeared in our columns of efforts made p
} different parts Of the province to pro- T
tote the artificial propagation of fish, !
nd We now find in the Globe an ac- "
punt of the experiments Of Mr.. s. Will Il
lont, of Newcastle, Canada West. This
antlemaB, it appears, has given much \
5tentiOn to the subject, and has :
let with very encouraging success. ="
r. Wilmont obtained permission Il
capture the salmon in the fall
the year, W1ruathey are out of season, in
Id took some Of the fish in a small =;
ream in the township Of Clark, known II
a y ~