Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-14

pathy among men are the only suf1cieDt
bond of association. A society of men
held together by the ties Ofinterest alone
Is an unnatural monster. Charity, or
Loving kindness is, the Masons cay, the
Harmony or Beauty that is the third
column of the Lodge. Without it, there
can be no more brotherhood between
States than between men. Self ,hness
will not serve as the bond of union OF
States. There are profOunder truths in
politics than those that lie on the sur
face, and other relations between asso-
cisted y ates, as there are between
the individuals of q family, than
those created by the law or COM
pact. When States that are united into
g sirg'e nation cease to do each other
those kinduesses and observe those cour-
tssies that are deemed necessary to
maintain the relations of ordinary good
neighbOrhOod, the sooner the connection
Of hypocrisy and smothered hatred be-
tween them is dissolved, the better. A
political alliance, based on identical In
terests, then becomes infinitely prefera-
bic TO q hollow and deceitful union,
which does not deceive even the parties
to it, and can only end Ia one of them
becoming the Master, and the other the
Slave.
All forces are OF value, since none are
useless, or without effect on men aud
nations, or their material interests, their
moral nature, aud their fates and for
tunes. Legislation, the Press, the com
binations of the politician, the intrigues
and bargainings aud knaveries OF State
craft aud Diplomacy, Platforms and
Votes, the speeches of Orators and the
Probabilities of rhetoricians and Of the
advocates of reform Of abuses, all,
10 short, by which the Common
wealth is generally supposed to be
served or injured, have, after all,
less influence on the fortunes and fates of
nations, than other forces which those
who rule rarely take into account. The
thoughts Of the Past rule in sIl the affairs
Of men aud nations. The prejudices OF
the people are more potent than legisls-
ton. 1t is ideas that breed revolutions.
Fidelity to flag outweighs all consider
atoms of reason or interest. The passions
aud aDgers of the pOpulsee arouse the
storms that wreck States; and in the
bosom OF a nation Thousand complex
forces are always acting in secret and
mysteriously, like the unknown forces
in the great laboratory Of nature.
Que writing a book on VALUES, might
not unprofitably devote the first chapter
to Lies aud Nonsense. Napier says that
in war falsehoods are often as serviceable
as the truth. 1t is not true to say that
lies are barren, or that they are short
lived. They are fruitful of consequences,
profitable in many ways, and you can
not, by any degree of choking,
strsngle the life out OF them.
A Islander sticks to the memory
OF the dead, like the shirt OF NessGs to
Hercules. II Napoleon falsified history
by his bulletins, the lies that swaTmed
like gnsts about himself were among the
chief agencies that wrought his ruin
Party organs, as We term them, are, In
general, journals hired to lie daily or
weekly. How many regulations are
made or ruined by sheer force of lying
Official reports Of battles are peculiarly
noticeable as for the most part SO pre-
pared as to conceal and suppress the
truth.
Consider also the value of nonsense
Ia Congress or before the people, q fri
cassee OF extravagances and sounding
common places is more eonviT cling than
an Grafton equal to those OF DsmOs
themes In the pulpit, the empty de-
ciaimer makes more converts than the
golden mouthed ChrysOstom could. Half
the philosophers are nonsense, more than
half the arguments that obtain verI:ets
from juriss, a great deal of the poetry
that is styled sublime, because it is in
comprehensive. or all that has been
said and written during fifty years,
ab ut the Constitution Of the United
States, vast deal is sheer nonsense, and
most mischievous nonsense besides. No
one can reasonably object to nonsense ia
its place, as between lovers or in poem
or a novel; but against Judicial and
Congressional nonsense all who have q
regard for the public welfare ought en-
phaticRlly to protest. la it and cant
there is an incredible power for evil
Plausible nonsense is more dangerous to
Republics than foreign wars; and it has
been truly said that il is always profitable
to politicians to appeal to the nonsense
Of the people. 1t is fatal mistake to
suppose that fallscies and Probabilities
are harmless, SO long as Truth is left free
to combat them. II that had been so
the Northern and Southern States won
not have torn each others throat for
four wretched years. The Father OF
Lies never assumes so hateful shape,
nor is so utterly detestable, as when be
becomes ineSrnate in Cant aud Hypoe
risy. The aucients could not have SUI
fered from them as We do, or they would
have been personihed, and enrolled
among the evil and malicious Gods.
Let as turn TO a more grateful topic.
The husbandman ploughs his ground,
and sOws the grain OF the green and
golden wheat, or the seed OF the fiaecy
cotton, or the graceful tasselling maize,
and tends and works his crops, and in
due season harvests it. The soft dews
have distilled upon it from the cool
haps Ananf "a h.
blessed 1t in proper measure, and the
warm sunshine has helped it grow, and
encouraged it to ripen,-the bounteous
love and bsneficenee of GoD expressed
and manifested in the light, the dew and
the rain. He gathers mis- wheat and
corn into bis gamers, and his cotton into
his stores, and calls 1t his, because it Is
the fruit of his labours; and deems its
value the value of his toll. But COP
also has done somewhat, since He sup
piled the nourishment, of earth, air and
light, OF rain and dew. Might he not
with justice claim His share of the
gathered fruits? What Is the money
value OF the sunlight, the dew, the rain,
of the elemental nOurishnent? II
He b ad withheld His rains in their
due season, the shrunken grain and
withered stalk would have proven to
the busbandman how little his toll was
worth, compared to the value of the
share furnished by God or nature to the
common adventure. III the rains had
been toe copious, the grain would have
rOtted in the ear, and the cotton in the
boil, and the crops have come to nought.
Did we ever consider, when complain
ing of the inequalities Of the burthens
imposed by the Government, and OF the
pertial and unfair distribution of the
public moneys, and Of the little positive