Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-26
dEMPuES APPEAL.
THE COMPUTATION OF ONE VII

people become at length tired of dwell
ing on what is notorious and undeni-
able"
It was profoundly true. We wonder
at the shameless impudenee with which
stump-tailed Congress Of Radicals vio-
lates the plsinest provisions of the Con-
stitution and daily commits the rankest
perjury. The super-eminent and unap
prOschable disregard for truth, honor
and deceney of Butler whom his State
delights to honor in proportion to his
unworthiness, is looked upon by Us with
/ the same kind of dull wonder with which
we inspect some monster that freak of
nature has produced, TO the end that
there may be in the animal world some
thing to typify such moral monsters as
Butler and Stevens-twO leprous souls,
if indeed they are souls, and not merely
exhalations and puffs Of mephitic vapor
! from the internal pit,
! We, bred to profoundly reverence the
law, and, like Montague, holding an
impudently vicious argument and
shameIessly false proposition to be 8
greater insult and prOvocatien than a
blow, sre amazed to see q Boutwell, and
a Bingham, claiming to belong to the
profession of which Erskine and Curran
once were ornaments, in the days when
it was not prostituted to the basest uses,
rsproducing before the American Senate
the frothy rawlings against the most sa-
cred principles of the law which all civ
ilized men acknowledge as the cohesive
attraction that binds society together.
We, remembering that the Romans
were capable of generosity towards those
who had rebelled sgainst their lawful
power, and that they honored those who
had rebelled, in proportion to their
heroism and endurance, and by these
measured their own glory, and aid not
basely hate those whose resistance and
bravery had made the armies of Rome
iIlustrious,-we are amazed to see a peO-
pie Of SO singularIy sOrdid, base and
grovelIing nature, that they find it 8
luxury to prosecute and outrage Snd de-
grade those brave men whom they over
whelmed with numbers, cOnfessing by
employing them, that negroes were
as brave and honorable soldiers as
themselves, and hiring hOrdes OF
German and other foreign mereenaries,
with bounties and the promise of license
to rob, to help them conquer those of
their own race and blood, whom they
are, even now, not generous and manly
enough to respect; but demand the trial
of the President OF the Southern Confed-
eracy, whom they chained and aiter-
ward held imprisoned for two years
whose conviction they would hail with
jubilant acclamatiOns and whose execu-
ton half million of them would attend,
if they could, to insult the martyr Of the
Southern struggle for independence, and
handy their scurvy jokes and ribald ut
tersnces while he was being choked to
death, to the great glory of New Eng
land and the States that have been
issued from its loins.
There are thousand acts of Radical
ism at which we stare in stupid amaze
ment. It possesses the envisble faculty |
of being as unspeakably base and mean
and ignoble 10 little things as in matters
Of great concern. It's maligDity and |
can be concentrated TO the !
deadly virulence of prussic acid. Albany |
Fonblanque once said, in the London |
Examiner, " II it be too much to re-
quire a minister to be just, we think we
may ask of him as much as Mrs. |
Peachum asks Of her daughter |
to be somewhat
nice in the devistious from vir-
tue. 1t is q very impolitic thing |
for a minister to make his injus-
tiee too common-he should reserve it 1
for the service of the church, the Magis-
tracy, and exalted abuses. Fielding re-
cords Of his Jonathan Wild the Great, |
that he had an excellent maxim, never /
to do more mischief than was necessary, |
for that mischief S0os too precious a
thi,0 10 be ,uasted." Injustice ministers |
should husband rs too precious a thing |
TO be thrown away in the defence Of pal !
try objects. They should reserve it, like |
the Gods Of Epic poetry, for knots wor-
thy Of it. 1t is 3 saying Of Aristotle, If
we remember correctly, that the nature
Of every thing is best seen in small
and in petty injustice the
public see what is most odious in the ma
ture of injustice"
The Radical faction Of the United |
States Is not at all nice in its dsvia-
tons from virtue; nor does it economist
Its injustice or its mischief, but lsvishly
expends both, its supply being appa-
rently inexhsustible. The greatest
iniquities appear only the natural
of such 8 Government
There t0ds time, in this now de-
bauched and degraded country, when
the rumor of such villainy practised on
the people Of even the smallest territory |
would have rung through the land like
the elangOr of q trumpet, and the p O.
ple's blood would have risen to fever
heat, and their Indignation have shriv-
led up as the fire shrivelled up leaves, |
the paltry and despicable scoundrels
who should have dared to sit on their
seats at Washington, and |
write such sentences of slavery against
three hundred thousand white men, dis
franchising them in ten States and max
ing the issue from the obscene loins of
Ethiopia their masters.
But now that villainies are perpetrs-
ted and excite no mans wonder, alarm
there can be none, to those who have
endured the worst and would not step
aside to avoid death. Ontrages which,
ak wears ago, would have stung and cut
10 the bone, which no man believed pos
sibIe. which no man, not even Stevens
or Butler, thought any other man or
sven himself, base and mean and vile |
and low enough to commit, are now,
even done by military upstairs, only the
occasion of half an hours gossip among
the babblers of the pot-houses.