Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-05
TIE HATkEn OF PEOPLE.

Alphonse Louis Constant, writing IN
der the name Of Elphaz Levi, says, in
his Dogms de Is Magic:
There are persons whom one does
not offend with impunity, and, if the
injury done them is mortal, the wrong.
doer forthwith begins to die.
." II Marst had not been assassinsted
by Charlotte Corday, be would infalIibly
have died, slain by n reaction Of public
opinion. What made him leper, was
the eXecr2tlOn Of decent men, and he
must necessarily have saccnmbsd under
il.
"The Teprobation caused by the Eve
Of Saint Bartholomew was the sole cause
OF the horrible msledy and death OF
Charles IN; and Henri ", il he had
not been sustained by an immense popu-
lErity, would hardly have survived his
conversion, but would have died under
the contemptuoHs hate OF the Protes-
tsnts, combined with the distrust and
ill-will % the Catholics.
UnpOpularity may be q proof Of in
tegrity and courage, but it is never
proof OF prudence or policy. OltFages
inflicted on public opinion are fatal to
statesmen.
"CondemnRtioDs by public opinion
may be great injustices, bat they are
none the less reasons for failure. and Of
ten DEGREES Of death.
ION the other hand, injustjces done
single man may, and must if rsparatiOn
is not made for them, cause the degtruc-
ton OF whole people or a whole socie-
~. This Is what is called the cry Of
blood, for at the heart Of every Injustice
there is the germ of homicide.
q 1t is on account OF these terrible laws
OF solidarity, that Christianity insists so
much on forgiveness of injuries and re-
Cancellation. He who dies without fr-
giving, plunges into eternity armed With
poignardi and devotes himself to the
horrors Of Ru eternal murder"
Constant says sgsin: q" A frank hatred,
absOlHte and without any intermixture OF
passion repulsed, or of personal cupjdity,
ls decree Of death for him VINO Is its
object, under certain given conditions
There are many physical and moral
forces Of whose nature and mode Of &C
ton we know nothing. We do not
know how will acts on will II prayer
is eficaclous, why should not hate be
We believe that It is, and that the hatred
Of people does not need to employ as
ssss!ns. Philip the Fair died, smitten
MORALLY by the hate Of the Templars,
not by the dagger OF poison. These
mysterious influences are enigmas to US;
but they are not more so than the effects
Of light and the phenomeua Of slec-
tricity, and magnetism and the propagH-
ton Of epidemics.
The conviction of a tyrant thu, -.
hatred Of the victims Of his oppression
concentrated, like the SUMS rays by
means Of prism, into q single focps
would In some mysterious and inscruta.
BILE manner prove fatal to him, might
make him pause, when no fear Of assas. /
sination could restrain him. Ireland is
not the weakness and the curse of Eng.
land because OF the overt acts of Irish |
men, but Of the Concentrated hatred of
the Celt for the Saxon.
That we do not understand hosC these |
mysterious Influences act ard operate. is
no reason for doubling their reality. We
believe in their reality; and we thank |
God that the hate Of the oppressed can /
become the silent and effectusl instru.
ment Of the justice Of God.
The Bulletin Of Monday, misunde--
standing what we had said Is TO the rnys-
tsrious power Of the concentrated hate of
the oppressed TO punish the opprsssor,