Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-12

covers the surface; but the great fire.
CULTS are visible below the crust. In the
other, disunion sewers the living, and
would also sever the dead, in their still
graves, with durable words Of division.
And so the scoffers ask scorDfully,
" When 1CiH the Church become Chris
ti0n s"-and send, in their days Of re-
morse, like Alexander, not for the
Priests, but for the SOphists, TO cheer
them"
So likewise the service dies out In the
Temple of Freedom. The Levites go,
in despair, each 10 his farm and strange
guests enter into and inhsbit the cham
bers. AS we said before, the Constitu-
ton Of Republic is but the agreement
Of the People, their declaration Of inten-
ton to lead the national life in partic'
ular manner. They will do so for little
while; but always, after little while,
the bargain is broken, or its terms are
tacitly modified. The letter remains /;
but that represented by the letter, the
spirit and meaning, is perverted by
fraud, OF altered by practice or construc-
ton. Notions" it has been said, 8 are
continually changing their skim while
the form and figure still remain. Even
these too will change in time. The ma
lion that would continue must look well
to the small seeds that are ever spread
ing in the earth. The wheat viii have
but its fifty or sixty-fold Of increase but
the evil weeds have their thousands,
and in the next generation their mil
lions. The usurping dandelion holds his
globe ofseed in his hand, IS the crowned
kings hold the ball OF Empire. The
weeds are ever ready to choke the grain
and flowers"
When there are old customs, these for
a time make the laws but in young
country there are none, or if there are,
they soon become as odious as cid fash
ions. The State that began with sim
pIicity, severity, economy and honesty,
viii in the second generation have natu-
rallied all the habits of older countries,
and all the businesses OF Oriental Courts.
Moses had been dead but few years,
when the appointed Feast Of Arbours
was disused in Israel and the old Law
was, afterwards, often forgotten during
whole generations.
He whom all the men we meet profess
to believe in as the Saviour and Re
deemer, and his word the very Word
of God, said that one must love his
neighbor as himself. What bond or
oath could be invented, sacred or solemn
enough to make the men Of our time
obey this Commandment What hope
OF reward or fear of punishment in fu-
ture life will now restrain men from
making gain at the expense Of others,
from insineere and unfair dealing? How
often viii you find one who viii not, if
he can, avail himself Of your necessities,
Of your inexperisnce, Of your unsuspect-
ing confidence, to drive hard bargain
with you, selling to you for too much, or
buying from you for too little, and then
meeting you with the same air Of friend
ship, in society, the Church or the
Lodge, amazed if you are indignant at
the imposition.
The usurers, whom Nehemiah chided
and shsmed into generosity, did no more.
They were shrewd and sharp, and had
money to loan, and the people were in
need, and constrained to sgree to the
terms demanded. They but loaned out
their own, at interest, on mortgages and
other security. They had not even
ousted the possessors. They had dis
covered a laudable mode Of increasing
their capital, while they slept. All had
been openly and fairly conducted, and
the law was on their side. They were
eminenuy respectable men, mobiles and
priests, rs acceptable in the society Of
jerusalem, as those who thrived by
speculation during our civil war, trading
with the enemy, or sucking the life
blood Of the South, and enriched by
the Treasury or the Commits
sariat. Probably many Of them were
pillars Of the Church, as eottOn-thieves
and other knaves are now pillars of the
State. But Nehemiah said Of ali these
legitimate operations cit is not good,
that We do: ought ye not to walk in the
fear Of God? Restore the lands, and
part of the interest ye have exscted.n
1t is not merely fsnciful to say that
The Book OF Nehemiah teaches the great
lesson OF sympathy with the common
people; the recognition Of those who
toll, a. brethren, to whom in great
the country must look for
is salvation Willingness to share their
ourthen5; exertion to elevate them in
their own opinion, and rescue them from
the power Of PernicioUs advisers and
false friends; and the conviction that in
.he humblest homes snd under the
robes, there beat warm, gem
srous, even heroic hearts. If national
disaster and affliction can but convince
rs Of this, the discipline we undergo viii
not have been in vain.
Nehemiah, the Persian Noble, toiled,
not only with brain but hands, and lib
orally contributed his means to grid Je-
-usalem again with her walls. Woman
also undoubtedly performed her part.
She is always less selfish, more abiding
n love, more true, mere patient, more
nstinctively right, than man. 1t never
was known that the women Of a land
we're not patriotic and loyal. The Car
.hagenian women not only contributed
heir jewels, for the defence Of the city,
As the Hebrew women did when Titus
Jerusalem, but even their hair
he pride OF woman, to manufacture
-opes for the machines of war. We all
know what heroic deeds the women and
girls Of Spain performed, at Zaragoza
and Corona, where the mantilla loated
everywhere among the bayonets. Boa
iicea, Jeanne d. Arc, Maria Theresa,
Roland, Lady Jane Grey, Zen
'bis Queen Of Palmyra, Hypatia the
Alexandrian martyr of the Platonie
Marguerite d Angouleme,
lister Of Francis the First, these are
among the noble names of History.
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JAS. GALLATIN, son Of Albert Gala
in, whose name is 81 honorably con-
leeted with the early financial history Of
his country, has just resigned the presi-
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