Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-09

Nnbucduu EnAo oEOs ~ A~r7+N - ~
what he was in the days of SesOstris
: If isolated individuals of that low rae
improve, It is BY the intermixture o
$ white blood, or by imitation, like tn
Apes. The wars of races are cOntinu
+ ally repeated, and antipathies of race
never die. They become diseased, also
. dwarfed in body and soul, stunted an,
5 emaciated, by luxury, Incidence an,
1 vices, or by the loss of seh-respect tina
is the consequence Of abject compliance
with the demands Of tyranny, and bas,
submissions as the price of safety. w,
T may submit to force, and wait with silen
. patience for the day of deliverance tC
come but if we crouch to receive the
lash, like whipped hounds, deny oul
faith, and become the tame, creatures and
useful instruments of our Oppressors, We
become a degenerate branch of a great
race, unworthy of its ancestral glories
and had better die than live. From such
an ignominy people never rrecovers. II
is the suicide of the race.
. Thus we are all parts of one whole
injured by the vices, and benefited BY
the virtues of those who have gone be-
fore US. They lived that we in due time
might be born, and to prepare the way
for us. They died to make room for US.
The old Brahmins represented God as a
Trinity, Destroyer, as well as the
Creator and the Preserver, or Continuer.
Death is everywhere the Source of Life.
If the old trees never fell, there would
be no room for the young ones to grow
and the great branching oaks, on which
the eagles fold their wings, and with
which the tempest wrestles in vain. only
grow alone, those that sprang up near
them, if any, having died young. The
death of the parents is the life of the
children. We all begin to die as soon
as We are mature. This is the law of our
&, beiug but our high privilege and the
| q vcellence of our nature consist chiefly
in tn IS, that we can voluntarily accept
the sac, Tice of suffering or death for
others.
Adversity Envelopes the capacity for
self-saeri6ce. an. makes it common
When the early Cl.'rlstlans worshipped
together in the eatacom.Ns, and died to-
gether in the amphitheatre, the bond OF
brotherhood was strong, as it vas meant
to be. Then, one died for anoth Hr, and
each was always ready to die for all.
Among those who are few in numb, 1r,
adversely and persecution increase the
cohesion of brotherhood The sand
hardens into rock under the pressure of
the ocean, and is chrystalized by the in
tense heat Of the earth's great bosom.
As prOselytes multiplied. the cohesion
was weakened, and prosperity destroyed
it altogether. For many centuries it has
net existed at all, among those of rival
seets, and it hardly exists, to-day, be
tween those who worship at the same
altar.
In the prosperous days of nations, the
sympathies of men fall asleep, and the
feeling of brotherhood among them, if it
burns at all, is cold and eyanescent as
the pale fires Of the Northern Lights.
Every man pursues his own selfish
course, of ambition. business, or pleas
ure. The rude, unmannerly crowd on a
Northern steamboat, pushing, jostling,
crowding, each eager to be the first to
spring on shore, the low vulgarity and
ill breeding thinly covered by the cracked
veneering Of pretence and the "depOrt-
ment of Wallets and chambermaids. are
a fair type of the society of a shoddv
Republic, with its cheap jewelry and
gaudy Ostentation; and disregard of
the feelings and comfort and interest of
others was too much a falling, of even |
our own people, in the palmy daysof cot
ton, tobacco, rice, sugar and negroes. !
when the ambition of every planter was
to make a larger crop than his neighbor,
and the last thing he thought Of was
how he could most faithfully dispense
the means that God had loaned him in
trust, for the benefit of the wards of the
Great Court of Heavens Chancery.
Then, TO overreach and circumvent, and
spin the spiders webs of ehieanery, and
thrive by others undoing, were the trades
and common crafts of the men who chief |
y attained respeetability and one rose
by planting his foot on the head of an
other. Everywhere one met the Phari-
see and the Publican, and the good Sa-
maritsn nowhere.
In adversely, and amid crosses and
all this is almost certain to
change There is, latent in the human
heart, like ealoric or electricity, a pereR-
nial spring of devotedness and self-saeri- /
fee for others and those whom adver-
sity does not SO far benefit as to make |
them aware of the existence of this |
spring, and persuade them to live less
for themselves and more for others, are |
Of too sordid or too selfish a nature to /
deserve to be improved by the discipline
Of God. 1t is unfortunately true that
in Republics periods Of prosperity, it |
is men like these whom the people prefer
to select to be the recipients Of honors;
but Adversely strips the robes of the |
stage from Governors and Senators, to |
whom nothing is of value except that |
which may help to secure them office,-
neither consistency nor n gentleman S |
honor, nor fidelity to comrades in danger
and prosecuted, nor loyalty to the State,
which with mistaken fondness made |
hem all that they were when calamity
.n 'e upon her
tn 'se false traitors are few, and /
q he f, 'und rarely among the common
.eonIe wb = toll to live; but among those
! WHOM no, Ttieal Office is Heaven, and
be shades ofn -ivate life the Courts ofPur-
,atory; and an, Ong those men Of wealth
tho bnild in tbei, houses altars to Nam
non, and upon thel sacrifice patriotism,
harity and generos, ty, remain in the
nemy's lines during war, and thrive
" the distresses of THEN own people,
rading in cotton OF plying other prohta-
lie and knavish avoeations, until peace /
eturns, and then, clad iu brOa deioth,
nd crowned with an aureole of en-. 1nent
see unmoved the Cont ede-
ate soldier with his empty sleeve, T'ho
corns to beg, and the orphans Of the
lead heroes of the people whom they ]
obbed, and sneer nd sniff at any at
empt Of the oppres sedto free themselves
rom the yoke of oppression.
These men are as necessary as the ven