Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-04

states already are, q the white maDl
marty aud the black mans party, it vii
require the most skilltul handling TO pre-
vent s general rising between the I'VE
races for q mutual war OF determination
There may, perhaps, be some scenes o
this character among the holiday diver
sions Of the South, while our nationa
lawmakers are enjoying their Christina
festivities in the North and deludln.
themselves with the fallacy that they
have brought or are bringing about tn
reign Of " peace on earth and good VII
10 men"
And what Is the state Of things In th'
( North? Our merchants are doing LITTLE
or nothing, though selling at less thar
cost: our manufactures, 10 a TuinCus ex'
tent. are suspended or cut down IN theii
oDeratiops cur mechanics, In still Id
I creasiE2 numbers, are thrown out OF em.
plovmeut; the unemployed and the Ges-
titnte 10 all our great cities are more
numerous now than they ave been IL
any month Of December for thirty years.
/ Hard times Is the general cry, and before
| they can be better, there is z general aP-
/ prehensiOn that they VIII be worse,
! There Is no confidence IN the present
head Of the national treasury, and there
is no confidence ID any substantial OF
reasonable relief from this radical Con,
gress. Why should there be, when al
I the legislation Of these radical reformers,
since the collapse Of the rebellion, has
been devCsed to the negro-tO negro phi
lanthropy, freedmen's bureaus, negro
equality, universal negro suffrage g.
Southern negro supremacy?
These reckless Radical fanatics, in ali
these schemes looking 70 q political ne
gro balance Of power for mere party JUr-
poses, have been sowing the vino, and
they will reap the whirlwind. General
restitution and threatened disorders o!
violence and blood in the South gene
raj stsgnstiOu, depression and distrust
in the North oppressive taxatlonsi re-
suiting in still decreasing receipts 10 the
Treasury from still increasing revenue
frauds and cOrruptions, are firing up the
public miad to the white heat Of a great
political revolution. II is coming, and
ia The face Of the overwhelming issues
at stake the mere name and fame Of this
man, that man or the other will be ut
terIy eclipsed ia the Presidential agits-
ton. Grant, Hancock, Chase, seymour,
Pendleton, Vallandigham, Fernando
Wood, and al other Presidential candi-
dates. will be subordinsted to the great
Issues which are destined in 1865, as la
1870, to sweep yer the country ike q
tornado. This Radical Congress has
been and is huTrying the country head
long down the road 70 destruction. Ii Is
leading as rapidly towards bankruptcy,
TevuisiOn, Reputation and chaos but
there is still the last resort Of the people.
From the deplOrable state OF the country,
and from all the signs Of the times, We
expect from the people nothing short Of
8 sweeping political revolution 10 our
naticnsl elections Of 1865. from Maine to
California.
Is it not s terrible consideration, q
thought to shrink back aghast from, that
every religious or wise man ought to
thank God that these calamities and the
greater ones that the future has in its
bosom, have fallen and are to fall upon
the country because, il it we're not so,
the law Of cause and consequence, which
holds the moral universe, as attraction
holds the material universe, together,
would have been repealed; the law Of
God which Furnishes wrong and iRiquity
by misfortune and loss and calamity p
because il unmixed, hideOus and horrible
evils did not flow from such legislation,
and such wrongs could prosper and lie
successful, religion would be q fraud and
COPS law and GODS work q failure?-
because the legislation OF IA denizans OF
Pandemonium, Of the stygian Parlia-
ment Of the fallen angels, FOR s. detssted
humanity, might not be evil, nor fol-
lowed by evil consequences, but might
be in effect approved and ratified by the
Deity. Evil and harm, misfortune and
distress, calamity and general ruin, must
follow from such legislation as that Of
Congress, because the Almighty still
reigns, and the law OF His wisdom and
justice is not repealed, by which those
awful consequences which men called
punishment, must inevitably flow from
wrong and crime.
That prudent and thoughtful journal,
the National Intelligence, says:
We find large bodies OF men, women
and children suffering sOrely, so many,
and 10 50 great al extent, that never Al
any tim IN the history OF this favored
people has there been 80 much Of misery
and ruin.
Itwouii be matter, indeed, Tor no ordi.
nary concern to ncte the general psrsl-
ysis Of trade and Industry, OF com meree,
MANUFACTURES, aud agriculture which the
cruelty Of the dominant party eXacts as
the price and condition Of iLsir peEpatu-
alton in power. II is a frightful iudica-
ton Of how far distress exleuds when
the great agricultural classes OF o.
Northwest, though aided by q teemi. 1
soil, the most wonderful mechanical aids
70 human industry, uubounded fscilid ties
sOr market, pleuteous seasons, and an
energetic and economical industry are
forced to cry out for relief. Surely, when
We behold the industry Of man, rein
forced by such unparalleled natural adj
vahtages as these, We are warranted in
expecting a triumph owe all the mis-
chief that foolish and wicked Legislators
can accomplish but history aud our own
experiences teacn US our mistake. This
great class Of laborers whom, relying on
the fruitfulness OF the seasons and the
more immediate gifts OF Heaven, we
might have deemed secure against all
odds, has been Frustrated and crushed by
the bad men who now WELD the powers
Of GOvernment-men at whose upRs
touch every great industry withers as II
by some deadly blight.
Nor is it agriculture alone that suffers.
Go to the ship-ysrd, and YOU find the
mechanic idle. 1t is his British rival
who furnishes the keel that IS 10 vex the
seas. Commerce languishes uRdeT the
Of q party which feeds and lives
on agitation and anarchy. Even the
manufacturers, who have had 40 light
IA E.Fararfpn fhfa furuwun an me
suffering poser, at last are made partakers
in the general distress. They, perhaps, /
accumulated enough OF past earn
iDgs 70 be able 70 walt for q returning
season OF prosperity; but how Is it with
the poor operatives dependent upon
them for daily work and daily bread?
we hear OF these by thou
saDds being discharged, 50 that in the
cities OF New York and Brooklyn, alone, |
there are not less than fifty thousand
men and women without work.
A correspondent Of the New York
World, writing from Sumpter, South
Carolina, on the I4th Of December, says:
Helper was not very far wrong in his
sstimats Of the prison and poor house
,apacity which the negro population Of
he South would soon demand. No
country is more terribly scOurged with
ogues aud mErauders than this Is ct
resent. HOgs, cattle, poultry, hnrses
re swept sway, and all the ordinary
precautions fail to fordsecurity. Every
morning fresh reports are received Of
airing robberies during the preceding
light, aud in SOME cases arsOn and mur.
er add their horrors 70 the narrative.
ne barn in which the industrious farmer
A. housed bis entire provision crop is Z
roken into, plun6ereds and then fired. 4,
I'd heano his helpless family ars aroused
, he dead Of rig1ti % the mgsketEy ~ /.
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