Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-29
THE CONSULTATION OF ONE VII



lone sheet Of the copy Of the following
article, published on Friday last, a0aS moi
sent to the compo8itors, and the sense o.
The article a0aS thus, By the editors fault,
destroyed. It IS therefore nor published
complete, as S0TjtteR.l
The London Chronicle once said,
ministers derive this advantage from
the very extent Of their dishonesty, that
people become at length tired of dwell
ing on what is notorious and undeni-
able"
1t was profoundly true. We wonder
at the shameless impotence with which
q stumP-taied Congress Of Radicals VIC
lates the plsinest provisions of the Con-
stitution and daily commits the rankest
perjury. The super-eminent and unap-
proachable disregard for truth, honor
and deceBcy Of Butler whom his State
delights to honor in proportion to his
UnwoTthiness, is looked upon by US with
the same kind of dull wonder with which
We inspect some monster that a 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
exhslations and puffs Of mephitic yspOr
from the internal pit.
We, bred to profoundly reverence the
law, and, ike Montague, holding an
impudently vicious argument and
shamelessly false proposition to be q
greater insult and provocatien than
blow, are amazed to see a Boutwell, and
8 Bingham, claiming to belong to the
profession of which Erskine and Curran
once were ornaments, 10 the days when
il was not prOstituted to the basest uses,
reproducing before the American Senate
the frothy rawlings OF the French
revolutionists against the most sa-
cred principles Of the law which sll civ
ilized men acknowledge ss the cohesive
attraction that binds society together.
We, remembering that the Romans
were capable Of generosity towards those
who had re6elled against 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 did not |
basely hate those whose resistance and |
bravery had made the armies Of Rome |
illustriOus,-we are amazed to see q peo- |
pie of so singuisrly sordid, base and |
grovelling q nature, that they find it |
luxury to persecute and outrage and de-
grade those brave men whom they over |
whelmed with numbers; eonfessing by |
arming host Of negroes that these were /
as brave and honorable soldiers as
themselves, and hiring hordes OF
German and other foreign mercenRries,
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 after
ward held imprisoned for two years
whose conviction they would hail with
1uDlAdub AtSAauAHelOAS anu "hOSc cAtCu-
ton half million Of them would attend,
IL they could, to insult the martyr of the
Southern struggle for independence, and
handy their scurvy jokes and ribald ut
terances while he was being choked to
death, TO the great glory of New Eng
land and the States that have issued
from its loiDs.
There are thousand acts Of Radical
ism az which we stare in stupid amaze
ment. 1t possesses the enviable faculty
of being as unspeaksbly base and mean
and ignoble IN little things as in matters
OF great concern. Its malignity and
villainy can be concentrated to the
deadly vIrulence Of prussic acid. Albany