Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE NATIONAL
TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.


hope for. On the contrary we fervently
wish that the future held out to us other
hopes. We speak Of that which the
coming years are to disclose, as we
sheuld II We were foreigner, dispassion-
ately looking on from q distance, and
endeavorlng to Judge Of that which is to
occur here In the fur ure, by what has &C.
Cured elsewhere In the past. Human
nature remains the same in all the ages;
and the day will never come when to
follow civil war with disfranchisements
and disqualificauons and insults and de-
gradations, and to set the inferior race
above the superior one, or attempt to
make one the political equal Of the other
will not produce an eternal hatred, and
thirst for vengeance that no length OF
time will diminish AS the Celt hates
the Saxon, SO these miserable measures
will cause the Southern whites to hate
the North.
In the body Of the great order OF
Freemasons, the anImosities of the war
have already died out, and we meet to-
gether once more as brothers. Among
those who served In the armies Of the
two belllgerents, the case is In a great
measure the same. Only a few days
since We met q Federal officer who cour-
teously sought to know US. A young
lady, curious to know how we at once
became like old acqaaintances, asked
him if he was Mason. "No," he said,
/" but there is another kind Of Masonry
between US; that of men who have
ser we'd against each other in the field.n
But such is not the spirit that inspires
the scam that has risen to the surface,
amid the disturbances and commissions
of the times This generous and manly
spirit is not that Of those who, unfortu-
nately for the country, misdireet and
mismanage our National Rffairs,-the
Summers, Stevenses, Wades, Colfaxes,
Buffers, Binghams, BoutwelIs, Covodes
and Logans. Theirs is the very lunacy
of malice and hate, or the cold calcuIa-
tion of sOrdid partizln self-interest and
of these motives, the fatal and mad
measures of reconstruction have been
born.
Poland has borne her yoke, not pa
tiently, but often attempting to throw it
of, for fifty years; and at length the
promise Of dawn of redemption for
ner begins to arise and one of the very
Powers to which all her misfortunes have
been owing, seems about to be the in
strument of Divine Providence to re-
deem her from bondage. The redemp-
tiOn Of the South will not be delayed
Iorty years. The great Northwestern
position OF antagonism to the Northeast;
and must soon begin to look South for
alliances. There is identity of interests
and mutual intercourse among sll the
States Of the Mississippi Valley. La
little while New England will have as
little sympathy with those States, and
they with her, as they now have with
Canada. she will not always be allowed
70 have her twelve votes ia the Senate,
70 dictate protective tariffs, taxes on cot
ton, and payment Of the bonds of the
United States in gold. Her love for the
Union has always been the offspring OF
Like her religious tOlera-
ton, it has always been hypocritieal
pretence. The Ouly Union tOleraOle for
ner is one from which she can reap Pc
cuniary profit and make her will, her
and her notions the law. She
would far rather rule the South by force
than by the Influences OF kindness, af-
feetion and gratitude. She will pay
dearly, some day, for the devilments OF
which she Is the chief author in the
south. The day of the Divine retribu-
ttan is often long delay ed ! but it always
cSfnes at last. Try all il can, as Eng
land tried for centuries, the expressing
State cannot make the oppressed one
and the hate of the con-
qusred is always dangerous to the victor.