Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-05

are prone 10 iOIS6L tuak LASLG - OOo
and Providence and an infinite jus.
tice, whose mandates, memorable As those
Of that old God above ell the Gods, FATE,
are never disobeyed BY men or Nations
with immunity.
In this inclination to consult eKpe-
disncy in preference o,thatwhich is alb
soluteIy right and just and true, lies the
only real danger of the South to-day
The Almighty Father and Lord OF the
Universe, by the calsmities and absse-
msnts which he permits his Satanic in
struments to heap upon Us, is submit
I ting Us to the discipline Of the mosCpow-
erfuI of sII temptations, that Of the OPP
pressions, distresses and Affections Ehich
I Try the souls Of men, by persusding them
70 attempt TO escape from present Ills
zad miseries, by that submission to what
! seems q resistless power, which makes
( inevitable an eternal disbonOT.
/ : victory won by consulting eZpe-
( disncy and substituting lies and frauds, is
! always as worthless Tor permanent profit
as the apples Of the salt sea that stag
mates above the buried cities Of the plain,
and like them, turns to dust and bitter
ashes in the mouth.
Let US not follow the bad presidents
set by dishOnorable men, or think that
We can COW hes and reap the golden har-
vests that reward only the huseandman
who soWs the seed Of Truth, even if that
of Falsehood aud DUplicity st present
brings high prices in the markets of the
world. ..-..
The instincts OF tine people are homes:
God has not made the human race a
race Of knsves, though it has always
been the prey snd sport of kDaves.
There never was people who more in
stinciveIy scorned ana desplsed all base
ness, treachery, cunning and deceit, and
loved frankness and plain dealing, than
the people ef the Southern States.
4 hey 40 hot ia the least resem ole the
failhlsss Greeks OF the Byzantine EN-
pie. They dstest alike the political
Di&ekieg and the meIceBsry Daigetty
who follows the flag Of faction for pay.
Like every people, they are liable TO be
ssdueed by the syIen of expectancy, and
led into dishonest and unworthy courses.
Those who wish their votes ind it al
sssier task and one Offering greater
probabilities Of present profit, to sppesl
to their Prejudices, their, immediate in
terests and their passions, than to their
reason; but calamities and sffiietioHs
lessen the value Of these Inducements,
and open the ears OF the people to wiser
and more honest leounsels.
Truth, Right, Justice These are the
three kingly stars, whose rising over our
Southland is the sure pressge Of the
golden dawn Of Freedom and lndepen-
dence.
Radieslism must always be an exotic
in the South. 1t no more suits our peo-
pie, than the free-love and Iicentious
spirltuslism and rank infioeiity of New
England. For all its instincts are knav-
ish and dishonest. 1t is the Father Of
cOrruptions and the Mother Of lies. An
execrabie sOrdidnsss is. so ingrsined in its
nature as to reek at every pore through4
the outer skin of hypocrisy which COW
ers it, and betrsy the essential baseDess
Of all its impulses. f.H
A German Radical paper forcibly |
as "seUrrilOus pusHlSn- !
unity u that action Of the Chicago Jsco- !
bin Convention, which approved the |
Of negro suffrage on the help /
less South, and its rejection by the States
Of the North. Into this miserable, con-
and cowsrdly proposition. the
whole spirit and essence of Rsdicalism |
is concentrated snd the shsrtsighted-
Bass Of the wretched compromise is IS
paipable as its meanness. That negroes
DO not vote in many of the Northern
States is Of little importance to those
who there reject it, if they vote ia the
south; because the Electors chosen by
their votes ia the Southern States may
defeat the will Of the North IN the 1
election OF 3 President; and the mslig-
1ant influence Of the votes OF white or
black members Of Congress elected by
southern negroes, will be felt ia all the
rational legislation, which, under the
new system of Capitalization snd consol-
dalton iBtermeddles with all the do
nestle affairs of the people Of the States,
inquiries into and publishes the amount
" their incomes, sends its tsx-gstherers
INTO their houses, and plunges its hand
nto their pockets, while it loads them
With debt and saturates the whole BODY
Solitic with corruption.
This single feature in the creed Of Ja-
,Obin Fetichism ought to disgust every
lOnest man in the Union. II is one OF
hose scoundrelisms, not even redeemed
~ the prospect OF profit, to which no
ia whatever avocation ollie,
l1ght even by tscit sequiescence TO be.
'Ome party. In all the history Of poll I
les IN England and America, there il
nothing like IL. IL Is q poor, miserable, I
neaklng paitry attempt TO eyade re-
possibility, that would disgrace hum (
,ry mound, whom starvation prompts TO j
teal bone, while the fear of l9sbing /
estrains him from following the peremp.
Ory impulses of his appetite. 1
In this IS embodied and expressed the :
isseniial difference between Rsdicalism
nd Conservatism. We beseecb ali I
southern men always to remember that
Q consult expedieney and endeavor TO
teer middle course is to take the road 8
nat leads 70 Radiealism, which is but
mother name for political inslncerity !
nd dishonesty.