Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-04-26
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/ AhE FEhfAg a OE IEAE RADICALS
When the remnant Of what was once
the bravest, the most unfiinehing and
the most self-saerificing, with the best
physique, of the Confederate army drawn
| by principle from the purest and best
bleod Of the South, and tracing their an
cestry for hundreds of years prior to their
| existence and in many instances imbib-
| ing their patriotism from the heroes Of
the revolution of '76, disregarding and
| forgetting everything Of personal char
| acteT, and jeopardiZing every interest
! that was calculated to put them upon an
| equality with the lords of other countries,
and even the crowned heads, why did
! they surrender? Because their great
! chief, Gen. r. f. Lee, the bravest and
best OF men, so decreed, knowing that
brute force could and would overcome
and destroy the strategy and the best
arranged plans OF scientific minds, or
| the greatest conceptions of human brains.
When this little band surrendered, af-
ter four and half years of hardships
and distress, 1t was done under a
cartel by the agents or repre-
seDtatives of the two govern
ments, the military leaders. That
! cartel was accepted in good faith by the
South, regarding the Federal Generals as
TIE representatives of their own people,
aAd expressing the feelings and the law
of the North. Wereturned to our homes
buoyed by the hope that we should at
least have secured a peaceful rest and en-
jog still the benefits of our country as q
republic. But how sadly mistaken we
were; and to-day, if the OnfedeFate
soldiers had, or could possibly have fore
seen the present rule as the result of IA
natieism and villsiny the last man would
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feeling satisfied that his brave soul would
be returned to the great Creator who |
gave il, purified by the storms ofa hundred |
battles, and bearing upon its wings the !
wrongs of his oppressed country, rather !
than have surrendered to so perfidious a !
foe, and the sufferings of themselves and |
the painful cry of their children from |
hunger would have nerved them to per-
form deeds OF valOr that would have |
eeiipsed the heroes of the Bridge of Lodi. |
The cartel would have been strictly adj !
hered to by the Federal army, but the |
political demagogues of the North were |
of the lowest of human beings in the |
moral scale, and inflated by the success |
OF brute fierce, with more than the ordi- |
nary imperfeetiOns of mankind, and as- |
pifing TO honors which would give them |
the largest scope to steal, and that could |
only be conferred by the popular voice. !
With no real prejudices against the noble |
South, but from want of moral honesty !
they sacrificed their pledged, honor. |
which is like the shadows upon the glas- |
sy surface of the lake, made to be re- |
moved) to their,,ambition. The true SOL |
diefs OF the Northern army, would to-day /
coucede all that was embraced In that |
cartel, klaOa0iHg as they do that the bright |
est and braveSt of natures nobleneu are /
involved, and would, il they csuld. en- |
force compliance Of the pledged honor |
OF the army and nation. But they are /
powerless. The bogus Congress of |
the country, unrepresented by the |
tOtVeTing and bold intellect of |
the South, and looking alone to the |
personal interest of each member and its
own party interest, has entiEaIy ignored /
all previous compacts of the Generals,
and cast upon themselves a species of in
fanny that eternity itself cannot relieve,
and which siEks them so low that the
chief Of the Internal regions can never
find them; and as years roll on, the
weight Of their own degradation will
sink them deeper and deeper, until thew
viii attain such depth that nothing but
the hand of the Creator Himself can /
reach them, and then He would shudder
at the touch of such vile abortions of ua-
tHre, and their own companions in that
region would shua them as mortals do
the eontagion of the foulest disease. They
boast of possessing the I" best Govern
ment ia the wOrldn Parrot-like, thew
are only utteriDg the Language that has
been taught them, and giving the lie TO
to the truth, which was expressed bv
Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe and others, when their great
sOuis freed from the In "a I,Ioro of E,,T,Iisb |
tyranny, felt there was some hope for
the future. But they are only verifying
The predictions of the great statesman,
Jonn Z. Calhoun, when, from his pro-
Dhetic soul he said, Let once the ruins
of this great Republic get in the hands of .
.he unprincipled political demagogUes of
the North, and utter ruin will be the re-
suit, and its superstructure will be so
thoroughly destroyed that even the frag-
ments cannot be found"
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