Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-12


WHAT CAN THE SOUTH DO?--REAsoN,
NOT THE SWORD OF FREEDOM THE
WEAPON TO BE WELDED BY HER.
But what can EheSouth-in desolstion,
poverty and chains--do In this great bat
tie for the right? Much much every
way Greece, with her Acropolis disman-
tied, without an arsenal and unarmed
by her genius overcame ROME and held
her eonqueror Obedient to her arts and
submissive to her reason. We may not
use that sword, which has often hewed q
pathway for freedom through bRttal-
iOned OppressoYs. That swOrd-which
pierced the black eagle Of Vienna, and
on the rocks of URI Glove the Switgsr's
bonds that sword which on the flooded
dykes of Holland struck down the
SPRniard, and conquered from the re-
mOTseless Phillip the same fields tLith-
erto wrested by industry from the more
remOrseless sea--thAt sword, which at
Yorktown hacked to pieces British
power on this continent, and converted
subject COLONIES into sovereign States,
Is for US now only q bright tradition of
the past. We need 1t not. 1t is at best
but the instrument Of force. Necessity
sometimes wields it in defense of the
right but it is more often the obedient
servitOr of the tyrant. That was the
highest wisdom in Richlieu, when he
ordered his page to put away the sword,
and exclaimed that States could be
saved without it. No results accom-
plished by it can be relied on as perma-
nent. Whatever the reason of man
kind does not approve will sooner
or later perish. The South can
win her emancipation and the
nation regain her liberties by
moral force-by the constant assault of
oppression with argument. Liberty has
never succeeded in the field without
we'll armed numbers, guided by wise
policy. Artillery can never breach the
dOngOn-keep Of tyranny until reason has
drawn the greater numbers to ply with
well disciplined skill its forces. FREE
DOM, though Of heavenly lineage, and
Graded in the mRDger, is permitted to
struggle among men with usurpation and
wrong, unsupported by miracles, to con-
vince the skepiic or confirm the faith of
her disciples. No supernal legions wait
on her command to guard her against
treR3hery, or fight her battles with
Power. Her recruiting office is the
Drain of man-Rnd her drill sergeant the
thinker. The poet, orator and lOgici&n
must always, in her cause, precede the
warrior, and the soldier must only be
the sword arm OF the statesman. Oo-
preston breads the projectile force of an
unRnsWerable argument more than that
of cannon bsll for the former first I'M
settles the foundation of its stronghold,
and prepares for the latter an easy and
quick success.
THE SOUTH MUST ARGUE HER CAUSE
BEFORE THE NATION.
The enemies of the SOUTH cannot DENY
her the right to argue her cause before
the nation. They doubtless fear such a
trial, but cannot consistently shrink
from it; for they proclaim themselves
the party of "great ideas" Though
the claim is false and hypOcritical, yet
the assumption binds to conduct, that
must, TO soma extent, conform to it.
Therefore we must call 10 our aid in this |
struggle that genius-that intelligence in
the affairs OF State, and that profound
knowledge OF free government, which
has, in other times, so distinguished the
people of the South. That genius, |
which, rising superior 20 colonial depend. |
ence and the rigOrs of pioneer settle |
ment, developed ia the Untamed forests |
Of America the plans OF matured states |
English liberty, giving to IL foundations /
ieeper ana broader than those OF Runny- |
nede, and amplifying it with a philoso- |
ply mOre profound than that OF subse- |
Iuent British laws -givers-still lives |
rhGt intellecr, from whose Jove-like |
chambers, spraDg amid the solitudes of |
he Western world great States full pan.
)plied at once in arGs, laws and civiliZa- !
lon, still moves with creative intelIi- |
yence over the present chaos of things. |
It hauuts not the graves of our young |
merely as ghOstly memory of |
he PAST. Unlike that of the degenerate |
Roman, its energies have not been ex-
lausted by psst achievements, nor will |
{ be content 10 find only tomb beneath |
he ruins of its former grandeur. 1t Is |
yet quickened with deathless vigor, ready |
o grspple with the disastrous present, |
Md prepared to command the future.
1t can never be forgotten that the |
OF the South were the archi-
ects of the Federal system-that for
,ighty odd years they kept it true to civil |
IDerUy, and that under their administra.
ion there were no bSsliles, and no Off |
,idt bell could signal the irresponsible ar
est of the humbiest citizen III this broad
and. Then, as a co-wOrker in the great
,ause Of republican freedom, the South
las an honorable history and an impress
i've prestige, which will be felt and in-
luentially acknowledged in every part of
ne Union.
THE SPIRIT OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
MEASURES AND THE ANIMUs OF THEIR
PROTECTORS.
1t is due to themselves, and of the last
Al !
,ur people be vindicsted against the re-
iressive policies, which have been
.dopted toward them by the present
congress. Tne spirit of these policies
mply, that Chey have no right to partic-
pate in the political controversies of the
lay, nor to influence to any extent the
pinions OF their fellow citizens, but that
S to all this they are to maintain the
Hence of aliens in the land Of their birth.
heir only function in the body polite is
ecreed to be that of Taxpayers; "the
ewers OF wood and drawers of WaterU
Or upstart plGoemen. Pariahs in the
tate, their substance is TO be eaten out
v onerous assessments to enrich needy,
gnOrant and corrupt adveniurers, set In
over them against their will,
nd inimical to their interests, Their
resources are to be converted
lto immense "plScers," whence only
he grasping official and his re-
ainers may draw wealth greater
nan thai "of Ormus or of
nd; " whils daily want shall in the
lsrket place, with lean fingers and era
ing eye, supplicste the morsel that
lay postpone the death of to-day until
le morrow, and the pablo eye snail ev-
rywhere be offended by the criminal
pulence of the few, and the ragged mis-
~ Of the beggared many. Their
Intelligence and industry are to
8 employed only to accumulate
'easure for the tsx-gathersr and 1
lunderer. The UTMOST result promised
} their enterprise is only such as await
! the treasure houses of the Peruvian /
leas, to be at LAST rflsd by the politi-
sl Pizarros Of the day.
Not only this, the purpose of those J
leasures Is to practically secure this re-.
lit. That the animus of these meas. 9
res and their projectors has not been In
ccurately construed, we need but read
le speeches. of the leaders of Radical
pinion and the Influential papers of the
'sdicsl party. The mere fact, that late
soldiers were present as .
)nstituenis of the recent Democratic 1
though bearing hOnorably I
Mt po