Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-23

q thorough unanimitY exists in the De-
mOeracy, and all opposed TO Rsdicalism
aud it's baleful effects and consequences.
throughout the length and breadth Of the
whole country:
ResOlUed, That we, the white ConserV-
alive Democratic element Of the COM
munity Of Center Hill, DeSotO county,
III ississippi, do most heartily and sin
cerely approve of and concur in the
aforesaid platform aId declarations as
adopted by the Democracy of the whole
Union in convention assembled; and,
Resolved, That we do pledge ourselves,
our honOrs and our fortunes to maintain
and uphold the same; and,
Resolved, furthermore, That we do
most heartily concur in and approve OF
the nomination of HOrstio Seymour and
Frank P. Blair, as the candidates OF the
Conservative Democratic party for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency Of the
United States, and do pledge ourselves
and our sacred houOTs to use every eX-
ertiou and all honorable means to elect
these our candidates to the said Offices.
The band which had interspersed the
proceedings ali along, here played Dixie
most beautifully, and at the close OF the
music, the chairman stepped forward
and said:
"All who are present have heard Of
the Memphis APPEAL, and those who
have not, IL any there be, should do 80
have the honor and the pleasure to in
trOduce to you now, ladies and gentle
men, the talented and famous editor Of
that sterling paper, Gen. Albert Pike"
General Pike being thus introduced
said:
at is but proper, ladies and gentle
men, that l should say few words, by
way OF apology and explanation. Hav-
ing been invited to make an address by
literary society, supposed that the Oc-
cssiOn would be literary one, and not
political. l therefore prepared an essay
suitable for such en- occasion. l could
have made you a political speech with
out preparation. With these fow Werds,
I will proceed to address, or rather read
you the following;
lowing to the crowded Stale OF our
columns, we have found it impossible to
use the whole Of the Generals speech,
and consequently have taken only the
concluding p0rtion.l
To be truly great and free is, to bear
with patience sufferings and calamities
forgive wrongs darker than night, bitterer
than death to defy arbitrary and mer-
CHESS Power to love; to bear and for.
bear with weakness, lukeWarmness, er-
ror. desertion and ingratitude to Change
not Just purposes; to fAlter not in seek
ing to effect them to repent not OF en-
gaging in what may seem R hopeless
struggle with Tyranny and Wrong; to
die, If need be, in defence of human
rights; to refuse, at all hazards, to aban-
don your country's cause, pledge your
faith to her enemies, or rescue property
from confscatiOn or life from hazard, by
iDsiucere and dishOnOrRble Oaths.
Ii a Roman citiZsn had deserted Rome
in her extremity, when her dead lay
thick on the fatal field Of CanL 9, ana,
remaining within the CarthAgenian
lines, had sworn faith to the foe and hos
tility to Rome, the renegade would have
been execrated Ia all the Temples, and
devoted to the Internal Gods. That II
was done to save wealth, to live secure
while Hannibal marched against the
Capitol, or even to avoid torture and
de:th, would have been received, II
pleaded in extenuatiOn, with a shout OF
efision that would have reached the
skies. Is it any less unworthy OF n man
to desert his State when the OppressOr's
brutal feet trample her PROSTATE form
to ioin those who so Cypress her, and
with them to vote to continue the dis
| reimbursement and servitude Of those
who served with the apOstate, uHder the
same flag, and are not base enough to
purchase safety with dishOnOr?
There was a city once, in the more he
roic ages, whose people refused to accept
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terms from victor, and one and all,
magistrates, priests, artiZans, the pOpu-
lace, women and children, crowding into
their ships, spread their sails, and over
the blue waters of the ocean sped away,
| to seek new homes under unknown skies,
the abandoned city standing mOnu-
ment. to teach every people in every
age. that no fate which can befal man
or people, is so sad as sui jugstion, excep.
by a base submission by the purchase OF
safety and immunity, given with con-
tempt aud received with shame.
The deed that was noble then would
be noble now, if it could be done; and
the world would profit by it, il startled
from its sordid selfishness, by SO en-
phstic protest against the lust Of power
crushing out a peoples aspirations for
iudependence, and with thin-veiled
barbarism making war upon the peace
full citizen, and winning success by forced
osths, exile, the torch, and the piUnder-
ing of homes; by 80 stern a refusal to
submit to the degrading rule CT an un-
manly and ungenerous eODquerOr, or the
more degrading government OF their
own freed negro slaves.
Return again, heroic days, when the
country was the mother, and her child
rem cheerfully died for her, and were
not parssitical vernin that fed upon
her Return again, days of the glory OF
Human Nature, rude and unlearned as
men then were, when to desert ones
country was eternal dishonOr when
Ragulus urged Rome to continue the war
against Carthage, and returned to Car
thage to die; when, though the success
full cause pleased the Gods, that to which
fortune was adverse pleased Cato; in
which one, embarking on tine public
service in storm could say, 1t is neees-
sary l should 90: it is not necessary l
| should live - il which woman emUlsted
| the bernism Of man and when the RO-
man youth, seeing daily IA the Atrium
the statues of his ancestors, learned from
his cradle TO emulate their greatness, and
! 10 know no mistress so well worth living
and dying for, as his Country.
Bring with you me golden days OF sym
pathy and loving kindness, that men may
do and dare more for love than for even
faith and zeal Bring peace among the
nations, comfort to the homes OF the
moor. liberation and love in the churches,
nninterestedness in the councils of the
state. fair trade in the market, good will
In society, kindness and forbearance in
tbe humblest ard the highest homes,
that 30 this earth and humanity may
| fulfill their destiny.
Raturn, days of the golden age Of the
RaDubIic. when the States were peers
ana soyereigns, aud sole parties TO the
solsmn compact of the Constitution, the
faithful performance Of whose provisions
nv each was guaranteed by its faith and
b0n.r. and the reserved right of each were
ooIenanly guaranteed by all; when kOaves
wore moi leaders of the House of Repre-
sentatives, nor convicted liars candidate;
for the Presidency, nor the fathers o.
mnlattoes teachers of public morality
andimpeachers OF Presidents and the
Camerons and ChandleTa did not buy
seau In the Senate with money. Rs
turn days of Mason and Calhoun, q
Jackson, bravest Of the brave, and
White, whose reputation was white
and stainless as the Alpine snow
of Clay aud Webster and Crittenden
when the great and the good, OF the ad