Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-09

their purpose. They will not cease, un
til zoe cease to walk in the old, evil ant
foolish ways. No portion of the worlt
will always be in darkness and no Ma
tiOnal crime will always go unpunished
/ No great crime is without its cOnse
quences, of magnitude commensurate
with ITSELF To establish military des
potisms over freemen, and to make thu
negro the equal Of the white man, anC
invest him with the powers of govern
ment are crimes of enormous magnitude
and when they cease, their effects vii
not cease with them. They corrupt tbs
blood, not of the State that bears, bu
of the State that inhicts the wrong, like
the leprosy. To maintain such govern
ments, the springs of public morality
and virtue must be poisoned, and the
State rots before it dies, like Louis the
Fifteenth. A people so oppressed al
last becomes the instrument of the In
finite Vengeance on the oppressor. The
human volcanoes slumber for ages, like
those of the Andes seemingly extin-
guished, their SUBMITS wrapped in eter-
nal snow. They wake at last, as France
did and after the explosion a new era
commences for Humanity.
To be truly great and free is, to bear
with patience sufferings and caIamities
which even TO Hope seem infinite; to for
give wrongs darker than,night, bitterer
than death; to defy arbitrary and mer-
cildss Power to love to bear and for
bear with weakness, lukewarmness, error,
desertlOn and ingratitude to change not
just purposes; to falter not in seeking
to effect them to repent not of engaging
in what may seem a hopeless struggle
with Tyranny and Wrong to die, if need
be, in defence of human rights to re-
fuse, at all hazards, to abandon your
cOuntry's cause, pledge your faith to her
enemies, or rescue property from confs-
cation or life from hazard, by insincere
and dishonorable oaths.
If Roman citizen had deserted Rome
in her extremity, when her dead lay
thick on the fatal field of Canna, and
remaining within the Carthaginian lines,
had sworn faith to the foe and hostility
to Rome, the renegade would have been
exeerated mall the Temples, and devoted
to the Internal Gods. That it was done
to save wealth, to live secure while Han
nibal marched against the Capitol, or
even to avoid torture and death, would
have been received, if pleaded in exten-
uatiOn, with shout of derision that
would have reached the skies. Is it any
less unworthy of a man to desert his
State when the Oppressors' brutal feet
trample her PROSTATE form to join those
who so oppress her, and with them to
vote to continue the disfranehisement
and servitude of those who served with
the apOstate, under the same flag, and
are not base enough to purchase safety
with dishonor?
There was a city once, in the more he
roie ages, whose people refused to accept
terms from a victor, and one and all,
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 a monument
to teach every people in every age, that
no fate which can befall a man or people,
is so sad as subjugation, except bya base
the purchase of safety and
immunity, given with contempt and re-
ceived with shame.
The deed that was noble then would be
noble now, if it could be done and the
world would profit by it, if startled from
its sOrdid selishness, by SO emphatic
protest against the lust of power crush
ing out a peoples aspirations for inde-
pendence, and with thin-veiled barbar-
ism making war upon the peaceful citi-
zen, winning success by forced oaths,
exile, the torch, and the plundering of
homes; by so stern a refusal to submit
70 the degrading rule Of an unmanly and
eonqueror, or the more de-
grading government of their own freed
negro slaves.
Return again, heroic days, when the
was the mother, and her chill
lren cheerfully died for her, and were
lot parasitical vermin that fed upon her
Return again, days of the glory of HUI
nan Nature, rude and unlearned as men
,hen were, when to desert ones country
was eternal dishonor when Regulus
Urged Rome to continue the war against
Carthage, and returned to Carthage to
lie when, though the successful cause
pleased the Gods, that to which fortune
vas adverse pleased Cato in which one,
.mbarkiRg on the public service in
storm could say, 1t is necessary | should
20 1t is not necessary ] should live :"
n which woman emulated the herois1n /
IF man and when the Roman youth,
seeing daily in the Atrium the statues
If his ancestors, learned from his cradle
% emulate their greatness, and to know
10 mistress so well worth living and dy-
ng for, as his country.
Bring with you the golden days Of
and lOving-kindness, that men
nay do aud dare more for love than for
wen faith and zeal Bring peace among
he nations, comfort to the homes of the
poor, liberation and love in the churches,
lisinterestedness in the councils of the
State, fair trade in the market, good will
n society, kindness and forbearanee ia
he humblest and the highest homes, that
20 this earth and humanity may fulfill
heir destiny.
Return, days of the golden age of the
Republic, when the States were peers
md sovereigns, and sole parties to the |
solemn compact of the Constitution, the
aithful performance Of whose provis-
ons by each was guaranteed by its faith
md honor, and the reserved rights of
Zach were solemnly guaranteed by all |
when knaves were not leaders of the
House of Representatives, nor convicted
lars candidates for the Presidency, nor
he fathers of mulattoes teachers pub |
ic morality, and impeachers of Presi-
tents /; and the Camerons and Chambers
lid not buy seats in the Senate with |
money. Return, days of Macon and
Calhoun, of Jackson, brayest Of the
brave, and White, whose name was pure
md stainless as the Alpine snow; of
Clay and Webster and Crittenden, when
1he great and the good, of the admins