Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-02

and fell. without being contaminated b.
the association, in the same ranks, will
the eut-throats, the braves and the thieye
to whose memories Congress votes hon
ors, or who, surviving, are selectet
to wear honOrs and laurels, b,
those to whom the rank odor Of mora
baseness IS sweeter than the perfumes o
Araby the blest, and Butler hero to b,
held in higher esteem than Mcclellan
Roseerantzs Buell., Or any other -honora
I bic soldier and honest man.
Always, the worthy and the excelleh
die, that the knaves and scoundrels wht
infest Republics may prosper. But fol
ali that, God is just and the high sta
ton attained by seoundrelism is pill
lory. Never, since the world began, did
so many uohle gentlemen die, or maimed
survive as touching memorials Of greai
and fruitless struggle, to benefit pecula.
tors who plundered, and towards whG
deserted, and renegades and apostates
who have since betrayed, a country, as
J fell or survived, in the great Civil War
under the flag of the Confederate States
I The Southland demands of her sons
that they shall never admit that the
cause in which they fought and so many
heroes died, was not an honorable or .
just one that they shall never sdmit
that their States had net the right to
withdraw from the Union of the States,
that their Ordinances of Secession were
null and void, and secession, rebellion
and treason. She demands Of them, as
she has right to demand, that they
shall not apostatize from their ancient
faith, and become the allies of sordid
Jacobinism, baser and more corrupt than
that which ruled at Paris, when tive
hundred thousand Frenehmen focked to
the fields of French glory, to repel the
invasion of France by the Duke of
Brunswick The man, born in the South,
or adopted BY it, who gives eountenance
and currency to the infamous and dis
honoring measures of reconstruction, by
accepting a seat in the Congress Of the
United States, under whatsoever thin pre-
text he endeavors to mask his treaehery,
and there becomes the ally and the servant
of the OppreSSors of his State, betrays her
into the hands of the Philistines, and is
her deadliest enemy 1t may be that
Ged, whose mercy is infinite, viii forgive
him his country never can.
Our life Is 2 nobler one than we think.
We are not living for ourselves alone,
As self-saeri6ee is our highest duty, so
It Is our most excellent crown of honor.
If ii u a necessity, the law of God that
makes il 40 il not unjust. Not only all
the people of one country, but the whole
human race are connected together by
the closest ties of interest and sympathy
The causes of present ealamities are Of
ten to be found in the remote Past. The
individual suffering and sorrow and sac
rifce become the salvation of Nations
and the health and safety of the future
generations. We must all toll and suf-
fer and eaGure, for opr fellows and our
race for we inherit the fruits Of the
tolls and sufferings of those who sor-
rowed and died in the Past, believing
themselves to have effected nothing for
humanity, and Unsigned by the short |
sighted of their own age to have lived
in vain
The invisible nerves Of sympathy and |
unity connect the whole human race to
sether, and make it one. What is done
1t the Altipodes is never without its
to us. The wars between
the petty African chiefs, an hundred and |
fifty years ago, which filed the barra- |
,oons on the coast with slaves, and sup /
Piled the slave-ships Of New England /
With negroes to be sold to the planters Of
he Southern Colonies, if they did not |
lie, or were not tbr6gH overheard to the |
sharks, alive, during the hoFFoss Of the
middle passage, have been hardly thought
If By the men and women Of the pres
mt generation; but of these came as a
our late Civil War, and the
1arbarities of the invaders of the South
That an Egyptian Princess, four thou
and years ago, walked at early dawn
long the bank of the Nile, seeking a
,laee Whereat to battle, and found He
,reW child in u basket among the reeds,
md adopted him, would not seem much
o concern u.s. but yet we are still gov
rned IL great measure by the laws of
Noses; aud one Of chat people whom
le led out of the House of bondage,
reached, two thousand years afterwards, |
he sermon on the Mount and dictated
or us the Lords prayer. He indicated
his unity of Humanity, when he called
Iimself Ben-Hadam, the son of the
Adam, that is, Of Humanity, While
he Son of God, he was also the type of
be whole human race. T.
lCoNeLUDED HExr sUEDAY.I