Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-15

elect no man legislator, who Is Of the
same opinion with themselves, under
whom or by whose side they fought,
whose sympathIes are with them, and
who would really represent them.
Mr. Burke said to the House Of Com
mons, speaking of the Colonies, with
their population of only too millions of
whites: "Some degree of care and eau
tlon Is required In handling such an OBJ
jset. You ought not, in reason, to trifie
with so large q mass of the interests and
feelings Of the human rsoe. YoH ootsd
at no time do so sVithoia quit aud be
assured you viii not be able to do 1t long
with impunity.D
The taxes imposed on the people Of
the United States are unequal, unfair,
-vexatlous, and fesrfully onerous. 1t was
terrible mistake to exempt the Gov
eminent bonds from taxation. It viii
some time become of grave Importance.
The stamp act Is most vexstious in Its
workings. The direct tax on incomes is
unconstitutional. The tariff is The sum
of all villAinies. The dlseontents pro-
dueed by a system so fatally wrong must
at no distant day grow into dangerous
proportions.
We propose to discuss hereafter the
natlonsl system of taxation. For the
present, with the oppressed and humili-
sted Southland before our eyes and in
cur thoughts; with half its white popu-
Ietion disfrsnchised, or the power In
the hands Of negroes to disfcanchiss
them; denied re admission into the
Union except on terms dishonorable In
themselves, and which brand them with
permanent infsriority TO the Northern
states taxed by laws made by those
not their representatives; governed by
Constitutions forced upon them by fraud
andsustalned by ythebayonet; represented
in Congress by men whom they had no
voice in choosing, and therefore still
governed by force, and submitting only
because they cannot successfully resist
we advise the men who thus riot in the
lieentious Indulgence of the love Of
tyranizing and the mean expedients of
revenge, to ponder upon these words of
Burke:
1.-THE use Of force alone is but tenpo-
rary. II may suDdue for moment; but.
it does not remove the necessity OF sub.
DUNG again; and q nation is not gov
efned, which Is perpetually to be con.
| quersd. A further objection tn
force is, that you 5Hlpdsr the object by
your very endesyOrs 10 preserve It. The
thing y0u fought for Is not the thing
t0jlich you T6eOUer but deprecated.
sunk, wasted and consumed in the
contest.n
We suffer as much at home, by this
loosening of sll ties, and this conoussiou
OF sll established opinions, as We do
abroad. For In order to prove that the
Americans have no right TO their Hber-
ties, we are every day endeavoring to
suDVert the inaXfins which preserve the
whole spirit of our own. To prove that
the Americans ought not 70 be free, we
are Obliged TO depreciste the value Of
freedom Itself; and We never seem to
gain paltry advantage over them In
debate, without attacking some of those
principles, or deriding some of those feel
o. W---SAA 1AA A4NCGeOlo nave E0eQ
their blO0d.u
The Northern States have been assidu-
oosly trying that policy which Burke
calls the old, and as 1 thought, ex.
piGtled problem of tyranny, which pro-
poses to beggar its subjects into submis-
siOn." It would be well for cur task
masters to apply to themselves and the
country which they misgovern, thess
prophetic heads of that great statesman
which the establishment of American
independence proved to be almost the
language Of ofinspiration
=" Remember, t0hen you hare completed
yoitr system Cf Improvement, that nature
stu proceeds IN her ordinary course; that
discomfort tOilt increase ,Oith 77,iserv: and
that there are critical moments in the
fortunes Of all Statss, a0heaa then aoho are
too Dedk to contribute to yo,tr prosperity,
may DC strong enough to complete yoar
ruin"