Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-22

to enjoy the advantage OF eommero'Ai IN
dependence. And whom we get our eyes
omen instead Of living from handto mouth
and supporting New York monopoly
as we have done. only because we we're
too blind to see our true interest we
shall do IL We need only little coop
eratiye effort and the vast field Of adj
vantage aud prosperity will open before
MS. We thank Mr.. Everitt for taking the
initiative-for we regard It so, inasmuch
as our direct importations have hitherto
been the work Of individual enterprise
alone-and we wish him and the project
he has in hand unbounded success
In this we do not mean to disparage or
abandon what we regard as OF even
greater imporiance-the encouragement
Of home manufacturing enterprise. 10
discourage either, or to remain supine'
where enterprise would be available, we
regard as suicidal, and little in keeping
with the sagacious and enterprizing char
scter of the American people. These
enterprises should 90 hand In hand, are
not adverse one to the other, and will
thrive better in company than singly'
For really, after all, the more we do the
more we shall be able to do.
We should be glad, moreover, to adopt
the suggestion Of Mr.. Everitt to "let
politics 20 to the dogs," If we were only
situated in this country, as he happily is
in his, where we had constitution as
well as patriotism in the hearts OF our
people sufficient to render the dogs
powerless, when questions vital to lib
erty and prosperity are concerned. In
his great and favored and freest country
of the globe, where there is law su-
preme over king and people, where
every man house is sacred as his castle,
and the humblest citizen is equal
before the law to the greatest lord of the
land, the political "dogs" can only
|" change coats occasionally and gnaw
the bones which are thrown to them,
while after all, the great body of the peo'
pie prosper and grow rich. In his coun-
try political wrauglers and feeders
from the public crib may be ig-
nored as impotent to degree, and as
low in caste, and political questions may
be displaced by all absorbing attention
to business and commercial affairs, with
somewhat of IMMUNITY and fearlessness
in the always assured consciousness
that the great heart of the people is
right, and that patriotism will always at
the proper moment and in due time
apply the necessary corrective. The
small matter of the small doings of small
politicians will not stir the blood of q
great people assured of liberty, and
under such circumstances as these.
Bat if the worthy and intelligent gen
tleman will look a little closely to our sit
uatiou, be will see that here the dogs al
ready have the politics, and that it is
costing our people a larger per centage
of their earnings in iniquitous taxation
than an Englishman receives as the
whole compensation for the loan of his
capital. He will see moreover that the
dogs who have now got the politics,
trnmple on what should be the
supreme law of our land - the
Constitution of the United States-are
now attempting unlawfully to depose our
republican king, even at the expense OF
perjury in declaring the innocent guilty,
govern ten States with the bayonet, seek
to place honest, loyal, intelligent and
patriotic Americans, such as those whose
acquaintance he has made, under the
rule of freed Africans, who have neither
the eyrtue nor the capacity to rule
themselves, and in Tennessee, worse
than all, have countenanced an anti
republican negro government, gotten up
by a knot of very small imbeciles,
such as revolutions are occasionally
guilty of spawning, and under the
conduct of an unusually ferocious natu-
raj born tyrantl If such a state of
things existed in his own country, he
would not say to his fellows throw
politics to the dogs" but rather throw
the dogs to the devil. John Bulls blood
would be up to boiling heat. But we
think we shall be able to accomplish all
after a while-aid and welcome immi-
grafton, open direct trade, build up
home manufactures, and drive the dogs
from power. We certainly have 6 very
determined will for all these things, and
"where there is a will there is way"