Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-29

The sncients represented those whom
the Gods hsd made mad in order to de-
sroy them, as driven onward to thelE
fate by the Furies.
so the Jacobin leaders in Congress
seem to be driven onward from blundeT
to bIunder and from crime 10 crime, by
8 fatal and Tesistiess necessity. UBfortu-
DGtely they drag the country with them
towards the abyss Of ruin. The Revolu-
tionary Dsmsgogue who makes tie pas.
sions OF the people his instruments, is
always at last their victim ard he de-
serves to be, because 10 condeuse these
PASSIONS, CT anger, hate and revenge,
into legislation, is 10 launch the country
upon a career that must end in anarchy;
and out Of anarchy always at last
emerges a bloody despotisn.
AS with individuals, 50 with nations:
one error or crime creates the necessity
for another. Men s0on become familiar
lied with violations Of the Constitution,
however perenptory and plain its pro-
visions, until they are no longer startled
al AlE WDeA 4LAAAlI4s EEGEAulEElkH GAA
the %cruelest iniquities Of legislation.
The people Of the United States, in all
their legislation since their conquest Of
the South, have taken counsel only Of
their passions; until the condition OF the
country, politically, financially and So
eially, has become such that it may well
alarm all rejecting men. We need not
picture that condition. Utter ruin has
fallen upon the South, while every inter
est in the Northern States sickens and
lauguishes. In the two cities Of New
York and Philadelphia, a hundred thou
sand men aBd women are out Of employ
ment. The manufacturing establish
ments discharge theirhauds, the shippipg
interest has fallen into decay, the taxes
have become an intolerabie burthen.
Reputation Of the obligations Of the
Government is openly advocated, and
the people Of the North see with appre-
hensiOn and alarm a dark mass of irpo-
rant voters hanging like a cloud on the
Southern horizon, as the old Scythian
hordss in the evil days C Rome hung
meuacingly OF the borders Of the En-
pire, threatening TO blot out civilization.
One almost imsgines, for men in such
times bscome supeTstitious,) that the
commissions which have lately shaken
the earth with terror, were, by that mys.
FERROUS sympathy which the ancieBts
deemed to exist between the different
parts Of the great domain Of nature, the
precursors OF the great sgonies about to
torture q doomed nation.
The misfortunes Of a nation are sIwavs
the consequences Of its errors OF its
crimes. The justice OF GOD pursues the
nation IS well as the individual. AMI
that is now Detailing the North has its
roots in the Past, and is the consequence
OF its lamentable lack Of m~agnsuimitv
ia the moment Of victory. It hypocrit-
ically pretended that all il desired and
fought for was the restoration Of the
Union. 1t opened its arms 70 the South
ern States, and besought them to return
20 the ancient fellowship. It's President
said 10 the men Of the South, OF whom
hundred and fifty thousand were I
then in arms, and therefore entitled to be
respected, and ft to be cajoled, II will q
not make terms with you, while You s
face US as enemies, armed; bat if you
viii lay down your arms and trust to our
generosity, you shall have no cause TO e
it," Was the promise kept? No: q
here is not q tribe Of ~barbarians in Cen o
raj Africa, that would not be ashamed D
% dishonour itself as the Northern States d
lave done, by treating Us as conquered
What was it for which we fougbt9
For IN idea for the rights and soyer- n
ignty Of our States for a nationality -
nd an Independence, to which we had ri
{ least as much right rs the thirteen Al
had when they threw of their ~
Ilegianee to the mother-cOuntry. The 10
,orthern States had multiplied until n,
ley were able ID enfOrcs their own 70
leory Of the Constitution. The theory =,
the Government which we believed Il
be the true one, had become q mere A
lstraction. The sovereignty o. the ao
.ates had become q mere Idle word. ~
Ne new States were only sovereign in
me. We could maintain our States in
e possession of their ancient preroga-
only by separating from the North,
d becoming an independent Republic. +
" still reBgiously believe that to main den
q unimpaired the Sovereignty Of the and
was indispensable TO the perpetus- 5Hh
Of q free government; WAS the only Con
Of q permanent r~epublicanIsm.
3 government Of Numbers Is inevitable tP'
D. The commissions Of the present are Fl
death-spasms of the Nation. The cha
Of the Sovereignty Of the apps
les was the death-blow Of Constitu- AUa
81 government. We fought 10 pre- twel
: that soysrsiguty. UnfOrtunstsly APP