Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-26
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language of the prophet, 8 to put your
! confidence In lies.' You have said, The
scourges which sffiict mankind shall not
| come nigh unto us; for We have made
lies u refuge, and under falsehood have
we bid oursslves.l But what says the
prophet in reply to such? 'Forasmuch,'
says he, as ye have put your trust In
calumDy and tumult, this iniquity and
your ruin shall be like that OF a high wall,
whose breaking cometh suddenly at an
instant. And he shall break 1t as the
breaking of the potteI's vessel that is
i shivered In pieces, with such violence
that there shall not be found in the
bursting Of It q sherd TO take IRE from
the hearth, or to tske water withal out
of the pit.'-Pdscdl, Provincial Letters.
This American Republic lacks twenty
years of attaining the age Of q single cen
tury, and already Its decline hss come
and it stands ~shuddering OF the verge Of
dissolution. Its constitution was the is
sue Of 8 selfish compromise between the
planters who wished for more negro
slaves, ard the Puritans who demanded
the monopoly Of the carrying ttsde, and
we're willing TO endanger the salvation
Of their souls by continuing the profts-
bic business Of bringing negroes in their
ships from Africa, to sell to the planters
Of Virginia, the CsroliRss and Georgia.
During the horrors of the Middle Pas
sage, the Puritsns in the cabin and on
deck sang hymns and psalms, and ex-
horted each other to uphold the banner
OF goodness and righteousness while BE-
tween decks shrieked and hoEled the
miserable African csptlves, whose grand
children Puritanism was, In eighty years,
to impose upon the same Southern
States as masters OF the men of the An.
glo-Saxon race, and invite TO sit with
themselves in the Parliament of the Re-
public.
In the cabin, the prayers and ezhorts-
lions Of PGrltsnism of the Puritgnism
that gTubbed out the ears Of Q1akers aud
then hung them; that bauished Roger
Williams TO the Providence Plantations;
that sold its Indian csptives into slavery
in the West Indies. Between decks 8
poisoned atmosphere, human creatures
cramped by long confinement in one
posture, with knees drawn up to their
chins and shsckled arms, the howls Of
rage and despair, the insrticulste curses
of an intolerable sgony, rising up 10 the
throne of God, and demanding veDge-
snce on men heartless as the hyena,
faithless as the wolf, and hypocritieal as
the sneaking panther.
OF this spirit of Puritanism, q spirit
hated and despised by all among the
fallen angels who still In the darkness of
their degradation retain some traces Of
their ancient splendour and glory when
they stood as imperial Archangels round
the throne OF God, the statutes that Gre
ate military despotisms and demand
test-oaths, have been born born of that
accursed lust Of controlling opinions,
and that spirit Of greed and gain which
demand possession Of government SIS the
means Of gratifying self-righteOusness
and accommodating wealth, and to these
unite q rsncorous hatred Of the States
whose great men ruled the Republic du-
ring the sixty years Of the seventy that
preceded the civil war.
The Neo-Puritsnism of the present
day is even worse than the blasphemous
hypocrisy Of those who murdered the
Peqods and Nsrrsgansetts, sold Indian
girls as slaves, hung Q1skers, sad
women to death as witches.
Stevens has gOns to his last account, and
the brszen gates Of HEdes have opened
with dangerous exultstion to welcome
him and do him honor and the remsin-
ipg representatives and Chiefs OF New
England Puritsnism are such men as
Butler and Boutwell,. II hss no Cr0m-
wells, Icetols and Fairfaxes now, IN
place and office; but the subalterns have
become general officers, and Congress 2
second Rump Parliament over n
House Of which Coltsx, the personifca-
ton Of msdioOrity, smlrkingly presides,
and over the other Blssphemous Wade.
The South failed in its effort to divide
the Union by arms, and when the war
ended permanent peace could hsye been
restored, had it not been for the maligni-
~ OF P~uritsnism. 1t seems now to be It's
TO make hatred eternal, and to
patch up an ~insiscere truce, = restoration
Of the Union of which Force and COM
and reluctant acquiescenee are
TO constitute the cohesive attraction.
Wendell Phillips and Theodore Tllton
are two of its Apostles Of the Gospel Of
Hate and Revenge; and from these it
its creed, the same that it has al
ways Obeyed when it has he'd power to
De~rsscute. One measure only win give
permanent peace to the country. Con-
New England into a single
State, with only two Senators, and the
of the serpent will have been
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