Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-24

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suicide She sends Eyre to Jamaica;
be murders on masse. He returns and Is
tried, yet no one is convicted, unless
'twere an Irishman fighting for his free
dom; and she shoots ignorant natives
from the mouths Of cannon. Allthrough
her career of centuries her record has
been one Of murder and rapine abroad,
corruption and oppression at home.
Since 1859 she has engaged in twenty
FIVE treaties and alliances, a majority OF
which she broke, acting in bad faith.
She formed the home-working member in
the six coalitions against France, each Of
which she assisted in breaking, when it
served her selfish purposes. There can be
no peace for this country or Europe so
long as this third-rats power is allowed to
run riot over the world, numbering
Abyssinians, East Indians and Ameri-
cans-which she did. Capt Cunning.
ham, who, after the old war, was hung in
England for perjury, confessed while on
the platform to starving three thousand
American prisoners to death in order
that be might sell their rations. At Var
mouth, England, they slaughtered nearly
one hundred defenseless prisoners They
stole four thousand slaves in South Caro-
lima during the Revolutionary war, and
sold them in the West Indies. In Europe,
Asia, Africa and America their policy
has been one of plunder, and now their
iron hand is at the throat of eight mil
lions of Irishmen, who, if they have that
spark of soul that kindled the fire in the
days of Emmet, will arise in their
might and establish Irish independence,
thus initiating the downfall of the great
est curse known to history = British
policy. But her Know Nothing trick won't
win. 'Tis too fimsy. Yet, if it is to
come, and stand is to be taken, although
a Protestant, / am for Catholic Democ.
racy, even to the drawing the sword and
throwing away the scabbard, in opposi-
ton toProtestant Know Nothing Rad cal
ism. As M. De Tocqueville gives it:
"Wben feel the hand of power lie heavy
on my brow, I care but little to know who
oppresses. me; aud am not the more
disposed to pass beneath the yoke be.
cause it is held cut to me by the arms Of
million of men," This is as applicable
to the present as it was IN the days of the
able writer, and / for one am as much
indisposed to serve one despotism as an
other, making no distinction between
Plus TX or the followers of Zwingle or
Luther. If Grant is defeated, the ankee
movement of arraying the Known Nothing
Radical Protestant against the Catholic
Democrat will begin; and when it does,
woe to that man who is of the crew that
inaugurates the strife.
1t is quite gratifying to an absentee
to read in the LEDGER the hope
full future of the commerce of
your city, which will be a magnificent
one. Two hundred and fifty thousand
bales of cotton, worth at low estimate
twenty five millions of dollars, the hold
ers of which obtain, to great degree,
their supplies from your city. Memphis,
add your control of cereals, fruits, etc,
and you may estimate the trade Of the
Bluff City at $S0,0O0,0 900 of export and
import The profit on this, in commits.
sions, sales and labor will average twenty.
five Der cent, leaving to the citizens OF
Memphis, through the ramiications of
trade, twenty millions ofdollars. Did you
manufacture and buy direct from first
hands, you could double this large
amount. Now how large population
will this support2 Taking the army ra-
tious as guide to estimate subsistence
for the individual--a large average, as
there is one voter to seven of population,
showing the mass to be women and chill
dren, who subsist on less-we fnd you
can feed population of four hundred
thousand on twenty millions. Or you
can feed and clothe two hundred thousand
for the same amount. One may spend
one thousand dollars, and aHother--an
infant, for instance-ten dollars per an
mum, yet two hundred dollars per annum
will feed and clothe each on an average,
proving that the trade of Memphis, with
all its burthens, can easily support an in.
creased population. 1t is only time that
will properly diffuse these profits. You
will find as soon as the natural course of
yeur shipments is regained, via New Or
leans, there will be an immense saving,
as it costs as much to ship cotton to New
York via rail as it does from New Or
leans to Europe per vessel The only
profit is in rebate, which is realized by
men whose capital is furnished by North
ern banks. The moment your farmers
control their own cotton, which they will
do in one more season, the three hum
dred thousand bales that will arrive at
Memphis next season, will clearly divert
shipments to New Orleans, through the
hands of your old and well known mer-
chants q. NJ. Patrick, and his kind), at
least one million and q half Of dollars.
The old proverb Of many mickle
makes a muckle" must be used in Mem
phis, and in ten years your city will con-
tain a population of two hundred thou
sand hard working. honest sympaihiziug
citizens. The farmer and mechanic
must do il, and sll other interests must
cultivate those Of these classes.
BEFPo.