Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-12
LETTER FROM BEPP0.
National and Corporate Balance OF
Power and Interest served-How .
the Negro is Estimated.

EDITeRs LEDGER: Some one in your
Chamber of Commerce speaks of the
great number of citizens of the South
now in the North, and numerically COM
pares them with those Of the North in
the South, aud says the good treatment
of the former should be guarantee of a
similar hospitality on the part of the
South. have forgotten the sermon but
have the spirit of his text The mer-
chant who offered the resolution afore-
said, has expressed pretty sentiment,
but his hypothesis is rotten. To one
hundred Northern men in the South, fat
tening off her resources, there is one
Southern man in the North, who fur
nishes quid pro quo for his sustenance,
and you can assure your people from
my experience, not of railroad or hotel
knowledge, that did a Southern man
commit hundredth part of the devil
ment that is now INDUCED in by many Of
the fanatics, who, having feathered their
nests in the South, now sigh for repose
with their ill,gotten gains, the Northern
people, irrespective Of party, would hang
him 10 the first lamp.post. The main
reason we are we'll treated in the North
is because we behave ourselves, and all
Northera men in the South are treated
the same who do likewise.
You may have noticed in clippings
from the European press that Lord
Napier has been thanked by Parliament
and created a I" Duke of Magdala. This
gigantic military swindle does not seem
to be sifted by the American press.
Lord Napier captured Magdala without
the loss of man, and occupied Abys-
sinia, as the Puritans did America, by
numbering an inferior race. The con-
quest of Abyssinia had been decided on
by England, using the holding of her
citizens sy King Theodorus as 6 pretext,
for some time, as the commercial en-
croachments of France, through her en-
terprise of the Suez Canal, required ad-
ditional checkmates, inclusive of Bonn
bay strait and other Eastern POSSESSIONS
to French advancement. 1t seems to be
the policy of governments to advance in
corresponding lines, territorially or COM
mercially. France makes a ter
ritorial advance upon Africa; Eng
land moves upon the East Indies
Spain, Denmark, France and England
strive for balance of power in the West
Indies. America rises from the embrace
of the Atlantic and Pacific, and Spain
places her interposing spirit upon Flor
ida, France upon Louisiana, England
upon the North and Canada. Our own
government seems to be the only organ
lied system, that has no foreign policy,
and it is only during the last year that
through Bancroft an attempt has been
made to conciliate foreign powers through
a German treaty, by which that power
would be negative in spite of her English
alliances in case of a war with England
that may occur, as the Fenians will get
us into one, sooner or later; aud now,
that the glorious humbug, Anson Bur-
lingame, has introduced US to China,
what California has been doing, in a
material manner, for some time. we may
soon learn of Chinese complications, and
the religion of America-that is now
"half and half f"-may be well mixed with
Shamans, Nauekists, worshippers OF
spirit, Sintoisis aud the sect of confu-
sions. | forgot to mention that the
Abyssinians lately massacred by the
British we're Christians; there's a mis-
siouary sport for you Our foreignpol-
icy has beginning by extreme; il leaps
from Germany to China / asked Stet-
son, of the Astor House in New York
some years since, what be thought Of
Burlingame, who had made . ranting
speech the night previous Why. sir,
lam 9 friend of Anson's kept him in
one of my rooms q month during the
Brooks imbroglio, and deem him q
vhole-souled, genial fellow" "Don't
Won think Arson is q little cracked 2
"Well, no, / cant say that; bot he is q |
little iiehty unquestionably." So much |
for the great political Chinese mission
ary 10 these United States on behalf Of
the Emperor of the moon, old Tching-
Tin-Pan. The heated term in this region
has been the warmesi in half century. |
yet, while in many instances II bss been
destructive to life, It has enabled the far
mers to harvest their maiured grain with
out the usual attendant risks Of shower
and storm. In alluding to the effort OF
nations 10 establish balance Of power,
We continue the allusion BY applying Il
10 States and corporations Russia was
the friend Of the Fsderals during the late