Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-18
By JOHN S. 9. HOGAN g 90.
EpIroRIAL coRREsPoNDENcE.

7 cally, inveterately; and everything ou
of doors is limp and wet, dripping, reek
ing. wretchedly uncomfortable, until one
fsncies that New Orleans Is soaked anG
saturated to the soul with the E Edewy
. distiHalions" of the dark and leader
arch overhead; and all the misfortunel
Of ones self and one's country seem tc
! press down with redoubled weight upon
the soul, aud deaden it into a hopeless
dependency.
! The mad legislators at Washington
have elected to dare all rather than re-
cede a step in their evil work. So we
, supposed, three months ago, they would
: do. No matter how utterly The awaken
ing Northern people might condemn
their madness and wickedness, TO reced de
would have been to confess defeat; and
audaciously to dare all could st the worst
only end in defeat, and offered them the
only possible chance OF salvation.
1t was wise in the President to goad
aud provoke them into more venomous
rage, by his tauntiDg and sarcastic mes
sage advising a testimonial of approval
to Gen. HANCOCK, and by his coolly
contemptuous reply to the Ssnate's reso-
luton Of inquiry 10 regard to the District
of Columbia bill, which had failed to
become law. To urge and hasten them
only aid in their career of violence and
insolent disregard, not of the Constitu-
ton only, but of every salutsry restraint
of Justice, generosity or honour, was and
is to brig more swiftly nearer the day
of the doom Of Jac9binism, and make
the reaction and the vengeance more
certain and resistless. So only, by SIS
sisting them to develope the utter wick
edness Of their purposes, could the popular
hate aud disgust be aroused against the
revolutionary faction and its work.
/ Il is with factions as with individuals
''There is no arrest il is said in Cham
! dos, "in downward road. In the way
Of hoB0ur and honesty, and every holier
| Thought and loftier effort, life piles obsta-
cles breast-high; but in descent there is
no barrier, down the ice-5lepe there is no
pause, till the broken limbs ale dashed
! to pieces in the black crevasse below"
Aud thus the work of the devil goes
on, and must go on until the end The
probabilities are that the contemptuous
rejection by the people of Alabama, of
the deformed monster framed by the as
semblsge at Montgomery, and bearing
the same relation to 3 veritable free Con-
stitutioR that the hideous creature made
by FgAKENsTEIN did to living man,
the work Of GoD, will provoke Congress
to enact into q Law the bill making
GRANT Military Dictator. = all events
it IS settled that 10 step backward is to
be tszeu, and that the white men of the
South are to be subordinated, for the
preseut, TO the negro, We are glad to
see the aCcUrsed wOTG guahed shanelessly
forward, 10y the sid of both force and
fraud; that tie eyes of the people cf the
North may I've unsesled. The political
equality OF the EthiOpians will not last
long. Out OF the very poverty and the
manifold calamities CT the South. its
salvation is to come. The negro's la
bcur ceases to be in demand, because it
cannot be profitably employed. The
consequences of this must he extensive
emigration Of the worthless vagabonds
into The Northern States, and rapid
dimiuution of the numbers OF those wIThe
remain, TO live as they can, and die Isfer
rotten sheep. be
II has been truly said, also, that " tn lem'
are goals higher than happiness" This lar
are destiBies for people that are noBcire'
and better than prosperity. Because afni'
Ealiege that there is q COP, AMI that 20 :. /.
is just, we believe that he is preparf IA
tne le2pie % 'ne SUM " uis'ies' ing Ii
desolation' lot hoole ana or1he A
future; and that as lie hardened son i
heart Of PHARAOH that lie should ersg'
let the children Of Israel go out of His
land of Egypt, so He caused the nDace
anarchists and YiDdietive haters of that
Northern States, to emancipsts the Ope
gro race " at one fell swoOp," aud tod Al
fer on the men the right of suffrage, In I
order that an irrePressible conflict be-
tween them and the whites should begin, |
aud they should become worthless as
labourcrs, that the South might at no
distant day be freed Of the hateful pres
ence OF the cuTse Of an African popula-
tiou.s Whether they remain il the South,
or their waves Of vice and lechery snd |
theft and fLlsehood flow over the North
ern States, their ultimate determination
Is equally certain. The native Indians
Of Mexico, the West Iudies and Peru did
not melt away more rapidly before their
Spanish tssk-masters, than the negro
race is now melting away in these
States.
The adversities OF nations that have
not sunken bayOnd the reach OF redemp-
ton into vice and worthlessness, are the
means which Deity employs to reclaim
and enDoble them. 1t is victory and
that corrupt a people, make it
ignoble, sordid, cruel, and drag it down
into ruin. "Out of the sslt depths of
their calamity, States, like men, gather
the heroisms Of their future; out of the
desert of their exile from freedom, they
learn the power TO return as cOBquerors.
The greater things within them awake
from their lethargy the innate strength,
so long lulled to dreamy Incidence and
rest, uncOils from its prOstratlon. The
force that resists and survives slowly
comes upon people, with the taunts
and expressions OF it's enenies." And,
we quote, says of his hero,
50 We say of our South, 80 1t is possible
that there is that still in her, which may
be grauder and trueT to the ambitions OF
ner imaginative youth, under adversity,
han in the voluptuous ease Of her former
rich ami careless life"
The Congress of JAcobins need not inn
lglne that they can, with the negro and
he NortherDer, officer the Southern {
people. They may crush them down
and tramp,e on them, prosecute and i'm
ooverish, disinherit and exile them but
hey can 10 more destroy them as peO-
Jles IMAM a hiLS VI HthuCS bOuIu chHluA- {
ate the Huguenots, or all the persecu-
ions of centuries could effaee the He
Drew people. r
There is future Of glory for the South, ;
( it will but be true to itself. OF course
he world sympathizes with success, and
hardly turns its regards upon the van ,
pushed and to those who rule the peo-
lie in Europe the cause of the Northern
States was the cause Of legitimacy, and ,
be Gar sympathized with the feeling
hat prompted the crushing out of an
.ttempt to establish Nationality. But
the conquerors of the South will but ,
continue TO opprtss and persecute her
he will soon have the sympathy of ali ,
generous Nations and the purple dawn ,
will come TO her after the darkness of a
,rief night. The people Of the South are
# a great race, and with Past fulI of ,
-lories 1t is the madness of an iperedi ,
,la foIIy to imagine that they ean ha