Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-30

in the end The lsw Of cause and effect
has not been repealed and those who
dance, must pay the piper.
Sydney Smith says:
"How differentiated how noble it is TO
govern in kindness, and to found an
Empire upon the everlasting basis Of
justice and affectionl But what do men
call viQors To let Loose hussaTs and
bring up artillery to govern with lighted
matches, and to cut aud push and prime.
I call this. not vigor, but the Stoth Of
cruelty and ignorance. The v1gor / love
consists In finding out wherein subjects
are sggrisvsd, 10 relieving them, IN
| studying the temper and genius Of q PEG.
pie. in consulting their PTejadices, in Sc
leetiDg proper persons TO lead and man
age them, in the laborious, watchful and
difficult task of increasing public hGppi-
ness 6g oUGyiHg each particular diseOn.
tent Ia this way Hoche p~scified La
Wonderland in this way orly will Ire
land ever be subdued.n
This has not been the policy Of the
Chiefs Of Radiealism. These men, in
the words Of the same writer, think
that the worst time for making friends
Is the period when you have made many
enemies that 1t is the greatest OF all er-
rors to stop when you sre bresthless,
aud to lie down when you are fatigued.n
Such me "not only are deaf to the
suggestions Of mere justice, but they de-
spise justice they detest the word riqht I;
the only word which rouses them Is
peril; where they can Cypress with i'm
punity, they Cypress forever, and cslI it
loyalty and wisdom"
When will the Radical masses of the
Northern people learn the lossou which
Ireland at last has taught England, that
"a the terms submission and fear are gall
ing terms, when applied from the lesser
naticn 20 the greater but It Is the plain
historical truth, It is the natural eonse.
quence OF Injustice it is the predieament
in which every country places itself
which leaves such a mass of hatred ana
discomfort by its side. No Empire ia
powerful enough to endure it it would
exhaust the strength of China, and sink
it with all its mandarins and tes-kettIes
to the bottom Of the deep?"
Ia the same letter from which we are
quoting, the witty writer says, From
what motive but fear, 1 should be glad
to know, have all the improvements in
our Constitution proceeded? I question
If any justice has ever been done TO
large masses Of mankind from any other
motive. The only true way TO make
he mass of mankind see the beauty Of
justice, is by showing to them in pretty
plain terms the consequences Of ipius-
uee." That is perfectly true; and he
was wise in saying, that, with four mill
lions OF disaffectod people within twenty
miles Of the English coast, the dread
which he had of their physical power
was a very strong motive for listening to
their claims.
The consequences Of the rule of that
"mesnness and madness to which ma.
TONS are reduced when they lose sight of
the hrst elements Of justice, without
which a country can be no more secure
than 1t can be healthy without air. are
beginning to be plainly manifest in more
than one way. We are continually told,
by Radical members Of Congress and
ponderous orators and oracular presses.
that the people Of the South are not
loyal, that they are, indeed, ~ssvagely
disloyalr that they intend, with the help
Of the Democracy, to relieve themselves
Of the blessings of recon struction on the
plan Of Sumner and Stevens. Some of
the persona of small consideration who
have crawled into Congress from the
resurreeted States, declare that the new
Governments there cannot be main
tanned without the aid Of Federal bayo-
nets. The few men who use the negroes
as the means thst enable them to oppress
the great mass OF the whites, and "haye
Ill treated the whole crew." live in con-
staut terror "that the Oppressed people
VIII rise spon them, and carry the ship
into Brest-they begin TO find that it is
q very tiresOme thing to sleep every
night with cooked pistols under their
pillows, and to breakfast, dine and sup
With drawn hangers. They suspect that
the privilege of beating and kicking the
Of the sailors, is hardly worth all
this anxiety, and that II the ship does
eve: fall into the hands OF the dIsaffect-
ed, al the outrages that they have expe-
rienced will be Thoroughly remembered
and amply repaid"
Undoubtedly, civil i~ncapaeiiea srs not
favorable to the development OF LOYALTY.
and the affections of a people are not
gained by aagelIations. Men Will detest
their CppreSsors, in spite Of all the lessons
OF the sermon on the mount. and will
continue to detest them until the causes
Of hatred are removed. Surely II Is mad
ana miserable policy to cultivate hatreds
as Dien do c1cGnbers in a hot.bed, bv
continuance Of grievances and persist
In measures which ~irritate and sx-
asperste.
Another consequence Of the nisgoy.
ernment OF the South. OF the deterIaina-
ion to force negro suffrage and sham
on ten States, is.that ipdi-
'ated by the paragraph which forrns the
ext Of this rticle,-enormous taxation,
he body polite saturated with corrup-
ion and rotten With the poisonous virus
u official dishonesty, business Isnguish-
ne, commerce decaying, ships rotting at
he wharves, s~tagnstIon Of trade, hard
for the w~orking-msn, the general
depression that precsdes immense con-
yulsions.
Whose soweth the wind, shall reap
be whiriwiDd.'
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EST OATHS. AND FHE FRANCHIsF
LAW OF TENNESSEE. {
mo. 81 [:
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