Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-26
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sss and Texas. George Hopkins and
Msry EIllston were myths.
WAIT AND SEE
Some gentlemen, aud among the rest
Col. J. NJ. Hsrrell, of Little Rock, are
laying up for themselves " wrath against
the day of wrath" We shall be at lib
erty to speak, by and by. 1t is but S
little more than two months to the day
of election i'll November, after which no
pledge of honor to party viii any longer
seal up our mouth. Wait and see!
1t was Mr.. Jefferson, we believe, who
wished that a sea Of frs separated
America from Europe, that American
Republicanism might not be corrupted
By European examples, nor ttG prece-
dents o. despotism become authority on
this side the Atlantic. Squeamish gen.
tlemen Of weak stomachs have had their
say in respect to one expression in the
Centre Hill Address Of the Editor of this
Journal; and now that we have waited
patiently to hear them all, we wish from
esch an answer to this question "If
Radioalism is to continue to rule the
North, II all the 'isms Of a corrupted and
putrld Puritsnism are to legislate for the
South IN Congress, and the South is to
be the bastard brother OF the North, sit
ting below the salt and eating the bread
OF degradation, do you o. do you not
wish for Southern Independence and do
you not wish that, if Butler, Sumner,
Wilson, Chandler, Boutwell,, Bingham
and the residue of Beelzebub's imPs, with
Joe Brown and Orr and others of their
kidney from the South are to rule
the Rspublie-do you not wish
that, to keep out of the South
the idolatrous denominations, political
and socisI Of the Northern States,
there l1sre a line between US and them,
which the deviiIsh emissRries Of mischief
and ~malevolenee could not cross? Or,
are you so much in love with shame and
dishOnor, as to wish, out Of your intense
love for 3 Union that you only lately de-
tested, and a flag that only 8 LITTLE while
ago you said was the symbol OF oppres-
sion, that the South should be forever
tied, limb TO limb and bosom to bosom,
10 the North, ss the living and the dead
were tied together by Mezentius?
o, speak with bated breath, and crook
the pregnant hinges of the knee before
your oonqueEoTs, who never conquered
you in verify, until now! Swear oaths
that you do not mean TO keep, and sd-
wise 8 whole people to commit rank and
dAmnsble perjury! 1t will be profitable.
There is no God or II there is, He has
forgotten how to punish crime. Down
on your knees, and with the edge of the
sclmetar on your neck, sweSr an oath, to
keep or break which is equally shameful
and ~dlshOn0Eing to n who remembers
that his ancestors were freemen.
An good Is Heaven, and al i1is Hell -
IT G vintage OF q hundred years
Would never SAKE tne memory OF shame,
Nor qusach the thirst OF folly"
after such an oath.
It seems TO be the ambition OF many
political leaders to be damned, by sdvis-
ing people oppressed by calamity to take
the ways that lead directly downward to
the hell Of dishonor. We do not wonder
that they point the people to the present
profit that they are to reap as the fruit
OF crime.
Colonel J. N. HarTell, who seems to
have said E good many things without
much consideration, is reported to have
told the people that 'the proposition to
take the oath is q living policy, which
will work ultimately to the meeting OF
any emergency" He said "Taking
the oath will be 40 such sequiescsnce IS
will cement US to this government. The
Democratic party will enable US to
throw them of just IS well. Montgom-
cry Blair told the speaker that by taking
the oath In Maryland the entire Union
vote OF the State had been transferred
solid to ths Democracy, who now hold
every office in the State. Let US not
longer stand on dead issues. The man
who is ever building his coffin must en-
dure death many times before he tastes
it."
No sophistry car disguise the fact that
for one to swear that he will never at
tempt to deprive any negro of the right
70 vote, with the settled intention to
change the Constitution of the State as
soon as possible, SO that this oath shall
be no longer required, and TO elect legis-
lators who will deprive the negro Of the
right Of suffrage, Is to swear with the
purpose Of perjury determined IN. No
such oath was taken, because no such
was required, in Maryland. It is not
standing on dead issues, TO advise the
people not to do a shameful act, which
will be hardly done ere it will be repent
cd Of In ssekcloth and ashes. The man
who advises the people to such g course
will indeed " build his cofhn," and find
death a relief from the ignominy that
will overwbeim all suoh counsellors.
az will be q swift witness against false
gvesrers, saith the Lord OF Hosts."
"Tbey have spoken words, swearing
falsely Ia making q covenant: thus j1dg-
ment spriDgeth up rs hemloeK In he uE-
row OF the neld."
IL - men hAD n ~ 0SH.
aTbe fra and worst Of sii fcsuds ts 70 cheat
Zones self. AL sin is easy afte7 tnat."
II the people of Arkansas permit them
selves to bs led into the great sin and
shame to which they are tempted, they
will cheat themselves, and after wards
hnd that no permanent profit or advan-
tsge can be reaped by 8 people from an
act for which its own conscience will In
vain labor to hnd q sufficient excuse.
That which is right and just and true IL
alone profitable in the end to men or MS
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