Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-23
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From the Baltimore Gazette, leth.l
WASHINGTON, March Is, 1859.
"The way Of the transgressor is hard, j"
saws the proverb. Politics make strange
! bed-felows," )" as Poor Richard says. Ger
! tes we live in mutsble and singDlaTly In
structive times. II the people are rap
! idIy losing their liberties, many OF the
popinjays who have essayed to trample
| them under foot are beginning to feel,
and will yetfeel more acutely, the heavy
hand of retributive justice. The tnexo.
rable logic of events has at last severed
| the host of miscreants who have lorded
it over the people for the past eight
years. They are forever rent asunder by
! the paramount sway of the almighty
dollar. Whoever has momentarily put
faith in the maxim that there could be
such thing as "honer among thieves"
especially those Of the political sort, and
| (innocently enOugh) relied upon the
vague intimatiOns of one or the other OF
| the rotten factions OF the Radical organ
| izstion, have only the modification to
| nd themselves cheek-by joTI in the
same bed with wretches whose touch is
| contamination.
The political somersaults and meta
morphoses of the hour far outstrip any,
thing ever witnessed in the arena Of a
/ circus. 1 have read, without astonish-
ment, of the Five Arabian Brothers,"
who uRder glsring gaslight would incon-
| tinentIy swallow each other, until the
remRining Imam and brothern thus
| loaded, after performing any number OF
antics and capers and feats of agility,
would jump down his own throat and
vanish into air. But must confess that
the performances recently of the Dis
| trict newspapers, to say nothing OF grave
! Senators snd reverend members, are
| enough to mske men open their eyes
with surprise There is actually de-
| Iectsble quarrel going on here now, and
under fuil headway, as to which is the
simon-pure snd sincere friend of Grants
Administration-the Chronicle or the In
| teEligenceT. This is only the 18th OF
| March, and Grant was insuguFated on
| the 4th. Smart travelling in fourteen
days But FOrney, (the whilom Secre-
| tsry and bRbitual adulstor of the Sem
ste), is not to be outdone in jumping. In
that feat he can go little beyond kan
garOe. Its rivals zealous advocacy of
| the repeal of the Tenure-of- Office act has
| awakened lts Jealousy and excited Its
nerves to degree that it has found it
| impossible to refrain from pitching into
/ the quondam friends OF its proprietors In
the Senate, which not week ago 1t de-
cIsred immaculate! 1 declare that the
| following extract is q specimen OF col
umns OF sly Sbrse and daring threats
| now used by paper against c body OF
men (contemptible enough surely) IN
! whose praise it has lavished until few
days passeG I41essureless fulsOme pane
| gyrics.
1t would seem as If 8 republican peo-
/ pie wnuld be less lCilljng to trust the Sen
ate with excessive powers than either
I the President or House Of Represent
stives. It is, in measure OligdTchicdE
| in its structure and was instituted as
| link between the British system Of gOv.
erHment and pure republic. It's drcbe-
| tgpe is The British House Of Lords. Its
members are not elected by the people,
| but by the State Legislatures, aud these
! last do net 0tLOdys record the choice OF
| the peOple they are supposed TO represent.
! Bat even if they did, the Senate would
1 not bs s representative body, at least not
representative o. the people, because the
| smallest S sate has the same nHmser Of
| Senators as the largest. The great states
OF New York, Pennsylvania Ohio, In.
diana and ILLINOIS have about one-third
the population q the yhoie 69gntET, yet
/
Number Of iSSnotOrs. It may easily hap
psn ia any particular vots that result
| which the most vital interests Of the ma
ton hang may be determined by Sens
/ tors representing less than fourth OF
the people CT tho country, although con-
shutting g numerical asjority N the
| Senate, and it may chance that, for long
periods OF time, party majority, repre-
| senting minority OF the people, may
be preserved in the same way. All that
| is necessary TO bring about this result is
q sufficient prep0nderance OF Senators
| fron the small States On ti4e side Of the
minority party. Let the Senate, Under
such circumstances, bold tbs power con-
ferred by the Tenure of-ofiice act, and
that minority may completely control
! the executive branch Of the Govern
naent.0
| Iisnees with any of the miserable fac
tions Of RsdiCalism see one OF your
CITY eotemporaries seems also to be am
bilious OF giving the Administration a
very " fair Irialn Speaking OF the snb-
stitution OF Gen. o. O. Howard for Sher-
idsn as satrap of louisiana, it is highly
complimentary to both, as follows;
Sheridan, being still within reeOh Of
| the savsgss lie was lately fighting, he is
vet the night man in the right place. In
! the meantime the philanthropic Howard
may prove an emoliient to whatever re-
| mains Of the hsrried wounds which
! Sheridan inflicted formerly upon the peo-
pls Of Louisiana. The Tribune, how
| ever, thinks Gen. Howard's appoint
ment to that command had elements OF
! mess in tine large number OF blacks
| there, the troubles that have arisen from
| their conflicts with the whites, and the
| undoub.ei influence Of the late head OF
| the Freedmen's Bureau over them"
The eulogium upon Sheridan may pSss
| muster, but that awarded to Howard
must neads be objected to. The General
is well known hsre, through his speeu-
/ lations and church quarrels, but never
hesrd mis- name mentioned in oOnneo-
ton with philsnthropio" enterprises.
There is evidently some mistake. Prob
sbiv the writer had in his mind the Eng
| lsR ghil9nthrepist of the same name.
The sOubriGuet Is wholly misspplied in
this case. Toe universal opinion OF
L0uisianians here is that in the change
they have "swapped the devil for a
! WITCH" That the Administration mean
mischief to the extreme Southwest
| Texas and Louisianal is manifest frsm
| The orders issued under the act for the
ia the military service hss been ordered
lin equal numbers) to those States. This
will be seen by consulting the general
orders.
The newspapers, here and there and
everywhere, are peFplexed by most as
tonishing coincidence, or rather miracle,
which has occurred right here upon the
spot, in the Capital OF this great nation.
IL seems that Mr. Washbgrne's last stti-
cial act was to countersign the commits
sion of Mr.. Fish as Secretary Of State,
and the first official act Of Mr.. Fish as
Secretary Of State was to countersign
the commission of Mr.. Washburne as
Minister to France. What does this
pOrtend? A comet, or another deluge
From the Baltimore Gazette OF Saturday.
WAsHINsToN, March 10, 1862
Boston has been called sometimes in
dersion) the Athens of America. What
ever may be her title TO b5 so dubbed, II
is beyond question that Massachusetts,
in arrogance and predominanee, ut this
moment, may well be compared to Atti-
ca when at the acme Of power in the
Grecisn Republic. We have two Csbi-
net ministers from that renowned Com