Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-01

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| WoRKISGMEs: Let us reason together
on au imperial theme.
Idiots never advance, nor Intelligent
people 20 backward. KS
A man with mo name DE. John
Smith 10 ct of spleen with q "rspub-
lican fern Of government" sighs for an
Empire. Don't you wish he may get It ?
1t can be found across the Alps, ia o
place called Russia. A few weeks serf-
dom and snow will remove bis bile.
| To pull down Monarchy and put up
a Commonwealth, as Cromwell did, is no
easy task; but to transform Republic
into an Empire requires more than the
wand of a Harlequin. To sque!ch even
radical administration is no joke.
What well-organized armies failed to do,
set of scribbling looms cant accom-
plish.
What we want is not man-worship, but
principles. ga "a "a
True, the Southern States are not now
/" free and Independent" but they may
be 10 few years. In Republic there's
hope; in an Empire there's none.
The will of the people" may be dead
here and there; still it lives in the Union.
It's very ticklish thing to trfie with,
Parties are short-lived powers; many
have been born and many died within
the past century. ,.o.{
Radicalism, begat by Fanaticism and
Higherlawism, has nearly run its course.
Democracy will bury it four years hence.
Conservatism is sickly weed; It cant
live. People won't trust deserters. They
have had Gesler under the name of John
son; they don't want the King of the
Cannibal Islands under the name of
Butler.
This Republic is perpetual" thing
of beauty and a joy forever. An Empire
-bosh
To liksn the people Of this age and
cline to the sea, is to deny the existence
of souls. Since the time of Polybius we
have had Christianity, the Crusades,
Magma Charta, the Printing Press, the
Reformation, and the Declaration of
Independence.
Will the Imperiaist advocate crab
like progress, and 20 back to the spin
ning-wheel, the battering-ram, and fight
ing with clubs 2
The "innovation Of strangers ruined
Athena" says imperial John Smith. Has
the innovation of strangers ruined
the United States Let Us see. The
population of the Union in 1870 was
1921, $50, which, if left to its natural
of births over deaths
q 1888 per aunum would have made our
present population only 100000. The
innovation Of strangers and their
natural increase have swelled it to
100000. Does imperial John Smith
object to the 2l,00O,0002 If SO, they
will "curl up and quit
"In the South, before the wal" cries
imperial John Smith, :" those at the head
of affairs were descendants of Revolu-
tionary parents. Not so in the North"
Let us see about that. The Revolutionary
"parents lived in New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, New York, New Jersey, Penusyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia. Records ofthe Pension Bureau
don't show that many of their /" descend
ant" migrated from those States. In
perial John Smith isn't "posted." i
1--WE receive from nature souls friendly
to TRUTH" says imperial John, We are
all rogues by nature" says Shakespeare
John and the Bard don't agree John,
in addition to constructing an Empire,
will have splendid task in overthrowing
Christianity ard setting up Pagsnism.
The Fool Killer has come. In the
midst of his raptures and rhapsodies he
may play the great Roman" and fall
upon his own sword. No place to ap-
propriafe for so imperial an act as the
base of Jackson's pillar in Court Square.
Let us have peace PLANER.