Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-09
IMPERIALISM.


pC;ut.n l. has been s~guirming like d
VEIN 10 hot embers, or a tsrrapin with
4 i've coal on its back, for a year or W
pGst. AZ last it has Dlated-thrown of
the mask and openly svowed o resort to
"Iupariaiism,n as the only means of
Saving the ~iii-gOtten wealth which it
f!citad from the sweat and toll OF the
peovle, under the false pretenos OF saving
the Union ard preserving the life OF the
nation. The Union, as every sensible
man knows, could hsve been saved and
the Government carried on with sb3ut
one-thIrd or one-fourth Of the expense
which has been incurred. And nOw
that We have reached a point beyond
which the means OF the country cannot
b. appropriated without tbs most terrible
distress and Characterization OF the toll
ing millions, the 5ondhOlders who coined
money out OF the blood snd muscles If
the poor soldiers have discovered that
psyment is by no mean certain if iefJ
TO the voters these same soldiers who
have been cheated, and whose wives and
children are to go half clad and half
fed if Shyiock is to bAve his pound
Of flesh" are to have no voice
in the matter, but are to toll on at
the bidding Of "His Imperial Majesty"
Yes, money is TO rule the State, and
those who have only what they toll for
are TO be content to do and bear what
their masters think best. Now comes
the dream of the supposed crazy poet.
Hear him:
song OF THE AMERICAN LABORER.
Work wolk! work
With picE. aRd shovel, and AK,
To pay New England cOAtracIOrs-
Your own and he bondhoiders' lax,
aU,-r-f ,-ort ,r,-Nr
There are mi'l;o5s OF negIoes to .eed,
And The cost is hitehed on with ~bOndhOlders
And the sum OF New Englsnd's greed.
Tug toll! sweat!
still harder each day than bsfCre;
l. VII g TO keep IOgues and bOndhOlders up,
And tcc VOL away from your door.
Work work ! work!
From dawn to the CuSk of day
For your hopes are crushed with a weight Of
That the toll Of your life won't pay.
Yoa earc your son to the war!
The rich nan loaned lis gold
And the rich mau's son is Happy to-day,
And yours is under he mould.
You did not tbink,p poor man!
Yoa can scarce believe what you're told.
That the sum which the rich m an Ioansd TO
Was the plice for which you were sold.
1JuT son wa as gO1Q rs MS,
Ard as dear, pernap7, 20 yuG,
Be. yours died lor his; and, your daughters
For his must wash and sew.
Nay. do not pause 10 think,
Or SIGH SOr your children or wife,
fcr your moments arc mortgaged to hopeless
Trial.
For The rest of your weary life.
How many Of the poor, hard-hsnded,
toi,ing lsbOrers needed this warning,
when, some short time ago, it first APP
pesrsd ia print? How macy of them
laughed at il as the mere ebulition Of 8
cTszy man? Bot I'll they heed it now?
No sir. II wss we'll said By Gen. Breek-
inridge during our late struggle, that the
people of the North " had thrown away
heir liberties fastsT than their mas
tsrs could pick them up" Go back
ten years, and who then would
have believed, or could hRve
been made to believe thst the people of
the United States would have given up
their Constitution, would have foregone
all it's guarantees Of liberty and safety,
and would have trusted their wives, their
honor, their liberty and even the very
hats that sheltered their wives and little
Ones from the storm, il he hands OF q
set Of reckless and un~ecTupulCus men,
merely because they were called "a
Congress- and who, under the pretext
Of leaving the UniOD,D were setuslly
engaged in mcrtgsging the very bones
sni muscles Of every laborer in the
country to 3 let OF sharks who were pray
log upon the cCuGtTy and dividing the
spoils with these who gave them the OPP
portUuity 10 steal? Who would then
have believed hat a usurping Congress,
acting c0niessedly outside of the CODsti.
t-ss-. --.Fa 9Th. H., 4h, E-1o.as-,
aud brOw-teat and over-awe the
Judicial arms Of the government,
usurp and concentrate in their own
bsnds all the powers Of the Government;
shoot, hang, imprison and Danish men
and women at pleasure, and then go
back TO the PEOPLE AID get al ind0rse-
ment Of all they had done, and 3 renew
81 Of license to do the same again. Who
then would have believed that that same
usuTping Congress would, over the head
Of Whst were the coordinate branches
Of the Government, make and uomake
States, mske and unmake Govern
oIs, judges, sheriff., clerks and
justices Of the psacP, for bod
les OF mencailed States; substitute drum
head courts martial for trial by jury,
and JACK Boots, a1d epauletts, for grave
and learned judges; would outrage the
10 Oi 81 GCh10 VI ADkGAak bBEAChI w hCuh1iik
amnngthem hoTdes ofdrunken black saw
ages to burn houses, insult the 1ceD,
ravish women, drive white men
from the ballOt-bCX and substitute these
same back, drunken lsZZ aroRi in their
places; ill the offices with the same
ignorant, drunken hordes, with salaries
from $500 to $500 per snnum, and tax
the poor, hard working white man to
the verge Of starvation to pay these
salaries. Yet all this, and more too, has
beer done in our midst, and the people
submit to It. How can they do other
wise? They can't help It. North,
South, East, West-they will submit.
The poor whites Of the South are broken
down with war and bloodshed. This
reuzisd whites OF the North and North
west know they sre hurt, but they do not
know how or by whom it IL done, nor do
they know the rsmedy. Ia their del1-
sion they attribute ali these evils and
misfortanes to the efor Of the South to
escape from the Wy evils now
upon u. ShOddyism Ev ills itself of the
weakness and helplessness Of one, and the
frenzy Of the other, TO feed and grow
rich upon the spoils Of both-tO make the
rich richer and the poor poorer.
"Lst Us have pesce,n 1.-THE Empire
is peace; and, / am fr the Empire"
D3n't care VINO he is, give US an EN-
psror. Ole master Is better than three
hundred, especially If he IL a good one,
kind and generous; il be will only take
the skin and n part of the meat,
instead OF all as now, skin, meat, bone
and msrrow. Nor need you persuade
yourself Mr.. Editor, that l am alone In
this preference. You may hear the re-
msrk a dozen times any day on the street
from all classes. al wish we had such a
government as England. II Is as true 10
politics as in religion" the people need
= shepherd, and they are best of who
have o good he.
Oh. Freed IN. once thy flame hath fed,
IL never lighs again.
MORE A Non.
BY royal decree slavery hes been |