Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-17
RapubIicanism vs.. Imperialism.

Editors appeal: The lurid torch Of
Red Republicanism was first Hgnteq
by the fiery French, that impulsiye
and impetuous but patriotic people,
and it burned and blasted with its be
som of desolation until it went out in
the blood of its own YQtaries. Its
origin was not unmiXed with religion
as It ruled out all revelation and called
alone upon reason, but passion alone
answered. "Pdtrie, Li6erts, KgliHe,"
were the pretty, precious and allurlng
wstch-Words In9t paugurated THIS
%reign OF terror" The Metre Dame,
devoted to the worship of God, was
demolished, that treason" might Tls9
upon its ruins; the Bastile was burned
down, that 9lbeEty," like a PhGniX,
might spring from its ashesj the Tull-
cries was battered by cannon baiis,
that eyegy man might be king; the
footprints of peace we're ~obllterated
with blood, and the archives Of Gov
ernraant destroyed that 40 a4tece-
dents mig6t clog this "Feign OF Fea;
SON." and all constitution, polity ana
law were wiped out, that passions
wild wing might fully unturl ana
sweep alone her wide eG!pyreah; II
was the carnival of passion, to Tnlch
reason was a stranger.
Our present Black Republicanism,
another flame of fanaticism, sprung
from England's trump Parliament F"
and seli-righteous round heads"
who, the very antipodes of the French,
acknowledged no reason, and were in
capable of passionate pure passion
of patriOtism-but claimed divine rev.
citation for everything, and all divine
revelation was for them exclusively.
After performing their pious baptism
of blood for AlbiOn's fair isle, and after
constitutional lay and liberty were
restored and fully instsUrated, their
fell spirit slipped from her chaIky
cliffs and from the MayfoWer took
root on Plymouth Rock, and has since
been preached from Plymouth church
to another congregation of nasal
psalm-singing Ground heads" who
have re-enacted their diabGlic and gi-
gantic Armageddon of Dunbar, Nase-
by, MarstonmoOT, on a scale of tenfold
magnitude, at Nicksburg, Chicka-
manga and Richmond, besides a thou
sand other bloody human hecatombs.
Our own Webster of the North, and
Calhoun of the South, predicted and
portrayed the tragedy OF the late car
niYal of blood if this party should get
possession of the government. 1t is
the essential spirit of the Pur1tans,
and if Democracy can't control 1t I'm
perialism must.
Now we want a great Conservative
party to conserve the public peace and
preserve our rights against the future
and further ruin of this rOund-headed
and round-handed Republicanism, call
it conservative in opposition to de-
structive, liberal in cOntradistinctiOn
to radical, or anything but republican
ism, for this is a misnOmer; or else, if
we can't have that, then Imperialism
to command and enforce our protec-
ton. All true men should and will
rally to this standard. The devout
EpiscopaIian may drop his church
name and adopt that of Presbyterian,
or the more generic one of Christian,
but not that of Mormon or Latter Day
Saints; nor renOunce his system of
ethics. So this great Conservative
party Of patriots may adopt any APP
propriate appeilation without sacrific-
ing anyfundamental principle of State
polity, essential to our complex gov
eminent. With federal supremacy.
within its expressed sphere, and State
sovereignty all outside of that, as the
organic and structural principle, all
succeeding questions are merely func-
tional, such as African suffrage or
MOngolian or Caucasian suffrage, and
will be settled adj Hbitttn. This great
party is already forming in Virginia
and Tennessee, to be followed soon by
Mississippi and Texas, and ultimately
by the entire country, for it is our only
salvation against the ruin of Red and
Black Republicanism, unless an I'M
perial scepter shall stay its mad march
and career of carnage. If this great
conservative band should fail to meet
these high behests, we should at once
down with it! And if the sunshine
should prove destructive to human
life, we should cry "down with it,"
Z" put it out!" But in the very nature
of things it is impossible that the sun
can be otherwise than salutary and
essential to life, and equally impossi-
BILE to extinguish it. Just so with the
spirit Of this grand old band of patri-
OTIS formerly known as Democrats and
Wings. II must be so, for nature does
not, cannot retrograde, no more than
her laws can step aside for the inter-
vention of a miracle. The politician
who in the same breath renounces this
party, denounces Imperialism and dis
claims Republicanism stands-where?
An Indian got lost, and after wander
ing long and vain for his wigwam,
exclaimed, What! Indian lost? Yes,
lost! No, me not lost; wigwam lost;
me here!" Where? S. S. r.
REMBERToN, August 10, 1869.
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