Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-13
why the Great Change should
be- REade.
Rank Treason 10 the Great Re
public
From the Imper'aiist Of the 10TH

fection can be assigned, is that Of God
sDd With becoming reverence we may
safely make the assertion that all human
schemes ere aud wiu be nearer and
nearer approaches TO earthly perfection
according as they initiate more and
more nearly the divine model.
In that govern ment, what we are sc
custlmed 10 call presentation " is
only known in the form OF supplicati0n,
but human impsrfeciiOus make it neces-
sarv that in cur plans it should be dlher-
emily developed.
Ia their vsin attempts 70 ree0ncile
their vagde conceptions u centTsi ON
uipoteuce and individual fres VIII, non
bsva from time TO time swsyed toward 2
Damccrscy on the one hand or despot-
ism on the other, ard the political Wis
dom, so 10 call il, Of modern time, has
been mainly expended in more or less
disastrous efforts 10 fff5ct organic COM
promises between two systems that in
their real essence are one and indivlsiole.
We bsve had cur sge Of individual up
rightness sud personal pstri0tism, bat
even then we might have resd leeson
in the fact thst our f rst revolution was
2 dismal failure until our fathers msde
an sutocrat OF Geo gs Washington, for
and during that emergency. Some feW
men did receive q giImmeT Of light when
Ali the people rallied 81 enthusiastically
around the ssIf-declaFsd dictatorship Of
Audfsw Jackson; tut it Wss len for the
revolution through which We have just
passed, to open the eyes Of huDoreus OF
thousands who never saw before Inc
war was a failure until we msde Abra
ham Lincoln almost al absolute suto-
crat, with more power than any other
sovereign on earth. Wei made him such,
and ali the people ssid Amen! IL Is
necessary. The Republic is well enough
in peace, but it is not the thing TO ride
out storm II"
An imperialism is possible which shall
etill ieave the people free IS veil IS Sc
cure, and make a nation happy and con-
tented as well az respectable, snd inso-
much as, st the present time, our people
are neither happy and c0ntented At
home, nor dsceuuy respectable before
the world is behoovss them to come
boldly, yet tTiumpbEDtly, 10 the discus
sion Cf tbe great problem. We must
eubstitute honesty for corruption econ
omy for eXlrBvagEnce strength Tor
weakness; security instszd Of this con
stsut fearful 10, king for OF coming dis
sister and the money which the nation
pays the rational government must be
msCs 10 receive; and not one Cf these
thlugs, as sii n1Cn well know and in
their hearts believe, can 10 done under
Cur present Cgct6 and Ineffective form OF
gOVtrnmeBL.
To THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Those who have carefully and intelli-
gently studied the history Cf the United
States, from the establishment Of the
cOnstig .lonsl government to the present
time, have seen how often society hss
been sgitsted by the thr0es Of a coming
c0nvusiOa. Long beloTs the beginning
OF The late rebellion, the thinking minor
i:y % the people, both North and South,
felt il approaching ard knew it to be ia-
evitsble. Such social End political par
Oxysms, though ben eficisI II the end,
are always destructive Of those conditions
OF society which brought them oD, but
they leave behind them that whi3a can
never be wholly GestrOyed-ths seeds of
future pTOgress and improvement-which
must one day gslmln8te anG rip8n into
those institutions which are thelr ieSiti-
mate frui;. These developments, from
lower and higher order OF civil alton,
cannot be accomplished without severe
shocks to the social system, True sci
ence can alone mitigate the evil and
facilitate the necessary p2TturiuoD, for
~ such changes ere, in measure, new
births which society undeTgces from
time to time. Toe birth thross OF the
Empire are already agita.ing the nation,
and no soothing drsugnB Ceu give Us
pesce or rest until it has achieved the
existence for which it is struggling. To
those who feel these premOnitiOns Of ap-
ursachiBg change and recognize their
meaning our purpose Is easily told. be-
lieVing thst Democracy, after fair trial,
made under circumstances most favOra-
bic to its success, has proved q cucsa
rather than blessing, and also
believing that an intelligent Imperial
ism Is the only form Of government
adopted 10 the present and future re-
Guitems nts Of the country our purpose,
is to prepare the minaFCf the American
psopie 10 Eccept thsth2Dge, with = Te
alizing ssuee OF its importance and 8 jast
spureeistion Of the benefits 1t will con-
fer, That ours may Ee moral revOlu-
uon, free frCm strife sud D'uoa shed, II
must develop grsdnsliy. We do net
claim 70 be its prophet OF apostle OuF
words 6N bur the expression OF opinions
held by 3 majority Of those who repre-,
sent the wealth and intelligence OF the
American people, but which none have
yet had the courage openly to avow.
TO the masses We have but few words
to say. WedO not expect them to symps-
thizs with, or even to fully coml rehend
the nature Of tie movement WhicI seeks
10 wrest from them the power they can
not WELD, as 4 parent would snatch 3
pOnderous and fatal weapon from the
hand Of a child To them the oily sd1-
Islions Of offics-seeking 0smzgogues viii
be more cJugeIigl reading than the
pages Of 8 jourUal which appeals neither
TO the popular taste BOr to the popular
Into the hands Of the people was COM
mitted the sacred trust bsqusalhed TO
them by the founders OF the American
Rspublic This trust they have betrayed J;
the pOW er it conferred they have shame
fully abused to their own disgrace and
ruin. Not wilfully, perhaps, but because
they were and are morally Incapable Of
self-goveTnmpn3. The franchise snd the
b,llot, which 81 Uld have been the safe
guards Of society, hsve been fatsi talis-
maus iG the hands Of The pGpulSce, an0
viii them they have called np a Frank
eDstein of fraud, corruption and mi-gOv-
eminent that viii not 90 down at their
bidding. Now let them stand sside,
until this fl nd is exercised by the potent
wand Of Imperial loTer.
ycX PoPULI, vOK DEL.
Whether Il v as origipslly INTENDED for
tru.h OF Jet, it Is c.rtsin that the
celebrated apOthegm VoE pOputi 0oI
Dei was the bitfeTest sstire ever uttered,
to say uo.hing Of its shocking profanity.
History records no instance in r hich the
Almighty delivered his oraeies BY the
multitude CT bis truths by the voice Of
the popglace. II the masses have ever
been employed IS agspts Ia his hands for
any purpose whatever, it has been ss the
Instruments OF his vengsful, rather than
OF his benefcent providence. In the
opinion Of sll thinking men, Voc pOpui
t,6g lia6ok would be E more appropriate
aud truthful spoTism than the other.
"THE EMPIRE IS PEACE"
The people OF the United States are
today living uodeT a government a.
weak and Inefficient as that OF France
during the last day 8 Of the Republic.
The hour is nesTly at hand when The
word, The Empire is Peace" pro
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