Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-30


We have long wondered that the
shrewd-sighted business men of the
northern States did not open their
eyes and see the ruinous effects being
produced on their aNVn interests, as
well as on the whole southern eoun-
try, by the perpetuation of rule in
the hands of carpet-bag and irrespon-
sible Migrants, by whom, like swarm
of lOcusts, the south has been sub
jected and eaten out. 1t is impossi-
BILE that any business or people or sec
ton should thrive under such condi-
tons. And it is certain that what
ever injuries the country reacts upon
and likewise Injuries the town, and
that whatever brushes out the pros
perity Of one State or section of the
Union must retard greatly the progress
Of the whole. Bad government and
heavy taxation, by a body Of men
who pay no taxes, and who have no
interest except presently and prompt
ly to fill their own pockets at any ex-
pense TO the welLbeing Of their fell
low-citizens, is irresponsible despo-
tism operating the worst possible ty-
ranny. To the oppression of a sim
gle despot there will always be a
limit in the fear of individual weak
ness that the oppressed will rise in
their right and might to overthrow
him. But a despotism Of ignorant,
vicious, impecunious and savage
men, strong in numbers and
backed by foreign bayonets, is as
much without fear as it is with
out a moral sense; and those things,
eowardly, neal and cruel, viii be
done by it which no individual mon
arch would dare essay, and no gov
eminent dependent on the approba-
ton Of the people, and administered
by men responsible to the people, will
venture to ~perpetrate. Such has been
the condition Of the Southern States,
which is now beginning to be seen,
with the necessary consequence that
does not flow in. But for
their immense resources, such deple-
ton could never have been borne.
The whole wal debt laid on their |
shoulders alone would not have more
completely weighed them down,
than the constant robbery by
carpet-bag officials, coupled with igno-
rant, reckless and INSCRIPTIONS man
agement. We have believed that
when, by deprivation or reduction Of
proceeds from the great southern
market, their pockets were touched,
and when the western farmers found
Us unable TO keep pace in u demand
products with their growing pro-
duction, and when the merchants Of
east should find US diminishing in
proportion 10 population in capacity
to buy their wares and goods, they
begin both TO think Of the
reasons and to see the palpable
caoses, which our progress under
dlaiculties and the abundance
Of our natural resources have
so much obscured. We have not a
capacity of these States fori
the purchase of articles for which we
haye been aeeastomed TO depend on
York would have increased
twenty-five per cent. since the war.
but for over taxation and ihtimida-
ton Of capital, the result of misruIe.
LIS ominons of good that the atten-
tion of the northern and western
to this matter has at last been
arrested. And, we trust il may have
a happy effect en- our peeuniary future
as well as on our political future, on
to so large an extent material
wealth depends. Appreciating the
situation, the New York DaSlvp Bull
lsta, q commercial journal, which !