Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-17
wEpNEspkY KORNNs AUGUST. d. SO

WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST. u. 1870
\ CERTAIN degree of i~mpudence
has a charm in it. Boldness is often
admirable. Audacity frequently
amuses while it astonishes. But there
is a kind Of bold, unblushing impu,
dence, so far exceeding anything that
we before conceived, that it actually
takes ones breath away to witness it,
or this kind is Iago stabbing Roderi-
20 at night, and eXclaiming against
killing men in the dark. One of For
ney's 1.-TWO papers, both daily" in
weeping over the result of the North
Carolina election, says: ave know Of
no man in the Republican party who
ontertains any feeling toward the
Southern people but one of kindness
Kindness, fOrsooth! o, yes. In the
language of the ancient bard, you're
"Consummately clever; yea, Killing kind
Very fine talk; but actions speak
louder than words. Every act Of the
"Republicans' belle the above utter
auca. The very types with which the
above sentence was printed, have been
used, over and overagain, in calumni-
ating the Southern people, in repre-
seuting them to be little better than
Lrutes or fends, who are animated by
a iendish spirit of revenge and hatred
toward the poor prosecuted negroes
whom the war has made freemen. Is
it a "leeling of kindness" to the South
crn people to send agents and report
ers among them who are commits
stoned to stir up strife and bloOdshed,
and to make false and misleading re-
ports Of the same, for the purpose Of
influencing the North for the benefit
OF a political party? Is it indicative
Of akind feelingtO pursue a conquered
people with revenge, and punish them
by DISTINGUISHING most of their
influential men, and putting over
them plantation negroes, their late
slaves, as their governors and law
makers? Is it kindness to keep them
under military rule, and perSistently
refuse them a place in the Union, and
the right of self-gOvernmenU? Is it
kindness to seize and divide their es-
tates among carpet-baggers and ne
gioes, as William the Conqueror
divided the lands in England among
his followers? No. But all these
things have actually been done-ex-
cept The last-in the case Of the I'M
happy people of our American States
Of the South; and the last extreme act
Of c0nf-cation has been proposed.
This is the red gOnfalOn and proclaim
alton Of feudal triumph, conquest,
revenge and booty. 1t is advocated
by a very considerable number Of the
prominent politicians of the North y
and the author Of the above hypO-
critical sentence knows it. The Rad
ical5 have pursued the conquered
South in the very spirit Of the hyena
that in Eastern lands hangs upon the
skirts Of battle, and breaks the bones
Of the helpless, wounded and dying,
with its ravenOus teeth. They have
pursued the Southern people with a
demOniac fury-ana trocious brutality;
yet we are reminded Of their "kind-
ness" w have, with the bayonet fora
pbysic spoon, swallowed much bitter
medicine since April, 1865. We have
seen buttons cut from ragged uniforms,
newspapers suppressed, editors i'm
prisoned, laws %nullifed, regularly
elected officials elected, Governors
snObbed, obnoxious cOlOrs prohibited,
funeral ~obsequies forbidden, and even
balls and tournaments tabbOOed. V9
rictis. And naughty and proud as we
are, we have borne and lived through
these things; and we have seen grim
veterans who pinked Federal soldiers
all along the grand procession of battIes
from Bethel to Appomattox Court
house, submit to be deprived Of their
buttons as mildly as sheep endure the
shears Of the shepherd. And all this
is what is called a "feeling Of kind
ness" "Kindness!" Great God!
il by reasons of brutal legislation, the
United States, despite its greatness,
shall be hanged in chains by history
alongside Of England, Russia and
Turkey, we may be permitted to
thank God that the brave and I'M
happy Southern victims Of these out
RACES will not share the load
Of dishonor which will rest heav-
lily upon the nation. The Radicals
have imposed terms upon US, more
harsh than those which the Prussians
and the Turks inflicted upon the Poles
and the Greeks. Yet our merciless
conquerOr cherishes an excruciating
kindness "a kindness" which
has no parallel save that which the
wolf feels for the lamb. When the
King OF DahOmey dies, six hundred
Of his favorite wives are slain, that
their lord and master may have in
Heaven a harem worthy Of a great
African monarch. If the sacrifice of
women and children had been neces-
sary to perpetuate Radical power and
10 appease their malignity, the Stars
and Stripes would have grandly and
proudly ioated over a pyramid
OF bones and skulls as lofty
as those which perpetuated the
fame and the infamy of Tamerlane.
The feeling Of kindness about
which the humane and loving Radi-
Gals boast is modelled after the famous
dispatch which the Russian Reld-mar-
shal sent from Warsaw. He sat in the
midst Of a sacked city, reeking with
the blood Of thousands Of slaughtered
heroes, the flames of burning houses
Illuminated the streets with their
baleful glare, the shrieks Of violated
women rang out in awful chorus and