Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-27

EUROPEAN Geographic diSpatche,
tell Of the consolidation of SpaiI
and Portugal; France absorbs Italy.
Prussia, the German States and free
cities; Russia sweeps over AsiatiC
Turkey, invades Persia and Afghanis.
tan, trenches on the confines Of China
and threatens the supremacy of Eng.
land in the east. Even churches
would centralize their systems, as
Napoleon has just succeeded in gath.
ering about his throne the whole con-
sentative pOwero of France. In Amer.
lea the same political influences are
exerted with a degree of resistless
force recognized nowhere else in the
world. Every conceivable pretext is
employed by central authority to
aggrandize the central government.
Wilson, of Massachusetts,, takes adj
vantage Of popular disgust excited by
insuferable brutality, and proposes 10
regulate and punish prize fighters in
Federal Courts. That greater power
may be welded by Congress,
Morton and smaller men burden
railway trains with misrepresenta-
tons Of Southern purpose and char
acter. The North is enraged, and as
sents to measures which annihilate
States and lift up the central author
ity at Washington. The map of the
Union is a blackboard, and the negro
a sponge with which Congress oblit-
crates State boundary lines. San Do
mingo will only whet the appetite Of
the cOrmorant Union. Cuba, and
Mexico, and Canada, seething, smok-
ing dishes after breakfasting on Alas
kan icebergs, will constitute success
/ " dainty savOry dishes to tickle
the palate Of the ravenOus monster
republic" Consolidation of States
and Capitalization Of power are most
significant, physical and political facts
OF the day. Europe must be either
Republican or COssack," French
or Russian. The war that
begins between Turkey and Egypt
likes the sovereignty Of Europe and
mastery Of all Asia at st. Petersburg,
at Berlin, at Paris, or in London.
Oneness is the idea Of kings, Of peo-
pies, OF churches, of telegraphs and
railways. However rapidly the ter
rItorial area Of the Union is extended.
distances are more rapidly lessened.
Practically, Memphis is equi-distant
rom jackson, Holly Springs, Nash
vile, New York, Boston and Liver
pool. Within the current decade we
VIII read the Herald and World of
morning while at our breakfast
tables, and men, goods and neUsna-
Ders may be transferred tbronpb
pneumatic tubes from one to another ,
1nce distant city. {
1t thus seems that the tendencies 10 {
Capitalization are results of physical
and necessities. Races, states. !
stands and continents, that were re-
note from one another, are cOmpacted 9
With a rapidity and resistless force J
ever known before. Seas and rivers =
nd mountains constitute no OBJ S
lructions which war, wealth, am il
ition, genius and art do not overIeap. {
md when resistant forces are re- ! !
ressed and all barriers Of time and a
pace annihilated, viii the world at Il
ST bow before a single Master-the y
on OF the living God? Is that the 4
Iillennial empire Of final peace? and n
ID Providence decree that we must v
ltier this most abject humiliation be- b'
re the dawn Of that blessed dav? =
ven so, it seems, and Grant, stupidity n
ltfing a cigar, is the precursor of
.anges defined by the Master of the fr
Tx
such are extravagant visions that IA
at among the weird fancIes Of those tn
40 contemplate the course of physi- vi
|, political and moral events IN
roughout the world. IIlusory thew bo
AZ be, even as they are extravagant. fer
I prophets have foretold progressive AS
anges now hourly witnessed in all
2 incidents Of every day life, and a u sHit'
ghter and more blessed union Of Pr
the nations may be at hand than of
IS yer dreamed Of by the political WI
apsodists of the North.
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