Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-22

OCrHt1c party Is L06 64pOuSnt5 nave
long since declared implacable, unre-
lenting War against-n0t the COnstltu.
ton, which is the very cornerstone OF
Democratic faith-but the Republican
party and their usurpations, which
have well-nigh destroyed TIE Constr
tuition and the country together.
A COntrast-Horaoe Greeley and a. H.
stephens.
Horace Greeley and Alexander ID.
Stephens are about the same age.
Their political histories have been CO.
t-emporaneous. Greeley commenced
the Tribnns about the time Stephens
entered the Congress Of the United
States. As editor Of The Tribune,
Greeley was an abolition fanatic. His
paper teemed with calumnies upon
the South and the Southern people.
Its columns swarmed with eharae-
lures of our habits, our institutions,
our morality and u religion. 1t
displayed much Of the CarmagnaIe
spirit-the fell spirit which was the
curse OF the French revolution. For
getting that the Northern people were
responsible for slavery, Mr.. Greeley
made bitter wal upon that institution,
although the fathers Of the patrons Of
his paper were once slave-owners, and
had got rid Of their slaves, not by set
ting them free, but by selling them to
the South. For thirty years Mr..
Greeley Iampooned the South, and
( belied the Southern people. He
appealed to the passions and preju-
| dices Of fanaticism. He arrayed the
North against the South, recognized
no constitutional rights where slavery
was involved. In all the troubles In
Congress. ia Kansas, and in the States,
growing out Of the slavery question,
Greeley defended every outrage on
| Justice, humanity and decency. His
teachings resulted in war and blood
shed. and the ruin and de5olatiOn Of
the South.
While Mr.. Greeley was thus
appealing to the passions Of the
Deople and arousing the bitter
preiudices of the fanatics ne had
made. Alexander II. Stephens was
in Congress, and recognized by all
parties as a true patriot and a mOder-
ate. wise, conservative statesman.
He warred alike upon such fanatics
as Greeley and the extreme Seces-
sionfsts Of the South. He held up the
Constitution, pleaded for peace, tran
uuiIity, and ~elOquently portrayed the
evils OF strife and discOrd. DenOunc-
ing the abolitionists Of the North,
and opposing the extremists OF the
South, patriots of every section and OF
all parties regarded him as n Of the
foremost statesmen Of the land. But
his councils were not needed. War
came and the South vas subjugated.
Greeley is toasted and feasted in the
South. He is invited to speak
everywhere. He still edits the
T fanaticaI paper which calumni-
ated the South snd contributed so
much toward bringing OF the
, war. And strange to say that we have
turnkey editors in the South who be
slobber Mr.. Greeley with praise, and
! condemn Mr.. Stephens for becoming
O the editor Of a political paper, and
! daring to give his views upon the Po-
HticaI questions of the day. These
creatures seem to forget that
q otis the sus makes al,
: Degrsdes or hsuoWs courage in its fall
: and would have Greeley, the fanatic,
whose teachings produced the war, to
7 speak at every depot in the South,
+ and to give his views through the
. public press, while muzzling MI. Ste
/, phens, because, fOrsooth, there are
more people in the North than the
SOUTH Was there ever such abase-
ment manifested by a defeated pee
nile? One of the most alarming and
freouent perils which experience
teaches a free government to lear is
< the debasement or ~perversiOn Of the
t moral feeling Of the people. That
e feeling is the pillar which sustains the
4 social ediace; whenever it becomes
s unsound or is yielding to decay, the
0 whole building is not far from ruin.
If YOU would have men look with
| indifference on slavery, or that
! which leads to slavery, and to love
their golden chains, you have only to
degrade their moral feeling, and poi
S son their moral sentiment, and there
J, is nothing more to do. They are
8 slaves aleady; chained to the galley
oar of a sordid and ignOble spirit.
crushed beneath the ignominious
= bondagegof unworthy passions. The
q manly bearing and the dignity Of free
men are gone: ''their eye is on the
ground, and their step slow aud re
luctant, ike that OF him who
r obeys a task master" Is, not
this peril now impending ovel
, US /? Has snot the moral senti
ment Of vast bodies Of the people IN
dergone a great and melancholy
change? We blush for the Soutf
when we'see the craven and abjecf
servitude that makes an idol of {
a Northern fanatic, and would
: stiae the voice and paralyze the per
Of a Southern patriot and statesman
q guilty of no crime save thai Of oppos
+ ing war in 1850, and pleading for res
toration, the Constitution and tran.
n guilty in 1870. To think as h epleases
to speak as he pleases, to act as h'
pleases, within the limits Of the Con
stitution and the law, are the peculial
l attributes of a freeman. But wha.
becomes of these attributes, what be
comes of the fair fame Of the South
E wben we have men in our own DO
som who wOaId hiss into silence such
p~atriots as A. H. Stephens, and make
/ noliticaI diyinities Of such zealots and
crazed fanatics IS Horace Greeley
. But Mr.. stephens cannot be houndeC
down by the eTouching slave
t who are yelping at his heels
q while begging Nj. Greeley .
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