Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-07

to man and beast Vet fsm that sea-
son have taeir birth the fTait, the
fio the bate. The rose and the
pomegr4I.a
As with indtViduals 80 with nations,
the period Of their adversely Is the
terminating period Of their greatness.
The beautiful isles Of the ocean are
the children Of the earthquake, or the
graves Of the coral. From the thrOes
Of a revolution is often born a giant
nation. q people too prosperous be-
come ehsminate and licsntiOus, when
their land is oVerrun by a more hardy
race, who take the place Of the weak,
and a new march Of prosperity begins.
Through war the Norman was en-
grated upon the Saxon, and an Egg
lish people with-au their noble char
acteristics was the result.
Through its memorable struggles,
most Of them civil Discussions, and
many religious cOntrOversies-TOrk
against Lancaster, Tudor against
Stewart, Protestant against Papist,
Diss8nter against Churchmau, ROund-
head against Cavalier, and of jealous
Baron against royal oppression. we
have the charters Of right, an Eng
lish Parliament and an English Con-
stitution.
The crUsades caused millions TO per
ish abroad, and famine and pestilence
to reign at home; but the most bene-
fetal effects resulted from these appar-
ent catamities-amOng these, il des-
troyed the influence OF Germanic row
atty; erected by Pepin and Charlie
magne, upon the ruins Of Rome. Its
expenditure impoverished the mobiles
and their immense domains were di-
vided and sold, by which agriculture,
trade, commerce and individual indie
pendeuce and enterprise were fostered
and encouraged.
The French revolution Of 1892 was
a bloody and fearful chapter in his
tary, but VINO will now deny its saIu-
tary effects. And we doubt not the
French revolution of the present-the
disasters Of Sedan and MetZ-the hui
initiation of Paris, and the now occur
ring horrors of the Tuileries and the
Bots de BOlOgne, are but the agencies
Of some great good yet, in the years
to come, 70 hOW from these apparent
calamities.
Wars rage. armies meetin the shock
Of battle, and millions perish in the
smoke of conflict. Republics dissolve
and empires fall, but at each COmmO-
ton and each ebb Of the tide, man is
left higher and higher upon the
mighty shores of the sea of his eXis-
tence. It is BY the hghtning's fash,
playing ia Iambent flames around
the evening horizon or leaping luridIy
through the sky, the air is kept pure.
Its efficacy must not be denied be-
cause TO sOmeit is the swift messenger
Of death. IT'S by cOmmOtiOn-
When the winds
Take the ruliAn pillows by the top
Curling their monsJrous heads and
banging them
win dssisniug clamors in the slip
perry clouds"
that the waters of the sea are purified.
Storms must not abate because in
their wild wrath an unfortunate ship
must 60 down.
We venture TO assert that to the
careful reader of history il is apparent
that in most Instances the good which
resulted to mankind at large from
wars, more than COUnterbalauced the
evils to the generations that suffered
them.
Nor is this an argument for their
encouragement. We do not mean
that the same good results might not
have been accomplished by other
agencies, could they have been put in
motion. War sometimes becomes the |
healthtuI medicine TO the diseased
bodies polite. The study Of the
statesman ana the care of the philan-
thrOpist is to avoid or remove its
causes, which are wrongs and Oppres-
sion. So long az these exist, In the
absence Of some international forum,
some scheme of national arbitration, !
appeals to the sword must remain a |
necessary evil.
And, we may here remark, that
already do we see European %publicists
and statesmen citing our war and its
results as 86OrdIng a solution of the
difficulties in the way OF a federation
Of nations and the abolition Of wars,
and especially as p~recluding any
wars on this continent.
With these records of the past and
we need not here repeat, we do
no violence to reason when we
suggest that, instead Of a calamity,
the late war will, in the aggregate,
prove more beneficial to the South
certainly to mankind at large-than
if It had never occurred; or more than
if victory had perched upon our ban
lers. You and l, and this generation,
suffering the immediate consequences,
may not see or appreciate the full
Of il, but we doubt not that the
time will come when the suffering of
these people will fructify in great good
10 our race, develop itself in higher
civilization, q more perfect govern
ment and greater freedom.
"War is not always an evil; it
iOmetimes restores the brotherhood of
uen and States in letters of fre.''
And we do no dishOnOr to the
lead when we thus speak. 1t is often
hat the death Of the brave and the
treat, though by violence and wrong,
s more potent Tor good to their fellow
nan than their whole lives, however !
spent, could have been. The death of
he patriot, though in defeat, often &C.
.Omplishes more than his living,
Trough success, could have done. {
Who can fathOm the unscrUtable
ways of Providence? The blood Of
he martyr is the seed of the church; ]
md above the graves Of q eOuntry's Z
heroes there hOvers the spirit of a
Ountry's liberties.
4" There is grandeur in graves; thera
S glory in gloom" A people are
lever truly patriotic, and never cling
With the tenderness of children to a
and until that land is dotted with the
raves Of its heroic dead; until its ]
history, romance and poetry glow
With the deeds of their daring. With ]
ut traditions, heroes and graves z
men to a spot, all the earth |
I'D sky are to them alike. !
He who looks not hopefully at the {
Iture Of cur country fOrgets the les I
Jns Of the past; his reason is but I
.me serving, and cannot rise above
be influences of the hour and the 5
way OF his preiudiceS. In spite of G
er many civil wars, and the repeated
isregard of her constitutional priVi- '
sges by usUrping mOnarchs, England S
to-day united, free, prosperous and t
reat. With France the sun of Aus g
rose %glOriOUsly upon her "Old i
-uards," guntiDg back their bayOnets y
leam and the scream Of her victOri- c
US eagles was heard upon the banks Il
the Danube, the BOristhenes and $
ne Pc, long after the civil discussions {
{ Catholic and Protestant, of Ma c
ARE and ValOis, and of the 9Th O
hermidOr. So with the Netherlands, q
nd so with Germany, Italy and 6
pain. a
'The evils, social and political, we b
lperience to day are but Of the pres q
1t. Ere many years the people of 81
9TH North and South, whose great Il
we believe, if understood, beats