Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-28

omy, but obnoxious to the original
objections of the APPEAL that it in
terpOses with shallow reasons and
false arguments between the petition
ers and Congress in a matter of right,
in which the planters ought to have
their money returned, even If they
were no better themselves than their
%oppressors, or even than so many
thieves. To enforce their argument,
the editors illustrate by whisky, and
say that when il was taxed two dol
lars a gallon the price went up. The
allusion shows Ignorance Of the laws
Of trade, and that the writer Is deal
ing with a question he is incapable OF
comprehending. Whisky being al
most wholly consumed in this coun-
try, and without any competitors
from abroad, the tax on that article
may chiefly fall on the consumer.
But how does this answer his
purpose when discussing the cot
ton tax? Does not every journalist
of intelligence know, and do not the
daily price currents show that the
great market for cotton is in foreign
countries, and that the factories and
immediate consumers are chiefly
there. Who does not know that the
prices in all our States are and have
always been regulated by the prices at
Liverpool, Havre, etc. How, then, is
it possible that the tax has beeQzpaid
by consumers? We wonder b the
writer Of its ghost stories is all the
commercial editor the AUGlGnche has.
By putting forth mere clap-trap for
argument on a question of serious
moment tOOur citizens, our neighbOr
has not only manifested his ignOr-
ance OF everything but ghosts and
certain colOred family peccadillOes,
but it does more. he is for accepting
the situation again. After admitting
the levy Of the cotton tax to be uncon-
stitutiOnal, he blurts out the proof
that he is both ready and willing to
wrong and injure the whole cotton
producing people by using arguments
TO defeat any measure having in view
the return of the money wrongfully
taken from them. Is this integrity to
Southern, or to Northern Radical in
terests? Can such a paper be reason
ably considered as friendly to the
people of the South? Ought they to
patrOnize and sustain such friends?
The Boston Post, rising above the
prejudices of locality, has the
candor to speak for an
other people what the Avalanche
will not say for its own. The Post
declares that the tax laws were not
only unconstitutional, but Influenced
6V luminosity TO the South. 1t declares
that the wrongs inflicted should be
remedied. The contrast between the
Post and the AUGIdnche is remarkable.
Is there no blackmallipg programme
in this matter? II there is, the AP-
PEAL win scotch it. We doubt
whether there is another Paper in the
Republican or Democratic, not
excepting that Of Mr.. Tabs Gross,
would be base enough to stoOp
b such meanness. 1t is reported that
'stop my paper messages crowded
Inc AUaIdncbe Office yesterday by
scores. The way Of the ~transgres-
'oT is hard. One or two more lying
incest articles, TO shock the sensiblt-
les Of the virtuOUs and be telegraphCd
abroad, for the SANDER Of respectable
white people, and one or two more
,Otton-tax articles, arraying that pa
Der against the people who support,
'ountenance and feed it, will be sUfi-
,ient 10 damn the whole concern to
he lower deep Of infamy and destTuc-
ion 10 which all such things and
reatUres are destined. In all benev-
and charity we must say to our
Unhappy and unfortunate neighbOr,
laTk from the tombs.