Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-28

towns throughout the country-was receiving
| the most public aid and attention. By pro-
tectiug her subjects abroad, in every and all
lands, and teaching her consuls,
naval offcers, sailors and soldiers that
| they must spend millions of lives and treas
| ure to protect the lives and property of Brit
| ons from foreign blackmail and imposition,
| and not one farthing for tribute to any pow
| er, great or small, on earth, thus enabling
| her people to carry their trade to every quar-
| ter of the globe, and to feel at the antipodes
4 the powerful protecting hand of the great
mother government, ever jealousy guarding
with a watchful eye the persons, property
| profits, lives and commercial liberties OF its
| children and subjects, while American citl-
zens have been rotting and dying of consum-
| ing fevers and devouring expense in the pms
ons of filthy Matchmaking powers, compelled
| to submit to outrageous extortions, forced
| loans and other robberies, or deprived of their
| lives or more valuable liberties under rIdlcu-
| lous charges OF being spies, have had their
| produce, cattle, merchandise and other prop
erty torn from their possession by the ruth
| less hands of foreign pirates, robbers, BAN
ditui, for whose acts no government appears
| willing to account itself responsible; have
been taken from vessels on the high seas,
| shot or otherwise ANONYMOUSLY put to death,
| without the right of trial by judge, jury or
| appeal, which Is guaranteed to the humblest
| citizen by our constitution our foreign con-
! suls specializing or laughing over their mis-
| cries, informing them that it is a waste of
to Washington, where they will only,
the He d Department n and be forgotten
under mountains of dust. Our army and
naval officers, though educated and prepared
| at great national expense to fill the most I'M
portant positions in the gift Of a free people,
| and placed in charge of the defenses of the
nation, known to be the best informed, as
| they have the best opportunities to acquire
| information of all the various classes OF
| American citizens, together with the patri-
cite soldiers and sailors OF the republic, fret
ting and wearing under the CALLING loads OF
| red-tape and departmental correspondence
\ on the great subject of how not to do any
| thing and to maintain a state OF mastery
| inactivity; prevented from defending the
! properly and lives and liberties of our travel
| ing, commercial, mining and grazing peo-
| pies; compelled to make slon marches after
| rapidly fleeing banditti and Indians, In order
| that the great amount of expenses may In
| crease and multiply to the profit Of the con-
| tractors who have the profitable, soft places of
| supplying the Indians or the quartermaster
| and commissary departments Of the army,
| the navy compelled TO hold courts of inVesti-
| cation, something in the nature of coro-
ners inquest, over the lnisfoitunes of our
| citizens and consuls in foreign ports, and for
ward the results of a ridiculous farce (where-
| In the defenders of great nation are re-
| duced to humiliating detective and linguistic
rial duties beneath their high calling) to
| Washington, to be forgotten by departmental
| clerks, and never intended to be noticed by
| the heads of either the departments
or the government. no matter what political
! party may happen to be in power; our SOL
| diers fighting naked through winter on our
most remote frontiers, or disgracefuly en-
| ployed in the to them disagreeable and TO
| the people unpopular police duties; our
ships-of-war and poorly-maintained naval
| ornaments rusting In idleness, the officers
| dancing dull time away in lazy station and
| garrison duty, when they would gladly, If
| allowed by the peoples servants at Washing
| ton, carry the gilded eagles of liberty over
every obstacle, and employ millions of idle
men in in the service of the American peo-
| pie to redress the wrongs long suffered by
our citizens abroad, and carry liberty and
freedom to the oppressed throughout the
world, adding to American wealth, fame,
| honor, military and naval renown; when
they would gladly, if so directed by the peo-
pie, employ the education, the talents, the
| position and authority which they hold as
| the gifts of the people in the more peaceful
but not less glorious pursuit of controlling
and directing the labors of millions of citl-
zens (now not only idle and an expense on
| the others more fortunate, but daily growing
more reckless of their starving lives and dam
gerous to both public and private property
in the development of our internal and ex-
ternal lines of land and water transportation,
and thus aid our foreign traffic; seeing the
more and more dangerous breakers ahead of
| our ships of state and commerce, caused by
| the wrecks of the Paris commune and
other national disasters in Europe
| and America, accommodating in and under our
government and threatening disturbances,
breach of the peace, destruction of property,
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lists, and general decentralization, uncertainty,
| distrust, loss of confidence in our own insti-
| buttons, and stagnation of trade, either local
| or foreign. How shall we change our sailing
| directions and create a great and valuable
revolution, commercial and national, by
| peaceful, and without the use of violent and
| bloody means internally? If all will move
| together, act and work in unison, with a
hearty good will, change for the better is
not impossible, though its results may not be
| immediate or rapid. If the grangers will
cease trying to secede from the merchants,
| the laborers from their necessarily insepara-
bly-united capital, labor and business knowl-
edge of the railroad companies, their en-
ployers, and If other classes chaing against
| what they imagine to be more fortunate in
terests, will cease contending, if for only a
| little while in each year, and all agree to
| meet consult and determine as to how is the
best way to search for and find the long-for-
gotten persons and neglected rights, liberties
| and interests OF our most valuable but now
nearly extinct class of citizens, our hardy
American sailors, and study in which direc-
| ton 1t is best to open our rivers and rail-
| roads in order to benefit not any one town or
place, but to secure the cheapest freights
| and the most benefits to the greatest amount
of produce, of agriculture, mines and manu-
features; furnish our sailors with new
and improved vessels, and aid them
| and our enterprising merchants to
| carry our commerce and our flag to every quar-
ter of the globe where it was found profta-
| bic to send it in the youthful days of this re-
| public; employ the most eminent civil, mil
itary, and naval engineers, and listen with
| faith, and carry out with energy the results
of their Investigations and teachings, the
| morning will soon begin to Dawn, and the
| second century of the republic will advance
to an even greater monday glory than the
| brightest hopes and dreams of our patriot
| forefathers ever anticipated while they fought,
bled, from the darkness and night of English
oppression to American interest and into the
pale and sickly light of q successful, but oh,
| what a costly revolution; some will support
one plan, and some another, but for forty
years the clsshing interests of Americans,
stirred up by foreign policy, have destroyed
| the property, wealth, and nearly ruined the
energy and independence, beside lowering
the high principles and patriotism of our
| people; and having learned by costly and
bloody lessons the folly of division and the
importance of forgetting self and acting in
unity, when great. interests are involved or at
| stake, sensible men can certainly agee upon
some plan. By meeting and discussing ear
nestly, with intelligence and patriotism, all
plans which may be brought before them,
the people can agree upon some such propo-
| sition and line of operation and policy, and
| from that time, henceforth and forever, be a
united people, supporting the interests of all
classes of citizens and protecting them IN all
and every land, freedom and liberty will no
longer be mockery, nor the name American
| reproach In the tongues Of petty foreign
peoples; working together for the proper
support, profit, increase and benefit of us all,
| for it is a stern fact, which we cannot escape,
that the laborers and property-owners are
compelled, by the nature of our laws, to sup
port and care for the unemployed and crimi-
nal classes, and the cheapest way to support
| them land keep them from causing private
| destruction puhlic loss and incraasa nf TOW