Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-10-05

WE published yesterday. from the London
Standard and the New York Times, extracts
from editorials euogistic Of the courage and
endurance Of TIE people of the south during
this epidemic. Both have attracted very
general attention, and both have found q
place, with more or less of commendation
and Endorsement, in the leading papers Of
the Union, north and south. To us who
share in this generous measure of approba-
tion of the performance Of an unusually per
ilous duty, the words of our cotem-
poraries-the one a leading northern
Republican journal, and the other the
steadfast admirer and friend of the south
come laden with a strength to sustain and
encourage that only those can appreciate
who have watched tue weary, heavy-footed
hours pass away, bearing with them our
bravest aud our best. The strain and ten
sion of mind in the contemplation of the
awful facts Of sixtY-Gve days, during which
$500 men, women aud children have died Of
the fever, cut Of population at no time
within that limit more than Is, 1000, would
have been more than the stoutest heart
among US could have withstOod were 1t
not for such warm and heartfelt messages
of sympathy as those we refer to-
These kindly words have opened hearts
that were steehng themselves in despair,
and tears Of relief have flowed freely, attesting
the consolation Of sympathy and the power
of speech even from across the sea. During
this awful harvest-time Of death cur churches
have been closed and all business has been
suspended, and the only relief or release
from mental strain was found in 6t-
ful sleep, snatched in the intervals of calls
that no one could disobey. Il was death
N the mornicg, at noon and at night.
BUTT was not to dwell upon the wearying acts
OF dreary tragedy not yet closed, still less
to plume ourselves as upon a victory not yet
won, that we commenced this article. Our
purpose was the more pleasing one of sug-
gesting to The Standard that while. all that 1t
says Is true Of the pluck and endurance OF
the southern people under the provocations
of war, pestilence and famine, there is some
thing to be said tor our brethren of the
north, whose constancy, steadIness and de-
votion to their cause, bravery and persistence
IN battle, and endurance in q prolonged
contest that taxed all their energies and q
skill and resources unequaled, have few
parallels in history To no other people
could we of the south have surrendered.
Maglanimous On the field so fercely con-
tested, despite the hazal DIS of political dis
putes, they have many times since April, '65
extended us the right hand of fellowship,
full up and flowing over with good gifts
rendered with q manly spiut that robbed the
generous tender CT the humihations o.
charity. The same men who led thC
armies Of the north, the same journalist
who inspired those armies, and the same re
ligious teacher, eud the same noble, heroit
women who originated and sustained amiC
the heat Of bl TIE, and the excitement o
sometimes peulous popular connections
the grandest benefceuce ever conceived o
for the relief OF soldiers in the field, hav'
been foremost ia the heaveu-sent work Of on
relief in weeks that are the dreariest in ou
calendar. Uuwearied in their tasks, as die
Joseph with his brethren, they have 6lleC
our sacks to overhowing, many, many times
and yet they are not done. From far Oregon
and Montana to Vermont, from villages
towns and cities cf al the busy north
ern States, from the miners camp, tn
newsboys' home; from the banker arC
the farmer, the professor aud the mechanic
from all classes Of that section of our coun
try where American Ingenuity has found it
largest field OF conquest, and whose industrie
challenge the worldin vain for comparison
from this seat Of q great industrial population
unmatched by any other on the earth, til
gifts Of an Intelligent help and touchIn
sympathy have come, saving many thousand
of our stricken ones from death and lighting
our dreary pathway with the light of an en-
during brotherly love "Bicod is thicker tina
water" OF the same race, speaking the sam
tongue, the heirs of the same liberties an
citizens Of the same glorious country, II
memories iof sectional divisions, of politics
animosities, or of civil war, have been al
lowed to stay the steady flow Of the boun
teous stream that has brought US, with a
else, the assurance that We are one peopl
in fact as wei as in name, an
that beyond the froth and fuss {
politics, and the deceits and danger
of demagoauee, the popular heart is safe
yielding only Of It's fnllness when challenge
in the cause Of humanity and brothers live
are at stake. The south claims no qualit
that the north cannot match. She will nc
lay to her heart the fattering junction
though a mothers gilt, that at sue
time would iuvidiously mark hi
for the worlds applause. As the chi
dren Of one household our gifts, though II
dividually special, belong to the famll
The steadiness and tenaci'y, the bravery ar
determination of the north, and the ela
dash, courage and endurance Of the sout
are the common heritage OF every citizen