Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-08

they opposed the repeal OF the infamous corn
laws which made dear the bread OF the poor;
aud they have always opposed every reform
of the wrongs and nuisances which past gen
-erations had left to iDjure the prosperity Of
the present. They are the opponents OF ed
ueaiion for the people, unless 1t be con-
ducted under the management OF their
great tool, the established church.
The tories are made up Of the arlstocracy,
their tenants and dependents, and of the sub
seryient and the fawning who slavishly fol-
low where dukes and lords lead. With scorn
the puppets whose day is fast passing away,
and their slavish followers and imItators see
the people becoming more intelligent and
taking a higher place in social standing. In
such publications a. their favorite Black
,ooooTs Inaqazins this feeling, this supercilious
haughtiness that contemns the "mudsills," the
"great unwashed,' ''the common people"
often finds vent. In the January number
now before Us we find, written or quoted:
"The brand-new religIos OF humanity" the
TWENTY-FIVE million OF Englishmen-more
or Iess-rnostly FOOLS" 'the bray OF the
British donkey-the yelp of the British
cur," which FOOLS donkeys and ours are, o.
course. those who are not gentlemen" in the
tory acceptation Of the word. In the same
article we read Of shat particularly unpleas-
ant kind Of mortal, peasant oil genius" class
that includes Burns and many another noble
name. "To us who hold that the religion OF
humanity is an abject superstition, and
bat huf
as a rule far more foolish than the prosaic
tens and hundreds of educated gentlemen"
etc., is another sentence that shows the in
science of the stems and hundreds" toward
the millions over whom those tens and hum
dreds claim they have right to tyrannize
over by class privileges, and to prey upon by
rents that the land commissioners are now
cutting down twenty-five and forty per cent,
that they may be brought within the scale OF
Just charges. These men hate the passing
over of power from their own fingers to the
hands Of the people, and they have an in
tuition that each stride the people secure on
the upward way becomes an addition of
strength by aid OF which each succeeding
step is made in more rapid succession, and
covers more ground. At this rate aristocracy
and hereditary descent must at length lose
their prestige and power, and "the common
people" become ali in all. Naturally, there
fore, the tory breads republicanism, for
where that is, throne, lord, and state
church can exist no longer. For years
the tories taught and the state-church
cIergymen preached, that a republic
was mere Utopia, pretty to talk OF but i'm
possible OF realization. The falsehood OF
that fallacy the success OF republicanism IN
the United States has proved. The tory,
therefore, hates the United States; they are
his 6ete aoire, and therefore he imprecates
such discreditsble utterances as those the
APPEAL has mentioned. Those utterances
are cries OF despair drawn forth by the SYM
pathy the English people have recently ex-
pressed, for they know that with the SYM
pathy is mingled a growing regard for
American institutions, and they dread the |
absorption of democratic spirit by British |
bosoms. We can, therefore, afford to smile |
at the rage of the tory camp. We could re- |
ceive nothing more reproachful than their |
approach The condemnation such people |
pour upon our democratic form of govern. |
ment is only declaration that its enemies |
find themselves powerless effectually to OPP
pose its principles. The force that COM
plains, and murmurs and denounces is the
force that has to surrender; the victors speak
other words and in other tones. The ringing
verse of Hugh McDermott, in his just pub
Iished book, express all we need reply to the
desperate howlings of English tories: -
Men of thought awake
Men of will and brain and nerve
Chains which gall your freedom break!
Scorn the hands despot serve!
Man was born OF natures God,
Not thing at tryant's call;
Not a crouching, fawning clod,
Asking leave TO lick and crawl.