Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-14

", held their courts? Emphatically, NO
than another, it Is that OF Queen Victories
grandfather. If the earth could blush ii
would surely blush for the crimes of this
miscreant monarch and his prohigate sue
cessor. Are our minor public men corrupt?
Do they become possessed OF their offices IN a
fair manner? They are, OF course, not all
saints; and, as has been already admitted,
the halcyon days of strictly fair elections
have vet TO dawn. Still, If it is permissible
to an aspiring member Of Parliament OF pa
trician family to lavish presents on the
wives and daughters of his constituents, and
to kiss their baby off-Prings in the neighbor-
hood of election day, it is a fortiOrI to be sup
posed that our plebeian candidates for othce,
being flesh and blood also, should likewise
practice something akin to buying up"
votes. To reply to all the insinuations OF
the British Thunderer would take up far
too much space for a newspaper article
The better way to arrive at generalization
of some of them will be to reply to the one
of "undue smartness," by which general I'M
principledness ID implied. The Tunes Is
surely aware OF the fact that persons ideas
always partake somewhat of the nature oil
the land Of his nativity-hence those Of an
Englishman are like those of his country,
insular. Our territory is boundless uni
verse contrasted with his. With US nature
has been more lavish. Der mountains, our
LAKES, our rivers are all infinitely larger than
those Of Great Britain, while our vegetation
is proportionately more profuse. Hence our
miRds, our sentiments, our aspirations are
larger than those of the average English
man. What is a stern fact or an ordinary
conventionality with us, he decries as an i'm
possibility. Our institutions, too, are ten
thousand times more numerous, and this
fact must be brought TO bear upon such I'M
happy occurrences as huge bank defalca-
ton, and the like. All things considered, it
is more than probable that in little England
the proportion of mercantile, official
and other crookedness surpasses our
quota by thousands per cent. The
careful manner in which sensations are
hunted up by the argus-eyed press, which
contrasts strangely with the somRoltIs fourth
estate" of the Old World, may somewhat
tend to make the inhabitants of the latter
believe US to be very bad people. No; it
be said with any degree of truth that
we are worse than our neighbors, or even as
bad as they. Our system of educatIon-that
great social and moral purifiers far better
than that of Great Britain. Our artisan
class is one of which the nation has Just
right to feel proud. They are not only
skilled in their callings, but keep themselves
fairly conversant with contemporary litera-
ture and history; many even go beyond
this But the English mechanic is another
being; he may be apt at his trade, but bore
at all else. Ask him a simple question on
an ordinary topic, and he will tell you:
"Oh, larnun' don't fill a fellows belly"
The tendency is a grovelirg one. We have
many faults, but, as the saying goes of old
Ell, they are mot so black as painted" and |
Epgland should be the last to magnify them. |
The Jupiter Tonans of Printing House Square |
ought by this time TO know that "those vino |
live in glass houses should never throw |
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