The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-06

money out Of slave labor, their natural
envy OF other peoples success IN honest
pursuits, readily Induced them to open
their batteries OF persecution and pro-
scriptiveness OF slavery and slave owners,
an institution they did more than any.
one else to create, establish and TO iasten
upon the whole country. Their,abuse and
SANDER of the Southern pcope.for toler-
Grating this very institution of their own
production, knew no bonnds; nor did it
cease until they had goaded the South in
to secession; when their time had indeed
come for its adjustment. which being
done, tho South conquered, her people
driven back into the Union, covered with
all sorts OF ironclad oaths OF amnesty and
LOYALTY, this vile horde OF unprincipled
scoundrels still kept up their vicious war
fare OF SANDER and hate, until q seryilc
Congress, by an act OF its body, disiran-
chisod the best class OF our people, and
enfranchised their former slaves. and gave
them and the carpet bagger and their
co-equal in infamy and baseness the vile
"scalawag," the rcins Of State Govern
menl in all Of the ex-confederate States.
Then il was for while at least, that this
wretched class Of iniamousncss, had
reached the goal OF their ambition,
and they could freely mix with
their friends and equals, sell their
hypocritical tracts and literature
tit 10 be read only in houses OF ill-fame,
nine-tenths Of whose inmates they had
furnished. IL was their political millen-
inm, and they were more than happy. In
teligcnce, virtue, honesty and nobility OF
mind and body had gone down to make
room for ignorance, debauchery, dishon-
osty and the vilest essence OF vilcness gem
orally, consequently how could the Puri-
tan be otherwise than happy But alas,
God heard the prayers OF his chosen Israel,
and relieved them from the clutches Of
Bcclzobub. The negro legislator Is sent 10
the cotton field or the pcnitcntiary, the
'carpetbagger" glides away at night 10
avoid the oiliccr.wiih n warrant 'or his ar
rest upon charge Of grand larceny, while
his co-workcr in crime, the debascd seal
awag," seeks his original haunts 10 prove,
II he can, an alibi. This ended the Puri-
tan's temporary millennium In the South,
since when his soul has been sore ut ease.
The continued cause for their hatred Of
IA consists in our dissimilarity in practice
aud theory. We have ever sustained men
for public trust whose characters have
never been furnished by acts Of infamy.
We have had no socalled great men. who,
m bankers, have robbed the innocent and
too connding people. We have mover had
any public men who. as Foreign Minist m,
have been neccssitatcd TO seek protection
from arrest upon charge Of swindling
innocent foreign citizens behind the consti.
tution's shield that foreign ENJOYS should
not be- arrested while filling such positions.
This rulc among tho Nations was founded
upon decomposition that no Nation would
ever be guilty II sending 10 another rs its
thief, and mono has ever
done No but the United States, while
exclusively under Republican rule. We
have never had any members Of Congress
who entered that body comparatively pau
pcrs and after serving six years retired
millionaircA We have ncvur had any
Congressman who could, with financial
success, east nm anchor 10 windward."
The spotloss character OF our public men,
their devotion 10 an honest. economic adj
miniiration OF the peoples money and
property, aud their unsullicd private
AMI official integrity, coupled with their
ideas of strict construction Of tho
Constitution, and an honest aud impartial
enforcement and observance OF the law Of
the land, has always been productive OF u
bitter hatred oi them, and VI their constit-
uoncy ~ well, by the Northern people. |
do not claim for our public men such pu.
rity IA Is superior 10 that possessed by
good aud pure men residing in other sec
tons VI our common country. yet IL IL his
toricnlly true that our public men have
ever passed the test untarnishcd and with
out one single we'll founded suspicion Of
dishonesty.
There may have been, and doubtless
there have been. In our lowcroilicial grades
isolated exceptions here aud tncrc to this
rule, but oven IL there have been dozen,
what arr they when compared 20 an almost
unanimous quantity
There is doubtless one fact that has in.
duccd some of our people. whose obscry-
ING abilities are ofa limited nature, 10 bc.
love that there was a strong luternal feel
ing for us growingup In the North. by
what they have heard from ihose persons
In the North who have been coming down
herr annually 20 purchase some Of our
valuable mineral or timber lands. A mn
instance Of this fat, some tmn since an
editorial appeared Ia the Nashville imrioH
In response toan obulliaied editorial In tho
Knoxville Trib,mc, wherein tho Tribune
men had undertaken. Il seems, % admin
lister n mild rcprimand TO the Imericdn for
having previously intimaicd that the
Northern people did not love us with that
fmicrnal intensity equal TO that that cx-
istcd between Jonathan and David Of old.