Memphis Daily Appeal

For the Appeal

Mottoes and Inscriptions.

The projectors of the great work which in the city of New York is in the shape of a statue, to perpetuate the memory of the Railroad King were forgetful of a latin phrase which would have suited the vision exactly, "Exegi monumentum aere perennius."

Dana, of the New York Sun, wishes ex-Governor as a Democratic Luminary; but, however, any of the old Union League branch of the "Union Leaguers" are still living, they may individually take up their lamentation and exclaim, "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."

Gibbon, the author of the "Decline and Fall," tells us in his Fifth Chapter, that after the assassination of Pertinax, Clodius Albinus, Governor of Britain, Pescennius Niger, of Syria, and Septimius Severus, a native of Africa, declared against the murderers of that Emperor; and adds, in a note, that "a verse in every one's mouth at that time seems to express the general opinion of the three rivals, 'Optimus est Niger, Bonus Afer, Pessimus Albinus.'" If the XVth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States should be adopted, and Cuba be annexed, the verse, with a very slight alteration, may soon be repeated by Southerners with considerable emotion: Optimus est Niger, Bonus Fuscus, Pessimus Albus.

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