Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-10-21

Has be not, under circumstances OF peculiar
embarrassment done all in his power to pre-
serve his country, to promote its best interests.
suppress ssetionsIism everywhere, enforce the
Constitution and laws Of the Republic against all
who opposed them, and give practical enforce
nent 10 popular rights and state Sovereignty
whsresoever either of them had to encounter
hostility? IL these things De true, nv friends,
land no honest and fair-mindsd man wiz deny
that they are let me ask you, brother Amer
leans, what course viii you pursue az this eri-
sis? Will you oppose your own principles,
because you and a President in power, whose
fOrtdue il was to be elected BY other suffreges
Jhan your own, though you find him nobly
faithful alike to his own pledges and TO those
very national doctrines to which you have so
z~sslously professed your devotion? Will
you be less Union men in act because YOU have
a Union President and Cabinet engaged in sd-
ministering the Government? Will you de-
iiberalely array yourselves against the sage
and yenersted preeepts Of such men as Wash
iRgton, and Jackson, and Clay, and Webster,
because a Buchanan, a Cas-, and their official
associates are evineing the same regard for
them which you yourselves avOw? Friends
Of the Union, enemies Of Black Republi-
eanism. beseech you to tell me, if you, who
lent your aid to the defeat OF that worse than
political impOst0r, John c. Fremont, and
who psrtook literally of the glory achieved BY
the overthrow of that accused faction OF
which be was the selected chief; will you
refuse your aid to the statesmen in power
whilst they are faithfully and tsarlsssly strug-
Cling to put an end forever to that nefarious
faction and its wretched schemes? ! cannot
believe it. At any rate, in California, and all
along the shore of the Pacific, your political
brethren are calamity rushing to the rescue Of
The Administration, and boldly claiming their
share il the great triumph Of principle shortly
to be eoDsummated. In Ohio, in PennsylVa-
MA, and elsewhere, the national men Of the
American party are doing their duty as eiti-
gems and patriots. In the great Empire State
Of the Union, the signs Of coming triumph are
beginning already brightly to disclose them
selves, and Black Rspublieanism is vislbly
yielding its last hope Of permanent asesndency
where but lately its hrmest stronghold was
supposed to be established.
Never was a better or more Inviting oPportu-
nifty offered to men of The true national spirit in
the South to signaliss their devotion to princi-
pie, and 10 command the respect aud confidence
Of Their countrymen everywhere. Mr.. Buch-
anan was elected to the Presidency simply by
a plurality Of popular votes. If certain ex-
trsmists whose leaders are now grimly menae-
ing the Administration with hostility, unless
the President and bis transformation yield
to their insulting demands, shall ultimately ar
ray themselves in formal opposition to them,
andit should turn out that the manly and patriot
ic conduct Of those at the head Of affairs, shall
attract to themselves no new supporters from
that great body OF national patriots who have
heretofore acted with the American party, the
worst and most wosful political consequences
must inevitably ensue. The present hour seems
almost to be set apart by Divine Providence for
the testing Of your devotion to principle and
making trial of your patriotism. Since ths days
Of the Revolution no question has arisen of
more serious import or more vitality affecting
our free system of government than the one
shortly to be decided in admitting orrefusing to
admit the State of Kansas into the confede-
racy. II Southern men shall act their part
now wisely and becomingly, the dangers which
besst the Union viii shortly disappear forever I;
the Black Republican organization viii be
crushed into utter extinction in every free State
in the Union; a national organization VIII be
built up in the States Of the North, before which
the dangerous faction which has been growing
in strength and capacity for mischief so rap
Idly and 50 f~earfully for ssvsralyear past, will
not be able to sustain itself in any patriotic set
Element north of Mason and Diekson's line a
precedent will have been set which every re-
spectacle citizen in the Republic will be com
PEELED hereafter to respect; all unkindnsss to-
wards your system Of domestic labor will be
allsyed and even exiinguished thstsystem will
be in a short time, fairly appreciated, as it is at
any rate now beginning to be in every part Of
The Republic not many years will elspss before
it will be kindly regarded and sacredly yenera-
ted, IS it deserves to be, as a fsvoTite and indis-
pensabis Institution, alike important to the
prosperity and happiness OF our own country,
and the safety and comfort Of the whole civ
ilizsd world. AS the result Of this change in
public sentiment, your favorite institution will
be seen gently aud quietly to expand itself nat
urally and without the psrilous and offensive
aid OF Congressional legislation, into all con
genial regions Of this hemisphere. Texas will,
in a yearO 7 two, supply several additional slave
States, whose admission iuto the Union it will
be impossible to prevent. Cuba will IN a short
time be acquired, by treaty or otherwise, and
being admitted into the Union on The principle
Of popular sovereignty now being enforced,
will give you one or more slave States in addi-
ton. Sonora, S!nslOs, and ether provinces
now under Mexican rule, will also be acquired,
and with precisely similar results. A thou
sand beneficial consequences which ! have no
tine now to specify. will be iHfallibly realized
in addition; and all the troubles aud vexatiOns
with which we have been heretofore afflicted,
will cease to disturb andto annoy us and our be-
loved country forever. All that Southern men
have to do, in order to realize this scheme of
deIiverance, is to stand firmly and quietly by
their own constitutional rights; seek no aid
from the government for the purpose Of extend
ing slavery anywhere, at the sametime submit
ting to no legislation calculated to prevent or to
impede its extension assume once more, never
hereafter to be yielded Up or modified, the nat
ural and imposing attitude occupied so safely
and so securely in he earlier days of the Re-
public, that Of asking, in regard to our dones-
tic concerns, "enly 10 be let alone - eschsw all
attempts, however covert OF plausible, to re-
vive the slavery agitation in Congress or out Of
it; discourage all movements Of a merely Sec
tioual character, with whomsoever originating,
and BY whonsoevsr encouraged or abetted ;
never failing to recognize the Federal Union.
alike as the sheet-anchOr OF our National wei
fare, and the only reliable support Of our dear
est local interests.
1t woald be indeed most gratifying to me to
be allowed a more extended interchange Of
sentiment with you, fellow-eitizsns, upon the
interesting topics now little more han cursori-
ly alluded to. There are several matters OF
the greatest public concern which I should
have been pleased to discuss in your hearing.
As It is, I shall conclude with a few hasty and
Imperfect observations upon the conduct of
Governor Walker in Kansas, which has been
recently made he subject of sreh acrimonious
aud Liberal structures in certain neigh5orhoOds
o. the South. For more than twenty-five
years I have known this worthy and accom-
pIishsd peTsonsg. well, and have loved, and ad-
mired, and eoufdsd in him thoroughly.
am sure | understand his character, snd
appreciate his motives of action. About the
year 1890 ! saw bin first In the city Of
as the acknowledged head of the en-
lgbtened and able bar Of that city. A gentle
man Of more scholarly accomplishments ant Of
scientific stteinmsnts the South has
never possessed. He is learned and erudite
a statesman at once profound and Prac-
teal; a most luminous and energetic speaker,