Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-04-22


Are the Constitutional Guarantees Of thS
2 South Of the Question Of Slavery at The
Mercy OF Fanatieism2
From the Iouisvle oourier.l
The House defeat Of the Lseompton eonsti-
l futon has evidenced the fact that there is q
fixed party in this country against the admis-
sion Of any mofe slave States into the Union.
; new slave Safe, bleeding Kansas. as she il
ealled-the youngest child OF The Republic
whose mere look, and hope, and prayer for ad-
mission and peace, should have been " strong
! as a monarch's signet, and her hand the ambi-
tioa Of kingdom has come bfggar 70 the
door Of the Federal Congress and solicited a
boon where she should have demanded right.
The fierce spirit Of sectional animosity barred
the way. Fanatieism, jealousy, fear, hatred,
ami all the passions have wsrred against The
child OF slavery who came to the altar or me
Union TO offer the homage OF filial duty, and
the hoTid genius Of hypoeritieal fanatieism
and pretended constitutional technicslitY bss
turned her away from that door. The Issue OF
. no more slave Statss,0-no more equality OF
privilege IN the territories Of the Union, has
been boldly avowed in The House Of RepTesen
tatives, and sanarsly rendered to the South.
In question like this, 80 vital 10 the perpe-
tuity of the Union and the interests of he
South, where are certain Southern Know-Noth-
ings 10 be found battling? Crittenden and
| Bell in the Senste-in the House, Marshall
and Underwood, Davis and Harris, Riesud and
GillDsr, have extended the right hand Of fel-
lowship e., and are found in active co-opers-
tier with the Black Republicans, under the
issue Of NJ more slavery now, heneeforth and
forever. WheH 1t was in their power to raise
a vol e In behalf Of the Mendicant Queen, as
magical as the staff Of Prospero, a which
fanatieism, blanched and palld, would have
fallen into the mouldering grave Of defeat, they
have misersbly betrayed the confidence Of their
fEaa a. nN
an infamous and temporary notnriety, have
played the traitor to the rights and interests Of
I the South.
/ We had cherished the hope, until the receipt
of the news Of the defeat Of Kansas as a slave
state ia the House, that the mists Of delusiOn
would lift from the disOrdered brains Of these
misguided, II not dishonest, men. Bot it seems
we bad miscslculsted. Their palpablT tTea-
bic endcaver has been to deliver the South
over, bound hand and foot, to their Northern
allies, the Black Republicans. They could lot
seduce into this coalition to belray the South
either Anderson or Woodson, OF Missouri,
frippe CT Hill, Of Georgia, hus'is Of Louisi-
ana, Maynard, Ready or Zolieofer Of Tennes-
see. These eight Know-N Nothings from the
South stood firm to the interests Of the South
and scOrned the Abolition alliance Of their
former compeers. They we're not 10 be bought
or cold by the Abolitionists, and the South will
not forget their patriotism on this trying ocea-
sion. They believed the South bad rights in
this Union, and they stood up for those rights. |
Driven TO an extremity 90 diTeful, it must /
soon become the duty Of Kentucky, and her /
sister States Of the South, to determine whether
they would not rather behold the Abolition /
portion Of the great party, in whose ranks /
they have honestly bartled for the Union as /
whole, Topped of and united with the Black /
Republicans and Know-NOthings than be privy /
20 the violation Of the great principle Of State
Eh.NH - -. r.f1.
the lead Of those co-operaiors with the Adolf |
tionists, Douglas and bis squad Of Northern /
Democrats, and Crittenden and hIs squad Of /
Southern Know Nothings, including the Losis-
VILE DcmOerGt aud the Journal and their fol- 4
lowers 2 Who, since the discourses OF Mr. /
Smith, Of Virgins, can hesitate to sscri5e the 4
present position Of Judge Douglas to interested 1
mOtives2 Wao, processing to understand the 1
springs of political action, will fail to de-
nounce the v0cferOus pr0testaiions Of John J. 1
Cnttenden bid for the Presidency ia 1850? 4
Were we even settled ia our individual eOuvie-
tiOns ct the soundness Of their arguments I
against the Becompton constitution, ard The /
admission Of a new slave State iHtO the Union,
the manner in which their speeches have been
v elcomed as glad tiding Of great jOy," BY
sectional bigotry eveTyWheTe, would shake our
faith in the correctness of thUse conclusions.
Aud il these things did not shake such a belief
the company they now keep and the recent
votes in Congress upon the question Of admit
ting the new slave State would settle it forever
The 'nigger worshipping" journals through
out the Union abound in laudstions of Doug
las, Crittenden, Marshall and the rest, forget
ful that a short twelve months ago these very
men were subjected to their vilest vitupsrstions
With much worse record now before the
country than they formerly possessed, what
dees this strange Inconsistency mesn2 It
means simply that the B aek Republican par
", Ike an anaconda, Is besliming them with
us nauseating saliva preparatory 70. taking
them into its rspacious nav, thereby hoping
to become insured OF success in its designs Of
further aggression on Southern rights. Heaven
deliver Us from our friends If they be such ss
these. There is no Lethe whose waters can
wash out Of the record the names of those who
are willing to peril the integrity of the Union
for the sake Of personal aggrandisement. It
will be still more difficult to sink into happy
the recent acts OF those whose Indi-
vdual predictions for one Of the great lead
srs Of the Democracy have drawn them into
an open or covert condemnation Of the patTi-
otic administration Of James Buehanan-an
administration which has dared to show no
preference for the North over the South, bot
which has stood right up for the admission Of
new slave state into the Union, according to
The law Of the land aud the constitutional
rights Of the South.