Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-05-26

ct them, if Pennsylvania and New York will
cus let them alone IN the exercise Of their dis
eretlon whether they shall have banks or no
banks, railroads or no railroads.
ibis, as fer as we know,-and il we e
wrong, "e desire TO be set right-has been
course or toieration and Of non-intervention
pursued by the South 10 reference to Northern
ihsututions- Whoever heard Of an attempt
Oelng made, south Of Mason and Dixon's line,
TO manufacture public sentiment hostile to
tee establishment OF banks or railroads in
Pennsylvania, or OF negro suffrage IN Massa-
chusetis or Vermont Whoever heard Of a
newspaper being started in the South TO In
weigh against, and 10 oppose any local institu-
ton here in Pennsylvania, moral, social politi-
cal, or material in its character? No one.
How has this spirit Of concession and Of con-
fraternity, on the part Of our brethren in the
South, been met and reeilrocated by we Of the
North? Let the history of the last twenty
years answer the question. Hundreds Of presses
have been started, and hourished, whose whole
stock 10 trade has been traauction and viliih-
cation Of the South. Millions Of dollars have
been raised and appropriated for the purpose
Of organizing societies, whose sole object has
been sntagonsm to Southern institutions and /
Southern interests. This fell spirit Of anti |
Southern propsgsndism, starting In the East |
some twenty years ago, like hurl;ng cloud, /
not bigger than a mans hand, now overshad- /
Ows almost the entire North with its baleful 4
wings. II permeates a thousand newspapers 4
with its poisonous mslaria-it declaims from |
the rostrum--it thunders from the pulpit--it |
checks the government of the nation in its
healthy setion--it subverts the Constitution,
and would destroy the Union with all its glo-
rious memories Of the Past and hopes for the
Future.
No wonder, in view Of this grand scheme Of
subiugstion and Of dominion on the part Of a
Northern Sectional party, confident Of a pre-
pondsfancs Ia the Union, il that prepondersnee
can be made pstential-no wonder, we say, il
the South should grow restive, sensitive and
alarmed, and from the very principle Of self
appeal to the justice and the mag
nd1imitV Of the stronger section, aud invoke
the ptOteeting genius Of the COnstitution t0
their add What wonder, il they should begiE
10 look upon we Of the North as their natural
avoid our intercourse as a pesti-
entia cont act, and to seek other alliances and
1ther avenues Of trade and commerce
But We have the strongest assurances that
his conspiracy must be finally broken up.
This fanatieism cannot last forever. Already
Ire signs Of promise in the sky. A reformed
iublic sentiment will shortly come to the res
.ue, and scatter the dark horde Of Constitution
Ind Union-hsters like chat before the wind.
and with it a harvest Of terrible
etributios. Their fondly cherished hope Of !
lectiDg a President in 1850, on a sectional
ssue, like the apples Of the Dead Sea, will
urn to ashes in their grasp. The Democracy Z
f the North, standing like wall Of ERE
round the Constitution and the Union, will
ppose a Thermopyla in theH march 70 power, ,
hd trail their black and fnsiorious banners in :
be dust