Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-11-16
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Ii THE CouNTRNs nov r. 1917.
FprroEs APrEAL The Harper's Ferry in
famv. with an its train Of startling develop
msnts. not vet ended, Cncluding the Palmer
case at Menphis)-ths results Of the elections
in the Northern States, which have taken
Mace since that outbreak-the growing anti
slavery tone Of some northern journals hereto
fore deemed conservative, and the deep
seated, aII-prsvsaing hostility to the South
which al these events and developments so
plainly manifest, are enough, it seems 70 ne,
to make the heart OF every lover OF the Union
quake within him.
The New York JosTnal Of Commerce, here
tof.rs ranked as one Of tie most conservative
journals OF the North, implOres Governor
Wise 10 eonmuts the sentence Of old Brown
to imprisonment for life
wendell Phillips makes a speech to an i'm
nenss crowd in Brooklyn, with Ten CROWN
bv his side, in which be denounees all State
governments Of the South as piratiesl, claims
+hst old Brown is a better and drawer man than
washington, and that Brown has a better
5gbt 70 hang Governor Wise than Governor
wise has to hang him and his audience sit
sill in their craven seats, applaud, and do not
throttle TIE whining, fOul-mOuthed devil where
he standsl
With but few excsptions-and nearly all Of
hem among the Dsmoerats-the entire North.
Gems to symFathize with the old traitor,
8uraersr. butcher, 'inesndisry, assassin and
borsetbief. who led the toray at Harper's
Ferry. The so-csned conservatives" want
his punishment committed to imprisonment IN
he penitsntiarv the Abolitionists want a free
,ardon, and openly threaten war in case OF
Look the prsssHterisi il the face for one mo-
,sp Seward breaches the " higher law and
he ainsprsssibls conflict" All the RsPub-
iean-Aboition exbortsrs take up the song and
make the air vocal, from Maine to Minnesota.
With curses upon the fugitive slave law, The
Constitution and the Biblei Brown, Cert
smith, Giddings. and others not vet 50 vel.
,nown. organize treasons, buteheries and in
DIRECTIONS. which only fail to break out ~
kentucky. Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and
,4hs- S5u-hern States, as well as at Harper's
rpr-v. because Of Browns preeipitaney in
striking the first blow. Fresh from murder.
aighwav robbsry, and horse stealingi in Kansas
end Missouri, Brown goes through the North
ern states, everywhere b~oasting Of his crimes,
and raising men and money for the PerPetrs-
zion OF still greater crimes in Virginia. And,
finally. when taken in the very act Of treason,
with hands dripping with the hearts blood Of
some Of our best citizens, almost the en-
tire North rises up and implores Gov. Wise
70 pardon hin or mitigate his punishment
And with all these horrid evidences Of what
Black-Rspublican teachings lead to fresh
before their very eyes, the people Of the North
fuHv sus5afn and fn8orse the Black-Repubiican
parry in the elections which have just trans
piredl Not only this, but the American party
| Of the North fused with the Republicans ia
| those elections, and contributed al their
strength to that indorsementt Henesforth,
that party is to be ranked among the very
blacklist OF the Broua-RsPublican Abolition
lists Of the North.
Is it no plain that we have fallen upon evil
| timese A greater crisis TRAN war with En-
| gland, OF war with France and England con-
binsd, seems to approach. One begins TO feel
that there is thunder, this time, in the clouds
which are gathering over Us. L would not
surprise ne in the least II majority Of the
people Of the South had already made up theiI
minds 10 dissolve the Union insef-defense.
I have not quite got 50 far myself; buI
if things 90 on at the present rate, there il
no telling how soon the alternative may b
presented, either to surrender al to the Nortt
or erect a Southern Confsdersey.
This qusstion-xhat the South is to do?-
with all these evidences Of deadly hate thick
ening around aer, is one that rises high abov,
ali mere subjects Of political OF partisan de
bate. President-making is a mere eireum
stance to It. It looks as though the time haO
arrived when we must cut loose from every
thing else, and 90 in solely for the safety o
cur hresidss and affairs. One thing is self
evident, tie South IL uaPrsParsd for rhai ma
cone.
The South must arr!
Every Southern State should place a eonsid
cradle body Of men on a military footing
Cities, towns and neighborhoods should organ
ize and equip military companies The drill
sergeant should be abroad among Us. Their
is much work for him to do, before the S5utl
/. is ready for the worst. Cannon should b
forged and all sorts Of arms and munition
prepared. For, it is now seen that we ma
have to use them. & In time Of peace prspsr
for war;" To be well prepared, often stavs
Of tie necessity for open hostilities. To b
m~-prepsrsd, invites further aggression, an
nav leave us an easy prey to the black-bsn
nered host Of which John Brown was but th
gvaaf eouTier.
Another suggestion The bo1derslave State
should Be required 10 place their northsrn from
tier lines in a state Of strong and aetive-ds
/, tense; and the states further south should bel
them 70 soit-
/ 7or,-houid not the General Government d
this g-CertsinlF, II we stay in he Union. b
that would be a singular speetaele-that q
the FEDERAL Government defending, with a lin
Of military posts, one half Of he Model Re
. Bile" from the lawiess and bI~oody-minis
sggressians Of the other halfl The hear
sioksns al the evils, present and prospective
which threaten Us on al sides, and which iool
out more or less distinctly from the trsssonabl
pots AMI eonspiracies Of the North.
MANY o. TIE leaders Of the southern "oPPc
si-ions have declared their willingness {
mite with The Black-Republiesns in The Of
g%anization Of the House; many Of them haF
declared that they intend to unite with tn
nconse-rativs Black-Republieans next yea
il the election Of a President; and some {
tbem have even gone 30 far a. to declare tia
ehev would e~oslesee with free negroes IN ord
to beat down the Democracy. Now, the II
publiesns have long Taught il the chic
pillar OF their hopes and dssigns-,hat there
3 large number Of non-slaveholdsrs at Il
south who are inimical to slavery and read
to assist in it's destruction; and these deelsra
tons on the part Of the southern Opposition
1 ists ofa willingness to c~oalescs with the Re
: PubAesns, are cited az the North as positiv
: evidence Of the fact The old honse-thief an
butcher, John Brown, vas thus brought {
y believe thar large numbers Of southern whit
men, a. well as negroes, woald join him in Ii
San Domingo tragedy which be had prepare
= md The first scene Of which wes presented q
q Harper's Ferry. Bot the non~-slayeholdin
white men Of Virginia aid not dance up to u
music, a. was expected and il remains to B
seen whether any considerable number Of tn
sane, or any other class Of soathern men. wi
follow the lead Of Ethsridgs, Wiates Dsyi,
4 George D. Prentice, John Minor Bots an
d Robert R~idgsWay, either in the election 4
Speaker next month, or in the election 4,
Z President next year.
Z have received from Messrs. Clezves an
Walden, Of your city, that eslebrstsd move
-sdon Bed, which recently made 50 consid
srsbo 4 sensation in literary circles, on boi
. sides Of the Atlantic. Il is a little dull at Ii
o outset, but, further on, it improves grsatll