Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-03-08
The Augusta pispateh saws
THE PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL.

From the Louisville Courier
Elsewhere we print a full report Of the in
augural address Of President Lincoln.
No public document for yearshas been look
ed for with 50 much anxiety by the people, for
all have felt that the momsntous question Of
peace or war was to be decided by it..
And as the lightning yesterday bore the
words we print as they fell from the lips OF the
President, to every tewn and city in the coun-
try, millions Of freemen heard them with such
feelings as only the patriot can experience at
the announcement that one section Of his
country is to meet another section in battles
stern array, that brother must meet brother
with sword and bayonet, and that our fair
fields and beautiful plains must be drenched in
the blood Of the honest husbandmen who are
now cultivating them.
We have heard but one opinion Of the inau-
gural expressed, and that opinion is, that it lie
: declaration Of war.
We do not think that any other construction
can be put on it for though it bears some
traces OF the Jesuitism OF their Premier, it is
too clear, too direct, too explicit to be misun-
d%erstood, or to leave room for hope of peace.
Its main propositions may be summed up in
a few words:
1. He considers the Chicago platform as a
"LAW' to his party and himself, 10 be carried
out in its letter and spirit.
2. He will carry out the Constitution, as bis
party understand it, and protect the rights Of
the States, as asserted by Massachusetts, and
Illinois.
3. He wants the fugitive slave law modified
SO as to better guard the persons Of the free
negroes in the slayehOlding States.
4. He would have it provided by law, that
the clause Of the Constitution which guarsn-
tees that the citizens Of each State shall be
entitled to all the privileges and immunities Of
citizens in the several States, shall be enforced.
AS be differs from the bred Scott decision on
this subject, he would doubtless insist on Civ
ing the negro voter Of Massachusetts all the
privileges and immunities Of citizenship in
Kentucky.
5. He is not willing for the policy Of the
Government to be fixed by the decisions Of the
Supreme Court, which in matters pertaining to
public affairs, he would regard as Of no more
authority than the opinions Of six or seven
able lawyers in a private statute.
6. He does not think that the Union is dis
solved, maintaining that the Confederacy is in
dissoluble.
I. He holds that the action of the people OF
the seeded States is legally void and Of no ef-
feet, and should not be recognized by the Fed
eTal authorities.
8. ANY acts Of the Government Of the Con-
federats States which nav be at variance with
the laws or policy Of the Government at Wash
ington will be treated as "insuTrectionary and
revolutionary"
9. Regarding the Union as unbroken, he will
take care that the laws Of the Government
over which be presides shall be faithfully exc
cuted in call the States"
10. He will collect all duties and inposts ''in
the ports Of the seeded Ststes.o
II. "The power confded to me (him) will
be used to hold, occupy, and possess (rstske)
the property and places belonging Chat be-
lOnged) to the Government"
70. He would not object to amendments to
the Constitution if sanctioned by the legisla-
lures or conventions Of twenty-ssYen States.
There is not one word in it from which the
patriotic and pesee-loving friends Of his coun-
try can derive consolation.
It leaves no chance for peace but In the UNI
conditional submission, humiliation, shame,
degradation, and slavery OF the seeded States:
and not only is there no man in those S ates
that would not blush In shame IL he were ca
pabie Of thinking that they ought to hesitate
in their action but there is no man worthy to
enjoy liberty or fit himself for aught else than
bondage in any slaveholding State that would
be willing to see even bloodshed averted on
such terms.
The address viii be read with care and at
t%ention by the people of the border slayehold-
ing States.
It will teach them the hopelessness, the
folly. the madness Of trusting to the honor, to
The love Of justice, or to the patriotism Of the
people Of the free States.
It viii show them the terms on which, for
the present. they viii be permitted to remain
with The North.
Il will do more to FIRE their hearts, than all
that southern writers have penned OF southern
orators spoken.
It will dissipats The hopes Of the sanguine,
clear the doubts Of the undecided, and nerve
all for what is to follow.
May God inspire The hearts OF the people Of
Kentucky with wisdom and courage equal to
the emergency