Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-05

Under this caption the New Orleans PioaylRe
Of the 3d instant has a stringent and well-tirned
article, which closes eloquently, as follows:
But Of Kentucky. VIII she ratify the sale of
her liberty VIII her manhood withstand the
corruption Of her public men If she could but
know the anguish and hope with which her chill
dren scattered abroad throughout the land, all
IN their appointed spheres, doing battle for the
cause OF freedom, listening to every NJ
NOR that crosses the border; if she could see
them in every battle field and wherever danger
Is or is to be- laying their ears to the night wind
to catch a murmur from the homes Of their
childhood, or gazing upon the telegraph wires as
If eagerness might draw good tidings from its
mysteries, she would kHow that she has more 10
fight for than the possession of the soil. She
h,Is . wealth OF love which the mother Of the
Gracchi might envy, and store of veneraiion
which might enrich an empire depending upon
the result
What is to become Of her should she consent
to BE- the properly of the government! Win she
be held as possession, or cast adrift as a tool
whose usefulness il exhausted by the occasion
SUTely, she cannot hope TO get from the govern
ment by her single arm and that a bought
one, the rights which the was unable TO ext0rt
with the help Of her southern sisters. Even the
old age Of the elder Cnttenden can scarcely hope
this Is she, then, to be a commodity OF diplo-
macy in the adjustment Of the balance of power?
4 pawn on the chess board to be sacrificed or de-
Tended as the eeXigencies OF the game may require
She viii have no position, no power in the North
crn C0nfederacy. Ii she prove n.stive, She will
be- either dra.-nound ayrrti,yy a. sa'Cund hand
goods below cost. What a fate for Kentucky
What a spectacle for her sonsi Whatever might
! have been her views in the commencement of the
struggle there is but one course for her TO pursue
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which (" people Jealous OF their liberty should
be keen to detect, aud a people worthy OF their
liberty prompt to resist The Union is gone
Why waste her strength in calling spirits from
the Vastly deep! Let her call forth her citizens,
kidnapped at midnight, from the dcns in which
they pine. This were a lyOTthiT vocation. In
such call her children would recognize the voice
Of their mother.
If the patriots who have taken up arms in ber
defense should succumb if Kentucky willingly
become q Blacl1-Republican vassal; If. indeed,
neither the avowed purpose of the government,
the invasion Of foreign lcvies, the imprisonment
of her citizens, the suppression of the press, the
Introduction Of free speech, the violation OF pTi-
vate dwellings by spies, and intormers, and kid
nappers, cannot arouse her, she viii scarcely be-
worth the powder required TO subjugate or de
fnd her She win become hiss and a bye
word Far he it from us to imagine such thing
bat should she bow her neck to the yoke ana
lick the hand that is raised to shed her blood, she
VIII be mourned by her sons, in every cline but
hrr oRn, ia saekelotli and ia ashos; aud those
who stand ready to help her, and bleed for her,
viii speak OF her as the Prophet did Of the apos-
taey Of Israel, when in the abandonment Of des-
pair be exclaimed, Ephriam has turned to his
idols let him alone"
When al is done when Kentucky is no lon
ger a strategic necessity for the invasion Of the
South; when Mr.. Seward gets tired of bis bar
| gain, and would get back some of the purchase
money, when he sets her up at auction, her chill
dren atar off win bid for no breathing thing
within her borders, but VIII ask the refusal Of the
ehureh-yards in which the bones Of their fathers
sleep
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