Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-02-06
SECESSION OR UNION.

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public mind will be luilsd into a dangerous and
fatal delusion in this State. Woo can sup
pose, for a moment, that any adjustment can
be made now which will recognize oar equality
in the Union OF in the Territories; that ne
groes are chattel property, and entitled to the
protection Of the laws wherever the American
Gag feat, equally with the bale Of goods
that fugitives must be returned or paid for BY
the S ate into which they escape, and that the
agitation Of this question must cease forever :
Who, but a coward, would be satisfied with
less? Even if an adjustment Of the raid
could Be agreed upon, at Washington, by the
commissioners from The States, is any one in.
sane enough to suppose that adjustment could
be assented TO By two-thirds Of the States il
thei- sovereign capacity, and then ratified by
three-fourths-which would be necessary tC
incorporate it inc the Constitution Does
any SAFE man believe that even a single north.
srn State would vote that a negro was a chat
tut? II so, in that State the Republican party
must be swept out Of existence. Does no.
every well-informed man know that four ouI
Of 1--WE men ia the North are anti-slaveTy mel
that it is wrong in The sight Of God anC
manY They have been educated so TO think
And why is il wrong2 Because they do no
think that a man can hold property in bis fel'
low man. They have been taught TO think il
contrary to the laws Of God, Of humanity, anc
Of reason.
Again, the Republican party have claimed
to override the decisions Of The Supreme COuri
by party influence to revolutioniss the court
itself because Of a decision not suited 10 tbelI
taste to put on the supreme bench The sup
plant tools Of a party that strike at the root
Of consti utioual liberty.
Whenever a people have become 30 degen-
crate as to subvert the highest tribunal whose
sworn duty it is TO administer Justice, and to
decide upon The life, liberty and property
Of the citizen, because they refuse to over
ride the Constitution at the behsst Of popular
clsmoT and party influence, that people are
unworthy OF constitutional liberty. They are
rapidly drifting into the licentiousness and
anarchy that desolsted France with blood.
There the people, after passing through the
convulsive throes Of revelation after revolu-
ton, succeeding each other like the troubled
pillows Of the sea, al length cried out for an
emperor. They were cursed with r~ed-republi
canism, we with Biack-Rspublicsnisia. Are
we not actually risling everything BY connect
ing our destiny any longer with the fanaticism
and isms Of the North? The war now ram
pant upon the property in negroes, can be
easily diverted to a war upon all property.
Such must be its inevitable consequence,
especially when We consider the red-repu6li-
can element SO distinctly interviewer with the
sentiment now dominant at the N0rth.
Suppose an adjustment made, will not the
North still claim the right Of free speech and
the liberty Of The press in The States Of the
ErrFh = Will not HHfn he she rrfw wn-aa-Fmn
food left FOR fauaticism to feed upon? viii
il not open up again The foOd-gates Of sgita-
ton? What was the germ OF the present
excitements Was it not the right claimed to
petition Congress for the redress OF griev-
ancss2
Again, is MT every one at an acquainted
with political machinery at Che North, COM
PEELED to see and know that everything is Usnal
and eorrupt?-omce and place is bought and
sold ss a property. Ask your member OF Con-
gress. A politicians influence is estimated
in proportion to the amount Of money be can
raise and use effectively il a given canvass.
That tKo-thirds Of these representatives in
Congress holding their places for only one
term, upon toe abused idea Of rotation In Office
arr accessible to bribery and corruption, and
that they make business Of lobsing il claims
and contrsctsi
Isit net our policy, therefore, while We have
manhood, and patriotism, ara honor left, "a
cat loose forever from the corrupt and diseased
members Of this UnioH, lest the whole body be
given over 10 swift destrucfionF Have we not
tried comrromiae after c~ompromiGeP Was II
not solemnly agreed in 1850 tha the compro-
MISE then made should be a fnality2 Did no;
eight States Of the Union straight way set al
noUght and spit upon one Of tie leading meas
ures Of this eonPrsmise, viz; the fugitive
slave law? This we bore. Kansas was then
literally conquered and overfun by freedom.
shrieEers, With a Bible in one hand and a
I sbarpds rise ~ the o'hsr. What next? Johr
Brown enters into the tsrrjtory OF the Old Do,
minioB, with sword il one hand and a torch
in TIA other.H as Etheridge, N ally Of the Be-
publicans, nov threatens to enter Tennessee.
This we bore, hoping tkeas excuses Would
nrodace a wholesome reaction IA he pubic
nl.i,4 and that reason would again resa0e bel
sb-o1e ftbas bat whetted The appetite Of thu
"a d.sirover. the hellish fanaticism that hai
/ sasten boi8 81 the hearts of men.p It's h0r'
- crest new towers above 2 broken Constitu'
,ion srd an unhappy and Faised com
nv. pfoclsiming al iTrepressible con
efet swith the property rights OF the south
and that tie mamaaofn interest Whicn IN thi,
country is the right arm Of agriculture ms
Uifbsr aud die, Il clutches me iAesFif
mower, and brsnailhes the eHora over o.
heads and tufedtebA 70 so"gef
ne South into conquered proViBees even
though drenched IN fratrieidai blood an
smoking with smonldering ruins that tuli
Union must be ~cemeHted, If need be, rih blood
( ana TIE government sustained at The point Of
the bSyoDst. What hnman being that has Z
spark of that FIRE in his breast, which snimst
et o1r revolutionary sires, could desiHa q fur,
Their Union With g people avoWing such horri.
ifdeas9 What becomes Of STATE rights AM
stats s~oFreignty2 Crushed out by the tread o.
az armed soidieTy.
In bordering oVsy the present crisis earnest
Z lv. prayerfully, { SCI iorsed 20 The conclusion
I that ali hope is lost, an gziib g cone, Of
I further peaceful Union gf these states thai
a separafon might prove the salvation anc
bapbia&s Of both sections That any further
eomnf5misso On asns krt is-hEt TO mskasa ceV.
la1 a14sI - r lat tt4l paid hV -. -
NAFHAE ADAMS. ias-1,