Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-09
aaiIg @ppeal.
England Unable TO Foliew IN
..~.- a. Amnrtean Sentiment.

snd vim full belief in their own consistency,
holding within six months two opposite tneo-
ries Of their own constitution ana expecting
EnvIishmen to change taeiF VIEWS Just as pop
pIar feeling IN tue States has changed.
TIE doctrine which we are denounced for
nof instantly and eagerly aoceding to- oatts
from the IS h OF April, 1861. On that day 3
proeiamatioa Of Presiaeat Lincoln was re-
ceived in Nav York, calling out a large fotce
Of militia 20 combat the secessionistss WHO had
last taken Fort Sumter. To northerners, who
I'm hen had been perfectly apataetic, whose
leading orators had treated disruption as a.
irrevsrsihle event, abd whose newspapers bad
courieonsIv advocated the seizure of Canada
to make up fer the loss Of the cotton States,
now found in the prospect OF a campaign a
sufficient reason for repndiating the eonstitu-
sional theory which had hitherto prevailed.
That theory hal been enuaciated By Mr..
Buchanan. and assented 70 BY the leading
statesmea OF the North, and BIZ none more
comnletelv than by Mr.. Seward, whs, while
expressing a hope that the secedeTs might
be coaxsd back, yet Acknowledged that an ap
peal to arms ~wssinposstbie; and who, even
after be became MT. Lincoln's secretary Of
state. reaudiatei a war policy on the ground
that tie subiagatioa Of rucusantf force was alb
herreDt to American principles, and that me
last argument Of inonsrchies was insppAcaole
to the solution Of political difficulties in a re-
Pubiic The revolutionary right 70 secede was
clearly Acknowledged by tue president OF the
United States. the authority from whom for
eiga nations are bound to take The law on cen
stitufional questions relating to the union.
We nav, therefore. go even so Far as to ray
that IL Grsat B-itain had, on the strength Of
Mr. Bdcbansn's decision, recognized TIE tnde-
Pendenee OF South Carolina immediately on
her secession, the act Would not have been a
ground OF legitimate complaint. For nearly
feur n4oathEthis view or the case prevailed,
and we in tAis country merely followed in The
wake 81 AmeTicsn discussion when we specu-
lated On the likelihood Of tie Routhsr1ers
"cousirg back y Of the planters seeing their
f5lig in cuarreling With their customers, agents
aud bankers; Of the attachment to the
name Of American proving too strong for
sectional interests ard eiectioneeTiag pique I;
and CT the lovers quarrel proving 2 renewal
Of love. The whole grievances of the north
erners against Us IL, that We think as they
Thought ak wsekR before.
Ire Helectric shock' which they describe
themselves ss having feit when Sumter fell,
was, unfortunately, as in TIE case Of the III
fatfd telegraph, too weak 70 be ~propsgsted
through the msss Oh The Atlantic. We have
not been startled By the fate Of the federal
troops who msFht have been killed in that cell
ebrstsd fortress. Hence the government aBd
people Of the country have retained, for the
most part, the opinions which the Americans
themselves held and taught rs NJ to the 18Th
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changed themselves to Z7usves, and the Herald
was foEecd 20 reconsider its principles BY The
appesTErce OF 2 NIB before It's Office. II be-
fore hat date iiEy English member Of psrlia-
msnt, or sry Eagiish newspaper, had rentuTed
to suggest that the new president should or
ganize = large Standing army, blockade 5000
miles IF coast. md invade a foHrishing regioa
stthe bead CT 10000 men, what an outburst
Of indignation would have met the Machiayel-
Han counsel.
How Es should have been reminded that a
republic rests o. the consent Of she governed,
net, ike the Old British empire, on tyranny
and taxes thsf The southern States were not a
HiRdoostsn. to be TscoDoaered in a twelve
month; thst the people OF New York and ether
Fests nf were not likely to npke
themselves catspaws to carry out E0gisBd's
a5o'itionist schemes, by invading The planting
States and encouraging lazy niggers to rebel
against their DssteFsi In short. il would
have been triumphantly demonstrated that
cur sympathy for the federal authority
was only effected with The diabclieaI
purpose Of controlling the two sections Of
the american people. Yet, because from e
Enddsn access OF patriotic feeling the north
en popBl9tton are organizing a descent on the
Slurh, we ere expee- ed TO forget all The de-
csncy and T~Tuieces Of international inter-
ceufsa, and join in bounding on the invaders
That the people Of the North should be unable
to control their anger ~ finding that an iRde-
pendent foreign power dess not commit itself
to demanstrsfieHs CT hostility against ten mil
lions Of civilized men with whom it has no
quarrel, and whose rights TO independence
though not denied, wefe admitted by the North
ITSELF : few weeks az, shows 10 what 2 point
Of irritsbiiitv the Americans bad been brought
by wears o prospect 7 and success.
The country has chosen its course, and is
not ikslg to depart from it. That tie
Americans should expect Us to be sw6==S hy
EnrfruEn g nNf-~i.-~nE - p TT-sL-I
States government, argues an extraordinary
f0rgetfuinsss Of what the conduct OF that
government hiss been to rs on all occasions.
While cur behavior % the people Of The United
States has always been c0ncilistoTy, il is DO
exaEgeTation 70 say that their government has
been uniformly hostile ard uneeaerozs beyond
any ElrnDean precedent, except perhaps that
Of the FIST French empire. In our Euro-
pean cispates, onC statesmen, when callei
UPON Is face hostile desporisms. have ALWAYS
5sen haunted BIZ the fear OF having the Amnri-
ear government on .heir backs. Is the psltry
quarrel they fixed OF as 10 the business Of the
enlistment, or toe scne Of mr.. Stewards speecb-
ss, likely to arouse us to enthusiasm in The
cause Of the government st " sshingt0n2 Neu-
trzity-sfriet eufTallty-i5 all that the United
States government can claim; and as we NAH
tanned nsntrsiify in the Italian war, when all
orr sFmpeihies were awakened, rnch more
shah we maintain It when We look or q strug-
Ete AttrFt or quo ueNl sun Naita Tor ruFLQef
information. and where we shall sssuredIy not
rejoice ia the military success Of either party.
wOsTEsS oF THE LINCOLN
sGWA8D DEMONSTRATION
Frsn Ie PAYS, G paris, June =. ISL
Wsen we review the policy Of Msssrs. Sew
sra and Liacoln when sc examine the facts
which have trsBsFired, and the occurrences
we have witnessed recently al Paris, we are
simost tempted 20 believe that the sdmiqistra-
ton OF the Uniied States Is conducted under
the decisions Of luascyi
7 il a fact that after the presidential cleo
ton Mr.. Lincoln himself was SO far from cor
eidering bimssif elected by he national pref
erence. that be entered Washington City fnE-.
lively, IL order 10 escspe, as he PRETENDED,
frars certain Internal plots-Ehich plots, it is
evident, only existed iH bis own weak brain.
Assuming The rei1s ef government, this ex-
csiisnt Mr.. LiHcoln imsgiBed-st least lie pre-
dicted-fhat the Confederate States we're only
temporarily separated from the rest, and that
they would s~oonFetUrn sRd resume their places
under his Parental authority. Bat the refusal
az these States 70 respond to this appeal Of
their induigent father atgefe6 bin &c such an
extent that be soon after called for 1000
tToopa In order to treat the South as rebel
liousI
The Southern States which bad not yet Sc
cpSed (and upon the fidelity Of which Mr..
Lincoia bad fsckoned 10 order to intiDidats
those who had heretofore s~eefded) having pro-
tested eagsinst an unconstitutional, ~coeTeive
p8iicr, bis anger seems te have been aggraEa-
ted ito a faFious rage. II. proposed to pun
fsh them severely, and having, dcFbtiess,
litt,e confidence 10 bis 1900 volunteers, be
DEGREES under bis in5ividual suthoTitY a rees-
lsr army Of 5000 men, overlapping utterly
the restsigiieas Of TIE constitution, Wbirh
forbid snca aa act. Like a new Louis XIV
IT, D--.LreM- fA--r TT ~ ]
State add The CenstitntioaF p
s5on sfter fhis, re became witnesses here OF
a sinilar spectacle. While Dir. Sewsrd de-
ciafes that be Possesses TIE materials neces-
sEFy to eqap a qRtrtsT e a million Of men, I
and sTmosies caBabie Of making more arms
than the government requires, be sends to
Paris certain agents who. publicly, at the hotel
Of The IangTs, open a list OF Individual anb-
ReripsieEs, patrioticailv dcssi0ed fer the sur
chase Of Frearh sDd English armt; and these
AGENTS hold MEETINGS, IN contempt OF our hos
pt6iitF ard usntfaify, even setting stdefanee
or -soleo regnistions and cur laws concerning
public assemblies.
AID Wide from the White house Nr. Lin
ella thrssteas Spain. one Of his ministers in
psffs s@o.fcfss heraidt Wblle one Of bic min
fsssrs dssea England, one Of bis agents s~olicIis
arms OF heTl
Ia tle Uuited Ststee, Secretary Seward pre-
tends TAFT be Is strong enough TO crush gu re-
beiNen. while his pianip0tensiary ambassadors
sHsead are demanding, through the columns Of
CsIirnan,s Escseuger, tire assistance IF
France. Of England. Fl Spain, ard Of Mexico,
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