Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-04-16
THE SECTIONAL CONFLICT.

From The Richmond EEaminor.l
Il is Absolutely certain that all Of the slave
States, as coon as they have expelled from Off
css Of trust and representative power the abo-
litionists and submissionistB whose vile coun-
sells have involved rs in war, will unite to re-
sist a common enemy.
The instinct Of self-preservation will prove
attraction for Union and cohesion, far tor
strong for The malignant, baleful Influences Of
The Jobnsons, the Etheridgss, the Bottses, the
Dstchers, and the Sunmsrses. The expulsion,
disgrace or banging Of these men. according
60 their several degrees Of crime, is a mere
question Of time, as was the question Of ban
ishiBg or executing the tories Of I776, when
The revolution got well under way.
TeXaV furnishes q striking Illustration Of
the rapidity with which the spirit Of resist
snce to abolition roots ont submission. Less
than two years ago Houston. a cousin Of the
governor Of this State, was elected governor Of
Texas by an overwhelming majority The
issue in the canvass was Union OF disunion,
and the disunion candidate was fesrfullY
routed.
To DAY, Houston is an outlaw; the very psO-
pie ho elected him having expelled bin from
Office, and nine-tsnths Of those who voted for
bin are Secessionists. The current Of Union
sentiment, SO resistlsss in that State has NJ
terlv dried mp, Will. the Disunion rivulets OF
1859 has become roaring waste Of waters,
sweeping everything before it.
The revolutionary spirit which is abroad in
the land will soon make the slsVsholding States
phalsnx, which neither the tricks Of domestic
traitors nor the foacs Of Abolition enemies car
destroy. This is just as certain a. that day
succeeds night, and then will Nemesis show
that she has delayed, but not forgotten to pun
ish the Submissionists.
We shall then have a united, Homogeneous
COnfederacy OF fourteen millions fighting for
their fresides, their wives, their children, and
their sacred honor, against hated foe When
the shock Of conflict comes, the terrors and
fears which the Submissionists have coniured
up with so much artistic skill to frighten rs
from the path Of honor, will disappear like
shadows before the sun.
The pages Of history are filed with the sue
cesses Of small and homogeneous nations in
their conflicts wi b nations vastly their su-
periors in plumbers. They have nearly always
conquered.
The twenty nate she formed the vast
army Of Xsrxes lefesed hy a few slave
holding Confede IStates at Marathon. al
Plata, at Sslsmis and Thermopola Fred
erick, Of Prussia, fought ali Europe for seven
years, and emerged from the smoke and din
OF that long contest a conqueFor. Charles
the Twelfth, Of Sweden, moved bis little cock
boat Of a natisn alongside Of that seventy
four gun ship Russia, and hoEged her in many
a well fought victory. Texas, With handfnl
Of brave men, routed Mexico. The Thirteen
Colonies, without arms or munitions Of war,
with every fourth man a traitor when the war
commenced, achieved their independence after
an eight wears war. Our readers will find in
a recent number Of a leading review a long
and clever article OF a Virginia author, which
clearly demonstrates that ali the most proni-
nsnt aud distinguished victories Of Peace, as
well az War, have been achieved by Just such
confsderacies as the Southern Confederacy is
going to be IN less than two years.