Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-03-22

lie knows The country cannot be held up 10 it's
present intense feeling for two years, the time
it win now require to 60 through al the forra-
alities Of securing amendments 10 the Constl-
tuition by national convention. II amend
mendts cannot be secured, be cody speculates
that the Middle States cannot afford to meet
again 10 30 short time the crushing effects
ef crisis like the present The people must
80 to work or be ruined; trade and eomnerce
must be settled, OF the country perisnes. when
settled, its settled condition viii be used as
UoWeFfal argument against re-sEitatlon. The
loss attending such re-aggitation viii be sum
ned up against what may be gained to the
STAKEHOLDER BY insisting upon rights DOW said
to be abstract and theoretical
Thus we will have no compromise nor addi-
tlonal security. Meanwhile the Southern
States will have perfected their scheme OF
government, Termed treaties, created armies,
built navies, established revenues, and made
national debt Thus viii the difficulties be
increased, if not made insuperabe, against
reunion. The South will then be divided.
That portion remaining with the North VIII be
utterly powerless in legislation, and thus may
they be used, 10 oppress their brethen In TIE
south in a thousa' d forms under pfstense Of
law ami policy, without being held to be
direct blow sgainst slavery. The two slave
sections viii thus be made 10 assume unfriend-
" relations, the means Of that portion Of the
South remaining with the North used TO in
crease ana sustain an army Offered BY north
ern men, to build ships and establish large
naval power, bounties exaeted to sustain manu-
featuring establishments, and then may Fort
Snuter and others be retaken. Bat what may
be san worse, a stale Of ill-fesling may be
engsndersd between southern people leading to
duties on productions Of the soil, while the
northern government may with a view to
bighten TIE feud resort to export duties on
our productions, and by other restrictions on
trade be brought in deadly conflict. We do
know that the sources OF our wealth are de-
rived from our southern trade, while much OF
the surplus Of the western free States hnds
market in the North. Can Kentucky afford to
risk the benefit Of free navigation OF ;he Mis-
sissippi and duties on Der southern tradeP /
think not But, say some brave politicians
Who can DO the windwork Of fighting, we will
hev our ygav sword in hand suppose that
extreme course be successful; will whipping
the southern people make them buy your pro
duce? You spend your blood and treasure to
20 there, and when there, no customer offers to
purchase. Who is the loser by su-h an opera
tiou2
With these views I come to the conclusion,
that the most certain and reliable way to pre-
vent civil war, to give quiet and certainty to
The direction OF trade, to relieve the people
them between the hope Of peace and the dread
Of war. 10 restore confidence, to relieve for
elgn nations from an apparent reluctance to
recognize the independence OF the cotton
states, to place commerce and trade in its
v7ontsd channels, and to prepare the way for
future remCnerstive policy, dictates NAT the
whole Of the slave States come at once to-
rether. uhite under the Constitution OF the
United States with such amendments as they
think will be sufficient to secure their rights
in a reunion OF She States, and throw wide
omen the door for the coming in Of our North
ern aud Western States. Il is the slave States
who complain; and now, after a lapse OF
three-Quarters OF a century, they are prepared
By experience to determine what form OF words
will secure us, and to that we are entitled.
II on that basis we can reunite, Il will be
glorious achievement. II we cennot, better
for both sections that they remain separate
trusting TO chances, than to remain together
entertaining feelings Of deadly hate, practic-
sIlv divided, theoretically united, neglecting
ali the great and essential interests in which
the peace and prosperity Of the people are in
volved, in angry contests over one species OF
.ronertv which is so interviewer with the So
cial and domestic relations OF one section that
it's destruction would break up the Foundations
of society. while in the other section i. is Of
fensfve to a conscience which, IN point Of nor
slitv. rises above that Of the Savior Of man
kind, the Father Of his country the Constitu-
ton Of the United States, and the holy scrip
lures.
We must have peace. We must, by all the
means 10 our power, resist war II we can
not live together in peace and harmony, the
sooner We can come to an honorable and Just
separation the better.