Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-01-30

EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY IN
BORDER STATES.
Such has been The "heaihy' influence Of the
aid and comfort given to the Blsck-Repubi-
can party By the recent treschery Of JOHNSON,
E~THERIDeE, and other semi-freesoil members
Of the abolition Congress now in session at
Washington, that the prseticsbility OF buying
up the slaves in the border States and smanci-
pating them, has become a topic Of discussion,
both in political circles at the Federal capital
and in the columns Of The Republican papers.
Tie sluggish apathy Of our people In vindi-
eating their honor and asserting their rights,
has left the impression upon The northern mind
that We sympsthize with the friends Of "im-
partial freedom" rather han with those who,
sPurning a trucking submission to the ineom-
ing regency, have thrown OF the sbaeklss Of
a Government which is about being converted
under the auspices OF a sectional party, into
an engine Of legislative oppression.
We well know that, under the influence Of
he present excitement which p~ervades the
minds Of the people il the border States, the
mad and visionary project of emancipation,
and its inevitable consequences Of nsgrs
equality, caenot elicit a moments eonsidera-
ton at the hands Of the toriss in our midst
who are seeking to betray the South into the
meshes Of the LINCOLN dynasty. But should
these States remain in the present freesoil
Coniederaey, Of which they are members,
they viii eventually be overrun by Blsek-Re-
publican mail agents, postmssters, and other
enisssries who have been pensi0ned for their
t~rsachery to the South thus forming the
Hueleas Of a frsesoil faction, which viii
continue to grow, until emboldened by num-
hers and sustained BY the thong arm Oh esa-
trail Repu5hoaa dssPoism, it will spring forth
in their midst al orgsnizsd Party, like Minerva
from the head Of Jove, armed cap a pie for the
deadly conflict that must ensue. That nusi-
vsrsGl freedom Of sPeeeh,'' an =" earnest" Of
which the sagsciols SEWARD pTofessed to see
50 plainly in the election OF his confederate
LINCOLN, as proclaimed two months since at
Albany, will then most assuredly be iuaugur-
ed-the project OF emancipation will be dis
oussed and a repetition Of the intsrnecine e strife
now transpiring be repeated By conteading
factions in the border slave States themselves.
This may be a startling thought TO eontsm-
plate, but, we are free to confess, it is no
novel one. I.has been forsseen by our most as
tute statesmen, who, as faithful sentinsls, have
sounded the tocsin Of alarm, with the hope that
ue may be inspired with a full sense Of the
danger which they 60 reasonably apprehend.
II, in the present state Of southern exaspera-
ton, we hear the bare uiisper Of slavery
emancipation among the leading negrophilists
Of the North, what must we expect when,
stuPehed by inhaling the ekioroform Of free
~sOilisn, as iRsidiously applied by the unseen
hand Of the political physician, we shall be
the impOtent and demOralized sppendagss to
an abolition eOnfsderacy?
SENATOR DOUGLAS ON SECESSION.
No one at all acquainted with the compre-
h%ensive craftsmanship and the political sagae-
ity Of Senator DOUGLAS, can be surprised at
the position which be has recently assumed
regarding the policy Of the secession Of the
border States. Go. n. SANDERS, Of New
York, long his warm friend and ardent sup
porter, in a late speech gives Mr.. DOUGLAS
private views as ~fsvOring the Immediate giih-
iraiCal OF the remaining slave States from the
northern confederacy, as a p%eaee-measurs to
avert the horrors Of civil war, and with the
view Of reconstruction upon a constitutional
basis. Like others who have devoted studi-
Gus attention to the matter, be sees that un,ess
the South is united-and such EHion can NOW
only Be SuperiH8Uos9 By secsssi0a-the Republi-
canparty " n be encouraged to carry out their
bloody and diabolieal project Of c~oereing the
South into submission, and thus insugurats an
intsrminsble civil war which may result in
mutual determination, but NEVER sEbmissioBl
He further sees, with the eye of a true states
man, that no concessions will be made BY the
Republican party to the South until the seces-
SIGN OF all the slave States is an accomplished
fsct-for they now denounce southern patriots
as "rebels and traitors"
We once thought differently, but recent
events have amply demonstrated that we must
first leave the Union, and then demand our
rights. DELAY IS wAR-PRoMFT ACTION PEACE.
The advice Of he Hon. A. H.. STEPHENS, a
and undinching lover Of the Union, as re-
Gently given to the Georgia convention at
M~iledgeville, contains a world Of wisdom in
its bearing upon Tennessee IT, said be,
70 you intend 70 leave the Union, the sooner yoa
10 It he betterr'