Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-06-11
THE FUTURE OF our HEPUHLIC.

From -he New York Journal o. Commerce
The present is big with events. not only on
account q the herT ordeal through which al
our 1nsLitaions are passing, but because the
way sesus-0 be preparing Tor 2 form Of gov
eminent approaching more nearly than that
which wc now have, 70 the despotic monar-
cbies Of the old world. Every thing betokens
a Capitalization Of power, to the supporters Of
prodigious ornaments, and e~ntailing upon The
federal treasury an expenditure Of correspond
ing magnitude Take ss iudices Of what is
before ~, the following extracts from two
leading Republican journals Of this tity. The
Times, in arguing The Need OF a Permanent
Standing Army ? says;
"Our first taskis 70 srbdue ; next TO preserve
order. This for a tine mgst be an enforced
one. the great element Of discord still re-
mains, and must be watched by a powerful
force.1
Nothing can be more obvious than that a
government which cannot be maintained BY
the cheerful Ecquissceucs and Cooperation cf
the people, must be maintained BY brute force,
represented BY bsvonsLs; and 81 rcis dsplora-
be necessity ne are fast drifting. Therefore,
as eontended iu another place BY the sane
writer, "t0 meet such q necessity, We must i'm
mediately the organization Of a
stsnafHg army 10 like manner and for sim
liar reasons, the World, which sometimes pro-
fessss to speak semi-ohcislly, informs us that
we must eventually have a large permanent
aa-dl establishment The editor says:
N s~zrd f~oressss that the e-xige1ces Of
the g~oFeiAmHhE "ul require us to make large
addition, 70 our permanent aaUzI sstgbffskmenf.
and As the reasons for not uniting wilh tbe
powers represented at Paris have, in great
part, ceased 10 exist, he thinks The government
AZ liberty to obey the moral convictions which
it has always held on The subject Of privateer-
ing. No matter bow this war may Terminate.
we maas maintain a large increase Of cur ma
val establishment
It has been calculated that fifty ships NAV
suffice 20 blockade the southern ports eFset1-
ally; but whether the object can be accom-
plished. with 50 small g force, according to
the Euglisn acceptation TO the wors ~efec-
tive" is mora than we can say. Six war
steamers sreto be built under the law Of the last
Congress, and proposals are now Invited for
an indefinite number Of steam screw gup-boats
20 be launched and completed in short notice.
This is only the b~eginliag-the end, none can
see.
Alt viii b. fortunate indeed II We eseape the
effects Of that terrible biunder spoken of bv
that great historian Hallan, viz, mistaking
a revolution for e riot; which mistake is said
to have given birth TO mere independent gov
ernmeHts ttsn al other causes combined.
a valued Friend AID Sound thinker,0 30
designated By The Albany -61as and .frgus.
writes to thatpaper, IL renewing his subscrip-
ton, as follows:
81 know the republic is at an end, and The
military power proclaimed BY General Butler
over Baltimore is but the expression OF the
despotisn under which the country will here
after Be governed. I was born in a free re-
public, and though deprived OF living and diving
IN one, yet I shall hold 70 the opinion that Il
was The happiest form Of government ever H.
s%atuted, and well meritsd a longer Ife.o