Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-20

SO SUPPOSE said MT. LINCOLN on Tue Al ueJ
az March last in his inaugural message, " you
20 to war, you cannot fight a ways, and when,
after much loss on both sides, and no gain on
either, you cease fghtiBg, the identical cues
lions as TO The terms of intercourse are again
upon you"
In the stterance Of this sentiment we have
the strongest evidence that no such idea has
ever been entertained by Mr.. LINCOLN, as that
the subjugatIon o. the CoRfedera.e States can
ever be a result Of the fanstical war which be
inaugurated By the Issuance Of bis PrOclama-
ton Of the t4sh Of April last, he and kis ad-
visers have been sctuated by entirely different
motives, in the adoption of a war policy, than
the decisive expectation that a nation of ten
millions Of freeman, renowned for their high
toned chivslry and their dsuntless valor, can
be crushed beneath the bloody heel of a tyrsnt
whom they abhor with all the intensity Of their
nature. History, which is the only efficient
school for practical knowledge, furnishes
proofs so inaumsrabIs upon this point as to
defy the folly that would be SO reckless as to
disregard them. Toe ignorant rabbls-the
mere caRaille Of the Norh-aFe doubtless
spurred on in their enthusiasm by ill-based
hopes of brilliant successes, that are promised
them by designing military leaders as the ceF-
tain fruits of the present campaign against the
South; but the more intelligent Of northern
statesmen have long since rslinquished all hope
o. eonqusring US, it they ever were hsir-brained
enough to entertain it il good faith.
Bat there is a motive for this Yankee war,
which win be a sufficient stimulus to give vi
tally to is operatlons il the face Of its GER
tain failure. The North must confront the
prospect Of war at home, as the only a%lterna-
tive to prscipitating its hungry hOrdes upon
the sOu'h. They have a surplus population
among them, who nave been thrown out Of
business by the withdrawal of so1rnern trade,
and whose very existence is like a powder
magazine, only needing the application of a
match BY the hand OF some iaeendiary as the
prerequisite to a fearful and destructive ex-
plosiOn.
It was to this nobocrslie and sgrarian ele-
msnt-who are fully indoetrinsted with SEW
ARD's Odious principles Of social equality and
Observation-Disclosures Me. RUSSELL alluded
in bis last letter in the London Times, when
with deep Significance be said: zone does
net know where to look for solution of the
difficulties which are spr!nging up on all sides.
Not TIE least Of them is tbs dangerous social
Isl movement, which I forstola sometime ago,
among ths working classes in the Northern
elites, where We may yet hear The terrible cry
Of ne French regoiption re -eeloea b. TIE masses
ohom TIE war has pIaaged into poVsrty.
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, may
cell grOw pale at The tbOugEt. These mass meet
ings, which demand bread or work from the
government, mean 40 good, but at present they
only indicate approaching danger rather than
its actual presence"
It Is a consciousness Of this approaching
daBgsID which induces the northern politicians
to exert every nerve to hound on the masses in
theprOseeution Of their hopeless raid. Appeals
to their national pride, efforts to arouse theirl
spirit OF dormant meIigaity and revenge by
unserupulous misrepresen n alton - falsehoods
ragsrdiag the purposes Of the South, and The
objects Of the North, al have z bearing Oh
this one cardinal point. The Yankees mast
fyht ss the sole alternative to political anar-
chy and social disorder among themselves. Il
would be a dangerous stroke Of poliey FOR them
tomorrow to disband their army Of bireiing
yagsbonGs and turn them loose to f8llblck like
vampires upon themselves. The war would
then sc transferred from southern to northern
soil. It would cease to be a conflict between
two separate and sovereign indepsndences, and
resolve itself into a bloody and desperate en-
counter between the rich and the poor Of the
North, between poverty-strichen labor on the
one hand and relentless capital or the other.
This dread but certain result, the t embIing
tyrant al Washington is unwilling to face be
prefers that the horrors Of war, il they must
come, should be as far as possible from the
homes OF bis subjects. His subservient Con-
grsss, in registerig his DEGREES, have only fallen
ufon a choice Of evils-they risk a foreign in
lieu OF a civil var.