Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-04-03
sIRCTLATION II THE CITY.
SEE RIRsT am FOVRTH PAGES.
THE RALEIGa eFRaNKFoRrs,
CONVENTION.

On Monday lsst, the Balletin announces, q
meeting was held "by those citizens Of Shelby
county, favorable to the preservation Of the
Uiton." In a leader upon the convention, the
sane paper announces that " the border States
aust make terms with the Northwest, and IL
nothing better can be done-f the Union can
not be reeonstructed+ Middle Confedsraey
becomes a matter Of absolute necessity for
those States contiguous to the free States"
We have examined the proceedings Of this
enthusiastic meeting, and they present the
anomaly Of entirely Ignoring the issues Of the
present hour.
On the eve OF an important canvass, in
which are Involved the dearest'rights and most
sacred Interests a Tennessee, this "lsrge
number" Of citizens, assembled in a party
convention, to nominate delegates to State and
congressional eonvsHtions, are utterly siest as
70 he issues Iron which they are called to-
Eeuoer-They declare no single principle
NnisA ttsy hold ia common. They make no
AtfOrm whatever. They announce no propo
-1tion for the approval OF aisaFprovsl OF the
people, whose suaraEes hey ask. Their lips
1ANA - q AA cAaAAE NA AENA 7 u " MAaA
powerful and controlling motive are they re-
strained from a disclosure Of the secret opin-
ions which sway their minds? They noisily
assemble, and taeity dispense without leaving
st5 record behind them to give to the world
any assuuan;e OF The policy BY which they
are to be guhlsd.
Can We draw an inferenes from the state
meat Of the chairman and secretary, that the
meeting was composed Of these favorable to
the preservation Of the Union Pr II this
be their sole purpose, they may well al
stain from further efforts in this behalf,
unless they are endowed with miraculous pow
srs, and ike bin Of Nazareth, can call forth
the dead from its eersmenis. No sane man
in either cOnfedsraey, who regards his rspu.
t%ation, would dare risk it BY seriously as
serting that the old Federal Union is not now
disselDsd. TIE respectable gentlemen who
figured in this Raleigh assembly would not SO
far faisify history, much less could they seek
to cheat the people OF Tennessee BY such false
prstenses.
Nor does TIE solitary resolution adopted BY
them, to seek at Frankfort an adjustment Of
the political troubles growing out Of the slavery
question" afford the slightest clue to the rem
edies which they propose. This Frankfort
convention, as we are advised, lie designed to
be a ~eonelsve Of the border slave States. For
what purpose is it assembled To reconstruct
the old Union2 Neither the Confederate States,
nor the Blsek-Rspubicsn States, will be rep
No agreement could bind the absent
who would be equally interested
in this question. In addition to this, are
cur deluded friends vet to learn that a recon
s~truetion is not desired by the Confederate
Tie President, the Vice President,
toe Co1Hess, the States conventions, the leg
%hlio speakers, primary meetings
and the press. throughout those States, have
spoken but or voice on his subject, and that
is uneahiTOoally and positively against
rseonstruetibn. In the face of such over
Fhelminf evidence, all Efforts at reconstruc-
nNst be cloves labor lost" For the
s6t, We s6stsIh E0ao To- comment upon
this anomalous political ssssmbEgs~ hOse
hopes for the future appear to be esnterd in
FKAEKFoRr.