Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-25
ARaEsreIRCULsTION IL TIE CITY.
Fer Governor,
wuE DANGERS BF 4 PREMATURE
PEACE.

DANGERS OF \ PREMATURE
PEACE.
However much we may deplore the calamity
og he present war, and earnestly desire its
speedy termination, there are dangerSi in a pre-
mature peace far more destructive to our future
welfare, and even to the perfection CT our ne
tlonal independence, than the common mind
might at first conceive.
Were the Congress now in session al Washlng-
ton, easgrined ct the recent defeat Of the federal
array 81 Manassas, and impressed With a con-
seriousness Of tie delusion under which they
have laborsd relative to the facility Of subdu-
ing the south. TO rejracs its steps, repeal is
armF bills. and iastruc: the President to re-
cali his troops from the field, and sue for peace
q bloT would be struck at Southern iadePeho-
euce more disastrous TO contemplate, than any
that viii ever be received from the weapons OF
Yankee warfare. Our people might bail such
a result as a G5d-5end anxious hearts would
be relieved Of their oppressive burdens OF care;
thousands upon thousands Of valuable lives
wouid Be saved from the carnage Of battle, and
the Intoxicating smile of peace. In hne, castits
radiance over the darkness OF the land.
But q disaster would overtake our fast pr =
crossing national prosperity, which, above all
else, we are iI-prePared to meet. The South,
&C is well known. has for he last half century,
been in z state Of industrial and commercial
vassaIsge 20 the North. New England in
particular, barren 10 all else save ice, onions,
granite and Goldfish, has drawn upon our re-
sources by a systsmatizsd scheme Of legislative
peculaJion and fraud, to such an extent as to
wax and grow fat in every department of her
industry. Lowell has weaved our cotton
Lynn and Boston have made our shoes, New
York and Philadelphia sold US our dry goods,
Cincinnati furnished our meat. The Yankees
have, in reality, kept US in a state Of s%erfdom,
buying our agricultural products from Us as
the ,TsPpers upon our western frontiers trade
with tie Indians for their valuable furs and
skias, giving in turn some worthless bauble.
They have bartered these with foreign nations,
receiving enormous profits by way Of cemmis-
sion, and again sold their imported wares ard
merchandise to the South at double and even
treble be original cost.
While, therefore, we achieve a political in
dependence, regulating all allegiance to yam
kee lsws, and getting rid Of the nuisance Of
mere social contact with the despicable pUTi-
tanicsI race, there is a fearful danger that we
will not at the same time c~onsummate our in
dependence IN other respects. Nor viii We do 30,
If this war should come to a quick conclusion.
Oar low tariff would soTely test the cupidity
Of many among Us, who are always willing to
buy from those who sell cheapest. The starv-
ing operatives Of the North, with nothing to
DO, would work at mere nominal rates, thus
enabling their employers to compete with the
foreign markets, at least until the old channels
OF trade we're resumed, when they might be sx-
pscted 10 speedily resume old prices. In this
way tie letters, which are now being gradu-
ally fled from our. limbs By the rude contact of
war, would be replaced, and our republic be
free only in name, subject, in the event Of an
other contest, to rely upon other resources
than our owa for the very munitions of
war necessary TO cur defense.
The upshot Of the whole matter is that our
separation from the enemy must be complete,
in every possible acceptatiOn Of the terD-sO-
eiaIly, morally, politically and industrially.
Our Interests require a gulf between US, at
least for a lime, as broad as AverBus and as
be. omiess. The more bitter and unrslezting
the snimoslty sDgendsred tie better. We can
make every article hey possess within the
limits Of our own territory, except wooden nut
m7gs-au article for which we anticipate hsv
ing bat Huls use in The future. What we most
need is 70 be thrown upon our WI resources,
and be faced with the necessity ofliving to our
selves. TIE various departments Of Danufsc-
turing reqsires one little stimulus for their es-
tsblishmeut, and no man viii invest capital in
them unless assured that the undertaking will
pay quite as well as anything else. For this
reason it is, thatcould the South to-day procure
as many arms from England, France OF Bel
GUM az would meet her necessities, none Of
her citizens would think for one moment Of
embaTking In The enterprise Of their manufac-
turs.
It is for reasons Of tkis character, which
might BE- Indefinitely elaborated, that deela
ration Of peace at the present tine-whiIe in
many respects an uadoub'ed national bles-
sing-"ould 5sse5 as with dangers that would
re ard our onward progress to prosperity, ana
perhaps terminate iB a condition Of afaiIs
scarcely less obnoxious, 10 one view, than tue
one fou which we have but Just emerged.
Hence we may naturally enough feel toward
the Ysnks5 nat on az the cautious Roman aid
toward the Greeks, when he said with much
wisdom and philosophy, Taeo Daraos, eiiam
dona T~erenles.