Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-04-17
FALL OF FoRT SETTER.

Fson the Kew Orleans Plcagune-l
Tie Gag Of The Contestants States Hosts-st
I IsHt- over 7 ort Sumter. The contest was an
unequal ore, and ought never to have been
permitted By the federal authorities. They
should openly, with proper force. and in due
time, have succored the brave soldier to whom
/ they had committed the perilous trust, or they
should have withdrawn the slender garrison
} altogether, yielding to impsrious necessity, or
! frankly and honestly svowed a conciliatory
I and pacific policy. They did nothing manfully
| or honestly. They halted between two courses,
! either Of which might be sustsine Z ss at least
4 direct aud open, and temporizsd and squivo-
/ Gated, protested against violence, snd plotteL
1 in secret for coup-de-nGia.
I They used honeyed words Of persuasion to
I lull the vigilance Of the South, and talked
rlibiy Of moderation and cancellation in order
[ 20 Zuil their own partissns 80 as to carry them
/ tarolsEh an election and to draw out c. pitsl-
I lsts mt loan. They were all the time con-
4 irving an under ground plot, through mean
Tools ana oJ the most perfdious practices,
upon lhe trusting loyalty Of the southern peo-
pie for sudden beach OF all those engage
ments, expressed ahj implied, in their good
faith, and the seizure, by stealth, Of the ad-
{ vantages they had coYenahted to abstain from
/ II the commissioners and tie Government Of
/ the Confederate States had b,en lulled into
security BY these tricks and had been suddenly
/ surprised Ia finding federal force entrenehed
I impregnsbly 10 the heart Of the South, they
could have excused themselves in the court Of
! honor for having eon6ded in the truthfulness
4 Ct an American Executive and his Cabinet.
BSttheF were wary soldiers, and were not
to be put 81 their guard, even when the world
might have sofRduigcd them, for being so IN
suspicious Of 50 yifa-a irsschery as this Lin
coin sehsming upon the7sqeeess OF violated
promises and broken words t honor.
sense OF high duty and great yesponf fiotiity
saved them from The evil eoaseuusffces or
having put trgss is k-Reprblcan hfnestJ.
it was, t1ersfore, with sense Of scorH Eor the
---asss q the attempt that t,sy s'' 1,l -
I struck at once decisive blow, inyigorated BY
/ the contempt Of a caiTalrous spirit for what
I ever is paitrV and false
The TAN Of Fort Sumter is the hrst incident
Z 10 the conflict which northern folly has driven
/ on so relentlessly to oyerpowsr the rights Of
/ self-government, and he most elementary
principles Of political liberty In the States Of
Z the South, and It will be remembered, not 80
/ much for the achievement itself-a wide step
[ in the march toward southern Independence
I as By The illustration which it furnishes OF the
/ energy, dirsctness and force, with which the
men Of the Southern States have met this issue
I when il came to them, and the sinuosiliss and
| psddiing msneuvsrings, and frauds, and sus-
| picions BY which the Cabinet TO whom Lin
colnism has given the custody OF the honor Of
the once glorious URion, approached their
| object.
We are no longer Of that people, but we re-
member what they were in the days when 1t
was pride and glory to rally under the sane
1 old flag We are very slow to believe that
1 they are tho degenerate race which 4 would
I show them 90 Be II they were not ashamed o.
the hands into which the baton Of Washing
I ton has fallen, to be 90 dishonored. If there
be net a widespread disquietude 90 exhibited
among them al the miserable figure which
their Cabinet makes in its ab rive practices
about Fort suztsr, at 10 overthrow TIE party
of is personal supporter, FOR some more re-
! spectacle dynasty Of rulers, il win give addi-
thei1al cause to the Southern States for having
ave ullsd from such associations. Il was said
IL On Of pagan superstition, "What must
- be where the monkey is a god2'i
rTxEsE OF rsly too much to paraphrase the
,i,- ,ou,eiI h, king, what must the people be, in
- ~ s.v.--ssfpm Lineoln, and seward and