Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-23
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EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
CORRESPONDENCE T ne st. L MS Resu7hcan.l
PARfs. July 26.-Ths anonymous brochure,
on lie American roufict. has lust appear O IN
Paris. urder the auspices Of Denton, the ven
knowa publisher N the PalG1s hogat' 4 !.
called "The American Revolution UnFeieo,
and takes the strongest southern ground
Upan spdeavoring to learn the writer's name,
WAS informed that be was a ~dipiomatIst' and
nv iapsession is that he pamphlet is rom the
peo If Tndge Rost, Of Louisiana, che or the
sorthprn commissioners. Il has certainly
created some sensation here, whoever may DC
the aushor. XouT readers OF course reel an
interest in all that is said or written IN EG-
rops en- The SUBJECT Of the great quarrel be-
tween the North and S12Uh, and, as the pam
nhfet "a in Flsncs a favoIite vehicle for pOllti-
cal discuasion, aud always read with eager
ness when The issues debated attract public
attea1ion, / should be neg!ecting my duty If l
failed 10 cite the most salient passages Of the
brochure IN question, which is in the French
language ana dedicated to H EXcelency,
Jefferson Davis, BY the national will, Presi-
dent of tie Confederate States Of America"
The first and second chapters are devoted to
an exposition of the State rights doctrine, the
arguments employed being the same which
have bsen familiar to the American public for
thirty years past, add therefore unnecessary
to repeat here. The author makes quotations
from he Constitution CT 1877, the Georgia act
Of 17S8, tGe VirgiBja act Of the same year,
Washiugton's farewell address, and a speech
OF President Lincoln, in the House OF Repre-
sentstives, IN 1913. translate fhe following
from the citation Of Mr.. Lincoln's speech, too
long for complete Reproduction:
every part Of = people which possesses the
power, Possesses at the same time the right TO
Tevolo jonIza Itself and seize upon the t -Tritory
it iuhabIs
The pamphIetser hen adds:
CATER reading this Instructive extract, all
impartial men will recognize that tue whole
question of the right of secession, invoked By
the Confederate States and denied BY Lincoln,
tae a~utocrat, was, in 1873. decided by Lincoln,
the representative, in the most affirmative and
radical manner. The fpTeeious and sacred
rich - (these words are in another paragraph
OF Mr.. L 1cOln's specify Of people have not
changed since 1913. but po4er has blinded the
Representative, now become President. To
satisfy bis proud ambition, the republican has
turned desn8t, and The peoples friend is trans
formed J. 70 atETant,1 etc, etc.
Chaser II is devoted TO an examination OF
tie slavery c eytion, in its bearings upon the
existing war. The writer contends tnat the
Nerlb canant claim the sympathy Of Europe
an sboltionisis, because the federal govern
ment has Tepestedv declared that the war is
no. one OF emancipation:
associations exist in the North whose OBJ
ject Is ~ aid the slave in deserving his mas
teF's hsbitatjOn. When this Objectis attained,
what do these associations do for the fugitive ?
W5eR among bis pretended brethren in the
North, DOES The slave become an equal Of the
free citizen2 No. Is he right to vote con-
feTTed unon him ? Ne. Is he admitted into
society? TO. He is even forbidden to ride in
the public conveyances, on payment Of his
fare, and solemn decisions have been rendered
By the courts Of ph ilanthropic and equality
loving cities, declaring that the coiOred man
mus not har5or the sxtTsvagaRt prsteBsion Of
seating himself beside the white man, in
Broadway omlibuses. The tbeaters thrust hiso
from their doors; be cannot, in point Of fact,
become a servant, because the abolitiOnists,
doubtless fearing to recall to The negroes mind
the painful souvenir of his past slavery, iDva-
risbiy give the preference to men Of the eau
csesian race. aad never have any work for tie
wTetched black, whom their teachings and CO.
operation have enticed from the plantation
which supported him.
"Without bearing too strongly upon The fact,
however strangely in contradiction With the
puTitanical doctrines of the North, that slavery
legally exists in the District nf Columbia, At
Washington, the seat Of The Federal govern
ment, is il not worthy Of establishment to fad
the institution still existing in Delaware, where /
beE mus atCGAL elulibLtE5 LtLtluU UAH EiaFbs q /
living guarantee, 20 to speak, Of the mainten-
sBce Of the principle? Need we refer to Ma
rylsnd, the occupation Of whose territory BY
federal troops might assist The abolitiouist
views Of Mr.. Lincoln, but where 10 step has
been taken 10 Induce the local government Of
the state 10 proclaim that emancipation which
fire State alone has the power to decree? /
Whence, then, all this ardor, when the end is
20 distant; and why this inertia, when it would
be possible TO exercise an immediate and de-
cisive iafu-nce? l. it not the most paipable
and the most iTrefutable proof hat abolition
ism is only a mask, and emancipafioni is a high
s5r~6si6gTFefeXf lie real purpose in view be-
ing such az could not be avoWed without gen.
er5l epTobatiOD-viz encroacbmeRt and ab-
sorption."
The writer then mentions the manner in
which three hundred fugitive slaves were re-
Ceived by Gsn. Butler, and quotes the procIa-
nation Of Gen. Mcclellan declaring that 'he
force under his Command would be employed
to suppress any attempt at servile instruction.
In chap. 70 the writer AYERS that war has
not been nsde to "assure the triumph Of any
principle Of right, nor TO bring about the solg-
ton q a bumanitaTy question" He considers
the causes OF the conflict TO be numerous, "but
the ss4ree Of them al is in the p7edisposition
noticesbis in every phase Of English colonial
bis CRY, and, later, in that Of the United States:
We refer to br iEso'ent pFeteHs.oB, which the
PTtaus OF New England have for centuries
(sie) aTTogated 10 themselves, to direct the
policy, monopoiize the commerce, Tectify the
morality, aud eerutiniZe the religion Of the
whole world; a pretension which, at the foua-
daton Of tie Puritan sect, cost a king (ChaTles
u us bead, md which has, IN late years,
f0meuted all Tie agitation, all the disorders
and III be evils which new desOlate he United
Ststes.' A lengthy dpBuncistion Of puri anism
follows. hanked By a French translation Of the
RIOS ooious "Blpe Laws" and some observa-
tons en- the facility Of obtaining divorces in
the North.
l0e pamphlet concludes with an appeal TO
France snd England to recognize the indePen-
dsnce Of tbe Confederate States and force the
raising Of the blockade.
"ihe struggle has begun. II the South tTi-
umpbs, victory viii forever emancipHte her
from g system OF commercial Vassalage iDiuri-
Gus to Der production. Can
FlsRce and England submit TO being suddenly
deprived of the cotton which ailments their
manufactures? Such would, nevertheless, be
the fearful problem to arise on the morrow Of
northern victoTy.o
Such sre the main features of the ANONYMOUS
American pamphlet now before the French pub.
lie. l. tue absence Of any official progress BY
The Southern Commissioners, this document. at
tributed TO one of their number, excites coDsid-
cradle curiosity in the French capital.
WaTYI8nd--Signs at the North.
" have conveTsed with a highly intelligent
and reli BE gentleman who left Baltimore on
Thur day last How be got hsre WI do not in
4ard n azv He s-va MARYLAND IL ill. , 4r,s