Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-19

and hv gav Of Paducah, expecting no doubt
m execute a flank movement in the latter di-
~rection.
We presume that Gen. JOHNSTON will not
let The Hessians remain ia their present sitna-
ton long without forcing them into a hight
OF the result, there can be no manner Of doubt
STATE sOvEeEIGNT Y-.CoEkCiON'
NORTH AND CUFAs.
The Louisville Journal goes of into e literal
paroxlsm Of rage at the determined policy
which the APPEAL, in advance Of every other
southern journal, commenced 10 advocate some
time since in relation to Kentucky neutrality
"a policy which is every day becoming more
eopsons% with the public sentiment OF the
nation, as red-tspe notions gradually give way
TO the logic Of facts and common sense. The
JaraaL, with It's usual Feeklessness of ssser-
tioa. accuses US Of being the oEgsn"of Gen.
PoLK-a charge 30 silly as to fan below the
dignity Of requiring a denisl-and INDUCES in
a vast deal Of rhodomontade upon the subject
Of State sOysreign ty, and the threatened eco
ereionD Of a sovereign State by the SOsth. It's
spuriozs sophisms, while they may serve to de-
luae some few o. its tory readers, viii only
fortify still further the imPregnability Of our
position with the intelligent advocates Of mans
right to self government. We have entertain
ed no manner Of fear that our opinions, which
we have been so fearless in proclaining, would
be misunderstood by our readers, either ewing
to a lack Of boldnsss in expressing them, or
the Misrepresentation Of malignant papers
Ike TIE Louisville Journal, or sven the stupid
garblings of its feeble initatOrs who have
sought 30 long bat in vain to yelP themselves
into notorissy at our heels.
We believe in the doctrine of State sever
eighty, in its fullest istitudiaarian eOnsirue-
ton as given it by Mr.. CALHOUN, and have
never faltsred in its advocacy even at the time
Whea some Of its present oyer-zealous converts
were riHifying and dsaouneing it as a pOliti-
cal heresy.
Bot our State rights notions have not in
ducsd Us to fail il tie dogma of the red tape
class Of politicians, VINO seek to out HerOd
Hcrod 10 their new enthusiasm for old prin-
clples. In stunning Scylla we have been care
full not 10 fall upon Cbsrybdis. The cry Of
e coercing" Kentucky, Missouri or Maryland
into allegiance to the Confederate States, is a
raw-head and bloody bones ~deIusiOn, which
mag possibly frighten a few timid and weak
kneed brethren among as into a trucking sub
servlency to border State submlssionists, and
drive them from The support Of an active and
vigorous war policy. But this ainsy sOPhism
is too palPsble to the sppreciative mind to
give US any alarm whatever. The metsphysi-
cal system Of politics, with its peculiar theory
Of diplomacy, may suit an era Of peace, but
it is certain death in times Of war. Let US
net, Therefore, lose ourselves in a fog OF double
mesning versiage, when threatening pOrtents
fill the heavens crying aloud for ACTION.
Without " coercioa,T' in one sense Of the
word, there can be no war, fer war is itself but
another term for coercion. The odium OF the
word, in the southern mind, consists in the fact
that it has heretofore been applied to war
made BY the Federal government upon 3 State,
which was a component part OF that goUsrnnacat,
having exercised the right of dissoIving the
constitutional compact. It has no ~aIlusion to
warfare between two Independent governments,
bearing the same relation to each other as
England and France, or Spain and Russia.
For If the independence Of the Confederate
States were recognized by the United States
authorities, and some international difficulty
were to arise between them, resulting in an
appeal TO the sword, the conflict could not be
designated as unconstitutional as is the doc
trine Of coercion, however unnecessary and
caaseIess.
We believe it our true policy, Is we have
before said, to put all statss-or rather Prov
inCes-connected with the LINCOLN despotism
upon the same footing with each other, always
having respect, Of course, for the rights of
those who sympathize with US, even should
they not assist Us. No sslid distinction can
be made between Maine and Kentucky, or
Massachusetts and Delaware.
If, therefore, We conquer in this warwick
we will do 50 surely az the morrow's sun shall
rlse-we can dictate cur terms Of peace, based
upon the cessiOn by the enemy Of the nOn-se-
csdei slave States-or such Of them as we
may think needtul to our better security for
the future. California and New Mexico,
and Other territory on the Pacific through
obtained in this manner, with the uni
versal appreciation of all State rights men,
were not "coerced in the more obnoxious
acceptatiOn Of the term, but only so far as was
compatible with rights spPertaining to civil
lied war. The immunities Of the Lincoln
provinces, under their violated and dove
trodden Constitution, can not be regarded by
US amid the blows we are now striking for our
liberty bat Will be properly respected when
those provinces are admitted as States into our
government under the Confederate Constitu-
tion. AZ well might we have stopped TO csyfl
about cosrcing Cuba, had the United states
seen fit to rescue that island BY force Of arms
from Spain, on The ground of self preservation,
even though the two countries had been in
VOWED in active bostilities.
All ms1 Of ordinary intelligence who appre-
ciate the true theory Of q republican form Of
Government, viii at once make proper distinc-
tons between rights that attach to a people
while at var with US, and those that win be
recognized after they are admitted as a sover-
eign state under the liberal provisions Of our
national Constitution.
R~ed-tspeisn, with lie dusty cobWebs and its
old fOgy notions, must inevitably yield to that
manifest destiny which will be developed by
the progress Of an enlightened age.
DEcLrEEp-Hon. A. o. W. Totten, Of Jack
SOP, one Of The Receivers under the Confederate
sequestration Act, appointed for Tennessee,
Authorizes Us TO nnounce his declination Of
the position. The appointment was made BY
Judge Humphreys, Of the Confederate district
court, without the knowledge or consent Of
Judge Totteh, and it is a matter of regrstthat
other engagements compel BIN 20 decline.
a. hon. Daniel B. Wright is a candidate
for Congress in the Second district from Mis-
sissippi.