Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-28
NEW York Daily News In Reply to the
Indictment.

indictment.
On the morning after the day the Nslss and
other New Yerk papers were indicted, it came
out with the following manly and straightfor-
ward replication
Strenuously, consistently and unswervingly,
the Daily Rel0s has maintained, since the pom
bsrdment of Fort Sumter, an event for which
the administration of President Lincoln is
wholly and solely responsible
/. That the civil war ia which the country
is involved 10 ~iniquitous, uncalled for, and de-
s~tructiVe Of the prosperity of the Republic,
and that it has grown out of a wicked and
demagUgical catering to abolition eanaticism
on the part Of the authorities at Washington,
which cannot be too severely reprobated.
2 That every drop of blood that has been
shed in the present contest has been a calami-
", and that every life that has been lost has
been a murder, which might have been avoid
ed, had patriotism and moderation prevailed
in federal councils.
3. That the increase Of our army the ex-
pendituro OF money without permission Of
Congress the blockade Of southern ports the
proclamation Of martial law the Suspension
OF the writ Of habeas corpus the invasion Of
so gereign States without summons from their
Executives or Legislatures the overthrow Of
the authority OF local courts and the sbroga-
ton Of our military and nsvailaws, have been
utterly unconstitutiona acts, committed in de-
hance and violation of the oath OF Office Of
the Chief Magistrate Of the land, and for
which he ought to sc impeacbed and deposed.
4. That it would be far better to permit the
Discontinued portion Of the United States 70
depart in peace, and more in conformity with
the views and intentions of the original trainers
Of the Constitution to suffer the republic to be
divided into two confederacies, than to array
the different sections against each other in in
teTBecine strife, and to blast the future pros
perity OF the whole Union, by an expensive,
Improbable and bloody war, which must in
evitably end in leaving sectional issues as IN
settled as they were before it began.
). That the grievances Of which the South
ern States have complained have been, mainly,
well founded, and that the compromise plans
suggested by Senator's Crittenden and Bigler
Ia the Tnirty-sixth Congress-, and by other
conservative representatives of the people in
the extra session Of the present Congress,
ought to have been adopted.
6 That the acknowledgment by the federal
government, of the right Of slavs owners to
convey and hold their property in the common
territories, would have been pre- -eminently
Just, and that the Confederate States would do
wisely to insist upon a constitutional right so
sels-eyident, at all times, and under ali cir
cumstsRees.
7. Thai civil war is to be avoided, and that
amity between the different States is to be cul-
tiv6ted.
3. That the pecuniary proaigacy of the ad-
ministI alton of President Lincoln is utterly
condemnable, and that the.system Of wholesale
peculation and plumber which has character
lied the different branches of the government,
since the Attn Of March, has no parallel in the
history of our country.
9. That we are firmly and earnestly con-
vineed that the mass Of the people are hostile
to the President, hostile to his cabinet, hostile
to the usurpations of the last six months, and
believe they must, if continued, end in anarchy
or a military despotism.
These have been the constantly reiterated
views of the Daily News for several months
past, and il they render our paper worthy of
Indictment, we have only to say that we coyet
no better fate.