Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-08
A sP0TLs HUNTING ORGANIZA'
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While we entertain the highest respect and
sympathy for that portion Of The northern De-
uocracy, represented By such noble and fear
less defenders of constitutional liberty IS Val
LASDIsHAM and WOOD, We 90 not hesitate to
spurn the motives which prompt the so-cailed
90 proFsrs Of peacs' offered the South by the
combination Of renegade Democrats, who are
ROW playing second fiddle to the Abolitionists
in the form Of a convention at Syracuse, in the
State Of New York,
So far from being a peace convention, it pro-
misses &c be as bel}iEereut and ultra in its ma
tional policy as the A5olitionists themselves.
The auia.us that gives tone and vitality TO the
whole movement, is evidently the inextinguish-
able love Of Office which cbaTacterizes all Yam
kes politicians, and its only bond Of union is
what Mr. CALHOUN once so aPtiy termed 'the
cohesive power OF public plumber"
In order to attain power, this hybrid assem-
bly, Of place-ssekers have deserted The land.
marks Of their former faith, as so nobly pro-
mulged several months siuce, snd have %igRomin-
iously capt-uiated to uus B'acolnites. Before
the commencement Of this war, when wac
bro-ght upon The South by the treachery and
base hypocrisy Of ABRAHAM LTECoLN and bis
advisers, not a single Influential Democratic
Journal in the North could be found that was
not fierce in its den1nciation OF the c~oeEciye
policy Of the Administration, and earnest in
the advocacy Of peace. The fact that war 70
the knife was q tenet Of the Blsck-Republjcan
creed, and as such was necessary to uphold
that p~estilent faction in its reasonable main
tenauce Of the Chicago platform, invited the
aBtagonism Of the Democracy as the only al
tentative left them to defeat the triumph Of a
political heresy, which they had combatted
manfully for the previous decade Of years.
Hence, I'D TO the twelfth day Of April last,
when the batteries of B~EAUREGARD at Sumter
spoke in thunder tones the intrepid determi-
nation Of the South, and the odor of gun
powder, like the smell Of ether, was made
in a single night to frenzy the northern
mind-the Democratic party stood def
sntly opposing the war policy which was
doubtfuIiy foreshadowed 10 LINcoLE's inaugu-
raj Of the fourth Of March. Under such cir
cumstances, while the remarkable tergiVersa-
tion Of this party may not be so much a mat
ter Of surprise, it is at least a capricious and
iRexcusable abandonment Of principle highly
deserving Of censure. Unable, as they have
been, to resist the t%oT.ures Of the Lincoln
thumb-scTew and the tbTeatenings Of vengeance
from bis minions, they have fallen from their
high estate as patriots, and passively sunk
principle in PartisanshiP. Their only grand
and cardinal object at present seems to be the
overthrow Of the Black-Repablican dynasty,
with the view Of supersediBg i. with another of
like ilk, which win be quite as destitute Of that
regard for the constitutions rights Of the South
which ia so absolutely essential to a proper
conception Of justice. All the Federal and
State officers, as the happy programme con-
templates, are 70 be vacated by their present
abolition ircumbsnts, who are expected to give
way, before the edict Of TIE people at the bal
lot box, for a h~ungrier swarm Of flies.
IL other words, spoil-hunting is the order of
the day, and the Aboli.ionists had better look
we'll to their lauVels as the especial champions
o. the LINCOLN war, if they have any incli-
nation TO continue thsE organization In power.
TIE chief difference between the rival con-
t~essaDts for patronage and place seems to be,
that GREELEY and his followers are willing
Lhat African slavery should Re swept awav
With the armies of the ScU.b, while DrcK1EsoH
and his party prefer rhat it sbosld remain, as
heretofore, to minister to tas Industrial interests
Of the Yankees, and add 20 their commercial
wealth. No hyPecsitical promise to " meet
the South again in a liberal spirit, and to
guarantee her constitutional rights, after this
ay.gsd rebellion is ouer"-such as was made
BY one Of tue Syracuse oracles-can deceive
as as 20 the true intent Of The place-seekers.
or disguise their political empiricism. The
beur Of trial for their Wanted loyalty to the
Constitution has come, and az If touched bv
the srear Of ITHURIEL they stand forth in all
their hideeus deformity confessed-mere po-
lfsfcal black legs, triAing with principle in the
search of pluHder. The South can do without
their sympathy, and she has never been SO de-
fuded as to expect their assistance. So "let
'em slide!"