Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-23
signs Of the Tines-JyAo nre we Fishtins

Signs Of the TImes-WEo nre we Fighting :
From the Mobile Telegraph
Elsewhere, the telegraph gives us synopsis
Of the Queens speech prorogUing Parliament
The little Guelpish lady speaks nothing that is
not written or indorsed by Palmerston, as every
body knows Recognition and armed inter7en-
ton are phantoms which the good sense of the
Southern people win no longer see by night and
by day. The British government is determined
to take no part in the contest"
Now that there is no chance OF English inteTfer-
ence, another illusion should be dispelled We
Tepablish the speech Of DR.. Olds, of Ohio, as
par. of the history of these remarkable times.
Our people are disposed TO rely too much on the
prospect of q grand smash Of the Union Of
Yankeeland. Such men as V&landigham and
DR.. Olds, are, perhaps, ike Burns, dropped in
the wrong country, but they are not e1po1ents
OF Yankee sentiment.
There il no safety in anything short Of the
bsyonet. Hope of something turning up, of the
gradual omnipotence Of peace party, Of the
West separating from the East OF resistance
to the Onerous taxation Of the Lincoln govern
ment. have too long deludsd the public mind Of
the South. All such hopes are fallacous. The
sober mind at last turns back to the bsyonet as
the only peace maker
The North is a unit and has been q unit since
the commencement of this war. The fact could
not be otherwise for the races North and South
have always been sntagonistie 1t was so when
the Federal government was maugurBted. Many
persons are inclined to think that with the
Missoari Compromise began cur troables. Not
so. When the question OF fixing permanent
capital was agitsted in Congress, the South
Carolinisns insisted that It should be removed
from Philadelphia, because the Quskers were
etsr nslly pestering them about slavery. twas
with much difficulty that the capital was To-
Gated on the banks Of the Potomac, because the
New Englsnders and the Quskers were opposed
to q location 80 Southern. Subsequently, the
QuAkers became silent, and New England, hav-
ing stolen the thunder Of these quiet people, has
been the bot bed of sbolitionism.
In the settlement Of this country two great
streams of civilization poured out. One had its
head at jamestown and one at Plymouth Rock.
The canting, witch-hanging, nassl-.wanging,
money -wOrshipping, curiosity flowing, meddling,
fanatieal ISM breeding followers Of Cromwell.
spread over the greater part Of the North and
West The jamestown stock chiefly peopled
the South and small sections of the Northwest
Territory, which, with Kentucky, belonged to
Virginia 1t was the descendants of the genuine
Yankee which met us at Manassas and before
Richmond, and fed from the Valley of the She
nandosb before jackson. It was in part the
descendants Of the JameEtOWn stock, crossed
with the Yankee, which met us at Donels0n
and Shiloh, and who are our stoutest toes. Any
one vine viii look into this bit Of history wil
see that il IS true.
Extreme religious bigotry INDUCED for more
than two centuries, and constant intermsrrisge
have impoverished the Yankee blood, until the
Yankee mind has become diseased and filed
with innumeTsble isms." On the contrary,
though the South has preserved its great English
features, healthy admixture of the blood of
other races has kept it from degeneration. Be
sides, our people were from the start tolerant
and wellbred, haters Of Cromwell and his whole
cropped, steeple-hstted race, and its accursed
cant, and worshipping another God than nam
mon. They have held honor as tine highest
excellence, and cultivated the refnements Of
civilization.
With such a race as peoples the North, it is
idle to dream Of peace for bigotry has no ears
and cannot hear, no eyes and cannot see. Their
object is sUbjugstion for the purpose Of personal
gain, the God Of Jacob being wholly supplanted
by the God Mammon The slavery question
was only sgitated foI political supremscv. and
the Yankee only wanted political supremacy
that he might rob the South with a color Of
law
Peace viii be declared when the North is i'm
poYsTished and exhausted-not before. The
South, them should gird It's loins for the contest
rely no longer on loreign Intervention or Western
secession, but upon its bayonets Let Us 90
into the field Ike duke Godfrey into Askslon
crying God for the right and just {" and con
quer the Saracens with the cold steel of South
ern legion.