The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-15
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the question of the degree of the loyalty or /
disloyalty of the sssheroie Yallandigham," |
q immortal j. n. Free and 20. blessed Mar I
tyr" Sammedary Convention. So far as the /
Commercial is concerned, it has not charged |
that the Convention was one of traitors. There |
were good many honest men and earnest |
friends of the Government in it; but they |
were not the men who made the noise on the
occasion. There can be no question, by any /
candid and intelligent person who looked upon
the proceedings, or who has read the reports of
the Convention, that there was very consid-
cradle element of rank hostility to the Govern.
ment in it. Ae lFonh not make SO grave q
statement if it could not be amply substanti-
ated- The proof is at hand. The editor of
the Ashland UaiOn was delegate. He says:
"This Is damnei Abolition scGr. IFe beLieUe
Abe Lincoln Is as mach of traitor as JEFF.
Davis"
The editor of the Crawford County Fo77ann
was delegate. He says Of this Administra-
ton: s-st
at has put asnss in the hands IF Osetla,os,
tAieUes, asstrderers and traitors
The late editor of the Circleville Watcknsan,
who said of Gen. Butler:
Why don't the men of Ne,p Orleans shoot
the infamous aOretci IKE they sDoald reptile or
dog q'-
would have been nominated as candidate for
Secretary of State, if it had not been for the
circulation of q story that he was crazy; and
the arrest of this villain, who had recon-
mended the assassination of a Democratic
General, who groaned and howled over from
the beginning to the end of the Convention.
The orators, from the Hheroic Vallandigham''
to " the immortal j. N. Free" got pathetieker
and pathesicker, continually, on the subject.
Vallandigham protested to believe that the
Democracy were being prosecuted for their
i nfr
out q case where Democrat has been abused
or ill-treated in any respect, in consequence Of
his principles. The assertion that Democrats
! have been prosecuted by the Federal authori-
ties as suck is traitor Lie and all the traitors
and liars know it. Therefore, when Vallan-
digham calls Upon the Democracy, if they
are the men their fathers were, to resist the
prosecutions of the Government and the ag-
gressions of 1.-THE Tyraat,p (he uses the term,)
what does he mean2 Simply to stir up sedi-
/ ton, TO help Breckenridge, Burnett, and other
| traitors in arms, who are his confidential
friends, out of bad scrape, and to promote
his scheme, eloaked under q simulated adora-
ton of the geographical Mississippi Valley,
| for using the Northwestern States as q tail
/ for the Southern kite. He would now give
the Southern rebels that aid and comfort from
his party, upon which they depended when
they commenced the war. IS $50
What does Judge Ranney mean, when with
long drawn visage be talks about his Bunker
Bill ancestry, and declares tIf the a1GT is pros
| ecuted for the overthrow of our free institu-
tions, every drop OF bloodshed is poison to the
body polite, and every dollar spent goes to
forge the chains upon the people?' What
does he mean 2 He knows very well that the
war is not waged for any such purpose as he
insinuates. There is not an atom of testimony
to support his dastardly inuendo, and he is
abundantfy smart to know it. Why then his
If? Simply insidiously to destroy confidence
IN the Government. With what purpose
4 What good end does he expect to accomplish?
Clearly enough he is with Mr.. Vallandigham
in the sLheme of building up asectionsl party
IN the Northwest, that the Union may be fur
Their dismembered preparatory to converting
the Northwestern States into provinces of the
Southern 4Cenfederaey. This is the gentle
mans attachment to Bunker Hill and the
Union And when Judge Thurman speaks,
4 and with high bred sheer talks of the idea
that prevailed that "the South 2 would be
overrun in ninety DAYS, land some loyal
Democrat, with more whisky than discre-
ton in him, blabs in tone of unctious salts
TACTICS, referring to the reverses before Rich
inond, sYes and they got whipped, y he passes
on cosnplacently to tell--not how the rebels
proposed to hoist their flag over Boston, but
j how Democrats have suffered in this war. He
tells us they ave made enormous sacrifices OF
their principles, prejudices and feelings, and
yet have been prosecuted for righteousness
sake.
What peculiar sacrifice of principle and
feeling have the Democracy made, we should
like to know Is it opposed to their princi-
Piles to sustain the Government of the United
States? Are the:- feelings in favor of the
traitors at war with US, rather than for the
Government III not, why talk about sacrif-
ees Of principle and feeling2 But Judge
Thurman made great and lamentable cutlery,
winding up with the pious exclamation
% Great God Almighty" And, tit is almost
time this thing should stop Voices from the
crowd responded /" Yes, yes played out" +
What thing must stop, Judge? What is
"played out" gentlemen of the Democracy
Do you mean the defense of the cause of the
Union-the war That was what seemed to
be understood. Judge Thurman complained
of the treatment of q Democratic Generals .
They had been, as Democrats, subjected to the
most astounding villifcetion. Well, how did
so many Democrats come to be Generals p
Judge Thurman claimed nearly all our Gener-
ais as members of his party. Did Old Abe do
violence to them by giving them such high
commissions Were they impressed into Ma
jor Generalships Were they prosecuted into
the command of our armies. For shame,
Judge Thurman, are you so parltry person
as not TO see the pueility as well as the wick
ednessof sour explanatory insinuations
AS for the several sraall fry who made the
night of the Fourth hideous from the ba,cony
of the Goodale House, being less able to cover
part of their meaning thaa their illustrious
J predecessors, their speeches, though ia the
! same temper, were most positively indecent
and disloyal Hence the dismal rehash of the
: old party slang and SANDER of hepresidential
i fxryn hat
) fool suppose it would do to charge "Black
) Republicans with the sole responsibility Of
the war? What proper object could be fur
: thered by disrespectful personalities regarding
the President and elaborate efforts to rouse al
i the old party prejudices against him ? In wha
way did the loud-moutl. ed blatherskites pre-
sumo they would improve the cause of The