Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-15
The Four.h Of November.

From the Rlslmend Dispatch, 5th.
Two yesrs ago yesterday occurred tbs election
Of the msu who was chosen to the presidency
of the United States hYa sectinuai vote and
who has ruled over the section bysfhich he was
chosen. but has not been able to eI&nd bis do
minion over the States which dis6Wned his
authority In these two years have beeA crowded
events which make them moro than equal to a
century of common life. The progress of the
United States in population, wealth, and power,
was often and Justly boosted of in former days
ss the most rapid snd wonderful in history. In
Ire lifetime Of q man il sprsng to the front rank
of the nations of the earth; but in less than the
weaving tins Of child It came to its end Its
descent was far more sudden and startling than
its rise. If it went up Ike the rocket, it came
down Ike the stick" II it excssded all other
ustions in the quickpess Of iSs growth, none
have caualed it IN The suddenness Of its down
fen. Fit began with George WasbipgtOn, it
ended with Abraham LiHcoln.
Let ne see what Abraham Lincoln has done
! for tho United Ststes, and Whst be will do with
! it before lie returns 10 bis native obscuTity in
/ Snrincfsldf He has completely reVolutonised
| its Constitution, and blolied out every Veslige
/ OF fesdorn IN what ere called par srcetLeAce,
/ the free States. &c has established on the ruins
! OF the great republic despOiisn only equslled
J If that equals i.-by the iIexorablo desPOtSn
] OF klEslA. Llt D&b ClUHuou NhL ogAls WIN po-
/ li,i,al prisoners, ard accumulated national
/ debt Of over thoussnd millions. Hs bAs sent
/ two hundred Thousand Of his miserable dupes TO
bloody graves in land he has vainly sought to
! slbiurets He has made the American name a
| Kissing bv-word throughout the earth. He hes
now resolved to extend martial law over ell the
North, TO oblierate ell traces Of State indepen-
| 9ence aud TO establish one consolidated govern
! ulsnt for tie North during the remainder of the
/ war. All this be has done in two short years
and let Us see what more he proposes to do.
We will assume that be can carry ont his sb-
| clifton and determination programme, although
no one on the face OF the earth but his oHn de-
| Iuses subjects believes II practicable. Wha
tben7 Wnst will Abraham Lincoln nave then
accomplished for the Unitsd States Before biz
object can be accomplished the pTOprietors o
the Southern soil must be snnihilsted, and with
them the intelligence and skill which have
guided Southern lebor, and made the Southern
soil the garden Of tic earth. Ii was the pTodus
tons OF the South which mainly supported tn
government, and which gave the North II!
preponderatipg wealth ard power. Tho gigaa
tie efforts which the United States hay
made for the RESTORATION Of the South ere th'
best evidence Of the estimate which il pQts upol
} the money value Of the Southern States. Tha
: vslue, however, has been derived from ths Pc
culiar labor which Lincoln has determined t.
] destroy, and without which, as sll experience
proves, it is impossible to cultivate Southsrl
soil. The example of 81. Domingo proves tha
the most fertile spot Of the earth can be convert
. ed into wilderness by precisely that pr, ces
D which Lincoln proposes to apply to the South
, err Confederscy. WhsE, then, Would be th
! value of the South 10 the United States
r What would become of the sotteu, tObaccc
2 and rics 2. AMI without them, what would b
the fa.e Of Northern commerce end manufacture