The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-25
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@itnout Tie DILL desire TO see everything
on Gods earth taken by our Generals thar
will assist in the prosecution of this war
but, Senators, it will never be done until you
have policy defined by your Executive. L,
tax 10 you as plain man. It will never
be done until you have policy defined by the
President. General in the army who will
not employ every negro that comes within his
lines to work, to labor, should be turned out
instantly. As that army moves along every
BIT of property belonging to the rebels must be
taken. II your President does his duty before
ten days, IN my judgment, there can be thirty
millions of dollars of property belonging to
rebels taken possession of in the North Gem
tlemen have no idea of the amount of proper
ty held in the Northwest by rebels, from John
Shdeii down. Sir, you have got more rebels
than you think you have in this country, and
it is the duty of our Gov eminent TO show firm
ness and nerve and energy in punishing them
1t is our yacillating policy that has now caused
Kentucky and other States to be invaded, be-
cause we have not sustained our loyal men,
and we have not shown to the people of this
4 country that we are determined to carry on
this war as a war. We shall never have peace
until we have uniform and paramount sys-
! tenn, and that system must come from the Ex-
/ ecutlvei and if it is necessary, he ought to be
told by you and by me issue proclamation,
| not only one day, but every hour; this is no
time to hesitate; put it into the hands of every
officer throughout the North, and proclaim
\ throughout the length and breadth of this
land, that man who is not for this Union
must forfeit all he has. This Government
must be preserved. A rebel to this great Gov
eminent has ne claims to its protection; and
the man who can rebel against it, ought to
forfeit everything, aRd to die
How to do IT.
Mr.. Salisbury. l should like to ask my
friend a question.
! Mr.. Wright. Certainly
! Mr. Salisbury. will ask him whether he
would make every military officer the Judge
OF the loyalty or disloyalty of the citizen 2
Mr. Wright will answer that. l would
| not make military officer the judgeofa mans
/ conscience, but we can always tell men by
their acts. We have great many men furn
ishing aid and comfort to the South We
have men all over the North who cannot see
anything right in this war. / would make
| every military commander nay officer; / would
| lay down my rule and | would take the pro-
psrty under this confscation bill, and then
| would let the court determine the question.
Sir, In this hour of deep calamity it is no time
to be critical in the use of the means we shall
employ.
! Country First-Omcs After.
Mr.. President, it was my fortune about ten
months since to come into that beautiful bay,
the bay of Naples. No man can, describe it.
There for TIE first time in many months, l
saw the American flag, and about twenty of
our boys rowed to.shore; end met gentle
man, that / was plAased t } see here the other
day, on board the Richmond, who was loyal
man, ju.tas we had received ths news of the
attack on Fort Sumter A man must see all
this, 10 know what it is in foreign land to see
the flag of bis country and meet one of his
fellow-ctizens; to know that it is to be an
american citizen. We have great Geal more
at stake than fear we sometimes think. We
! talk about our Government, and speak of it
as our all. We each know that, but We do
not realize what it means to be an American
citizen. Mr.. President go abroad 90 on the
3 couch of dying mother, when in foreign
9 land, separated from her child, her husband,
and everything that is dear to her; see that
| dying mother ask for the flag of this country
: to be wrapped around her when she dies, and
= you will then know what it is to be citizen
! Of united aud happy country. / have felt
!. this; have known it; and could not como
right back to my struggling country and run
q into partisan ranks, and talk about filling the
Q Offices of the country What odds does it
y make to fill the offices of the. country, if we
g can preserve it, if we can only save the in
u stitutions of our country, and break down the
g rebellion and the principle on which it rests
II disobedience to law.
Secession and Revolution.
e Why sir, if JEFF Davis, in his inaugural, had
e put the rebellion on the ground of revolution
is should have felt very different from what
g. do in regard to it now. 1t would have
h been less painful to me if he had claimed the
n. right to go out on the ground of revolution !;
N but oh! those fatal words, the right to separate
from this Government under the compact of
our fathers, the right to secede from this
Union, the right to go out of this compact
IN Acknowledging that doctrine once, and you
lie Ill
n you at home for your counties to remain in the
ID States? 1t would sap the foundations of all
,r our Institutions; and who is there that is not
ii willing to sacrifice anything and everything to
q. break down this infamous heresy which is at
e tempting the destruction of this Unions Sir,
n- if that doctrine should prevail, we may burn
K our churches and destroy schoolhouses, for
IS there is nothing left worthy of the name of an
be American citizen.
OF The One Thing NeedfuI.
I, Now we are all engaged in this controversy
"a in this contest, and my prayer and wish is That
a. we may act together as one man, and have 9
=: definite policy from the Executive that that
u policy may go before our army, that everV
Ae man who takes musket in bis hand may
know as he goes into battle, that he hiss The as
~ surance of his country to stand by him in al
" affirmative policy, and TO make the disloya
- mans property subject to his wants, and to aic
: In defraylng the expenses u the "I' 1uei
n we shall have system, and viii show to all tht
~ nations of the earth that we are yet Govern
an ment, and that there is yet power, hrmness anc
e %, nerve enough to punish rebellion.
of
"a The PRESIDENT AND Mr.. REDPATH.-Th'
ne ln Washington correspondent of the Springfield
av Republican relates the following as the bes
IN thing he has heard of the President:
70 Redpath came to tell the President tha
Geffrard, Presidens of Haysi, would send
white minister to this country if Mr.. LincolI
H sr Gal