Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-06
The Negro

From the Chicago Timesl
whether the rebels are deserted by their
slaves or supported by their slaves, we can whip
them, or else the North deserves to be damned
to eternal infaDy," says the New York HOrid.
These be very parlous words, and the New
| York World will straightway be clsssed as a Sc
cession sheet. Had a democratic Journal used
the same language there would have been an in
slant invocation for mob law. Now that an or
thodox divine has given a text, shall it not be
improved by q sermon7 The idea Of the U0r{d
is good, as far as it goes. bat it requires extern
sion. Had il said that if we do not whip them
without an alliance with negroes the North viii
deserve to be damned to everlasting infamy it
would have declared the whole counsel. But
for tie partial proclamation Of the truth We are
grateful. That a Republican journal should thus
boldly attack the hobby-horse of abOlitionism is
evidence either Of advance in republicsnism, or
of a disgust always felt but not before expressed.
The World has glimpses Of the truth, but as
yet sees through a glass darkly. Surely" it
says, "we are not SO degenerate as 30 sneak odt
of the contest under a degrading sense Of inferi-
GRITTY, without we can make an alliance, offensive
and defensive, with the servile lace OF the South.
Why should we SO shame our own manhood as
to make the pusillanimous confession that TWEEN
ty-three millions Of freemen are not equal to
eight millions of freemen and slaves inter
mingled" The inference to be drawn from the
article from which we make these extracts is,
that we can manage very well without such an
alliance, but that il would not be Objectionable.
The inconsistency Of any such idea is shown
by the quotations we have made. We are sur
priSed that the inconsistency should no: have
been noted and avoided. What is this proposed
alliance 2 1t is a union between freemen aud
slaves-between the most elevated and most de-
graded of races-a virtual acknowledgment Of
equality union between intelligence and ig-
noTance-a confession Of cOwardice and weak
Mesa lOathsome amslgamation, having in it
all that is revolving and unredesmed by q single
feature of honor or policy. We suggest that it
is not enough to say that We can manage with
out such an alliance; but it should be denounced
with scOrn and dstestatiOn.
The object sought by such an alliance is alone
enough to damn it. The creation Of a servile
instruction in the South, with all its attendant
horrors, would SO blacken our history that
neither past glory nor future effort could offAeo
the stain. Those who advocate this alliance
have spent years in prOmulgsting false and fan
ciful theories of Southern weakness and imbe-
eility-WhO assured Us that the South could not
be- driven from the Union, but who are now eager
to acknowledge defeat, and affirm that cur only
hope is in a negro alliance.
If we are indeed sunk so low, 1t is time the
scepter should be taken from the hands Of the
people. Lett be buried in Virginia, whose rebels
we are unable to conquer without the assistance
of their slaves. If Douglas was right in saying
this is a government Of white men, framed by
white men for the benefit of white men, what
right have we to ask negroes to help US in up
holding i'll why, look you how unworthy a
thing you would make us - twenty-three mil
lions to eight. Oars freemen, educated, hardy
and bold-theirs half slaves, ignorant and bTu-
taIizsd. We with material resources that moro
than treble theirs, and an unrestricted trade with
the world with a navy that blockades every
harbor on their coast, cutting them off from all
supplies but those furnished by their own terri
tory, where manufactures are hardly known;
with an army equal to theirs in the field, and
three hundred thousand more called for and
which will soon be ready-and yet we are to
seek an alliance with slaves.
We ask, and assert with cur New York CO.
why should we so shame our
manhood as to make the pusillanimous comics
sion ~ awe can whip them, or else the North
deserves to be damned to everlasting infsmy."