Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-06
Al RuRiish view of 90 Colonies, RepRbIic
ard EFuvcry.o


Whatever may be the opinion OF the course
pursued by the British government, it is very
gratifying to see the generous course of the Brit
ish press toward Us, which, with the exception
Of the Exeter Hall orgsns-the KeloS, Star apC
two OF three others-sre warm advocates OF Oul
cause, aud are constantly aud steadily doing al
that they can 30 sustain aud cheer us IN oul
struggle for independence. The London DIS
patch of the 2lst, has most interesting article
on-the war in America, a portion Of which we
! transfer te our columns:
There is no fJrm of mendacity more perniciOus
IN It's consequences. or more insidiOus in Its
temptations, tEan that which imposes piOus
frauds on society. The saRctifcstiOn Of means
bv consideration Of their ends, is a vice inhe-
rent in religious people; and no offenders have
been more shsmeless in this regard than the sb-
/ olitiouisis Of America and the anti-slavery
G. Clapham Ssct,'D persuasion in England.
Their lecturers their travellers, their takers and
tourists their historians and novelists, have seen
in slzve countries, and as the effect Of slavery,
! phenomena which the slightest reflection would
! contradict and belle. Every man at all
well rsad-auy one, indeed, who can but read
his Bjble-kuews that slavery has been the
! normal condition Of human society, and that it
has been found compatible with to have been
/ even the pTomotive ef power, wealth, civilizs-
ton, nay, even humanity. The ScripturRl na-
I
! S3aIts, in the glory Of its purity and Yirtue
Athens, 10 the zenith of its glory in arts, arms
| and literature had vast majority of their sub
] iects +" held TO labor" The Jewish law Of No
s8s is fall of provisions for the making, transfer
( and nsnumjss sion Of slaves. The Tenth Com
/ mandment tells US not to cOvet our neighbOr s
mau-servant OF his maid servant, in the very
same category as his OK and his ass. Rome
/ conquered the world, and civilized 1t, under d
Il
/ MES hourished while slavery prevailed. They
! went to ruin, both Of white men aud black,
/ the day that they were emsncipated Al
] he experiments that have been tried of the
self elevation Of the coored races, OF, indeed, of
/ even white races Of aboriginal savages, by
/ msnumission or colonization, have been conspic-
uOus failures. King Lincoln calls the negroes
together to tell them that their contiguity is
odorOus to his subjects, and that they must clear
odt for Central America. He assures Horace
Gfeelay that if the Union can be saved by rivet-
! ing the chsins of the slave, he will rivet them
/ AS for thu slaves themselves, crushed with the
/ wrongs of Drod and Uncle Tenn, most provoking
they cannot be brought to burn with re-
venge." They are spies for their masters.
They obstinately refuse to run away to liberty
/ outage, and starvation. They work in the fslds
as usual when the planter and the overseeT are
away, and only the white women are left at
| home. The black regiments or insurgent Union
/ ists have proved a failure and been disbanded
! We wonder how Professor % Olmstead and
/ horace Greeley look, now that their tours
| through the slave States are compared with
iscts, aud laid alongside The dispatches and the
/ kilograms of the beligeTents Stowe, Wendell
/ Phillips, Garrison, insured rs servile war the
/ moment an army organisation was marched
/ INTO the South; but the soda powder won't fzz
! the lucster match hiss been rubbed, but o6sti-
nat-ly refuses to dare up. We were assured toe
SoUtherEeEs were INDECENT, and their soil strick-
en- with hopeless and growing poverty. They
have sustained for nearly two years the shocks
Of a war to which those Of Napoleon were skir-
mishss, rolled back the tide of battle, and are
now laundering at the very gates Of a qusking
enemy, that have brought thirteen hundred
thousand warriors into the field, and equipped
paid, fed, and furnished them, as never army
and navy were sustained before.
We were told the Southerners were sick in
t;stioBs luxury aGd sefindulgent sensualIty; that
I they were deprsved by self will and licentious-
ness below the capacity for administrative gov
ernmsn:- What are the facts Never, we as
| 55rt with the utmost confidence; was there
known people 50 sbls in public affairs, so he
| r0ic, SO brave, so prudent, so devoted. What
ever may be the issue of this war, planters and
slsveOwners have raised up by their deeds an
! impsrishable monument of their greatness and
magHauimity,
Ia little more than month they sxtsmporizsd ed
and maured q government q Constitution, q
Legislature, social authority, that have stood
she test Of the most critical experiment with
triumphant success, and more workable, consis
tent, stable, aud free, than the institutions they
dsowned The border slave States have lef
them to their fate; have armed against them
Twenty millions Of Uuionists have attacked si1
millions Of ''rebsls,' and the free State men have
been beaten back TO their very trenches by lesI
thsn One-third of their number Of slave drivers
Iae latter had no navy, and had 10 fight in every
Tiver, aOd struggle in every town against pow
erful feet. They had not the neueleus of a reg
imeni, company, squadron, scarcely piec'
Of artillery. They had to raise regiments with
out any great centers Of popusti0n-they haC
40 powder mills, no foundTies, no paper for car
/ 5ndges, leather for shoes and harness, clothing
industry and production were psrslyzed, anC
I their intercourse with the world shut out by th
blockade. They had TO destroy their produce
s5andOn .heiT cities 10 the invaders, and thei
? villages to the hames-tbey were menaced with
( and had TO provide for the contingency of ser
vile war-they have been left without the coun
tenance of Europe, and opposed By the bords
planters yet behold the result of slavery, a
; against equality aud fraternity.
ltl5 quite evident that the resources OF tn
q South musk be prodigious-that the state of SO
l ciety must be at least up to the standard of tn
greatest and most enlightened natiOns-that tn
culture Of the people must be severe, self deny
, ing and rehned-io produce such fruits as these
All these proofs of wealth, strength, intelligence
and virtue are more than borne out by the de
+ cenHiaI census made by the Federal govern
e ment itself, when no disturbing causes threw
e suspicion upon the returns. In 1850 the bread
stuff3 of the free States were given at 334, 600
n of hr1eb ebalu md Of ho ala
r 600; potstoes in the North 60 900 900, and il
: the South "A, 600 900; mich COWS, 1000 900 an,
D Z, 100000 respectively; sheep 10000 600 in th
% North, az inst 66000 900 in the South swine
q l0OC0,O 900 in the North and 100000 in th
, South Northern 5ulIocks 4 200, 900, and South
e eTn O75, COO
2 The proportionate producer is 1S1 bushel
5 breadstuffs per head in the free, and 81 bushsl
y in the slave States Of potatoes, 81 bushel
j each; OF rice, Is pounds in the South, and non
J. at all in the North of sugar POI pounds in tn
II South, aud none At all in the North. Beside
Q sil this, the South exports E45 100000 sterln
: ia cotton and tobacco, for which the North ha
y 10 equivalent Ia word, without the Sout
: the Republic viii fall to the State of Russia, fo
d its resources are not greater, and the charity
Europe in emigration alone raises it above th
5. Muscovite level. Let but the South go on fgh
n ing pro aris ct fOcis until It's armies become 8
Is seasoned and thoroughly military as the cohori
y OF Caesar, Napoleon, or Wellington, and the
5 will need butts secession.
r We know very we'll the cant viii be-is bein
d fired off upon US bysthose whom an expOsul
d, OF hard facts have argued to a SoH ptas.-
b; What are you in favor of slavery" Or
le answer is, that in the abstract we are again
a every hing evil but in the concrete we bow
ID the dispensations Of Providence, and do not pr
Or sumo to fly in the face of Divine wisdom
Prostitution, drunkenness, illness squslid ind
n gencs, 5ensuality slavery, not to be got ri
Of simply by shooting sensualists, sOts al
planters through the head. The slavery Of L1
ne isisns is bad, but the liberty of DshOmey
al EEorse SlavarY Is an ordeal through which me