The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-31
PoLITICAL FAuLr-F1NpERs.

FAOLI@ElADEhS.
Here, as elsewhere, may be found critics
upon the administration, who, while they are
over free to express their doubts as to the wis
dom of the government, never have any doubts
with reference to their own. Were their mo-
tives and actions and utterances subjected to
the same rigid scrutiny with which they ex-
anime the national policy, from the crowns of
their head TO the soles Of their feet. they
would be covered with MEME, MEME, rEKEI.
UPHARsIN.
Our nation embraces population of thirty
millions. PROFESSIONALLY much the larger
part of our people not only are resigned to,
but heartily approve the circumscribing of
slavery within its present limits. As de-
feated minority has appealed to the sword to
coerce the msjority into an adoption of their
measures, We can easily understand whv the
friends Of the Union are in no mood to waste
words with any champion of the peculiar in
stitution who would thrust his idol in thu wav
of the triumphal march of our armies. limo
fanatical spirit, but with a purpose fixed az
destiny, our officers and soldiers and private
citizens insist that ''every weight and eyerv
besetting sin" that presents an OBJ
stacle to our progress should be
thrown aside, and the nation unbampered.
assert its supremacy, and establish its sway
over every foot of American soil. In the ac-
comPlishment of this design, great regard has
been had for the sovereign people Of Ken
lucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Mis-
souri,. Many of the States, whose loyalty is
represented by their full quota of troops, and
by millions OF treasure most freely given, have
urged upon Congress, and upon the President,
policy that might free us and our posterity
forever from the curse of slavery. From a
praiseworthy regard to their most earnest
wishes, Congress enacted that negroes might
be used where commanders in thefeld deemed
best for the army, and the President, in his
discretion and magnanimity, turns his great
fatherly heart to the border States, and throws
over them all the mantle of forgiveness and
almost unqualified protection. He intimates
that sterner measures may be demanded for
the Cotton States-that as they were the first to
inaugurate the rebellion, and the most tena-
cious in continuing it after the last reasonable
hope of its successful issue has vanished into
thin air, a more rigid policy may be required
Unless they lay down their arms, and cease
their unholy efforts to destroy the Constitu-
tion and the Union, the majesty of that Con-
stitution may be indicated by the confsca-
tion of all their wealth, and the power of that
Union clearly proved in the universal enforce
ment of national law.
VIII Tennesseeans approve of these broad
and generous views of President LINCOLN, and
help, with all their might and energy to up
hold the Government or viii they carp at and
complain of any wholesome and decided meas
ures to put down the rebellion, which may be
adopted? Is it gratitude to such nobleness on
the partof the administration to express more
sympathy with the traitors in the Gulf States,
who are ceaselessly at work to destroy the gov
ernment than with the efforts of the nation
TO sustain itself in these overshadowing perils ?
Let US be careful how We attempt to die
Late a policy to the government which has
helped US in our greatest emergency, but freed
from the night-mare of Neutrality and the
crime of Treason, let us be grateful that the
Stars and Stripes have been unfuried among
us, and win soon wave over this entire COM
monweslth, from johnson 10 Shelby counties.
and trusting in the righteousness of our cause.
in the resources of the nation, in the ratriot.
ism of the people, and in the merciful hand Of
on overrnling Providence while all our con-
stitutional rights are guaranteed to US, what
ever may betide infatuated traitors still in
arms, in the Palmetto State or along the Gulf
let US hope that the contest may end for the
glory of the whole nation and the welfare OF
the race.