Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-15
Mr.. Everett Recognition What
would come OF Recognizing tine SOUTH
CCnfederacy.

mr.. Everett ON Recognition What
would come OF Recognizing tine SOUTH
ern CCnfederacy.
In his speech st the great war meeting held
in Boston on Wednesday evening, Edward
Everett undertook to show what would be the
| result of recognizing the Southern confeder-
| acy-were that event possible. lie said
The first question that will arise if you re-
cognize the Confederacy, will be on the extra
dition of fugitive slaves. No independent
foreign nation ever thinks of their surrender
They will come in large numbers after the
separation; the South will demand that they
should be given up; the personal liberty bills
Of the North have been among the great
causes of the present rupture. Give them up,
she will now say, or Stonewall jackson viii
come and take them. One of the articles OF
the rebel programme, lately agreed upon at
Richmond, is stated to be the suppression of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Ninety
miles of it lie th-ough Virginia; they will, Of
course do with it what they please. Ohio may
be little resEive under this discipline. but
she must submit, or she has got TO send an
army to keep open this all important route to
the seaboard. With system of free trade at
the South, and moderate protection at the
North, smuggling upon large scale-armed
| bands Of smugglers, like tAose which desol4ted
| Spain for ages-will spring up along our vast
| frontier. To this you must submit, OF it will
promptly be wrought up into a cause of war
with our warm bIoeded neighbors. Above
all, the Mississippi the great natural outlet
| of half the contInent-you have got to tear
| up the treaty by which louisiana was cede i
to the United States-undo the work of JEFF.
/ ferson and Napoleon, surrender adomsin such
as Providence never before intrusted to civ.
ilized government, or you have got to hold il
| by the sword; for that is the way secession
resolves all controversies.
In short, feilow-cibzens if this rebellion
| now succeeds, instead of an honorable and last
4 inr peace we have but one alternative to look
| forward to-that of eternal war or eternal hu.
| initiation and disgrace, not merely in our rela-
| tions with the South, whose language towards
US already passes all ordinary limits of con.
| tumely, put from the nations of the earth
| What respect are they likely to pay to the re-
| clamations either of the North or the South
| however well-fo0nded, when they SEQ Us for
ever cenched at each others throats, in the
grippe of death. In fact, if the madness which
mas ruled the hour at the South had not, whilt
it quenched every spark of patriotism, deafeneC
them at the same time to the voice of enhght
ened self-interest, they would have seen tha
of all political suicides ever committed, seces
sion is the most hideous. Bent only on de
1
has forgotten that she was striving to overturI
a strong and respectable government, OF wnici
she formed an integral part and reducing her
self to the level of ffth-rate government
/ dependent tor its existence on the exigencie
of the cotton market and the liberation of tn
great powers of Europe.
Viii you, can you, feilow-citizens, submit
70 these enormous mischiefs W. gaa 3
escape the burden Of the hour, entail upol
yourselves and your children the calamities Q
eternal border strife 3 Win you deliver al
your U Union brethren in the border States an,
through the South to exile imprisonment, tn
scourge and the halter Will you take upol
Eyourselves the doom of 1" the house divide
against ITSELF with the too probable result,
this disastrous experiment succeeds, of bein
broken up into still more numerous and sti
smaller warning Fragments You cannot
SO faithless to the duty which Providence hs
assigned you. The Palladium Of cur polit
cal salvation as it was called by your sainte
Washington, mas descended from our fathers
us ii must, it shall, go down from US to Ou
children. We have nothing to gain, nothin
10 hope, from the betrayal of the trust--nC
even present peace; for 1t is a. true of nation
as of individuals that nothing SO surely II
vltes to further aggression IS to yield to upJu
demands