The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-10

ii SSSiNNS
Nelo Leuies Called For-MorGLe Of the Cap
ital-,Secretary Stanton's Rigid and Mistaken
Reqine-Hs results-Rstnaors Still Rife.
Special Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial
WASHING ON, July AT last the great
test of the couRtry has GOMEZ Three hundred
thousand more men for the toor With what
q fearful significance are these few little words
freighted Three hundred thousand more
lives to be staked on the establishment OF the
principle that we are a government and net
an anarchy Three hundred thousand more
living arguments to prove that secession Is an
accused heresy to be put down by this gen.
GRAFTON, and not left to posterity to settle.
And who doubts the expediency or the wisdom
of settling it forever now2 To establish be
yond all fature quarrel the equality Of man
and the iDdefeasible right of the majority TO
rule, would be cheaply purchased at the loss
| of million lives, and the remotest ages oil
posterity would applaud us for the sacrifice
The proclamation was made public here at
about IL o'clock last night, after which it was
sent over the wires to all parts OF the country
4 To say that it was received with enthusiasm
would be far from truth. Nothing like the
eager response which attended the first procla-
nation for $4,000 men, fourteen months ago,
| is looked for. Rather is it deep and solemn
pause-almost fearful in its meaning-whlch
! tells not of lack of decision, OF courage, nor
of determination to strange at all hazards
| this foul rebellion-but of an earnest, deter
mined, anxious demand that these new offer
ings on the shrine Of country shall be better
used than in the too disgraceful past.
Last night was a night of gloom in the ma
tional capital In high Official and military
circles. mems faces wore 3 serious and anxious
look, while all over the city, the discussion OF
what is now generally believed the reverse sus-
tanned by Mcclellan at Richmond was alter
mated with confident rumors of foreign inter
vention, and agitation of the all-absorblng
ouestion-what next2 MEANWHILE, in the
midst of all this exciting suspense, the con-
tinued, obstinate reticense-now lasting nve
days and nights--of the War Department,
adds to the excitement and discomfort to an
incredible degree. If there is one man in the
nation more unpopular at this moment than
any other that man is Secretary Stanton. His
slight rein " over the newspapers, which even
the President refuses to relax, is seen and felt
by the whole people to be wanton and mex
orable aggravation. of the difficulties under
which the government labcrs. 1t is pretended
that the object il to keep intelligence of the
real result at Richmond from reaching Eng
land by the next steamer. But this is to leave
England, like our own people, to infer the
worst and bloodiest defeat of the nationa
| arms. 4Hht ID 70 give every eCnAA-SO~OSoAOA'S
in the North carte blanche to croak his yer
sion of the tale in the ear of the British pub
lie through the facile friends of the LondoE
Times, uncontradicted by any official version
whatever.
, The letter to the President from the Gov
ernors Of eighteen States is understood t.
: have been the product of 8 consultation be
tween the President, the Secretary of State
and other members of the Cabinet, in con
junction with eminent men from various part
of the country, and to have been at one
! assented to by the high officials whose names
. bears. 1t may, or may not be, indicative OF
! new policy in the conduct of the war. N
: doubt is entertained here that one leading OF
: ject of the call at this time is to produce
} wholesome effect abroad. The remarkabl
absence of the names of Governor Andrew, {
Massachusetts,, and Gov. Sprague, of Rhod
y Island, is attributed to their refusal to pledg
e their States TO furnish any more men to
L sacrificed in such style of warfare as mas &c
It generally been pursued, and which consists
y unlimited indulgence and tendencies TOWARD
C rebels, aud unlimited hard labor and sacrifC
e and expenditure on the part of the loyal arm
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