Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-03

We publish this evening the recent speech OF
Hon. BENJAMIN WooD, member Of the Federal
Congress ftom the city Of New York, which will
arrest the attention and challenge the approval
and admiration of every Southern reader. Mr..
WooD win be remembered as the editor OF the
New York Nsaos, which was suppressed BY the
Lincoln government early after the commence
ment of the war, for its manly defense Of the
truth and right. He has ever been disposed to
act fairly toward the South. BE fought her bat
ties Throughout the abolition crusade of the last
ten years, and, in the language of the Savannah
Republican, after the disruption, held up the jus
tee of her cause against a storm of persecution,
until finally his only medium of communicating
with the public was crushed out by the iron heel
of despotisln. He told his countrymen the truth
as long as he was allowed to speak or write at
all, and that in the face of opposition that would
have caused any but the heart of q hero to
quail.
In Congress, until recently, Mr.. WooD has
been silent. The fierce and boisterOus elements
of fanaticism that stormed in and around the
capitol ct Washington, left no moment when the
voice Of reason and Justice could be heard. Re
Gently, however, he has prepared a speechon the
state of the country, and been allowed to spread
it before the public.
Every Southern man Should read it, and all
who do viii cherish the name of one who dares
thus to rebuke tyranny to its teeth, and tell the
architects Of his country ruin the solemn story
of their ouirages and wrongs perpetrated upon
an unofsndng people struggling for their rights.
It affords a moral spectacle which history will
hold up as one Of the Bright spots in THE dark
rAign nf sboEsionism and iniquity at the North.
It would seem, says the Republican, that Mr..
WooD is exposing himself to the charge of folly,
when he speaks of a reunion of the States as
the object OF his aim, and the end sought to be
accomplished by a cessation of arms and a
negotiation for a peaceful settlement. Mr.. WooD
has too much discrimination to contemplate any
such result as the restoration of the old Union
with the North and South as parties TO the com-
pact. That appears to be the point looked to,
but it is 30 simply from the fact that under the
present tyranny over opinion and speech at the
North, no man would be allowed to suggest a
movement for peace on any terms that did not
contemplate q continuance of Yankee free trade
with the South. Mr.. WOOD expects no such
result, and be strikes for negotiations simply
because he wishes the popular mind of the
North to have an opportunity to pause in their
whirlwind Of passion and madness, and con-
template the untold horrors into which they
must plunge the whole eonE=- lie knows
that the South cannot be whipped or ~subjugsted,
and would put a stop to a useless and destrue-
tive contest. A temporary peace will allow
reason to resume her throne, and the Northern
people to act like rational beings instead of
madmen, and hence he holds up a restoration of
the Union as the inducsment, when he really
means peacs with a recognition of the separation
as complete and permanent.
With this view of the subject the Southern
reader can peruse the speech of the gallant New
Yorker with a real pleasure, and with a feeling
of gratitude to the man who has the virtue and
courage to stand up, almost if not quite alone,
in the vindication of our cause.