Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-06-23

Fro New 10 Wor d, Nay POI
most striking Indication of the changing At
titude Ol the c, n5ervative classes Of the cUuu-
try is to be found in the scion Of the Oh
1chOJl Presbyterian Assembly just closing its
sitting at ,Iuuibus. Egery bJdy knows that no
church in past ears has in its eccl a,tical ca
picity, more 81 dtousiy avoided sil matters Of
political controversy, or practiVed greater for
bearauce toward slavery. 10 that pIudence was
due the fac: tuat this church alone of all others
save tie Episcopal preserved its na:iousl organ
iZa ion up 20 the vtIy time Of the Confederate
seues inn Ia th- G. neal Assembly st year,
even, though he'd 'ix weeks at er the b0mba-d-
nent f Su utor, IheTe was III an earnest Il RI
to main sin the IL policy; and res llu ion in-
trodUced by the Rev. DR. Spring, Of cur city
cia.ilg al 10 be- the duty OF ministers and
chI.c es to siren then, uphold, and encourage
tue Federal government in the Ist exercise Of
s fuActIOus under our noble Constitution was
oppJs.d q, ou the core OF iEexpt dsncy, by very
l,si 70 and powerful minority though the res, lu-
ton contained act The lem0test slluSiOn 10 slave
~ OF to any patty issue.
But this Tar We und 4 notable chag ge. Rev.
DR. Il b II } BrockinIidge, OF K nucky, sub
mlts paper ON the state OF the country, which
IS es outsI0ken aud cided on the subjects Of
slavery AID party Vas alage as human speech
can make it. II Il claTes that Sc the system that
makes or proposes to make the relation OF mas
.eT and slave hereditary, perpetual and absolute,
must be wrong, as it is negatiOn OF the princi-
pes and pTec-p Of the Gospel and Of the Yey
idea OF vi hCe.tJ and iual enable rights" l.
says that al the time Of tbs adoption Of the Con-
stitulion slavery was ueyI des gned to be per-
potuated, on now theTe is an '' almost supeI nu-
mBn effort ia the present Tebgllion TO base the
eutiTe framework OF government on the single
pin ip!e Uf Tcdtary seTvituds,' and that 'the
power AMI patronage of the general government
have to q great extent been welded in aiding
and abetung this tifnt." Ii bears testimony
against professional politicians by whom ths
present ltb lion has been " hatched and noUT-
lshtd aud mzgured -" cla s Infinitely meaner,
more guilty aud more dangerous thal mere
rebels or 1 al ors ;" and Indignantly declares
Lhag 10 tbs cl sss ou- cit;z rs yes, our church
members-have bowed the knee and the Le K,
by lh0usslds a. tens Of thousands, and sub
nIIttvd, while thy have locked around their
manhood the collar ot patty, and bound them
with chains thousand tod more degrading
than any ey CT proposed by th7 mother country"
The VII +, tenor Of the manifesto was in this
en-, ,hatic vein Npthipg could have en- more
aus atisfs;toTy t. The champions OF slavery and
~ syup4thizsrs with the rebellion. was op
posed Dy so he Of the 4 2 ties from the border
Stat s. ana Judge Gamble, OF Missouri present.
eu d IrsCl4blOu dIluA - ''NA C4b ~ tohO
any action on the sLll This RESOLUTION
failed ea,iIely, and The original paper was
ad ,ptsd by vote OF 1919 TO 20
Inc oth-T-new schoO,-oig gaGiZaliOn Of The
PresbyieIiaa church, which has jast adj burned
1t Clncnnst:, was as emphatic on the same
points-the resolutions declaring that "Afric n
slavery and the desire to perprtuate l., is the
eau G of ia. war" and that while they have
been utterly shocked at the deep deprBvity of
the su hors Of the rebellion, they ye; entertain
a deep deteStation Of those men in the loyal
States who never utter manly thought or oplI.-
ion in favor Of the government, but spolog z9
for ) u hprn insurl eCiiOnlstS. 5 much IN
portaucr, however, is not TO b attached TO this
ut:erancs as t. the other, inlamuch as this
branch Of the church long broke with slavery
and i;s friends, the rupture having been cen
summa.ed in 1851 But that the eau iou5,
peace craving, long suffering old school should
lake this resolute stand under the lead, too, OF
a Southern man, is rtAinly 81 important sign
of the Tins The plain truth Is, that II Is fast
becoming the universal conviction among all
thcughtfll Il people, that the policy OF cur gov
,.r,,,,e.,t has Ct 10 be fundamentally chang d
toward the peculiar instigu ion" Every man
who is not blind is coming to see that slavery Is
the cause of Il IS war, and that stable peace IS
an impossib thing unless slavery is thoroughly
c ips I'D and pat ia the way OF final death.
A Tainst this conviction the 'babbiement' OF old
party hacks is as intff ctusl as the drivel OF
idiots l. is taking possession OF the sous OF
man and cons:raius even ths unwilling iht5
new maths. The s'ernest conservatism is not
proof ageiIist it, nor could be without invertln
It's own nature, for the policy thus dictated is
the only policy that can preserve the country
Without it there must be incursble antagonism
aud incvitabls ruin.