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

D uttN6 AlIeAly uulUleQ our LtLluuEt pI4lo 20 CO
a ciliats the British lion, let us make some sac
te flee TO win back in amity, and not to subiuga
o. the South, that we may stand once again
10 comrades in arms, to scourge these foreign
D. terlopers back again within their proper imi
r am no advocate of bloodshed, but if a 70
O. eign war should be the alternative Of submi
? sion to foreign insOlsnce, trust that / shou
+ be among the last to fau prestr8ts that the hu
e Ticane might sweep harmlessly by. To sul
h serve the schemes Of party we have alresd
IS Inundated the American people IN the eyes
scOfing Europe, and it win be a task heresfte
to regain the caste We have lost in the family
g nations No much greater evil could befal U
o than to be forced from the position we hsv
Q hitherto assumed toward foreign powers
t would not have my country swerve one inc
trom any vital principle Of her foreign policy il
any emergency whatever. Above all things,
= hold dear that national honor which we hsv
ever till of late preserved untarnished How
) ever gloomy may be the aspect Of things a
home, would have our Aag float as proudly a
ever abroad, not even deigning to make domes
, tic affection plea for humility, an excuse fol
coWardlee, or q paliation Of national shame
!. Whenever occasion demands that a stand should
be made against foreign aggression, or rebuka
administered to foreign pride, or Q chastsemeni
inflicted upon foreign insolsnce, would have
the gauntlet thrown down upon the impulse OF
the national sentiment without reference to do
mestie exigencies, or psusing to measure the
strong proportions of the foe.
In the heat Of our private diseOrd we seem to
have forgotten that our great mission as a people
/ ID 70 republieanize the world to advance the
principle that men are capable of saIf-rovaru-
ment, and to check the progress of monarchy.
Sir, we are losing ground in the fulfllment of
| that sacred mission, and monarchy has gained a
new tootheld while we have been weakening
our sinews with intestine strife. And to what
| purpose? Is it possible that gentlemen can
hope to reconstruct the Union by pursuing g
policy Of unrelenting severity Can they ex-
| peet to re-establish concord and brotherly love
/ by pushing hostilities to the extreme verge ?
| What is the Union worth without mutual respect
| and reciprocated amity 10 bind the sections 2
| What a Union of unwilling States, driven into
/ eompanionship st the point of the bayonet, and
/ held there hereafter by military power Such a
/ Union would not be worth the shedding Of one
/ brave mans blood. We want their hearts, or
we want them not at ell. And we cannot con-
quer hearts with bayonets, although they should
outnumber the spears of Xerxes. If not brought
back by negotiation, in the spirit they are gone
from US forever. To conquer them may be Dos
| sible. To slay their soldiers, lay waste their
lands, and burn their cities, may be within our
power; but to hold them in subsection, having
conquered them, would, in itself, be a final re-
pudiation of the first principle Of repubIcanism
Prosecute this war until you have accomplished
the necessity OF holding sCbdued section in
subsection, and the world viii look in vain for
republic on the Western hemisphere
Sir, love to entertain the hope that our Union
will be restored upon the foundation laid down
by our fathers and 1 desire no change in the
plan Of that glorious supeTsructure. But 1 am
not so unnatural wOrshipper Of the Union as
to seek its salvation with the destruction Of those
for whose welfare it was conceived to build it
upon the dead bodies Of my eOuntrymen, when
other means are at hand for its reconstruction.
I would purchase its redemption otherwise than
by anarchy and ruin. 1 would not fling away
the substance to perpetuate the name Every
drop Of blood that is shed in this struggle viii
weaken the keystone of the fabric for whose sake
the blood is pretended to be shed. One word of
Cancellation at this crisis will do more to save the
country than al the achievements, past and to
come, Of your victorious soldiery.
Why should not that word 60 forth, even now,
in the hour Of the triumph of the Federal arms
If there ever has been period in the history Of
republics when prolonged civil strife has failed to
eurtail the liberty of the masses, have not read
that history Alright. Already, with one years
bitter experience, we have beheid some of the
dearest privileges of American citizenship Wrest-
ed frOm our grasp. And how long, al fhe same
rate, before, upOA the convenient plea Of neces-
sity, we shall be stripped of other rights which
heretofore have made US deem ourselves
tTeemenl How long, while personal lib
eTty now depends on the nod Of an off
cialf How long, while free-born American citi-
zens can be left to languish in Bastiles, beyond
the reach of the constituted tribunals of the land
and at the mercy of the Executive for their lib
erstionl How long, while the press, the guar
dian of liberty, the friend Of the masses, is
shackled, gagged, coWed down to sullen silence,
or, worse yet, become the minion of party
How long, while voters are arrested at the polls
by military process, and legislators are hurried
of to prison before they can assume their So
cred functions How long, while the partisans
of this immaculate abolition party are coming
money out Of the blood of their countrymen, pa /
rading their snowy patriotism and shouting /
" Union" with their arms up to the elbows in |
the public Treasury How long, sir, viii the 1
people of the North, taxed beyond endurance /
robbed and cheated by an eYeT-cTaYing horde Of
political hyenss-hOw long will they have a |
choice between freedom and anarchy, between a |
republic and despOtism2 Alas we viii still /
cling to the name of q republic, but have we the 4
reality 1t is entirely at the option OF one man 4
or Of a council of men, whether the citizen shall
breathe in freedom the air of heaven At the /
" open SESAME" Of the Executive, the gloomy 4
portals of the Bastiles Lafayette and Warren /
will cape to receive him. And this is the re- |
public l was taught to love
Sir, it is enly sign and forerunner of what /
must inevitably be, should the South be crushed i
into the Union. You msy bring the South to /
terms with your bayOnets but when you have /
done so, you will have bond Of air; cove /
nant to infOrce which will necessitate this gov
ernment to assume the functions Of a military |
despotism, and to break which at the first op- |
portunity viii be an aim and purpose on the /
part Of the sUbdued section. What they have !
attempted once, they will not fail to attempt /
hereafter, when smsrting under the remembrance |
of defeat, while cherishing the deadly hate that /
a war to the utterance viii engender.
For the sake Of union now and of union here
after-nOt inforced union, but the strong union |
Of willing heaTts-let the word Of peace 90 |
forth let the hand Of reconciliation be extended
Why, sir, / have heard such words of bitter |
hatred expressed toward the S0uthemers by /
Northern bps, that fear it may be already too |
late ever to renew the bonds Of fraternity Such
sentiments have heard Of impGeable, thirsting /
vengeance, of sectional antipathy, as Hannibal /
was taught to nurture against Rome as Rome /
in her quenchless jealousy conceived toward 4
Carthage to the end. And thedOom of Carthage |
may be accepted by the South, rather than re- /
union at the bayonet's point.
/ appeal to this Congress to avert that fate as /
ingloriOus to the victor as to the VanqUisbed. 4
Let the door to negotiation be flung wide open, /
flung open now, while we can make advances /
with good grace and with lsurels upon eur
brow To the winds with the doctrine that you 4
will not treat with armed traitors 1t is a senti-
ment filter for the epoch Of purpled Rome, |
than for the Christian age in which we live. It /
is the sentiment Of one who rules with rod Of /
iron, not Of great and generous people who /
assume to rule themselves. Enough has been |
done in proof Of the Yalor of the North and /
the resources Of the government. Let some
thing be now done for the sake Of the past, for |
the sake Of the memories of the revolution, of |
tho struggle Of 1872 Of the battlefield Of Mexi-
co for the sake Of Union whose cement shall
be forgiveness for the past and friendship and
forbearsnee for the future.
In place Of exuldng over victories and long
ing for new triumphs, how mUch more pleasant