The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-25


| am ready to sacrifice everything to preserve
this Union but / do not like TO see the Senate
day after day discussing questions that will
only tend 10 excite sectional controversy and
can produce no good.
80 Douglas Doctrine.
desire toAmake a remark on another sub
ject and / hope the Senate will pardon me
for allnding to It listened the other day
with great deal1of interest to speech of the
Senator from Delaware, Mr.. Salisbury in
which, l think, for about half an hour, he
summed up what be believed TO be the causes
of this rebellion. OF course men will differ
on that point but have madeup my mind
that this is not the time TO ind fault list
ened to the gentleman talkingabout remark
of President Lincoln's that the Union could
not stand with half the States free and half
of them slave; but can tell the gentleman
that there Is one sentence which / have in the
+ book before me which has done far more injury
] to this Union When certain President of
the United States wrote these words " Kan
sas is therefore ST this time as much slave
/ State as Georgia or South Carolina and
when that was followed up by a decision of
i the Supreme Court, the highest tribunal of the
land, that your fathers and mine had made the
+ Constitution that carried slavery where there
/ was no law for i'll was not in the country at
the time; but l think understand the popu-
/ lar heart of this people-it struck the hearts
of millions of people as a falsehood and a
SANDER. The people were told that Kansas
I was as much a Slave State as South Carolina
! where they have been legislating on the sub
I ject for eighty years and it was expected
| that the honest, loyal men of this country
would swallow doctrine SO monstrous.
go for the doctrines of the lamented Douglas,
the true expounder of the Constitution, and
one of the best, ablest, and most faithful pub
lie men this country has ever produced. go
for no such power IS Is stated in that decision
/ If my friend from Delaware desires to find
the causes of the present rebellion, he will find
one of them in that celebrated message of
james Buchanan.
Parties.
Mr. Salisbury. hope my friend will allow
me to say one word.
Mr.. Wright. Certainly.
Mr.. salisbury. ! know it is generally pop
ular to attack man who is out of power, VINO
once had friends dancing attendance upon him,
but who has retired from place and is no long
er in any public position. When Mr.. Buch-
snan was President of the United States he
never did any act at my solicitation. l never
asked for but one favor, and that was not to
make an appointment to my State. He re
fused to crafty my wishes. But, sir, without
attempting to endorse all the actsof Mr. Buch-
anans Administration, let me say to my friend,
perhaps 1t is 4 little uD just to attack man
who IS not in condition to defend himself.
Mr.. Wright. L certainly have not made
any attack upon Mr.. Buchanan. l have
spoken of message of President of the
United States, but made no allusion to him. j
think it was fatal blow. think it led tO
disastrous results. The gentleman knows
what | mean, and / am not going to repeat it
!, l have no desire to enter into poIitieal contro
, versies, particularly at the present time.
believe we had Democratic caucus, and
. believe we had Republican caucus. l know
one man who has attended none of them, anC
/ know one man who, while. this rebellion
lasts, will never go into a political caucu
of any kind This Government does not be
/ long to caucuses nor 70 parties. 1t belongs Z
/ loyal men of this whole country. / am de
: termlned, GO far as this question is concerned
thai shall never be party to any organiza
tion until we have peace just in proportioI
as you organize party, you will organize di
visions the subject of this war. If 20
, form party organizations at the North, yo
{ will have men for and against this war; and
8 is the duty of the patriot to guard against az
8 such divisions.
Query TO the Point.
Have you right to ask three hundred thot
: sand men to come into your army while vat
q cilating councils prevail2 I want the soldit
i of my State, when he falls upon the bait
r. field, to know that disloysl men are to be pur
/ ished; / want him to know that the Cover
3 ment for which he is dying is to be preserve
!, If we have not the boldness and frmness
/. purpose, how can we expect the soldier to e.
+ ercise the courage that belongs to him2
It Privateers.
7. will take this occasion to make remal
| slu-k-
=, sideration this morning in the bill of my frieI
q the Senator from Iowa, Mr.. Grimes, on Il
70 subject of authorizing the Government to iss,
= letters of marque and reprisal. ] must say,
3 was astonished at the course of the remarks
l. the Senator from Illinois, Mr.. Trumbull, al
4 the Senator from New Hampshire, Mr.. Hal
u that if we passed that measure it would be
u admission that we were weak; it would
J, vaccillstion. 1 have but one answer to max
=, and alluded to it some weeks ago when
81 asked the Senate this question, and now q
= it again: Is there any government on ear
70 that has the right to call in question VIII
e. means we adept to crush this rebellion? Is
not part of the policy of the Government
4 y this country, when a rebellion breaks out,
= take our own means of crushing it? Senate
a are not aware of the injury the Nashville,
. Sumter and those vessels did to our CONNER
abroad. / remember twelve months ago, VIII
Ks leaving the Old World, saw lying upon t
N wharves at Southampton more than 500, o
mi worth of property, the freight on which wou
an have amounted to FIVE or ten thousand dolla
Ia and which was not put on board a vessel th
an in that port because she was an American Y
,vv sci. The rates of insurance on American V
,at sells were increased. No nan can calcul
in the injury that was done 10 our trade q
an commerce by those vessels; and yet it is s.
itv this is q dangerous power to give the Preside
IF the power to issue letters of marque and
be- prisal.
The Nashville.
lex Is it dangerous thing to give the Preside
ith if necessary to save the life of this nation,
The power 10 arm privateers2 What right b,
Use you to call in question the conduct of Or
lue Britain, or any other Government, in suppl