Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-04

/, lower j. If they shall fad themselves unable q
no longer desrous to keep it flying Bu
speaking practically, what has been the rssu
L thus tar in the present case Has disloyall
been found an indomisable sentiment in thi
war Il perva5ed even this capital aud thi
District as the beginning Of the strife. Il n
! longer exists here. 1t divided Maryland, sn
provoked conflict there. The Union is now q
strong Ia that State as IN any one OF the Away
loyal States. This is untrue.) Il commitle
Missouri to the pretended new COnfederacY
Missouri IS now active and earnest among TIA
yal States. 1t placed Kentucky in an sttitud
of neutrality but Kentucky IS today firm
resolute, and even sslfdevoed to the Uaion
(D00bhal) Ia OtkeT regions where disloyalt1
vas more general, sueh. as Eastern Virginia
Tennessee, and Louisiana, and North Carolina
acquIeseence under the Federal authorities ha
promptly followed their appearance there, anC
the preliminary steps ara taken for the res.oTa
d9n of the laws OF tue Union It IS a simple
fact that loyalty reappeaTs everywhere Just 81
fast as the success Of the government is deeme1
sufficient to afford a guarantee for reliance upon
its protection. (Has this been so IN Missouri o.
Kentucky p The disunionists, even in theil
strongest holds, are not people, bas only
I faction, surprising the loyal ia numbers, anC
silencing ihem by terrors and seventies IN many
places, but nevertheless too few sud feeble to
prevent the return OF any district or State to The
Union, in the presence and under the protection
/ Of the Federal a1thoTites.
The President asks foreign nations to consider
that We are only st the end Of one year now
and yet the whole effective mass of the insurrec-
tiOnaTy region has been brought into tbs field by
I conseription. Tho credit of the revolution Is
/ dead before the first dollar has been raised by
1 taxation to support it, and the territory which
must bear taxation is at once reduced TO its mar
r0west limits, and is exhausted Of its wealth and
supplies
The power Of losing faction under any cir
4 cum,tances must continually grow less Bat
that of the disuniOnsts is abating under the ope-
ration Of 2 cause peculiar to. themselves, which
ii is now my duty TO bring forward mean the
/ practice Of African slavery.
am aware th2t in regard to this point 1 am
opening 8 subject which was early interdictei in
this correspondence. The reason for the inter
diction, and the reason for 4 departure from it
are, however, eqaaily obvious. It vas properly
| LETT ont Of vieR, 50 long as might be reasonably
hoped thai by the practice Of msgnsninity this
government might cover thai weakness Of the
insurgents without encouraging them to perse-
we're IN their reasonable conspiracy against the
I Union. They have protrae.ed the war year,
Notwithstanding this f0rbearancs Of the govern
msnt. aud yet they per5is. ia invoking foreign
| arms TO end domestic strife, while t1ey have
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not be overlooked.
The region where the insurrectiOu still remains
Hsgraut, embraces all or parts OF several States,
with white population of 4 SOC 600 e, ,00O,O00
would be nearer the truth, J chiefly slaves 1t is
thus seen to be a war between two parties Of Il e
White race, not only in the presence, but In the
very midst Of the ensiaved negro race.
1t IS notoriOTious-we could not conceal the
fact if we would-thatLhs dispute between them
arose out of a question IN which the negro race
have deep ana lasting interest, and that their
sympsthiss, wishes aud interests naturally, nee
essarIy, inevitably ial On the side OF ths Union.
Sach a civil war between two parties Of the
white race, in such s place and under such cir
cunstance, could not be expected to continue
long before the negro race would begin to mani
fest some seusibiiity and some excitement We
have arrived az that stage already. Everywhere
the American general receives his most useful
and reliable information fr0m the negro, wno
halls his coming as barbinger OF freedom.
/ Wherever the nadOnal army advaEces INTO the IN
surrsctionary regiOs, African bondmen escaping
from their insurrecsiousry masters, come out TO
meet it, and ofer their service and labor In
whatever capacity they may Be desired. So
many of these bondsmen have, even without the
invitation, and often against tho opposition of
the Federal military snd naval authorities, made
their way from boudadga among The Insurgents
20 freedom among ths Ioyslists, tha. tAe govern
ment finds itself occupied with the consideration
Of measures to provide them with domiciles at
home or abroad. Ifths war should continue in
definitely, every slave viii become, not only
free man, bat an absentee. Il the insurgents
shall resist their escape, how could they hope
/ to prevent the civil war they have inaugurated
from degsnerating into a seryIle warl True,
seTvie population, especially one so long en-
saved as the Africans IN the insuuectionary
Stabes require time and trial before they can or
gauize a seryils war; but If the war continues
indefinitely, a ssrVile war is only question Of
time. The problem then, is, whether the strife
shall be left TO 20 on to that point. The govern
ment, animated By a just regard tor the general
welfare including thai OF the insuFrectionary
States, adopts a policy designed at onee to save
the Union and rescue society from that fearful
catastrophe, while it eonsults the Ultimate peace
ful relief Of the nation from slavery. II cannot
be necessary to prove to sny enlightened states
man that the labor Ct the African in the insuT-
reetioasry region is at present Indispensable es
a Eesoufce Of the insurgents for continuing the
war, nor Is il nov necessary to show that this
same labor is the basis of the whole industrial
system existing III that region The war is thus
seen to be producing already dis5TganizsEiOn
Of the industrial system OF the insuITecHonary
States and tending to q subyersi0n Of even their
the European system of industry are largely
based upon the African slave labor Of the lnsuT-
rectiOnaTy States employed in the production OF
cotton tobacco and nee and on the free labor Of
the other States employed in producing cereals,
out of which combined productions arises the
demand for European productions materials,
and fabrics. The disoTganizstiOn OF industry,
which is already revealing itself in the iusurrse-
tionsry States, cannot but impair their ability to
rE., 4 Il
Indirectly IN greater distress Ia Europe.
Ga the other hand, this disorganizati0n op-
crates far less injuTidasiy at present to the Fed
eral government and to the loyal States. Every
African lab0rer who escapes from his service IS
not only lost to the support Of the insuTTeetiOn,
but he brings an accession TO the productive la
bo. Of the loyal States, and to that extent in
crease their ability to continue the contest in
which they are reluctantly engaged. The fail
ure of foreign importation ss heretofore in return
for the expectation Of Southern staples stimu-
lates the manufacturing industry of the loyal
States. immigration is accelerated By an ac-
tivity ia these States resulting from extended
manufacture and the prosecution Of the war.
Thus has the phenomenon appeared, disap-
pointing so many prophecies in Europe, that the
war impoverishes and exhausts only the insur-
rection and not the Union. | shall nos contend
taat these etf1ets would be perpetual / know,
there is a reckoning Tor every nation that has
the misfortune to be involved in a war, and do
not expect for tbe United States any exemption
from that inexorabe Law; but it is enough for
my present purpose that the penalties are neithor
more immediate than the loyal States can endure,
while bringing this unhappy contest to its de-
sired conclusion. Let US now suppose that any
one or more European States should think it
right or expedient to intervene by force to obige
the Uniteds States to accept compromise Of
their sovereignty. Whas other effect could 1t
produce than TO render inevitable, and even hur-
~ on, that servile war, so destructive of all Eu-
ropean interest in this country, which the gov
ernmentso studiously strives TO avoid know
that the danger Of any foreign nation attempt
ing such q policy, if it had ever existed, had
passed. as am happy in knowing shat no foreign
government has ever threatened such interven-
tioa, while several maynanimous governments
have repudiaiad al unfriaRdly designs have
put forward that hypothesis only By way of P e
lace to q question not less signficsnt--namely
yl,at uailst be the effect of such policy abroad