Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-01

| a Compromise wils the SOuth Advocated
The Freeman $ Journal and Catholic Register
of New York. has the following editorial on tn
necessity of compromising" with the SOuther
Cohfederacy;
TIRE WAY OF PEACE.
Is it sought 30 end this war by the Nortl
] crushing the South For such purpose N
| ADEQUATE eIsrtion has yet bean made. If tbs
is the game, the call for only three hundre'
! thousand more soldiers, is as incommensurate a
was the call, sixteen months ago, for seventy
| FIVE thous and, to whip the South and retAke tn
! forts. We leave aside the question whether an
united and determined people, numbering
twelve, or, as Is the fashion 10 compute it, eigh
| millions can be crushed on their own soil. 1
was by Irish aid that Ireland was subJugated tt
England Belgium stands there, with her 1Y'
millions, more popalOus and more independent
| than ever bsforo-shough she has been th'
I theater of the most famous battles of Europe
century after century Switzerland, with less
than three millions of people, has successfully
deisd the legionsry hosts of Austria OF LoT
Tane, Of Burgundy, and Of France Portugal
with less than four millions, has always sue
ceeded ia resisting the attempts Of Spain, IN the
prouiest days of the latter, TO ABSORB her, by
her pTepouderating power. 1t seems to be one
of. PIE axoms of Bonspsrte, which time Sane
tions as profoundly tue, that :" people, to be
free Of smother, has but 10 viii it 2" If the
United States are 10 prove this an unsOund
axiom. It must be by far different display Of
power from anything yet exhibited. Volunteer
ing must be abandoned, and drafting Tesorted
to, l. is no three hundred thousand men, but a
million, that the instant necessities Of the case
call fo-. Hitherto the paTtisans that originated
this psstferous quarTei-from the Wades, and
Chasss, and Stewards, and Giddingses, and Sum
ners, and Chambers, in Congress, or the
Beechers and CheeveTs, and " three thousand
preachers" Of New England, in the pulpit, down
to the rawky Quaker or Blo0mer Woman's hus-
band, " no reads nothing but Grseley's Hsekls
TrtJuns-have, rs rule, left thu war that has
resulted, to be fought out By the very men at
the North who have denounced and deprecated
their wicked conspirscies. But this must end if
the war is to be kept up. The innocent have,
thus far, suffered for the guilty, but the guilty
will have TO suffer, in their own persons, the
horrors Of war, if the brute force principle is 10
be carried cut. 1t must be a war in which
enough Of substitutes cannot be found.
A year sgo, those who pleaded for peace Were
called secessionists," =" " traitors" etc. Then
the plea was that the war was to Sc free the
Uui0n-lOviug people Of the South from the
gripe of @ secession fraction. Then we pleaded
for peace, on the ground that there was still at
sbe South such sentiment and 1t only re-
quired peace to develope it. We pleaded that
war must destroy it-that only peace could give
it opportunity That is all past. We say yet,
that nearer OF mere remote, the only hops for
reunion On the old, noble, grand idea Of our
f0TefstherS, must date the beginning of lis
work for realization il the establishment of Az
hopor2ble peace As the gallant Tom Sey-
mOur, Ex-Governor of Connecticut, said in his
letter quoted By rs last week is is a monstr0us
fallacy 50 ignore peaceful measures and
trust 70 " sutjugats the South" by the sword as
a means Of reunion. The Union that secured
cur liberties as fTesmen wBs Union OF tree
consent between the States. The violation of
that fundamental idea of consent, and of re-
served rights not only rallies to the rebel stand
ard thousands attached to the old government,
but las so invaded our liberties here in the loyal
Ststss that we write sentences such as these
demanded by our consciencs-the mere reitera-
ton OF the sentiments Of the men who formed
the Consttution-n0t knowing bat that, fog
publishing them, some clerk in the Executive
Department may order subservient agents, by
the hands of violence, to convey us again TO
the dingy. walls of Fort Lafayette
The Union loving people OF the seeded
States 80 Who are tBeyg Read the correspond
ence of the Herald, Times and Tribane-those
organs Of the Black RspubGCan regime. The
Tribune correspondence tells US, lying, as usual
that they arc the negro slaves. The Herald and
Times correspondence tells, alas too truly, that
there is no such element Left In New Ofleans
in Memphis, in Virginia, in North Carolina, ia
those very cites and States where it might chiefly
be expected, the prolonged occupation by Union
arms produces only an extinguiShnent Of any
glimmer OF Union feeling that had been thought
to exist.
What.are We then, to look forward to Is it 6
permanent separation There are opponents of
Lncolns administration protesting to be know
ing ones who have publicly said that this is
already looked to as 8 speedy result. There are
pTofessed Democrats who consider il must hap
pen, but who declaim against il, In order that
the odium Of its accomplishment may rest only
on the grave Of Black Republicaaism. Needless
solicitude These are those who whisper that
William H Seward projects sn escape from the
Cabinet in time to avoid the odium of the 2c-
acknowledgement Of the result Of his own haadi-
work. Hopeless attempt!
For our part, permanent separation IS an idea
to which we cannot reconcile our minds-for it
IS the knell Of civil liberty and of sll other lib
critics, on this continent 1t is the hArbin ger of
huge standing armies, of enormous taxation, of
industry oppressed, and Of peoples crushed.
Apprehension Of this is already froightiag many
ships with American citizens, re1oUncing the
country, and fleeing with what they eau save of
tL-lA OutCtos Az - al ANpo tunb no bfoHAAdoSiy
refuse TO accept, but to counteract it, to remedy
it, our first need is peace.
What is the way of peace
The way Of peace among peoples is compro
mise. There is no other way. When Solomon
died, the Ten Tribes of Israel gathered to com
plain to his son, RObOam, that the yoke of hiE
fathers government DISCONTINUED them. The
wise old men counseled Robosm to speak softly
to the rebels, and to acquiesce in their demands,
and that thus thsy would cleave to his throne
forever. The ignorant men, Of newer genera
ton, advised him to refuse "to treat with rebels
with arms ia their hands" He took the advice
Of the fools, and Israel told adah to look to his
own house, and they separated forever.
History is full Of the ike instructions. Not
long since we cised the conduct OF Lsuis &I of
France, who, by q frank compromise with his
powerful rebel vsssals, dissTmed them, and thus
made of the Frank communities one united
French nation. 1" Treat nth Tebe's with arms
in their hsndsm So exclsins the ignorant New
Englander-whO knows nothing OF history, not
even that Of his corner Of this continent. In
that corner, moderation hes never been prac-
tice1 But, what proud and hsuty kingdom, or
royal family, Of Europe, is there that has not
treated with "rebels with arms IN their asndsi" "
Did the house of Charlemauge disdain to treat
with rebels2 Did the house of Hugh Capel
Did the HarsbuTgsl Did the PlantSgenets 2
Soue such stuff was indeed professed by the
house ef Stusrt-for which one of them lost bis
wicked head and anetber Of them was driven,
with his heirs, from the throne Of England. 1t
has been charged, also, that the BOurbons have
affected the same ideas, and this has been taken
- a grand proof that they are no longer fit to
reign over msn
Henry VII. Of England, was g wise King. He
| did more than any other thst ever sat on the
| throne Of that kingdom TO strengthen the royal
power over the realm. How did he treat he
/ powerful Earl of kildare, IN Ireland. when the
! latter, an adherent in the house of York, not
once only, but twics joined the standard Of
| pretendeTs to the thronel Even when the Esrl
was attsinted by Parliament for treason he par
doned him, not because he thought there wss
justice or truth in his cause, but because be was
poicer in the realm. The full history Of the
affair deserves q development not possible here
The moral of il is, what all great State policy ir
every age of the world, has exhibited, that the
way Of national grandeur and strength is only
BY compromise with existing forces.