Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-02
military AboIitionisis.

| When the radical politician whom we quOteC
yesterday uttered the Infamous remark that
" politically, victory by Mcclellan win set u
| back six months he doubtless placed an EN-.
phssis on the word US, which gave terrible sig.
nifcance to his remark. He did not suppose
| that reckless scribbler for reckless neWspa-
| per would catch his reasonable words, and pub
/ lish them in the Chicago organ Of radical
= N. Bat the words are recorded, and the course
of the newspapers hereabouts who are Of the
same clique, abundantly proves that the remark
has been made in radical circles in this portion
Of the country also, and tho danger to u.s. - If
! the army of the Union is successful, has been
freely canvassed and is fully appreciated.
Who compose the US at the North that
will be politically set back six months by q
| Union victory The question is not only fair
but just now IS of vast Importance. They can
not Do the defenders of the Union. They can
not be the lovers Of the Constitution. They can
not be patriots can they be Americans
We respectfully ask the New York Tribune
whether 1t knows who they are. That paper
has been profoundly silent on the late victories
of General Mcclellan. While its own CORE
spondent stated that Mcclellan was on the feld
in person during the whole battle Of Sunday
aud directed its movements, the editorial, con
spicuously double-lsaded, declared that all the
credit OF the victory was dus TO other generals,
and OF course not due to the one who was ia
command. Doubtless the Tribune is of opinion
that victory by Mcclellan will set their politi-
cal allies back six months or more-but who are
those aiiies-and why win they be so damaged
by such an EVENT.
We Tecur to the proposals that the Tribune
made for military despotism last summer. We
recall the steadfast object of the radical men to
Plscs General Fremont iu command of the
army, or in command of an independent army
OF his own. We connect all this with the Gale
bra.ed confession of General Fremont to Colonel
Andrews:
That the people were in the field, and he was
at their heal, and would have everything done
according to their expectations from him; that
now we have only extra Constitutional govern
ment-uo civil rights, SO to spesk-all ordinary
peaceful rules were to be set aside and this thing
cf red tape must give way very shortly to what
the people required of him; that be meant to
carry out such measures as they, the people, ex-
Pected him to carry out, without regard to the
red tape OF the Washington people"
We look in the same connection at the meet
ing of New England governors with q Fremont
COMMITTEES from New York; and at the eonclu-
sion of all this we notice that suddenly the rad
ical pspers have broken out in a tremendous
chorus Of accusation that some one is proposing
Just now to establish military despotism We
begin then to see with soma clearness who are
oSS beACh pOtitASHl4J " q flItul " q ucElu 10
appreciate that the radical leaders meant what
they said by their spokesman in Boston who
hoped the rebels would take Washington, and
tae other representative who said loyalty to
this government is treason to God" A careful
study Of the history of the radical campaign
will surely convince any man Of sense that it is
true that the victory of the Union army for the
Union, will set back all their plans and defeat
their hopes, for it will save the country from
their scheme of a despoic government with
soma radical leader at the head, which scheme
no one doubts WAS very nearly completed, and
ready to be thrust forward. 1t will be a victory
for the Constitution, which their chief organ in
New York pronounced piece of paper to be
torn ssunder-a victory for the Union they
abhOr, which the same organ has declared to be
as hateful TO it as the lOathesOme corpse of the
victim was to the Roman criminal who was
chained toi
We who look on the army of the Union as
the def finders Of law, Of the Constitution. of the
great begUeSts of our fathers, we who hope for
victory over our foes, we who have rsi)iced st
every line Of intelligence which told OF the ad-
vancing triumph of the soldiers led by their
young and noble general, We think victory
may open the way for glorious peace, a glori-
GUS restoration of the power Of the government,
a glorious day for America But we are bowed
down with shame and confusion of face as
Americans when we reflect thst there are such
men among US, sharing our counsels claiming
to conduct our politics, claiming to possess our
army and desiring to use it for their own wicked
ends, who can in an hour like this-while the
people wait with bowed heads and throbbing
hearts for the news of the battle feld-cOldly
calculate that victory will '' probably set them
back six months ~ Are these men of the same
blood with patriotic Americans-N. T. Journal
Of Commerce