Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-15
An English OpIsio1 of "A sInvebOIding 2
NaGiou.


/ From the London News,1 1Abolitiou) Sept ~
| The friends of secession in this country are
justified in celebrating the military exploits Of
the Southern army. Their praise is very high
! the achievements of the COntederates beng
| found to be slmOst without parallel 1t IS,
moreover, we observe, jGdciouslY heightened by
tribute to the courage and tenecity Of the Fed
erals, such IS they would probsbly not have re-
ceived hsd they been successful. Far from wish
ing to extenuate or disparage tue exploits Of the
Confederate army, we desire that they should re-
csv0 the fullest justice, and be considered in sll
| their significance We do not know of any po-
| liticsl object, not of consequence Immediately
practical, to which the attention Cf Euglishmeu
can be more usefully directed than to the re-
markable fests of srms by which the COufsde
| rates assert their pretension to the mastery OF
the new world. Certain we are that such a
study viii overthrow many widespread delU
sions which have been artfully propagated il
this country.
The picture of Southern success which we
are nov invited to admire must destroy the no
ton that people whose social system is founded
on slavery, Is by that fact condemned 20 military
weakness. When this war broke out, the efforts
Of the North TO keep the slave power within the
pale and under the restraints Of the Union were
sscribed to the passion for empire, and our sym
patbies were asked for people greatly outnum-
patriotism, who desired nothing more than to bo
let alone. Thousands Of weikintenioned per
sons in this couRtTy accepted these representa-
tons. A ssvehOlding nation, they thought,
might very well be allowed to achieve its Jude
pendenee; by the very framework of its society
it was condemned to feebleness, and in state
Of isolation it would learn the necessity of con
forming its Institutions to the moral opinion Of
the world
We shall not now repeat the considerations
we have urged to show that slavery, far from
uuftting 3 State for war is itself a nursery for
soldiers We have to-day what is more con-
vincing than any arguments-a great fact Here
is power which has for eighty years had un-
bounded liberty to spread Itself over the South
eTD portion of the Union; nobody has until now
dared to oppose its extension its character has
been developed with freedom unknown, since
the time Of the Greek republics; its liberty in
this respect is absolutely incapable of addition,
it cannot point ths world to a single CircUn-
stance in its condition and say, This is that
which warped my cOurse-this has hindered me
IN the path of civilization" We know as much
Of the character of the South as we couiu know
after it had procured the recognition Of It's inde
pendence, and this Is the SUN II is ct this
moment the most barbarOus Anglo-Ssxon com
munity under the sun, the one which puFsUes
the lowest ends in the present and takes least
thought for the future-but it can tight. Iss sys-
tenn of agriculture, precludiRg the intelligence
which only attends freedom, turns the most fer
tile portions of the earth into wildeTness-but Il
can fgit.