Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-08


Madness assuredly rules the hour at the North.
Driven to desperation by failure in its schemes
for subiugating the South, being compelled to
witness the departure of power frem its sceptre
among its own people, and deTided abroad as
imbecile and discarded st home for its usurpa-
lions, the abolition party is now, if it never did
before, taking steps that viii forever make the
name a by-word that can only be expressed with
loathing, and its history as a political Organizs-
ton a record which can only be REQUIRED to with
detestation.
We have witnessed its outrages, without
forms of law, upon the persons Of citizens of its
own section, and have felt the injuries of its
unchristian warfare among ourselves. We have
seen their prisons filed with those who dared to
cepsure, from both sections. We have seen the
Constitution they profess to be fighting for dis
regarded in every instance wherein its provi-
sions operated to prevent these Outrsges. We
had thought all a tyrant would dare attempt had
been Accompished-Al that a free people would
submit to had been suffered. But LINCOLN is
not satisfied. Additional usurpstions are con-
semplsted. As if the cup be has rendered to his
own people were not already filled to overflow
ing, he wishes to go still further, and already
his minions are beginning to fOreshsdow what
the future may witness.
The most venal of the Northern press have
heretofore sustained ell the expressions of LN,
coin, and they are willing to go farther. A
late letter, which is given a conspicuous place in
the New York Times, thus ~instructs the people
of the North how, in certain contingencies, they
are to be goveren cd in future. 1t says:
With European recognition, and constant eff
forts, open or secret, to aid the South, the gov
eminent at Washington will need all the unity
and efficiency contemplated in recent proclams-
lions. It will require a million of men and pro-
portionste supplies. Martial law over the entire
North is q national necessity. the gODeTaOrS
Of the Northern States manifest a faetiOHS spirit,
the proUOSt marshals, Il IS presumed, t1II hare the
pOloeT to keep them in order. IF State Legislatures
should undertake 10 interfere toith TIE action Of
the general government, necessary to the prose
cutiOR Of the lDaT, they DM come under the action
Of martial taio, and # the action Of any political
party shall threaten to change or p~araliZe the
movements of the government, it will doubtless
be competent for the PrOUOst marshal IN any State
to suspend political meetings and postpone elec-
tons. If the Constitution Of the United States
is to be construed according to the necessities of
q civil war of vast proportions, the constitutions
Of iHdiUiduai States cannot be alLOtccd to stand IN
the toay Of its VigsTOHs prosecution
EnglishmeR are in great trouble at the lie
gGGty and uncOnstitutiOnality Of President Lin
coin. They have a great tenderness for the
Constitution and the laws, and feel very badly
that the Northern people, while ~conqueTirg the
South, should lose their own liberties. They
tell US that the President cannot do this and
that that his p-roclsmstions are only waste
paper. They appear to nave very little idea of
what the commandments Of the Army ard
Navy Of the United States can do. 4 man Of
firm and r~esOlute tctI, 10Th a million of men n
arms to support ham, can do pretty much tohat he
They hare to learn that paper c~Onsttu-
lions, hOtoeDeT cORUeHlent they may be, can be
Chen necessary, suspended, OF laid aside
altogether, and that Il IS. no longer a question IN
t5hat this or that consultation authorizes,
but what is necessary TO be done TO make of
thirty-four States and a vast territory one
nation.
Comment upon such declarations are unnec-
assary to expose their full meaning. HE who
runs may read" Governors and State Legisla-
lures are to be controlled by the central power
the freedom of the ballot box to be denied the
people-free speech not to be tOlerated-the con
situations of individual States are to be set at
and all this because a man of firm
and resolute will, with a million OF men in
arms to support him, can do pretty much Whist
be plesses." This, then, is the present condi-
ion Of the North this the thrsldOm from which
have escaped. We repeat, comment is IN
necessary. The threat, however, has no terror
he North SUBMIT