Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-14
SINH thi. war Ever Cen.ef

Ver5ed her policy, and instead Of thriving b,
avoiding these fOllies, she has not only adopte,
them war, taxes, expressions, but she has goni
a step farther, and is endeavoring to destroy he
own liberties, the liberties Of white men, in oTde
to strengthen or secure those of the black race
The history Of mankind presents us with many
insane iOlies Of nations, but none eqaal in in
sanity to this stUPendous felly of republican
America, in this noon OF the nineteenth century
A year and a half ago, the American republic
with the motto "E Pluribus Unum" flaming in
her beak, was developing her resources of minC
and body, with an external force, and an intel ma
freedom, that had never parallel in the worlds
history. "a continent and two oceans" said
the LondCn Times, "are in the hands Of this
people" With a most heroic past, we had the
promise of a most glorious future At peace
with ell the world, and with Curselves-the ter
| rOr of the nati0ns-a career of national prosper
I ity was opening before us unlimited in extent
/ rivailing in happiness the tabled UtOpias of the
poets. OIt of the Oncs unknown wilderness
| in less than three centuries, a mighty empire
| had arisen. Upon the scarcely rotted roots OF
the primitive forest, proud cities stood teeming
with busy life, and growing ike the prairie grass
/ IA Tie spring. The b0.dest and most enthusias-
TIC speculator could have scarcely ventured to
predict the destiny of this country, if integrity
/ had continued to govern her deliberations, and
wisdom had prevailed in her councils Her
worst enemy, as he5ooked out upon the vast in
heritance Of this people, stretching from the At
/ lantic seaboard to the Pacific, from its inland
seas at the North to the Floridian reefs with ell
its teeming millions, and ali its evidences of
! prosperity everywhere, must have been COM
! PEELED TO exclalm, with Ball, the son Of Peor as
/ he looked oBt upon the tents of Israel, whiten-
! ing ali the plans of Moab, ''whO can count the
/ dust of jacob, or the number of the fourth part
/ Of Israel As the valleys are they spread forth,
/ as gardens by the river side, as trees of Ign
| aloes which the Lord hath planted, as cedar
! trees beside the waters"
/ All this prosperity and promise for the future
was the natural result of the constitutional pol
/ icy of the Democratic party which hsd ruled in
| the land so long. That party held as the policy
Of its creed a strict construction Of the COnsLi-
/ tu.iou equal and exact justice to sll who are
entitled To- its privileges; autagOnism to all
forms of sectioualism based upon hostility to in
stitutions whose privileges were guaranteed by
! the Constitution. Had such policy been adhered
! to- this nation to day would have remained a
united and happy people. But a sectional Or
gInizatiOn, protesting for the basis Of its creed
eternal hostility to slavery, revolutionary IN its
policy, proposed TO govern this country By usur-
! patton to overthrow and set at naught every
guarantee of the Constitution in reference to
| fifteen States Of the Union to shut them out of
| the magnificent territories acquired by the com
mon blood and treasure of the Union; to main
tain this Union Just as the union between Eng
land and Ireland Is maintained; Just as Great
Britain attempted to maintain the union between
| the mother country and the American colonies.
| When the danger of a disruptured Union was
upon US, and all the horrors Of civil war men
aced they persistently refused all attempts at
Cancellation and compromise, and preferred the
! arbitrament Of war to that of peace and con-
| promise, and when they did so they knew that
war would result from the refusal.
The war they invited-nsY, longed for-is
| upon us, and has brought in its train all the
ruin that has waited upon It's blOod-stained foot
steps. Every fundamental principle Of const-
tutIOnal liberty has been scattered to the winds
| enormous expenditures, the result of specula-
ton and fraud, demand oppressive and exor-
| bitant tsZes-WhOle hetacOmbs Of victims have
| been offered up, and there is hardly house, as
| in ancient Egypt " in which there is not oue
dead "a large proportion of the productive in
| dustrY Is being turned from the peaceful pur-
suits Of agriculture, to where the reapers de-
scend to the harvest of death-everywher indi-
vidual and national bankruptcy are staring US
| in the face.
In the legislative councils Of the nation. every
hour makes manifest that the object of the war
is not to uphold the government the Constitu-
| ton, or the Union, "but to lift the artificial
weights from all mems shoulders, in the Ian
guage of President LincOln-to wage "an ire
preSsible conflict against the institution of
savery-tO rob the white man Of his liberty,
that the slave may enjoy it. Nine. .tenths of the
legislation OF Congress has been this session d.
rectsd toward the condition of the slave, and
how to alleviate that condition, while the awful
situation OF this government, intended for white
men, is entirely lost sight of. In the meantime
the nation reels and stsggers to and fro like a
drunken man"
Democrats Of New Jersey the hour when
you are to meet in council is not far distant
Upon you, together with your eonfreres in other
States, rest the hope of the country. With a
bold, vigorous and determined effort you can
help to save it; but it viii not be by halfway
tempOrizirg measures. You cannot save it by
endorsing and approving the acts of the present
administration; by endorsing attacks upon the
Constit liberty of the subject; by approx
ing of q war Of subjugation and determination
The cunning, unpnncipled promoters, of this
war, who speculating upon the blood and
treasure of this nation, have no desire that It
shall cease. Under the specious and delusive
cry that government is in danger, and the Con
stitution must be upheld, they are uprooting the
foundations of the one and rendering nugstory
every provision of the other. Read the history
Of the past year. read the daily legislation of the
men in Congress whoare bounding ou this strife,
and then tell Us hOnestly-dO you believe this
TO be war for the Union or the preservation of
the Constitution If you do not, it is high time
you should cry aloud and spare not.
It is time that you should arouse from the
lethargy that enervates, and the false security
that deludes you. If you believe that the fur
ther continuance Of the war will only entail un
told miseries upon yourselves and your pos
teIity, you have q right to demand that it shall
cease You have the right by all constitutional
means within your power to endeavor to make
it tnalty. Ii not, you acknowledge a right
and power in this administration which o8ly
belongs to despoic governments, that are
founded in force, and not in the consent of the
governed.
Let this war 90 on in the spiritit is now being
waged, and you will dig an impassable gulf be-
tween North and South. Remember what Ssna-
tor Douglas said in the Senate before disease had
dImnad his eye and psralyzsd his mind:
Whether the war thas these Republicans now
clamor for lasts one year, seven years, or thirty
years the result must be the same-a cessation
Of hostiiies when the parties become exhausted,
and treaty of peace recognizing the separate
Independence of each section. determination,
subiugation or separation, one Of the three,
must be the result of the war between Northern
and Southern States"
Now, the question is, viii you wait until a
war of years has prOstrated every interest, de-
stroyed sixth part of your population, and
made waste anddesoaton Of the North, or
win you demand it now? Is the freedom of the
negro of more Importance than that of the white
mani If So elanor for war. Are the groans
of the wounded more musical to your ears than
the Whir of the shuttle and the ring of the
hammer Then clamor for war. Do you de-
sire an incubus of taxation, that shall make Won
and your remotest posterity "hewers of wood
and drawers Of water to the Federal govern