Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-10-08

preservative Of liberty, Gnd to sho.y how pre-
cious, from its antiquity sad is tradiiionsry
i continuity, your Siste organization is. We may
neVeT know its vsue till We losa &, and lose il
We shall, if We do not guard it jealeusiy.
! Ihis community, as q political organi zatfOn.
As somatliug recognized and sbls to project lis
citiEers. is neAgly two centuries old. A new
I EnRlsad historian, WrihHR bsfoTe this anti
avery crusade began, sad Is vas a "savsr
{ eighty ever rs q colony; and one of its earliest
sets 81 Organization describes It as "a seignory %
| The lsvs agreed upon il England the charter
I from james III Lhe charter from lz0l the fame
/ Of goysrumsus; all make ibis territory Of onrs
/ twel d tiued by the limits Of surrounding SOW
ereiguties) political orgarlzsti5n Of itself Aud
so il has stood ever since and during that cor
4 onial existenee-bear this in mind, my follow
citizens of this reign Of terror and submission
personal liberty was safer than IL is BOW or has
been for the last sFyo years for no monarch Of
/ Epglsud vsutursd to do what LOeoln has done,
suspsud within thsss limits ths habess elrpHs
act, eT put 3 PannsyiVania citizen in PRISM
without Judicial Investigation.
sm not awETe that any act Of the imperial
Psrliauisut ever attempted it in. the col1uiss
fhat- IS have said, has been reserved for his
our day. When, in IVA, the English Ministry
the Stewards, and Chsses, and StaHtons Of
that tme-reviVed an ancient statute, BY which
Americans were 70 be sent across he 5ess for
lgial i isiled, T the simple reason shat It made
Or helped 20 mako a revolution. The Abolition
5i@ts COMMITTEES speak confomptuonsly Of Whist
they call tie 'scstferei settlements" before the
revolution. I tell You, ana history tells thsy
ware great Substantive communities.
Nor dld the revolution impair oHT integrity IS
soversignty. II in fact reeognizsd it in terms
Ehe Supreme Cont Of thu Unissd States has
said that sitter the revolution ''tbs lrauseendent
nower Of Parlismsnt was vetoed in each State -
The Congress did not declare Independence until
the SAFES instructed them 20 do 80. The pre-
lininsry organisation Of this State, -as 3 sovsr-
sign commonwealth. preceded the daoiara ion by
Congress-and as read the words ia which
that declaration was given % the world, I Do not
wonder that the men Of the school which now
governs this afflicted land shrink from these
evolutionary praesdsnts; for fiad that on Che
"a Of June, 1776, one Of the fsssons Psnnsyl-
vania gave for her Independence wss that, in
her sister colonies, the King had excited tho no.
groes to revolt and ''imbue their bands in the
by civilized nations" The whole pspar Is
worth rssding, in ths glaze Of this days events.
The words Of revolutionary times have tlum-
pet for as and for our OppTeasors.
do not pause over the articles Of eonfsisra-
ton and the treaties Of alliance and recognition
for they tre8ted the Ststss clearly IS eonleder-
ated soyeToiguties, with no Qualification Of their
independents organization.
And now I eoms TO tho Censtftuiion itself; and
here fell0w-eitEsns. Idesirs yOu to observe that
our opponents, conscious that its blood is upon
their hands, dare not look tho Clnstitali0n IN the
face. It rebuked them-I mean the Abolition
ists--wtile 10 fuil life, as B1nquos royalty Of
nature did Macbeth; and nos reBest they
dare not look il in tha face. This lisa day of
SeptsmheTis left TO be cur anuiversarY-ths an
niversary which tho constitutions. Democracy
are proud 70 oslebrate-,he ssYeutY-sizsh rseur-
renee of the day when George Wasbirgtou put
bis hand to ths great ehertsT, aud, ss his mo1est
diary teIls Us, 'retire1to his chamber to nedi-
tate on tls Enomentous work" Al this moment.
in almost every county Of this Commonwealth
( IS the "disloyap Democracy in eouFcl, ess-
brsting the birthday Of the Constitution play
ing for its integrity, honorng its rains or mourn
ing for ite dsmiss- That is our duty here; and
il isin rather curious contrast with this thatRs
read the original schedule of the republican
State committee the only day omitted wss this
ssventeenth. There was meeting on the IS b
at PittsbuTg, and one on the 18Th in Lshigh
county, but none on this snnivers y. A. lafe
dsy hey happened TO think Of Il, and fzeA g
small nesting at Gfeensburg. They avoid IT,
I They DO not want IN think or tBlk about the
Consultation; for, as I have said, they know that
It's habiiual violation is at their dJsr; and thew
also k ow thai irs leading principle is one they
I
sign States, and that 10 the lsnguage Of Chief
Justice Msrshsll, more than forty years ago,
mo political dreamer ever was wild enough to
ihink of breaking down State linss, and com
pounding the American people into one mass"
A thosg 1t of the ConssitHti0n-the memory of
its precise words, guaranteeing at ones ths glo.
Z rious Union aud the reserved rights OF the
Sistss dis,urbs the wild dream of eentralization
aud conFoidati0n they ars row indulfinZ ia.
This iH what history tells us; this is the con
tinuiiy Of tradition which makes the doctrine Of
State rights and State sovereignty precious,
THIS is the elementary law, sanctioned by sysry
conservative statesman which the modern zrebt-
seets OF ruin, under the auspices Of Mr. Lincoln
and his sbotien and semi-ebolition eounssloTs,
are engaged in trying toroot out Of the hearts and
5raiHs and councils Of the people Of the North
Tins, then, did OUr lOcsl rights survive every
crisis in our brief misrepresentation. war, re-
conssrueliOn-snd while freely concsis that
the States when they entered the Federal com
pact surrendered certain privileges or power that
the Federal Governments has right to retain,
aud agreed TO eertsin limitations, which are not
/ the less binding because ''sef-imposed;" mean
70 say--and 10 this do Challenge deaiAl-thst the
! rights and privileges they did not psFt with are
/ theirs BY a tenure which nothing but revolution
esR divess or loosen; and it is these rights which
! having survived seventy years Of peaeaful poll
| tics, are in danger now. The revolution which
despofism iRaugurates threatens cur local soY-
/ ereignty
/ Il was in the enjoyment Of these rights that
this dreadful war found the people Of PeuRsyi-
Hia-And the questions thas rise up before as
like some hi 1eous reality which will not be con
jursd down are: Where has It brought as now,
and whittier, if continued, will It lead us7
For two years and five months has the work
/ Of blood been going on-with dresry Gibbs and
I flows Of victory and defeat-With widening
areas of desolatiOn. and an aggregation Of hu-
man misery and aUffsring to which the bloodiest
annsls OF the past furnish few parallels Il is,
IS one of Mr., LincOln's minister's has well said
"a ghastly spectacle; great nstion lately uni.
/ ted, prosperous and happy, and bu0yant with
/ hopes of futUre glory, torn into wsrring frsg-
mentsi snd land once bssutiful and Tich in
the flowers and fruits Of peaceful culture stained
with blood and blsckened with fire. ID sii shs
wide space from the Potomac to the Rio
| Grands, and from the Atlantic to the Missouri,
tbs still, small voice Of legal justice is drowned
by the incssssnt roll Of the drum aud the deaf
ening thunder Of artillery" And afirua--no
result No result Alas ny friends snd fsl-
low-citiEsns, many results, though none Of adj
iustment or eertsin success And here, avoid
ing IS meant to do from the beginning, any
comment O4 military successes or disasters. re-
cur to the line of remark from which I was d.
verted-6he illustration of the attacks which
have aeen made and arc now threatened ag sllist
The integrity Of our State,
The Federal Government has, BY its legisls-
ton and ils executive action dOns what Chief
/ Justice Msrshall said no man or set OF men
would ever dare dO-compouHded what Is left Of
the Union. the Northern Ststss, into one mass /;
gbliteraiae all Ststs lines in as least three modes
ssd each atfeeting 3 vial interest. Il Is com
pounded into a mass--s suhlugsted mass, too
as 20 tina, currency, by legal tsnder noies as to
the miitia, By its consefiph0n; gnd az 70 the
dissemination of private rights, bY the exisn.
sion of the jurisdioh0n OF tie F5dsral cunFfs
msrsiy ststs these propositions, and do NOT
suppose any one of them vii be eOntFOvartsd.
i GA the contrary, think they viii be boosted
Of
II Let uas dwell for a moment on. one OF two OF
thsm-znd first, as to the Federal currency II
Is 8 huge engine Of pestilent misery II is pes
Silent seause il is insidiOus snd psrVadas every