Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-02-07

And one arm DER il shielding throws,
And dreams Of joys that dsy dsui 3
Until the rose o. morning blows
The CORfnsiOn Of secess5sa.
From The New York Tribune January a3l
We are beginning to feel the effects Of Eofl
example. The diabolical spirit Of rebellion no
only encounters us in the fe'd, but It has enter
ed our legislative chambers aud, under til,
mslign prompting Of the Democratic pprty
bent uPon rule or ruin, it is tampering with Oh.
popular loyalty. Oao year ago, men snlv mur
INJURED treasoni bat success has opened then
mouths, and filed their hearts with abomiuabl,
political devices. We are beginning TO see thal
/ shout the worst battle lost to the Union cause
thus far, IS that Of the New York State election
Nobody believes H9Eatio Seymour to be frend
to the administration or 10 feel any honest sym
psthy with its embarsassmeuts-ye he is elee.
ted governor. The mob in Albany has given Us
bitter fOretas'e Of possible anarchy From
ths West, we hear Of schemes designed bz the
desperate and dissfsete1-canspir2eie5 tending
to fresh Tup,uTes and the final overthrow Of the
republic. Wicked men, even at the North, are
beginning openly and shamslesslv to daily with
disunion, and propose, since dislocation has
come into fasbisn, to multiply the fragments ot
our institutions All this is terrible. We en-
better afford to lose fifty fights ;haa thus 20
weaken the morality Of our cause. We can bet.
ter atfJrd to submit 60 invasion, than thus t.
make dlsiniegcstion fsiniliaF to our e0nstitu-
ency. We can better afford to let theslsveholl-
ing soldiers biVouac in the capitol than 90 be
betrayed IE5O negotiations which are full Of
danger, or to daily with compromise which,
with their adoption, must precipiiata us mo IN
mitigsted anarchy. Already, we begin t. hear
Of Western ConfsdeTacies, Ol New England
Cont sder8cies, of N ddie Sss.es trsnsmogrifed
iato Middle Confederacie5. Already, we have
hlots OF new and tempting Combinations. aim
ing at safe and convenient boundaries AMI ths
monopoly of internal navigation. Already. the
coming Congress casts its dark shadow before;
and, busy as the devil always has bssn in
Washingloa, time is coming when he viii re-
double his activity ia that unsssy seat Of an en-
daugered government. Hiihsrto, the rsst0ta-
ton cf the Union has been, with the mass If
the people, e matter Of sentiment; but q gime is
at hand watch VII noi bs in the least p0ftieal
and when We must confront pub is danger hard
ened into the most vulgar concrete.
Gentlemen who desire TO b1 eiectsd to Con.
gress not as patriets, bat simply aud nakedly IS
sad Republicans or a1ti-g0vernment men, can
not be supposed TO care much for the perpetuitY
OF ouc Institutions. They expses TO fstten upon
aar national troubles. They are ghous who
vii care lite h0W cold the CORPSE may be. If
sooner or later, they may fairly get their tee.h
INTO Is. Ihey i've, plot, plan, spout, intrigue,
bargain and scheme, solely for personal aggTan-
digement. Their llyaty Is limited by thair own
lives, aud nc lhough. Of the veal or woe Of pos
teJity enters into their calcnlstiops r. with
the recognition OF the Confsdarzcy. these NOR
tai traitors could be bsnishsd, and with them
their whole brood of venal voters-if we eou'd
send them to rest 10 the black bosons IF their
Confederate triends-f the honor, worth, rel
gion. Intelligence and wealth of the North coad
have but fair chance of exercising their legiii-
mate Influence, We might consider with greater
co0iness tho success of the Southern treason
But these men, after the accomplished dismem-
0erment, would remain-would still be with US
though not of us-w0uld be then, as they ars
nov, snd as they always have baen, the ready
agents Of slavery and the paid pimp3 of the
slaveholding interest Establish State upon
the basis OF man-owniDg upOn this continent.
and the minds of Wood, Brooks, Seymour and
all that genus, viii gravitase toward it with all
the force Of bad nature. Give these men
power and the Northern republic would be the
bought if not the born thrall of the Davis
dynasty, ready in Cabinet and Congress to do
its dirty aud demoniac work-raady to catch It's
ruuaWays-ready to wink at the revival Of the
African slave trade-ready to join an alliance
against the moral sense Of msnkild-ready to
promote the secession of.ths West from tho
Esst-ready for war upon New England-readv
to make cur poor shadow of government in
Washington as much The tool Of the Southern
COnfederaey as ever the Cabinet Of Charles IL
was the tool of the French monsreh Politcs
chsfferers in the sacred name of Democracy
would sell themselves first, audnskt their neigh
bors. There could be for us no psrmansnea, no
prosperity, no privae happiness, and nc public
greatness.
T. ~, 41
ger. We do not think so. For the p0liteal
power Of the Confederacy would be 10 ths baads
Of few men, who have been educated to dstess
.he Union, and who would be i'll satisfied with
hat partial success which left even respec' Ia
bic fragment Of the old republic yet entire
Once fairly separated, they woald bagin 70 feel
wants, the exis tence of which they do rot now
admit, and they would be only TOO ready TO
avail themselves Of those commercial abilities
which they have heretofore affected TO despse /
The great serpent Of slavery Would reverse its /
rail, and look with longing eyes toward North [
eft at its mercy by the dissensions end the dis I
Affection of lis own children. Our social frse-
iOm would be = perpetual aggfavation Of the /
pad temper and jeslOusy which ara The in5epa- |
able adjunets OF slsveholding. IF we were /
prosperous, our prosperity would De a continual |
-ebUke Of that sin which has been called ths I
sum Of all villainies :" and if we were hops-
essly weakened by tho dismsmbermeut cur 4
,ities and cur farms would be the cheap prey. Of
very mad partisan who chose 10 promo e raid I
Nor should we be without a hatred Of slavery +
Intensified by the woes of which be had been 1
he fruitful moihsr and any effort to check OF 10 I
iileneo the expression Of that sentiment would 4
1ut compIicate the public dlemms.
We shoald still have pro-slaveIy governors T
BRO slavery senators, pro-slavsry Presidents, I
md proslagery representatives aud the very
sxisienee of determined and incorporating I
opposition would drive them into diseraceful d. /
Dlomaciss aud intrigues, not TO be thought Of /
without horror II we speak sharply, we beg I
he reader to believe that We speak sincerely 1
We have not nor viii we pretend to have, any
hunter who pTstss Of the wrongs of the /
words for the Richmond regime and foul words
FOR his own constitutional TuleTs-wbo would 1
restore the Uaion By muzzli1g discussion and 1
iervitude, with 5l the s)lemnifies of an act Of
yize for his own loyalty sud for the treason OF
.he public enenly--NTbo Is half this and half +
that, snd not wholly, body, soUi ard spirit, toe I
and unqusstioning devosee Of be Con /
sGtusion aud the aws-who wastes thBl indig I
na'ion upon the foes of slavery which he Should
bsstow np0n is irie ds-whO is ut |
te7ly without pity iar the poor end dsisHselsss (
IS be Is ignorant OF thar simRA la7' Of sh
which makes the prosperity o. the employer de-
pendent upon bis jasiies-who Isl, ia short, q
eresture of shama and sab,erlHge snd psrtici-
pstes in pubic affairs without ono ennobAng