Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-02-04

eoufre o. ages through nataro and without cor
of States or people once united and speaking The sam
isnglage, who have been forced permanently asunde
~ e7i srts OF war unless they we're separated by dis
tanee or vast neutral boundaries.
e The secession Of the Ten Tribes b the exception
inese parted without actual war; and their subsequent
history Is not encouraging 20 secession, But wher
NOSES the greatest Of al statesmen would secure dis
inet nationality and goyeTnment to the Hebrews h.
len Egypt and established ais people in distant couu
Try Ia modern times, the Netherands three centuries
ago, won their Independence by the sword but France
sna me Eagsh Channel separate them from Splln So
ela our lhrteen Coionitsi bat the Atlantic Ocean di
, vureed US frCm England SO did Mexico and other
Spanish Colonies IN America but the sane ocean al
Flded them from Spain Cnbs and The Canaias sf
adhere to the parent government AMI who nrrv North
or South in Europe or America looking into history
shall pTesumptuously say that because u civil war tE
reuaioa Of these States is impossible War indeed
while it lasts Is dsunion; ard If it lasts long enough
VIII be hnss eternal separation first and ansreay AID
/ despotsm afterward. Hence ! would hasten peace
now To- oday, by every honorsble appliance.
Are there physical cases -hich render reunion in
practicabei None. Whsre other causes do not con
trei rivers unite but noun;ains deserts and great
bodies Of water-cceaHi dSss0ca5a 5aes-ssparate pro
pie Va forests originally, ard the lakes now also
4lFlda us not very widely or wholly fr0m Cauaua,
though we speak the same langUags and similar g.
manners. laws and institutions 0ur chief nayigabie
Figers from north to south Most Of bays and
arms OF the take the direction Natural causes
ali tend 70 union except rs hetweaa the Pac6e coast
and the country OF the Rocky 5fouutaas to the Az
! lsntc. It is manifest destiny Union is empire
Hence, hitherto have continually extended our terri
tory and the JJnisn wi H. south and west The ron
sana purchase, Florida, and Texas ali attest it. We
passed desert and forest, and scaled the Rocky
| mountains to extend the Union to the Pacific Sir
there is natural boundary between ths North aud
the South ando line Of latitude npon which to sapa
rate and ever line of ougude skaiI be established
u viii be east OF the Mississippi Valley TIE Ailegha
/ MES are no longer barrier. highways ascend them
everywhere, and the railroads climb their summils
and span their elasms penetrate their roctes des
Inc electro telegraph follows and stretching its con
/ lghtnngs with the fires Of heaven
But 4 dsuaionists in the East WIN force separation
Of any Of these States and bounda y line purely con
ventna is al last to be marked out it must and II Will
be either from Lake Erie upon ths shortest line 10 Che
l Ohio ri Ier, or from Manhattan to the Clnalas
aud now, sir, is there any difference Of raee hsre 50
radical TO forbid reuionl do not refer tof1e negro
race, styled now uzctous official phrase BY the Pres
dert, Americans Of African descent Certainly Sir
there two white ia the United ates both rom
the same common stock, aud yet SO dsiiucr--0ns OF
them so peculiar-ihat they develop ffsren, forms OF
civilization, and might belong almost dirent types
Of mankind. Bat tss boundary Of these two races e.
DOT at all marked by the line which divides The slave
DiSOns can never be the line
Next sir do not the which, in the beginning
imPsled to union stii exist IN their utmost fores and
sxtenti What were they
First the common dsscent-and therefore eenssn.
gunityoi the great mass Of he people from the Anglo
saxon stock. Had the Canadas been settled originally
5y he English, they would doubtless have f0Iowss III
fortunes OF the thirteen colonies Next common Ian
g1age one o. the strongest Of the gaments which bind
people. had We been contiguous to Great Bsiiain,
either the causes which led to the separation woald
have never ex sted or else been speedily we'd; or
dterward We would long sinee have ben reunited
equals and with all the rights Of Engiishnen. And
along with these similar at lea.t essentially
dssmilar r., habits, laws, religion and nstitu-
tiOns Of all kinds, except The coumou defense
another powerful incentive. and is named n IN
Oonst tuition one among the objects Of the more per
feet Union Of ileL Stronger yet than al these, p
haps, but made up Of ali Of them, was common inter
Variety Of climate aud s1 and th Tefore Of PRO
ucton, imp ying also extent Of country s not an ee-
nen Of separation cut added 20 eoatigulty becomes
part Of the gameut Of Interest aud Of the tough
est strands.
Variety of production the parent Of the earliest con
nsrce aud trade The e. in their fu Developments
between foreign ma ols, hes ages for peacs
and between States and people uted they are the IA
st bonds Of Unioa Bat, after all the Strongest the
nany original inpeling causes TO the Unon was the
occurring Of domestic tranquility. The Statesmen Of /
s7s7 gvel knew that leiwee three independent huf
contiguous States without ra ural b0aniEy aud Yiih
nothing separae them except the machinery of m
lar government there must be perpetua' IN fact
iTrepressole conflict = JdrSdie ION and interest
which there being other common arhiter could only
be terminated by the eonnl It cf the sword and Che
ilsesnen OF 1862 ought 70 know that two or more Con
iederate governments made Of similar States, having
natural boundary either, and separated only 5y dit
terent goyerumentsi can lot endure long together in
peace, unless them be either too pesiiai-
nous for iiyalryt or too Insignificant to provoke IT,
100 weak to resist aggression
These, SIR along rne rstrsgli-s.,-7rs --.s,r
md the securing Of the general welfre, and Of The |
sings of liberty to themselves aud Their osteriy
made the and motives which in9e led our "a.
theirs to the Union at fret.
And now, sir. what enc Of them is wautingl what
one diminishee} On the contrary many Of hem are
stro7 ger to-day than IN the beginning Migration and
nteTmarriags have strengthened the lies Of consan
suinty. Commerce, trade End production have I'M
nensely multiplied Cotton almost unknown here 10
i7s7 Is ro the chfef product and export the country
It has SCI in mellon three-fourths Of the sniGdes
New England, snd given employment directly or re /
n0ely 10 full half he sEippn trads and commerce
he United States More han that cotton has Kept the
jeace between England aud America for thirty years
and lad the people Of the North been WI and pra
col the Statesmen of Great Britain, it would have
maintained Union aud peace here. But are being /
taught in first century and at cost. the
which England learned through te long ana oloody
experience Of eight hundred years We shall be wiser
next time. Let not cotton be king but peace maker,
and inherit the blessing
A common interest, then still remains TO us. And
Union for the common defense, at the end Of this
taxed, indebted, impoverished, exhausted, both sec
lions must be- AID with foreign fleets aud armies around
US will be iy-fold ntiai than ever before
And inay, SIR without Union domestic tranquility
must forever remain tiled. II it cannot be main
iainel within the Union now then outside OF IT, without
an exodus colonization Of the Ope Of one section
5r the other to a distant country Sir, repeat that
Two governments inef nAed and bound together every
way by physical and social ligaments cs1not exist in
peace without common arbit-r VIII tTeates bind
What better treaty than the CanstitIti0nf What
more solemn durablef Shall yvc settle our dis
pntes then by arbitration aud compromised Sir, let US
arbitrate and compromise now inside Of tas Union
Certainly it win be quite easy.
And now sir to al these original snd motives
which impeed to union at frss must be added certain
ruhcial lsg ments which eighty years Of assoc4tio
under common govern eat have mostfuily developed
Chief among these are canals, steam navigation raj
press and that terrib agent OF good and evil mixed
spirit Of health and yet goba damne 'if Free the
yenflest minister Of ruin and liberty when ensaved he
suppest instrument Of fasehOod and iys nythe mag
ueiic telegraph. All these have multiplied he speed
the quantity Of trade, travel comnUnicatiU mgra-
ton and Intercourse OF al klnds DetWeen the different
States and sections; and thus, 20 long healthy on
diton Of the body polite continued, they became pow
srfu cementing agencies of union. The vol
untary sssociadors arts ic Literary, charitable social
aud scientific until corrupted aud made lanatcal the
various ecclesiastical organizations until they divided
tifa al II Hc
national and not sectional, also among the strong
ties which bound u7 together. And vet all dl these
perverted and abused for years in the ha Is Of bad
ortauatlc2 naep' became mo powert7 ias1runlentah
ties the fatal work OF disu just th veles and
arteries Of the human body designed convey The vi
alizing huid through every part Of II, VIII carry also
and with increased rapdity may be- the s1ate poison
which takes life away. Nor is this all It through
their agency that the Imprisoned winds Of evil
all let loose rst with ueh sudden and apnang fry
and, kept in motion by political power they have mia
stored 10 thst fury ever since But potent utke for
good and evil they may get under the control Of the
people and in the hauds Of wise, good and psriodc
men, be made the most effective agencies, uoder Pr0yi
deuce,, in the reunion OF Ihese States.
Other ties, also less material in their nature, but
hardly less persuasive, have grown up under the Ulon
Long association aconnlon history national reputation
treaties nud diplomatic intercourse sofoaui admission OF
new States, common Jurisprudence, great men whose
names and fame are patrmony Of the whole country
| patriotic music and songs common battle neids and
| glory under the same hag--these make up the
poetry Of Union and yet in the marriage relation,
and the family with similar influences they stronger
than hooks Of steel He wiss sta esman, though
he may have held an Office, who said: " Lee me
write the songs Of people, and not who makes
1 their laws" Why is the Marseiilaise prohibited in
| France Sir, Hail Columbia and the Star Spangled
| Banner-Pe1nsylvani gave rs one. and Maryland the
otherhave done for the Union tha1 all the legs
aon and all the debates in this capitol for forty yeas
and they viii do more yet again than a yopr armies
though you call out an0lher million Of into The field
Sir, would adj Yankee Doodle, bu' trst let me be
assured that Yankee Doodle loves the Union more than
| he hates the saveholder.S
/
SIN truih the song was written in derisoni " hlt.
| ish officer, and not by an American.
And now, sir propose 30 briefly consider the causes
which led 70 disunon snd the present civil war; and p
their nature and at the time powerful eanash 10
overcome all the causes and eonderations w1eh imp
| to reunion.
Having two years ago discussed fully and elaboratey
the abstr1se aad rsh9s causes whence civil com
motions in al governments and thoas also Htiel afe
pseuar 20 our cOnpeS and Eeaera ytau, eeh g 'ns
consolidating Tendencies OF the general 97arnlsut
because Of executive power sE patronage and 0f the