Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-01-02
Restoring the Umion.

From the Mobile Evening News
The Northern idea Of carrying the TO restore
the Union, has long since become exploded hUmbug
f5pi.z'Usus r mai ifssrIsissaists end
they have lab0red faithfully and successfully in their
vocation. They have destroyed the League wits
slavery and the covenant with he' (their synOnyme
for UniOnO with vengeance The Northern Demo
Gratis but shade better, for they sacrificed their
principles, and allowed the written Constitution
be trampted in the dust aud gave their money aRd
their men to carry which the eonmCnest sense
must have instructed them was war Of subjugatiOn
and extern nation. 1t does rot mend their case that
they have at longih walked up to a sense of their own
supreme folly They only became humane and consti
tutonal when they the hopelessness Of Southern
conquest and became alarmed for their mateiial
interest and public liberties They have done all in
their power dig and deepen the wide gulf Of separa-
ton between US Let It's black tide roll here forever
The Richmond Examiner happily touches on th2 mis-
conceptions Of these Northern Democrats TO the true
eau Of Sc1tbe complaint, and the neans necessary
to the ats ment Of their ends Of Pesce
lincoln proposes to restore the UBion and end the
war by constitutional amendments guaranteeing pay
Tor slaves emsneipated by the States during the
present century Bigler would restore the Union and
sud the by constitutional amendments guaranteeing
She equality sovereignty AID rights OF the sayeodlng
Etstes Neither lincoln nor BgeT see ns 10 know tlet
the separation caused not by dis ssatsfaciion with
the old Constitution, but by the viOlston Of - Provs
ions and the disregard Of ITS guarantees BY the oreh
people and the Northern states, against whose 0adIa
no Constitution can mske provision knowledge OF
this fact which beth Lincoln and Blgier base h1 tnu
dere in their ears the floor OF Congress and through
the prs should satisfy them Of the iapssbify or re-
coustrncfiou and dispel all hopes based that idea
The Constitution recognized every right asserted oy
the slEveholding States it afforded every guarantees
demanded by them but its violations Oy seeu9nAl
r,aiotv made il of none feet and forced them retue-
tstlv TOO reluctantly many Of them, to secession and
the organization Of separate and Independent Conied
sracy Yet after the inability Of the NortneIn Govern
nsen 70 subiugate aud hold the States composing the
new ConfaderEcy has been demonstrated 0eyend eavi
lincoln the Abolition President and BgieTt Demo
-stjr Salesman proposes maintain" the Union,
and terminate struggle sbout 20 euminste IN the re-
cognition Of the Confederate States by constitutional
sndnoents They will learn better yet They want
nenee now thsy will learn how to obsin II by and by,
0thers there are in the North noble few-who
o7Is for peace as they and who VIII tell ther sceun-
drsldom how to get it, Respect for the Constitution
would have maintained the Union no constitutional
amendments can restore is; neither Northern
Norfhern diplomacy can make 'hswers Of wood and
drawers Of water for New England When Northern
statesmen earn this, then we VIII have peaee-not be-