Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-10-16
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Eeater.
The London Times, Of SeBteubar I4.h. closes
sn editOIisl reviswiaE tue condition of Ameri-
c3n affairs, as follows:
But the political news Is far the most interest
irg and important part Of Ire intelligence we
pUblisb to-day. Tha letter OF President Lin.
cain to the New York State convention Of the
Republican party Is pitched in a very different
key from ths letters We have been accustomed
to receive from Mr. Seward tt Is remarkable
that at the most successful moment of ths war
" bile daily expecting 10 hear that the fall Of
Char estcn had followed that Of VicksbUrg, the
President speaks Ia graver and more sober
toRe than has yet reached Us from the Federal
Government. The war" he says, pro-
crosses as fsYerably since the issue Of 6hs
emancipation proclamation as BEFORE IF
| that Is al he ess- say, we do EOt wonder
at his adding that it. would not DO
to be ''sangsiae Of . speedy and final triumph.
He appears, Ia fact, TO he opening bis eyes at
last 70 the hopeless political diff n ties whiea
woald surround hm IN any dealings with the
seeded Safes Il IS satisfactory to see that he
repadatea lie farce Of treating, ss Of any impeg-
! tsnce, the pretended Union sentiment of packed
meetings in Mississippi aAd Tennessee sAuy
com BrGniss to be exceed aust be made with
tie rebel army or those who control It, or with
the population il commands and be denies
that any overture has eveF been made to his
GOvernmsDt by either Of these powers. The
CoHtederats Government show no sign Of max
| ing any sUch proposals. The comparatively
quiet intelligence which we publish 10 day
tells OF the patient and determined resistance ab
every p0ins; and with elarse tsrssie awkward
ness, whils admitting that tbs only advances
toward peace can come from the srlay and is
lesdess, Dir Lincoln throws the greatest posi-
be difficulty in the Wag Of their ever thinkiny
Of any such overture by letting it be uAder-
stood thas the leaders Of the secession would De
| the only persons excepted nom sny amnesty.
I While President DSvis and ths &aio UlsR wac
/ surr0Usd him know that whatever might b The
result to their eounlry, thsir submission would
/ be followed by sheiT own ruin, and possibly
their execution, they will certainly strain every
nerve to induce the SUushern people 60 fight to
/ The last.
/ Mr.. Lincoln declares too, that ne compromise
/ embracing the mai1tsasnce Of the Uaion Is n5W
| psssi5!s. Ha commits himself, in 50 many words,
1 to a war c0Bquest, to last possibly, by bis eva
| admission, faC years, EBd without having any
/ definite plan oG policy Eaa5sVsT tor ths Govern
/ meat of the cau9try, hs proposes to conquer.
/ Vita such prospect 1t is natural that not even
| the anticipated fall Of Charleston was sufficient
/ 10 rouse him to any language beyond that Of
/ sgllsn resolution The chances Of The conquest
/ iissit are distant enough, if the reinforcement
of his aTsaies prOeeed ~ il has hitherto done ia
! the Eastern Stases The gunboats that petrol
| the Hudson, the artillery that eonnmznds The
| squares, sBd tAe twenty or thirty thousand men
/ Sho garrison New York, have produced re-
/ turn of not quite two thousand conscripts
Even these are lot likely to be Of much use il he
has to begia enforcing discipline IN his nsw
| army by shooting sevGn substitutes for Gun
| scripts wb9 had deserted. Ths negro troops
| will not hele biR If the Southern States, As
seems b be the case, have mads up their minds
to the sgming Of the slaves. Bat when the last
1 Confederate army is snnihileted, what does he
imagine he could do with the miserable remnant
ef the Southern population, sad tbs mass Of
| helpless negrses2 He e0nfesses that hiB aands
are lied By the emaaeipa at,OR preeismaEioa, and
tbss hs can do lItsle else than les things alone.
VIII the Amstica0s Be content 10 let bhe great
ship Of theiE Republic drts agy further helpless
and rUaderlsss isto TINS vast and fearful storm,
1 with pilot Who c5nlezses Ebs5 bs cannot guide
her, sUt nlRss let nor drive before ihs wind.