Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-03-04


/ secession Of the slaveholding States, would be
4 necessarily one of the blo0diest and most ex-
! haustng struggles thas the world has yet known,
unless either foreign Powers should intervene
/ for the purpose OF drawing it &c a close, or We
[ should be so fortunate IS to experience dtger-
sen OF the strength of our enemies, which should
altogether incapaeitate them for the continuance
of the conflict Taxing this view OF the sub
! iset, have thought i the true policy of cur
/ government either to secure foreign action in
i IN behalf Of peace, or to encourage, 10 ell
practicable modes, the disiunction Of a
certain portion Of the Northern States
from the remainder. l confess that /
have not, for some weeks past, thought It
! probable that foreign powers would lnteTpose IN
a manuer favorable to Us. ] will take the liberty
/ Of ssying here, that there were measures OF q
nature easy 70 be resorted to, tho seasonsbie
adoption Of which would long since have secured
foreign Intervention Of 8 character adequate to
cur wishes. The golden opportunity Was allowed
/ TO pass bY without the employment Of effective
appliances in behalf Of intsrvehHon from scroad,
! and, in consequence Of want Of energy IN this
! respect, the hope Of foreign interventoR III be-
/ half of peace has almost become extinct. The
! correspondence between the French government
/ and t6at Of the United States lust published,
would seem TO indicate inst the ihAIneus
Seward and his official associates are resolved to
keep up the war as long as they can raise regi-
uleut eli troops or obtlin the pecuniaTy means Of
supporting it. It is evident that the Lincoln
government is inhexiby fixed in the determine
/ lion never TO treat with US on the footing Of
equality snd independence. The dread which
I5pcoln and his nefgTious counseloTs feel OF
Abolition hostility viii not allow them to lower
! in the last degree tia lofty and contemptuous
/ Tore which they have heretofore held toward US.
! They are appTehsnsive, ss they may well be-,
thst they will be lated 10 end their guilty career
! bv being hung upon the lsmp-posts of the CON-
nsreial cities Of the North, if th5y now yield
up the cause in which they have heretofore per
susded the fanatics capitalists Of New York,
Philadelphia and Boston so deeply to enlist
Lincoln, Seward & Co. well know that they can
never succeed in conciliating the Democrats OF
the North. To consent to negotiate for peace
with those whom they yet impudenty recognize
as 81 insurgents, +" would be to confess bef0Es the
world that they hsve all this time been proseeut-
ing a csuseless and impoiihc war, which has
brought upon q majority OF the Northern people
such sufferings and exhaustion as few communi-
ties. either of ancient OF of modern times, have
been known to endure. No reasonable man can
expect formal testy of peace to be accorded
to Us by the Jac1binical monsters now welding
governmental Sower in Washington city We
mast be ceGteot to fght on for two years longer,
until rev Presidential election shall have been
held ia Lincolndom, unless God, in his prOgi-
dence shall raise up friends to US ia the States
OF the North, who, by resorting to revolutionary
expedients, nay so far weaken the power Of cur
enemies as TO render them utterly poWeTless to
do rs further mischief If the present distracted
snd divided condition Of some seven or eight of
the Tree States Of the North shall continue a
month or tWo longer, it is manifest that the
war viii have practically terminated with
out q formal act Of recognition hav
inc occurred, or being then at all neces-
gsTy for our rescue. This favorable stat
Of 5hings, if sufficiently proraeted, would, il |
anything could, encourage foreign powers to IN 4
tsrvene BY the prospect held out to them tha. /
such intervention might be attempted with |
szfstg to themselves, since no resentment OF
such intsrposition could be reasonably expected
to occur If these distractions, now in active
progress should be in some way or other ter
loi1satsd II concord and unity of sentiment and /
sefion should be once more restored, nothing IS
mere eariain Than that ioreign Intervention will
nerar occur et least suca as we could safely aud
honorsbly eccept Al discerning msn are
aware that the English government bas never
yet seriously thought Of intervening. The
selfish and unscTupulous statesmen there in
power al the present moment, wish this war
10 continue, for the attainment of two objects,
bo. b of which they desire most ardently; the
first Of these IS the enieebe nent and ruin Of a
dreaded commercial ard manufacturing rivs IN
this hemisphsTs-tle second IS the destrucG0
Of the slaveholdng institutions Of the South.
Afrer the experiences we have had Of the selfish
ness and doubls-dealinE OF England in the last
twelve months, it would be as reasonable to look
fer eff Give Intervention on the part of China
or japan as 70 expect il from the fsst-snchored
isle where the ashes Of cur own forefsthers are
slumbsring. The fsT-seeing Emperor of the
French is maniiessly des rous of an opportunity
to intervene. lie would do so at once did be
deem It altogether safe to attsmPt it. Should
the e3mmotioRs now raging IN the North con-
iiaue there u every reason 20 believe that he
viii intervene even though he has to do il sir
zle-bandsd aud alone Were We able to bring
about serioas disruption Of the Sisies of the
Ohio, Illinois, aud Indiana, be
persuaded to desist from the war; should New
York, Nes Jersey and Pennsylvania follow this
.xample, it is PLAIN that, in one way OF another
4is aceuTsed war would DC brought to an end
Even the separation of Ohio, illinois and In
lisns from their present political associates
would render it. utterly impossible that the
var could be much further prosecuted. In !
would then become the only hope Of !
ug adversariss from menaced perdidou With
T Without interpOsiaon, under the ciTcRm- ,
tauees specified, we should be secure from any
arther experience of the horrors Of war. This {
nues me 30 the consideration Of which l re- {
lice to ind that you warmly approve. the
oliey IN reference to the Northwestern sStases,
nd which I have felt it to be my duty to urge
Ipon the favorable consideration Of the Confed
rate Congress- for more than twelve months
ast.
The various States or Comraonwealths stus-
ell upon the banks Of the Mississippi river, and
IS large tributaries, are go located, in regard to
ach other, tast mere casual glance at the map
lpon waica they are delineatsd would bs sui
cient to satisfy any discerning mind, that
--H~Ha Ia s-E
aeh other, commercially and socially. as well as
would be next to impossible G.
las joined them terfitorially; man cannot sever
hem tsrritorislly. Politically they have been
eparated nor are they likely 10 be ever here
fer politically united Bus there is no Serbo-
.isn bog between tbe States on the upper and
hose on the lower Mississippi They viii trade
Win each other; they viii have social inter
curse with each other. Men who suppose
therwise, are bat shallow thinkers, and have 7
lot explored the historic record. Disgusting
nd h0rrIfying IS have been the scenes of tn
resent war, baIbarous and demoniacal as have
,een tbs seis Of violence, which we haye hsi 20 :
ndErs al lhe hands Of our Ob6prate elemies;
ge hsye enly been experiencing what the world, :
a every part Of It, bad been from time to time
xpeIieneing, since the days Of Cyrus the great, !
he reorganizsd era Of the commencement of
.uthentic annals. The wars between eo-termin-
us States, have always been marked in pc
iuliar manner with devastation and cruelty q
Witness the early contests between the Gfecan a
states those between the States Of Italy con- r
lguous 10 Rome; the fsgcs conflicts Of arms I
,stWeen neighboFing nations, which marked the i
6sdieval period in Europe; ths terrible border Z
vars ia modern times, between Scotland end
Engend; between Franco and Spain; Ffasee q
md Holland, and even the States snd principal
ties Of Germany, speaking tie same language. I
And yet commerce has bsen Still carried on DO :
Eeen these former CONFLICTING communities, (
whenever eessa ion Of hosHlisies has taken !
liaes friendly relations have been seen to
pT!ug inio eIistenes; even political confeders-
ass have been sometimes formsd between them,
lad ia seveTal instance, g permanent consolida
ion of ri fiaualite has ensred So tina manila or