Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-18
,ezry wiHtsr Davis en- SLAVERY IA m.ry.

Had
OAss' OF Asryisad, IS considered the leading
opgohsas 10 Lincoln IN thu Yankee Congress,
and recently succeeded 10 CARVING Ina MAJ.
iAha eieetion against Old Abe. His oDoesiti5n
Is not based upon the fact that Linealn goeE "a
q On tHS slavery question, but because hs dosz
nSt go lar enough. Ia = debste in Congress- ne
q inat' GA the bill establishing a bTyssu for
i~feednlsu's sfAirs, We find the foliovin1
"a; DAVIS, Nj in reply to Mr. Brooks. IN
W defended the validity and mol 49,
ate congressional and other elections IN No.
t@nd, me defeated P~sstissns only eomolsiu n
ils5 State Of the result, the Union majority ba-
ing tnl1teen or fourteen thousand. He Ssrie5
that slavery was dead, and expressed ths o5;n;on
thsi II It should be ~extsrminassd IL would 80
become our masters. Toe conyentjon in A.
lard which recently declared for imma5is,a
enancipauon, gave = significant admonitiou.
worthy OF the State and the psoDls. In ssaak.
ing OF the sinister indusnes and consroUiDo g.
meat near the President in the great causs of
emancipation in Maryland, we are, Mr.. D.vis
said, under snsl obligation to the President III,
what the latter had doas in tia. State. The
psOple thought il wise, while expressing their
q probstion OF the President, to paas the reso-
luton 70 which be has refsTTei for the Presi.
dents ssrious confederation.
he wished to show that their dev5:iea was
dot personal, but on principls-for the cause,
49, ~ 49, 0A ~ A4aI vi 1QUI1EE kuE
man only SO long IS he supports he cause. IF
Lhe opposition elect THEN President. slavery WA
IS much sliVs as when the 6rss gan bIszsd On
Sumter. II we, he remarked, lOge the nexs elsc-
ton, slavery is IS powerful Is it ever was.
We must siEhsr 60 backward or 90 forward.
Slavery is not dead by the Presidents Drocla-
maliJu. WHAT lawyer attributes to it the leas.
legal effect l! "a GoS executed by the bsyo-
net, 70 she extent Of the duration OF Tie war.
under the law Of 1852 Rs-aztablbh the CID
government, Aad slavery will resume liz an
eieHt swsy. In order to the rea3nfssion Of
States, thsre should b q rssoluts declaration,
as 3 coEdilon precedent, that slavery shsii b.
prohibit /, and Ehe CJDsd.aaOn should gsar-
sGiee tbs fact Gai Tia Government should b.
kept under tue ccuTol Of th1ee whose views
and purposes sh5T1 lbs assurances that the Law
viii BE executed
II the e3aFss Of DIS remarks, NJ. Dsyis re-
tegysd 10 Ia exposition Of shs views f Plesi
dsst lincoln, as given By Postmaster GslsFhl
Btsir, who, hs said. was near the person OF tie
Prssidsaf, and whose comments bad never beer
disavowed, snd for When reason they we're en-
titled TO grave and respectful consideration.
These comments were in s1s term OF attacks o.
radical A0oiIt'o8ists, aud Rs0 on the Decsssi J
OF the snsacipGtjon policy uRdsr tha rr-cAms
tion OF the p es.d1n.. K wss sad by tue post
m-astsr-generAl shat sns radical A5oIit0Dist,
wanted 70 cbsEEe the Constitution aid elevsl,
the negro 70 the equality OF the white, bus that
the two races coujd not I've together on tern,
u equality and geSee, and shsrsfoTe il 5scsmt
Necessary, 70 prevent tie mEs-2crs OF The negro
that be 30 exported and colon ed il be IS % b,
free. Where IL history would gentlemen &C.
facts on which TO base such cOGcl1si0n8f
Nj Davis then pEoessdsd TO shos the iDius
tjeo and imp ley Of such colonization, chsrss.
serznE It a. insACe and uuehrstlan psiisa.
ihropy. If you mean TO ccsEso he removal O
the negroes, then ssy 50. II you don't man {,
cOoTcs them, they viii remain. Yoa cann0.
offer them Is good homes abroad as you cas- a
home, among he scenes Of shsir ehadhood. I
God made them unequal, off God stamped Ia
fsrioriiy upon !hsm you cannot turn 8 hEl
white CT blsek, or sd 80 inch 70 their stature
he appealed 70 gentlemen not to seek TO add in
hsEenE difficulty to ihs problem, and proceeded
- speak Of the progress Of smAnciPssioa il
Maryland He was 3 MsFyisHdsT, not 8 N9rth
srn AbJalicnist. Hrs fsshsr was s Shareholder
And ne hmself bad bees = sAysh0ldsT.
In thls connection h referred 70 the eonveu
ton in Maryland, IN 1859, called for the purposr
OF removing sle free blacks, and mentioned he
Tsme Of ex-Ssas.og Pesrcs as making a repor
that tie committee could not make Ispulsion G.
sagh persons from the safe aud deprive then
Of the right Of freedom which they had acquired
or inherited.