Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-01-08

hACu AaAn Is GeilEnBua IN GoEEGEENh- mere
is no resisting him. The oaa5 are tTomeudeHs
against 9 Isen Y tetoris and tszgenc8 q DAY. ths
Established ebureh and potatoes, the U1ion
wOTkbOuss and yellow meal. even sgPpoEing
that we can always answer for eur side Of the
ssmpsrisea
Froz shs RlsansaS EnqsirsF.J
The pslisy, civil AID military, sf The Wash
iRktoR Cabinet We have shown to bs the security
Of tbs psw6r si the GeVeTsmsnf in their hands
Ths people ef the Uni'sA States have desired
oRly TO peTPstusts the Usisn. and 10 eonssii3ats
tia power snd resources sf 81 the Sisies inlo
great AE1sJiesn nation. The C=5iuet bss cut
Wi.isd the people, and viii succeed 10 TslAiniug
power By having PsTmausntly 6isseived snt
disrupted The UniOu. The gulf, dssigasdy and
deliberately opaRsd Blythe Washington CsbiIs.,
is too vide and deep ever ts be bridge ~ ma @
rial Interest, sr closed by tas pride CT national
poWsT. Ia the excitement sad ceiirium 81 VFaF,
the people Of t1e United States have lot E-en OF
understood tho reason Of The policy a the Cab-
net st Washington. The unparalleled e1sTti0ns
AHa resources put torth BY that people have
bsen consumed in the consolidation cf power By
the Cabinst. Bat this blindness sud inistua-
tion csnnos lass much lengsri the scales viii fall
from sae eyes Of the people during this year;
slrssdy the fraudulent sad forced success Cf The
Cabinet in the lsts elections have excited pepa-
lar Il gGiTy as 10 1here they sgs drifting. TAe
skilliui machinery Of tho last pTooisuzlioa, By
which oae-ienth Of the people Of tia States ni
war arc empowered to east fhe electoral votss
Of tho5e Safes against the votes Of tie legal
States, cannot elads aud decisive tks pe0pls.
When ercs reason has resumed her sway
over that people, they esEnot fail 20 see ihs
sbyss inEs which Mr ssaaTd has bsen huITying
their constitutional liberty. T1ey might have
been willing 70 beeeERs lhs subjects Of great
military chisfisiD, whose genius and ProWsss
Lad recovered tho sHGe5s3 States, and Wko
stood ready and abe 70 dictate az American
Beliey for this continent to the GoyernmeRts ct
Europe. As other nsiio9s hAYe been dszzlsd
By the blaze Of miiitsry giory, and, while they
lost theiT individual libsEty, retained the spsR-
dsrs Of a national greatness, so the people Of
the United States might have consented 70 the
subyersion Of their Constitution, if ths prospect
Of a great national empire, extending from the
lakes to Tia isthaas had promised the gratihea-
ten Of national pride. But 70 sink lHto sub
iscts Of Linsoia and Seward, Of Stanton ard
Welles, with Hallsck IS chisf provost SasTshal,
we cannot believe them capable Of such degre-
datiOn.
Whsn exBeTioaes shall have opensd tteir
eyes te the sd, expensive and wicked folly into
which, for the lsst thrss years, they have been
dspsd End deesived By Liaeein and Seward,
that BeOple must Eos Ans understand that,
though secession. hzs divided ana dismembsIsd
the u ion, end may have destroyed she dTezH
Of empire so pleasing and dazzlirg 70 popular
imagination, pet, that fer ali the purposes Of
true national greatness and individual hsppi-
ness. secession viii mot and esnnoE have injured
them.
The territory Of sls ssa republics Is m)-e
than srpia ieg al sEa .asssTial development
shat tbs asst sItravagAfs iaagiGstions o0sid
conceive. Ths difsEeuoa in tbs systems Of
labor in the hsbiis zEd tastes Of the peoples,
hsve divided the United States, while war ana
outrage, and erinle, have made that division psT-
mansnt and irTsparabis In the vain sffeTi to
reuuits tho bTOkeE fragments OF the Union, not
only has many thousand valuable lives bs-n
taken, and thousands Of millions Of treasure
thrown sway, but ths success is more distant
this Ist ef January, 1864, than al snY previous
period in the pfoetssa OF ths war. Armies have
oveTrun States. al one time Mcclellan wss IN
few Dailss ef Richmond; at another line Harris
burg, Pennsylvania heard the thunder OF Lees
artillery; row Grant is ia Chattanooga, but
Braer's artillery has been heard in Cincinnati.
Military lines sre ever chsugRgi peaes alsue
Hnarks cut boundaries. II is Useless 70 axpeet
people, msddsEsd with sxcitsmenf, and Tsjole-
ing over recent successes, tc believe that their
prssept condition can ehangei they cannot Tes.
Ike that a battle may spsu up PesuHylyADia TO
Cen. Lse, or Tennessee and Kentucky 70 Gen.
Johnson.
Experience only can teach that people tbs IN
certainty OF bsttle aad the shifting vieissiiudes
of the fortunes Of war. That experience they
are now rsals ng, as well as beglaning to IN
deTstaud the policy Of the Cabins. They are
beginaiug 70 Comprehend how pToslsmasions
have disrupted the Union how th military
policy has been devoted 70 the overthrow Of
ihsir own Armies how the vast expenditures Of
yublie treasures have sauTed 70 the uggrandize-
lnens Of the minieae OF the Executive snd the
Cabinet; and how their fathers, sons, bTsshsrs
and friends have bean butchered, for the psea
lar Rss aad benefit Of Mr. Seward. We speak
of Nj Seward alone, bscsuse /. "a we'll known
that be furnishes ihe htains Of the Cabinet, aud
Is isslly responsible for sll the Eickedness hs
FaiuioRs, in AID 0Ri Of The Cabinet, have Gem
miit=d.
Returning Eeason must convince tbs people,
that the two republics, contiguous in bounds-
ries and stuaiis- IA form Of government, esnB9s
hsve conflicting or diveTSsat interests that, de-
ssits Of present. passions and sEimo5ities, mn
tual intsTssts wiz eonpsl that reciprocity Of
trsde and intercourse which an enlightened CIV
ilizA.ion has shown to exist smong al nations.
In their eslEasT moments, thst people Willfeee z
uiss that the Monroe doctrine, Tor The AGeTiezn
continent, m be enforced when there are tive
on more republics, which, uniting theiI voice
and Influence, shall demand that Europssn
Governments Interfere not in American affairs;
but, that As lsng IS the Confederate Sisics and
tbe United States exhaust their IeseEsess in nnu-
! izal destruction, Lsais Napoleon viii laugh as
the empty threat Of the United States. Tia ef-
/ forts Of Napoleon 70 plant scion Of the Houss
of HspsbGrg upoR the American coniinen;
when eensidsred IN connection with the fact
that he seizsd upon the existence Of the present
war TO accomplish bis object, should Oron the
eyes sf both nations TO lhs fact, that the muiual
sxbaRsiiOn Of this war invites toward them the
same kindness that has been waited upon
Mckee
Le! them Eght It ent," says Earl Russel,
ans fsrihwith every encouragement 10 war IS
Iayissed on beth bsllgerentsi bat aot tbs 81
sfFsrt At peace is eoGn3enanced by the mother Gi
he tive bad boys Rhe ars tearing each ether 5
/ hsir ard goaging eseh sthers eyes. The old
dans sils in her BAsy chair, and furnishes, hrsl
one af hsr children and then the ether. Vrish
wespsns Of mutual dessruetion; and when N..
poleon cries Shame, shame, part theTn.'' IA,
! affecti- Rtsss mother says, No, no, let thar
fgbt il cut, and when they have cut saeI
othsf'a throsts, we will divide the iBasrilsuee-
you shall have What yeur uncle sold, aud n
take what the young roguss stole fTor ns, nnt
have new qRaTTslsd and toHght over" q TIE
bienF says Napoleon, and forthwith srdefE Nsr
shai FoIey to Mexico, 70 be Ia position 70 sscnr
his share Of ihs plandeF.
There is room enough for fouT or aVs rspuh
lies on the Norbb AaerisAn eontiasnt, and wit
PsAes sstHssn the United States and the eon