Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-05-12
Presfaent Davis . Haia Treoos.

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Presfaent Davis 70 AIS Ersspa.
From .hs London Pest Palmerstons orgaa) March s
The President Of the Confederate States has
Addressed bis army ia language that admits Of
no misapprehension. Il is simple, clear and
to the point. There is no exsggeraiioDi no
st-ajnir9 after effect The tone Is confident,
but not b~oassful; proud but ust arrogant. The
words are such as q brave. and TesOlute msn
woud sbe&k to men whom hs knows he can
trust. The army is thanked warmly and sfse-
t;oustely, but he thsnEs are such as q soldier
givea TO soldiers. There is not az expression
Fiat would not have fallen gracefully from the
Inns of an Emperor; and il is evident, il only
from the terms Of this address, thst the men
Who fought at Fredericksburg ard Chaneeuors-
vile. ragged and sheeiess IS they wsTs and may
be. are disciplined iroopE-sodieTs that can Dc
commanded and relied on. They have, IS the
President tells them, surrendered iheir rights IS
cisizenst0 serve the State Ss soldiers. And this
it Is that has hitherto given ths South saeh an
immense advantage ever me North IN the I'D
The army of the Potomac, il lis dTst and after
all, it's greatest general bad been allowed time
! 70 drill the raw material, Elight now have been
IN = position to render soms efficient service TO
the Federal governnenii bus as If ID, though
the struggle may be prolonged indefinitely, the
suhiugstion Of the Confederate Satss is a cen |
/ tingency thBt tbs most saagaine friends Of the
U6ion as it wss must, in their secret convictions
| believe 70 DO remote, If not ehgmeriehl
kr. Davis daeiis with just6&hls pride on the
unaniniiY Of The Southern people DO repels
with Indignation the idea tAss ;hey are ready TO
purchase peaes by submission and he points,
not without cause, to The setual condition Of the
Government al Washington, ss a~fJrding g con-
elusive reason for persisfing IN the struggle for
Independence. Wish emphatic brsvity ne Sans
up the situation of the enemy in FIVE words
debt, taxation, drafts, discussions, Plunder
These, he says, are the worms that are eating
up the Federal body. Nor can the assertion be
rainsaid. It'll true that the SOuth, too. has It's
debt, and liz drafts. and It's taxation but where
the burden ia borne pTop0rtiOna5ly, its pressure
is im~msaaurably hghtened. Ia tas North Is is
the Government that IS c.HryiHg on the war n
the S1utb, If the war was not popular, II the
people were net one miad 81 to its continuance,
the Government would be compelled to submit.
Mr. Davis is, and he av0ws i. simply TIE min
lister Of the people. In both States the Govern.
ments exercise diclatorial power but Tho al
thsrity that is accepted In the one is enforced IN
the ether. This may be ssctibed to the charge
ter of the Southern people, and 20 their instltu-
tons. They are divided into two classes, sBd
i the line Of damare2ten IL observed with
feudaI s~tnctness and simplicity.
, The bare fact, however, that this lice has bean
a conserved in = period Of civil war, shows that
s it is founded on an identity Of interests. Il It
n had been = yoke On the necks Of Che Southern
b people, nothing would have been ssaier than TO
! throw il eff Bat, turning TO the Nsrth, We fad
that there are also tive classes sfas stand out at
4 present rom the midst Of a group Of two par
ties and factions, Eot, indeed, precisely Ia pOlit-
> iesl anita goRism TO each other, but IN 3 fsr more
9 fatal form sf opposition. There Is the rOvsrn-
: ing eIsss, which Mr. Davis describes sguamari-
J ly as public piunderers-men who thirst for the
d spells Of Gfice; and there 10 the money msking
, andSmonev-speRding class, that buys pleasure
a and boards ugTiehes out of . national Calamity,
d drawing bills on futUTity, which the Government
discounts in a forced and inconvertible currency.
r Paper money IL, for tie purposes Of tie day, as
+ suned TO be capital, and it is squsndered IN INK
E Jury and dissipstion-spsat, in TACT, IS money
d won ~ the gambling table IS spent Meantime
the slmy is FecEalted at home bY bribery, and
in foreign c~GEBlries by fraud. It is, as Nj. Da-
via says, al srmy Of msrcenasies, and yet it is
By snd through Ihis army shas Mr. Lincoln pre-
sides over the remnant Of the e public at Wash
isgt0n. His Government is maintained BY mil
itafY fores, aud, as he has just been told by a
/" Senator who has passed cut Of the cspitof.
shaking the dust from his feet, 'the elective
9 franchise is trodden under foot By the iron heel
n Of the FolGieT."
t The President of ths Confederate States pra.
IDENTIFY Leaves prophecy to mr. Seward; bs only
SAA1AAa - ~ -LA n.y. 40 ~ ALAAALa y
phrases, that their Valor viii be crowned with
d success and on this aide Of The ocean that
3 much has never been doubted. The North and
South ere already virtually divorced. Bat
d what is TO be the upsh1t Of the couiRsion-po
i%iticsl, social and Eaonelzry-ihat prevails ia
the Federal Statss7 Can the Northern people
hope 90 escape the fats Of al republics that
u have plEced confidence in meTaeaary legionB .
ID hey think that the army hay are u5.Dc "a
GORGE the electors viii net e7enfuallg elset ia
b Own dictator II they desire TO preserve their
present form of government, hey ought to
pray 10 be delivered out of tao hands Of The
. soldisry they Gre euiistng to their own ruiz.
Another Bull Ran might, peFhaps, saws them
: frem the military desRotism hist appears 10 be
their inevitable lot. they you'll hen have 3
; heavy reckoning 30 sottie with themssiyss, and
a would have to rehsat ia saczeloth sad sshes Of
: their reckless waste and exlTaveganea. Bat
, the nsturEl resources Of the ecualry are 20
great that II they could even now avert the
, impending catastrophe there would be no rea-
son to despair. Fhsra are, however, We fear.
/ small grounds for believing that q nation that
5 has given Itself up to the most deadly Of all de
lusicns will awaken in TINS to a perception of
its peril.
Among the comparatively few who shink for
ward nj al, there are probably some who yet
entertain the idea of reunion through the til
umphant advance Il the C0nsedsrste forces. 10
DO followed by q compromise. But this, too.
is, as far IS one can forecast events. an illusion.
Tbs ConfedarAtss cannot b expected TO do
more than hold their own Moreover, it would
be madness in than TO attempt to patch up q
rent they have msde adVi5edly aud definitely.
Nor do re fer 4 moment imagine that theif
power IS at al equal to such an arduous under
taking. Ga tho contrary, Everything aopesrs
to indicate that a bloody tragedy will have 10 be-
played out to the traditional denoaement, and
that Federal Amsrics Is dsstiaed to furnish TO !
history one moro warning Of The fsllaey of re-
publican freedom.
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