Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-12-13
- Rrother GREEIYis -

hand, unavailable, from the reason
that they are written on both sides. The
rule, in this particular, is i~nexorable.
Brother GREELYis exercised again.
This time heis 4" downon Gen. TILsoN,
on account Of a plain and common sense
address made 70 The freedmen at Athens,
in which he is reported to have
said.
THAT they must not consider them
selves the equals of the white man, and
that they never could be- that they had
no right 20 vote, and that, though they
were free. freedom imposed duties which
ifnot faithfully performed, their cOndi-
ton might be much worse than Z ever
was when they were slaves
We see very little hope Of GRBELY's
ever getting over his negrophobia, unless
he will undertake himself 70 " IN the
Fresdmeurs Bureau. We expect next TO
see him pitching into Gen. HOWARD, for
Es plain and sensible talk at Jackson |
Miss.
UNITY or TIE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
The greatest of all mistakes made by
the south in the late attempted Revolu-
ton, next 10 the crandest mistake Of all
that secession could be accomplished in
peace. was cutting loose from the North
west Apart from every other consider
alton. il was q great military blunder
for even if successful in establishing a
Southern Confeieracy Of the sIayehold-
ing States, 10 would have left a neighbor-
ing power. imbued with a spirit far from
amlcable, with its territory driven ike a
wedge into its falkland that wedge
prolonged in the shape Of a n~avigable
river, whose possession was a question
merely Of which power could put anOat
and maintain upon its bosom the most
powerful fleet Of ironclad "ramsr-the
northern power having the immense adj
vantage Of the descending current.
But there were other considerations, OF
different and higher character, weigh
ing against the separation-considera-
tions ola m0raland q commercial charac-
Ger. Moral. in that the peopleoft North
west were and are in great part bone Of
our bone and flesh of our flesh, kindred Of
the same lineage, c-her5shing the same
memories preserving the ametraditions,
INDUCING the same hopes. Commercial,
in this, that 10y the fat o. the great rivers
which drain the mighty basin betweenthe
AIIeghenies and the Rocky Mountains,
finding their head springs in the plateau
which borders the arctic, their trade
their free, untrammeIed trade-was, nat
ura1y, the one with the other. The
" broadh0rn, floating from out the Mus
kingum, the Wabash, and the Illinois,
10 deposit their freights amongst the or
ance groves OF Louisiana, should have
taught every one that the passions and
prjudlces of man could not permanently
divide The Ohio or the Mississippi-eould
not make Of the sparkling waters which
weLedO urfom the bosom Of the northern
Snow, s foreign element when it should
come 90 smile beneath a southern sun.
COP ALMIGHTY, when He clave out this
magnificent Valley, and irrigated it with
countless streams, from the majestic
Father Of Waters, q the tiny streamlet
that urickles down far-of mountain sides,
and garnished il with fertile wales and
bubbLng fountains, 50 as 10 fit it for the
-saludroUs and happy home Of hundreds
Of millions OF human beings. decreed
that The people VINO should inhabit it
should be ono people-one In govern
ment, one In laws, one in interest.
The stalwart men OF the Northwest,
when they turned out in person, mot by
proxy 10y hundreds Of thousands tofght
the battles Of the Union, and So to pre-
serve and perpetuate the Unity Of
the Mississippi Valley, did but fol-
low the plainest and most obvi-
Gus intUitions as to the in
teresrs and necessities Of a people.
Hemmed IN on n side by the greed Of
Capital controlling all their avenues Of
exit 70 the eastern Atlantic, and on the
other By a foreign Government Of alien
ated brethren-with continually recur-
ring causes Of irritation. and theconstant
immiDenee Of another war impending
over them-the situation Of the
people Of the Northwest would
have been one Of intOlerable de
pendence. The 80 free navigation
of'the Mississippi would have been no
compensation for that free trade along
the borders az the Mississippi, which was,
and is, 20 them a necessity and to us Of
the South a blessing. No wonder, then,
that the Northwest should have poured
out her blood like water TO preserve the
Union, and 10 Perpetuate their oneness
with the people Of the South.
An 80 it Is, now when the smoke Of
the coUlict has drited away, and the
angry turbulence Of civil war Is subsid-
ing, that we look TO the great Northwest
81 the restorer and conservator Of the
real peace OF the nation. Her arm was
as the sword Of Gideon in the days Of
battle. Her voice should be a potential
o in c0Unselling a return Of fr~aternal
sentiments, now that the tumult has
ceased They Of the Northwest and we
Of the South are one people in all mum
dane interests, by a tie stronger than that
Of Constitutions, frmer than that Of Gov
ernmeuts, more enduring than the forms
Of G0verument-the tie Of the unchauge-
able Unity Of the Mississippi Valley. 1t
wil last as long as time lasts-as long as
the waters run % the sea-uniting Us in
one common destiny. Let the great
Northwest, then, In her heroic magma
nimity. come 10 the rescue, and by her
powerful voice in the rebuke Of factious
v-indictiveness, obliterate the resentments
Of the past, and thus realize the fruits Of
the victory she contributed so much 10