Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-27
WARNINGS To THF people OF THE
ERUTH

SOUTH.
S~ixty-seven years ago, when England
was by intermingled bribery and threats
inducing the Irish Parliament to agreetC
that fatal union which ireland has ever
: since been vainly sndesvouring 10 undo,
GRATrAN declared the proposed measure
+: " one monsfrous, selfsurrenderiug, self
debssing act OF REIMBURSEMENT, IRE
~trievable, Recoverable, hagiUous and
abominable." with a slight change
here and there in his words Of warning
that followed, D may well say to the
people OF the Southern States, ia respect
to the reconstruction IN which it is de-
manded that they shall engage You
are told that this 60 for your 11erest for
it cannot be pretended that 1t Is FOR your
honour. The insoisnce Of power de
mands that You shall giveup your inher-
itance Of free Government, and register
its edic5s, and call the eaiGIE 90 registered
q constitution. It demands that you
shall disrrsnchise those whom you most
honour and accept rs political equals a
race that you despise, aua iuiicr upon
yourselves an eternal disability. These
demands are enforced 10y ~undisguisad
terror, by threats to which it Is base 90
suceumb, and by unqualified bribery Of
those who can so be brought to favour
the infamous scheme; and yet you are
( told that you viii by submission in no
wise jeopsrdize yoar honour and dig
nifty r1
And now there coma across the At
lantic, words grave ami serious, lot al
dressed to the people Of the United
States, aud yet s~inguiariy applicable to
the ~exigeucies of their present condition,
and the act which many OF their advisers
are urging them to do; words that sho1ld
weigh so much the more with them, be-
cause they are uttered byoue who does not
mean them for us. who thinks not Of our
controversy, but speaks them because
they are truths for all time.
On the22d of May last LOUIS KOssUTH
addressed, from Paris, a letter to FRANZ
DEAK, in relation 70 the union Of Hun
gary with Austria, which has created
much excitement in both Portions Of
this letter seem as though they might
have been especially intended for the
consideration OF the people Of our States,
and we append them here, because they
announce what will hereafter be the
judgment OF the world and Of history,
and of our own people, on Jgown acts
and because they are the
dom and Of truth:
Now 7 speak, and 5oeGB
publicly, FOR I see, and see
Of a judgment trauquiiized weigfS
of years and sufrriHgs, that u nation
is being thrust down the slippery de-
clivity OF INSTRUMENTATION into danger,
into worse than dauger-iuto death.
When / read thy 1861 addresses, which
shed so much glorious light upon thy
name. I sought and found comfort in the
Thought that thou wouldst not resign al
any price one hairs breadth Of the indie
pendence and national rights of our
country, which thou had-t set forth with
as much courage as wisdom. For !
know bee as 0ue whose moderation SETS
a boundary 70 his wishes, and who care
fully weighs ere he demands, but vino
sbIde- ~immovably boy the rights which
he deems are his due.
Thou thyself hast said, and said truly. &
The right which is taken away by force
:aub be recovered that is only lot which
IS renowned by the nation itself.
Leaving the standpoint Of recovery of
rights, thou hast reached the slippery
ground Of sacrifice of rights; and, be-
cause every standpoint has It's oRn ire
logic, / see matters brought 10 {
such g point on this ground that j am
compelled, IN deep grief, to ask thee, d
much Ofthe national independence
'emains 70 be given up? How much i
remains 10 thee of all those rights which :
constitute the existence and guarantee of
constitutional state life, and which pos g
far greater worth ia the peculiar
condition Of our fatherlald than they 8
possess In those countries whose q
.overeigns are not also sOvereigns of other 4
auds, and which are, therefore, not eK-
to the danger of being made sub
'ervient to foreign interests 3
These are facts 80 clear and 80 uuvan- d
Iuishable through special pleading, that q
[ should Tear 70 insult thee, were ] not c
AA11 AAAAH A4AaA AAEa N-a4Af VIII All INV o.
wisdom aud patriotic feeling.
deceived myself with respect To- me Il
extent % these re-nuuciations OF right 4
thou, alas! dCst not trust in the n
strength Of the nation; aud, comforting \
with the belief that life and cir q
substances viii modify their ~couse-i
I-uences, thou hast accepted these sscrj d
ices Of right in order % save what hon y
D]elievest may be saved for the pivot q
which my policy turns is, " one d
AHst GcceDt aCh0f Is practicable 10 attain
Is impossible THIS, however. ID o.
S against which ! must protest, in the n
Of all right and policy. To i
the die Of a nations fate under the
Influence of such convictions is not only I,
N error, but IN unrighteOusness. A d
nation may endure oppression, but she s,
must moi under any circumstances de- 81
pair Of the possibility Of re- establishing .
Ter rights; and because she is not at
nee IN 3 position 70 re-establish her
lights, she must not on that account
enOunce them Of her own free will and
0rever. But this postulate is also an o
Tror, and one not justified by cir I
umstanees. y
And now thou hast sanctioned that Ct
which then thou couldst neither recog- q
NE 10 be allowable, nor even neges~ary. -,
after SadOwa, sayst thOa, {" We .
nust accept this, there is no prospect Of O.
obtaining mOrs?" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS al
! who mold that a peoples surrender OF "
Is HgnA oits rulers is neither allowable "a,
ior necessary, I have taken all human ,"
'ossiole pains 10 think myself into your
lAndp0inL and have not been sbie to %
eject even a shadow of the supposed 81
necessity This however, I can 1lainIv n'
&c, that the hungarian nation mas 81 ie
scted for the a6andonMent Of all hope q
( a possible refrigeration Of her polifi- ls
al rights the very moment when every LEI
atiOnality, from huge England to tinv 70
feels that the spirit and condition 60
{ the age are propitiOus 70 the develop 20
lent OF right. Al such a time Hungary "
herself Of her most valuable y
rights. ~
Everything is, 50 it seems, already set .
ed, aud the parliament onlysummOned 20
order to ~enreglster the fat accomDH.
however, recognize il this rat GccOBl-
Z the death Of the nation, aud because Of
recognize this feel 1t TO be my duty to col
eRk my silence. not 10 contention, but cor
the name Of God, Ct the fatberland, hR.
ldtd posterify. to appeal p%sssionstely lib
tbeei Look around thee with 3 lofty, thE
glance, ahd sleigh the cal
ei consequences to sAseh th0a are
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