Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-01

Northern States had no sovereignty oveI
her, nor did any contract bind bel
Arrays to remain connected with them.
The despotisms did not wish to see bel
win her independence. Many liberia,
and enlightened men in England AnC
France did. Legitimacy everywhere
was against us.
The next paragraph we shall quote i
unworthy rel Of BEN WADE. 1t i
low, brutal and indecent, in the Language
used towards that old and upright public
servant, THOMAS EWING, a mar in In
t%ellectual stature very far above MIR
WADE, in information his master, ant
in breeding, a. this speech proves, by fal
his superior. The tastes Of q Republican
audience in Ohio must be very depraved
if they can applaud language that woulr
disgrace a candidate for the lowest of1ct
in the State Of Tennessee.
One word as to the tyranny they 40
cuse US OF having committed upOn thost
seeded ststes-a tyranny, q frightfu
80 NAJf MI - ~ 49,
blush to say it, for he was said TO be
good old WING before the fsll-he wrote 6
letter to the johnson convention IL
which he announced deliberately the
sentiment that at no time during the
war could the seeded states have beer
excluded from congress. Poor old clown
The only plea we q make for him Is
that he is demeated, or he ought TO be
damned. Laughter. Permit rebels to
sit in the councils OF this nation to-day,
TO legislste for the government they
were lately invoking the aid of foreign
countries to destroy. Why, the mans q
fool. [ApplauseJ But he is no bigger
fool than Thurman, for that is his doc
trine to-day.
After this e~ructation, the "Orator y
proceeded to justify Congress. He said
Did you ever hear such q thing ?
We are great tyrsnts in congress.
We have dealt very hsrshly with these
men-very! Well, how have we shrunk
from the good old principles of Washing
ton, who was not thought to be much of
q radical. He was a radical though, and
if he were alive to-day he would be IS
bad as l am. In the days of Gen. WASH
iugton, while he was president Of the
I OAAAEu 1AaAEEN bDhkANoaf NAhAAk INV III
| sideration the fact that rebels might arise
at some period, passed upon that subject,
and made it punishable by death and
co~nfiscation for any man 10 levy war
against the government of the Uni
ted States. General Washington re-
commended that law congress pass
ed it, and Gen. Washington signed
it. He was no man Of shams. Suppose
that such a man as Mr.. Davis, or
TOombs, or Gen. Lee, or any OF the rest
( of them, under the provisions of thSt
law, had fallen under the jurisdiction Of
Gen. Washington when he was president.
How much would you have given for his
chance? Not very much, l guess.
WASHINGTON never would have
dreamed Of treating the withdrawal Of
eleven States, his own included, from
the Union, as a rebellion. VIRGINIA EX-
PREssLY RESERVED THAT VERY RIGHT,
when she entered the Union. HWAsH-
INGToN had been living, and his State
had seeded, he would done just what
General LEE did-R man as pure and
heroic and honorable as WASHINGTON
himself. None Of the men that made
the Constitution intended to give Con-
gress the power to coerce q State. None
of them dreamed Of holding the Union
together by force. New England threat
ened to secede in 1872, and Massachusetts,
when Louisiana vas acquired. II either
threat had been carried into execution,
the other States would have submitted
with becoming resignation to the sad dis
pensation Of Providence, and have per-
mitted the Disconnected State or States
to go in peace.
During war, lies and strstegems are,
by common consent, allowable, because
they conduce to success. 1t was contin-
ually claimed, therefore, by the North
ern Press and Pulpit, that the fate of free
government in all time to come was in
vOlved in the pending controversy, and
that the preservation Of the Union and
the possibility Of constitutional liberty
were identical. All that is now, Ito use
an expressive, If not classical phrsse),
played OUT 1t can no longer deceive
any body. The people Of the North, as
contradistinguished from the political
leaders, fought for the Union and the
flag, and sincerely believed the cause g
just and holy one. The leaders fought
for power and a consolidated govern.
ment. The success of the North
was necessarily the knell Of free
and Constitutional Government. The
South fought for independence,
and to crush it was necessarily
to establish a despotism. You cannot
whip a people into freedom. The issue
was, in its simplest form, between eleven
allied States that wished to govern them
selves, and twenty and more others that
were determined to govern them and
fstten and prosper by despoiling them
by means of unconseientieus legislation.
How were the continuance Of the Union
and that OF free constitutions identical,
or eve inter-dependent? II the North
had consented to the separation, there
would merely have been two mutually
friendly and allied Republics, instead Of
one, and with Constitutions and systems
Of government In all essential respects
the same. It was, and 81. in the end the
verdict Of history will be, a great crime
and q more immense blunder on the part
of the North to attempt by force to pre-.
vent this separation. 1t would have
been better for both, peaeeRbly to sepAr-
ate. It would be infinitely better
to do it now. To resort to force
to prevent this was to destroy that
consent and free will which are the
only stable foundation for republi-
can government: it was to make con-
solidati0n and o%bliteration OF Stats
lines inevitable, and to change the Gov
eminent into a rank and licentious des-
Of the majority Of numbers it
was TO make anarchy certain, and after
it and growing out of il, the government,
in some shape, Of q single will. 1t was
to r~epudiate the principles of the Decla.
ration Of Independence, and substitute
in their stead those Of the absolutisms
OF Europe, which deny the right Of Ma
tionalities to separate and independent
existence. Ita is not worth the while
any longer 70 lie about these matters.
England pretended, while warning on
France with the logged pertinacity Of q
bulldog, from the LIST Of February, 1898,
to the 18th Of June, 1915, with a single
interval Of thirteen months, that she
was fighting in the interest Of free gov
eminent and the rights of man, first
against revolutionary anarchy, and then
Imperial despotism. To that lie
she adhered to the end but it Das a lie
from the beginning. She fret fought for
legitimacy and the Bourbons, and then
for her commercial supremacy I; subsi-
died half of Europe, increased her ma
debt from 26s, 900, 900 pounds ster-
ling to s65, OOO, 900, and has long ago dis.
covered that her whole course was an
immense blunder.
WADE regrets that the Southern
leaders have not been executed. He
Vallandigham went Is far in endeav.
Oring to betrRy this nation as Gen. Arnold
ever went. That Is to say,h he did all that
bis devilish ability could find means of
doing, in the cause Of treason, and II he
had fallen under the Jurisdiction of Gen.
Washington, he and the whole accuTsed