Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-21

ton Of the JGLsehoOd, in the argument
i 1t was vulnerable every way. 1t wa
, rotten at the bottom, and peculiarly I'm
. worthy of a true lawyer.
If the questions whether the Constitu
ton was a compact between the States
and created a Union between them a
Sovereigns, from which part could with
draw, for violation of the compact by
the others, had been submitted to q com
mission of six French and English law,
yers, composed of such men as MAR
CADE, THEsIGER, DENMAN, TROPLONG
CRAEwoRTH and Com DELIsLE, andhaC
been there argued in full, nothing il
more certain than thstthe decision would
have been unanimous in favor of the
doctrines of the State-rights' party o.
the South.
Nations are continually playing in the
sight Of the world those farces which are
also bloody tragedies. Such a farce has
been that show Of pretence, on the part
Of the unprincipled and corrupt North.
ern leaders, Of intense devotion to a
Union of the people, q Union Which
Reuer had an existence: and such r farce,
also, is the believing Glamour about
treason and rebellion, as attributed to
those who heroicsIly struggled for the
rights Of the States under a constitutional
compact which Force had determined
to change into an instrument of a differ
ent nature, and SO to destroy. A prosti-
tute's professions of virtue, a rogue's
pretences to honesty, do not long deceive
any one.
When Massachusetts and the other
Northern States determined to prevent
the growth and extension of the South,
by taking to themselves all the common
territory, and decreeing that there should
be no more Slave States, their object
was to increase the number of Free
States, until they could, by the constitu-
tional majority, amend the Constitution
and abolish slavery in ala power that
they could not of right exercise, an OBJ
Ject they could not Of right effect, by
means of an amendment. Ofcourse they
became terribly tender-conSclenced on
the subject Of slavery, as Massachusetts,
was when her conscience could not per-
NIT her to consent to the presence of the
word Slave , in the Constitution. though
she could eheerfully agree, in order to
buy the votes of South Carolina and
Georgia in convention, and in consider
alton OF the carrying-trade, to permit the
slave-trade to be continued for twenty
years, upon payment into the Treasury
Of a duty of ten dollars upon each negro
imported. of course, the New England
could no longer consent TO deliver
up fugitive slaves, or allow slavery to
exist in the Territories, but they chung
tenaciously tothe carrying-trade, fishing
.oounties, protective tariffs, and whatever
of profitable they enjoyed by meaESl
Of the Constitution. 1t was a kind of
'hdrP practice nor peculiarly creditable
States, SING Tfese ought to have a
lite regard to their honour and to com
non honesty, and are not TOmbs law
or Old Bailey practitioners. I
The old desire 10 crush the Sovereignty
# the States, avowed by Massachusetts,
pennsylvania, HAMILTON and MADISON,
n the convention of 1857, where the at. .
signslly failed, grew ~fiercer, as the
'orth became NOR and more populous
IAN the South and war was welcomed :
the only sure means of effeeting this,
nd giving all political power to the f,
.orthern popular msjorities. The Re :
lbttcaa leaders accepted and Welcomed :,
e War as a political Blessing.
For, when the first five States had =.
ceded, and it was plain that, if force r.
ere resorted to, Others would be reIuc- 60
ntly constrained to follow, accepting br
.eession as the only means of putting IL
end to personal liberty-bills and other
ameless violations of the Constitution. =.
the Republican leaders offer us any, 81
ing, and propose any concessions.
ailing ourselves of which, we who =,
'ed the Union might have appealed to ar,
? people and overruled our leaders, and 10,
last led the South back into the
No. They s~upercAiousIy said No,
Us, " We lC0 make no compromise. bv
WiH co1cede nothing tag DOM yolr ~,
rs, traitors return into the Union. :.
Z trust 10 oar tender Hlercies !-ase. ~.
? to The kaJe's hiHry Then ne said -,
you 0aR as, come and tcEe us -, sIi
y deliberately sacrificed all of Us
, still wished to cling to the Union. ,.t,
? PuTposeV played into the bands of .;r,
original seceders, when, if thew had 90 a.,
n US any assistance, the Union would saw
e been restored without a war, They -
ted to destroy slavery, and were to a
Of he occasion for that, which war nro,
ed. They forced US to unite in the sb.I
sion movement, and now they erect and
olds to hang us upon, after their ,ut;,
ident has pard0ned the most violent ~
editors, and of the dems- 80,
who proposed to hang all who rogtr
- taste as themselves pine
lat potent incentive caused the graot pass,
SACAN r.
mist monarchies OF Europe-Rnssja Ioafe
IA ana Engiand-so nightly to it sbi
athize with the United States. and and
'sistentiy TO refuse to recognize the from
endence Of the Confederate States freigl
prevent even France from DOING 500 or raj
ding to all the precedents, and by sons
niger claim than was ever before the o
tied, these States were entitled. nv fine
OF Nations, TO be recognized be- You'll
le end OF the second year of the offend
They Were not revolted Colonies Ger, a
.ovinees, but withdrawing States. guard
for seventy years, from the very eretioI
ing, claimed to be free, sovereign III
dependent. In the first month Of since
T they had established a common the ex
ment. Within the year a regular of reb
ment under a constitution went geneFs
Grafton, with u Chief Magistrate once s
iously elected, two Houses orCon- are dis
Of justice, and an army of or rub
men. Moaito
8 not slavery that denied as EiWo- all are
yplpdthy. There is no want Of Of ser
by for Brazil, in Europe. Brazil King I
mist, and an Imperial govern spring
heard,
because the war waged by the is NOV
n States against the Southern the san
peremptory denial Of the great that US
asserted by the Declaration of fourtee,