Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-06

means submission to q consolidated Gov
eminent, that efIaees State sovereignty,
and virtually obIiterates State-lines. If
it does not mean that, allegiance to the
Constitution, IA phrase which General
ALCoRN carefully eschews), includes al
legiance to the Union; because there is
no real Union, except that created by the
Constitution; or, if there be any other,
70 support it, contrary to the Constitu-
ton, is disloyalty and perjury.
And we must say further, that the
men who con~scientiously believed in the
right Of secession, and who have seen
fifty Thousand Mississippians die in vim
dication Of that right, the men OF whose
lifelong creed that right was an article
the men who continued JEFFERSON
DAVIS and ALBERT G. Brown in the
! Senate to assert that right, with all the
weight and authority that the people Of
Mississippi could invest them withal
and required them TO Withdraw from the
/ Senate when the State seeded; the Mis-
sissippi Democrats, who will pretend to
eechew the " heresy" Of secession, or to
believe it a heresy, and after PERFORM
ance Of that indispensable condition, and
due peDance and contrition for past sins,
will join the party that General ALCORN
proposes to fOrm.-Will be very few in
deed.
For respect for the opinion Of the world
will sometimes deter men from uuwOr-
thy acts or unwise ones, when nothing
else will; and such men, II at all we'll
read, will remember these singing words
! Of BURKE:
1.-THE same ways to safety do not
present themselves to all men nor TO the
same men IN different teH7pers. There is
q courageous wisdom there is also a
false reptile prudence, the result, not of
caution, but OF fear. Under misfoTtunes
IL often happens that the nerves of the
understanding are so relaxed, the press
ing peril Of the hour so completely con-
POUNDS all the faculties, that no future
danger can be properly provided for, a
be justly estimated, can he so much as
fully seen. The eye Of the mind is daz-
zled and ~vanquished. IN UkjCct diSfyttst
Of ourselves, an ~eXtravaCaut admiration
OF the enemy, present as nth no hope bat
h q compromise NTH his pride, By a s1tb-
mission 10 his wW. This short plan Of.
policy Is the only counsel which will OBJ
tain a hearing. We plunge into q dark
gJiph with all the rash precipitation Of
fear. The nature Of courage il, without
a question, to be ~cOnversant with danger;
but ina the palpable night Of their terrors,
men under CONSERVATION suppose, not
that il is the danger, which, by a sure
instinct, calls out the courage TO resist It
Dat that Il Is the courage Uhich produces
the danger. They therefore seek for
refuge from their fears IN the fears them
selves, and consider a temBOrizing mean
ness as the only source Of safety"
VIII not such Democrats, however
tempted to abandon the Constitution, as
Il garrison sbsndons 3 fortressnot yet I'M
tensble, at the first summons, fear that
these words Of the same Statesman may
be deemed applicable to them by other
men, eve if they only think 80 and are
silent?
"Men are not changed, but remain
always what they always were they
remain what the bulk OF Us must ever
be, when abandoned 10 our vulgar pro-
pensilies, without guide, leader or con
troll: that is, made TO be full Of q blind
elevation in prosperity To despise I'M
tried dangers; 10 De O~verpowered with
unexpected Teverses TO find no clue i'm
a labyrinth of difficulties; to get out of
a present inconvenience with any risk Of
future ruin; to follow and to bow to for
tune; 10 admire successful though wicked
enterprise, and to initiate what we ad-
mire. Ifnone will undertake to lead
Us right, We shall find guides who will
cOntrive TO conduct Us to shame and
ruin.n
We do not, with all Difference to Gene
raj ALCORN, beg the question: in sta
ting it Rs our opinion that the negroes
will enter into 10 coalition except with
the Radicals. For, first, it is not merely
oar individual opinion. 1t is a conclu-
sion drawn from the facts ~ they have
occurred in Tennessee. Second, it was
not a position assumed by US, as a propo.
siuon stated as any part Of 3 logical ar
gument; but as a simple independent
fact, showing General ALCORN's plan to
be imprscticable. We might Is well say
that be begs the whole question, in as
suming that the negroes will have a ma.
jority In Mississippi.
The drgUmentuDl al hOminem is some
what resorted to, when General ALCoRN
asks If We, as a lover Of order and hu-
mgnity, do not hold that the people oil
Mississippi are bound by every possible
consideration to make some effort. the
only effort open to trial, to save them
selves from the horrors Of a Wal Of races.
Undoubtedly. But here, again. we 40
not agree with General ALcoRN. We
think that the action Of Congress. in i'm
posing neg~ro-sufIrage on the South has
made that war Of races iueutaJle. unless
what they have done can at no distant
day be undOne. It cannot be undone bv
accepting it, ratifying it, p-erpetuatipg
il. If the white men OF the South stead-
lastly refuse to consent to accent tbe
position Of a minority, with a majority
Of negroes v e them, deny tine riyht Of
Congress, under the Law OF onque or
any other law, 10 place them under the
dominion Of negroes, refuse Ia lower
themselves TO the level OF negro equality,
and to court the negro and e%lectioneer
with him, and hatter, spoil and pamper
him, but submit in dignifed silence to
that which is for the present inevitable,
and reserve their right TO correct in the
future the wrongs Of the present,
negrO-suffrage will be but tempo
rary. The white race, if it does
not weakly yield every thing,
must in the end become the gov
erning race, Let the disgusting farce Of
negro domination, with negro Legislators
and members of Congress be juUy played,
if the Northern msniaos viii have il "a.
That, and perhaps that only viii r~eyoln-
tionize the North. II is the foek ON
which Radicalism may be shattered into
fragments. To unite with the negroes
and assure them the right Of suffrage in
permanenee is, we sincerely believe, to
throw away the South's only chance for
salvation for many years, and to make
sure and inevitable, at no distant day.
the horrors of Santo Domingo. and a war
OF races.
General ALCORN sees at 10 AIlude Ia
ouT living in the State Of Tennessee
somewhat, at least, outside the shadows