Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-28


question Of the abolition Of slavery,
holding themselves responsible for it's
continuance in other States. Neverthe-
less, although they began to regard the
| Constitution as a covenant with he'll"
they were willing to continue the Union,
if they could be secured in the enjoy
ment Of the carrying trade, bounties on
fish, drawback of duty on salt, and pro-
/ lection for their manufactures.
When the Wing party arose, its princi-
ples were conservative and national, and
its prospects Of ultimate success were by
no e desperate. But it sOon had, in
the South, to burthen itself with the Ad-
vocacy Of 3 protective Tariff for the
benefit Of New England, and st last
allied itself in the North with Abolition
ism, and broke down with the double
weight; its leading members in the
North passing over to the Republican
party, and now, thoroughly radical,
having lost all regard for the Constitu-
ton.
The mode and rules of construction Of
the Constitution, and the powers Of the
/ General Government became subjects Of
fierce and angry discussion, because Of
their practical Importance in respect to
the various questions to which slavery
gave rise. All parties agreed that Con-
gress could not intermeddle with it in
- CA-4-- - H. C,rrFb oTefu,ad that
there was nc power, under the Constitu-
ton, TO prohibit it in the Territories.
We need not trace the history Of all
that fierce and furious agitation, which
shook the whole Union and rent asunder
the churches Of more than n religious
denomination. When it severed these
bonds, it was idle to expect that the
merely political ones could be kept from
swapping asunder.
That it was impossible for the Union
long to continue, is cOnclusively proven
by the fact that it has been shattered
that at the end OF a civil war Of four
years. ten States have become Provinces
out Of the Union, governed by a military
despotism, and that a revolution is in full
march which is changing the form Of the
government as completely as that Of
France was changed after 1883. It is
nonsense to say that the conflicting inte-
rests Of Sections and States did not make
the permanence of the Union impossible,
but that the decadence Of the Republic has
been swing TO the misconduct Of men or
party. 1t lie not likely that men will
ever be any better or wiser, or parties
any purer, than they have been in this
county for eighty years. Institutions
must always be managed, and affairs of
government conducted by men, and men
are governed by their interests, except
when, occasionally, their passions get the
upper hand.
The benefits derived from the Union
would probably have been as fully real
lied by each republic, if the States had
at the beginning organized two govern
ments. Either the South or the North
was large enough for an Empire, and
Suuld o have grown to the full stat
ure Of national manhood. This, however,
is mere opinion and speculation but
what is certain is, that the o%verruling
desire Of the States for q closer Union
and a stronger Government, caused the
adoption Of q Constitution fruitful Of
scisms and dissensions, ~embodying IA
tai compromises Of principle, proceeding
upon 10 theory, or rather upon two CON-
hicting one intermingled, and making
inevitable, some Gay or other, sn inter-
necine conflict between the popular prin-
ciple, embodied in some Of its features,
and that Of State sovereignty and inde-
pendence embodied in others. The late
civil war was that conflict. The ten
Southern States, driven to the wall,
turned upon the popular majority, and
the msjority Of States, and fought
desperately for their rights and very ex-
istence. They lost, and in losing their
cause, they lost all, except honor, and
seem about to lose that.
The President, after assisting to crush
the States snd to make the Northern
majority omnipOtent, became the de-
Of the States, and endeRvOured to
stay the march Of Revolution. The car
rolled on and he was flung under the
and crushed. The JacObins are
to re-admit the Southern States
into the Union, without negro suffrage,
knowing that sooner or later the whites
will unite with the Conservatives and
Democrats Of the North, and wrench
those they hate the powers which
they have abused. Therefore the despe-
game they are playing, Of resorting
to Military DespOtism and the annihila-
ton Of ten States, as the only means Of
the negroes the right to vote, and
their aid r~adicsIizing the South.
The war, savage and cruel az it was
and deeply as the memory Of its atroci-
ties is burned into the souls Of the South
srn people, had not made the restoration
IF the old Union impossible. That has
effected by the people Of the North
since it ended. A temporary and sham
a bastard begotten by force or
fear, may be patched up and the South
will be misrepresented in Congress by
Radical and negro Senators and Repre-
sentatives. But the true people Of the
South will not love the Union so re
and will detest the men who
force the negroes upon them as political
The old Union wa infected
with a mortal disease at the beginning. |
The new one will not last a day longer
than the inability Of the people Of the
South to throw Off the yoke. A perma-
nent separation at no distant day is GER
tain. The question is hot now agltated
because the South is PROSTATE and pow
A Union procured by such ac-
cursed means as Congress has in its
madness resorted to, will itself be ac-
cursed Of GOD and must be short-lived.
Fraud and oppression are bad founda-
to build a republic on. England
procured the legislative union Of ireland
to itself by bribing the Irish Parliament
and prosecuting the Catholic people Of
Erin; and the agitation for repeal never
has ceased and never will.
It would have been a blessing both to
the North and South, IL the United
States had been permanently divided
into two republics, in 1861. A treaty Of
would have given each sIl the
benefits ola common Government, with
out any Of its Disadvantages and une-
quail burthens. The Nation is too large.
It's legislation must always be unjust to
portion of the country. Not only
sectional, but individual interests will
shape that legislation. Corruption fills
all the veins and arteries Of the Com
mOnweslth, and circulates instead Of
blood and so it always has been and
always will be, In great republics. It
oozes out Of the body polite at every
pore. The weak States are plundered
by the strong, and the feebler Section by
that mora nonuImas THE Il ~.-zA.