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

We have shown, we think, that by the
misunderstanding between the States
from the beginning, in respect to the
very nature Of the Constitution and the
parties to it, the States were but yOked
together, and by no means matched OF
mated that disputes and discussions,
continually increasing in bitterness were
inevitable, and the permanency Of the
Union simply impossible. Differences SO
fundamental and absolute could never be
reconciled nor could the States main
tanning opinions 50 hostile to each other,
grow together into a Nation. It vss
certain that either the connection must
st no distant day be dissolved, by consent
or upon 8 quarrel, or one opinion must
conquer the other, snd part Of the States
be compelled by force to accept the
theory Of the others.
There were still other reasons, why the
Union could not very long continue by
mutual consent. The New England idea
Of the rights Of conscience has always
been that they mean the right Of yourself
70 believe what you please, and to com
pei othersto believe the same, or persecute
them for not doing so,-and its idea
Of free government is that it is q device
by means Of which you may take toll
and tithes Of others for your " ben
eft. Massachusetts, rs the debates and
proceedings show, did not desire a Union
in 1877, unless il could exercise q con-
trolling power in il, and make it profit
able. by securing material advantages.
In the pursuit Of these objects it was
tirsless. II did not then claim the right
TO ~intermeddle in the domestic affairs Of
other States, or become the Censor Of
their morals, or the apostle Of reform
aud e~xtirpator Of neresies everywhere
except at home. 1t was even willing.
for a consideration, to consent that the
sIave-trade should be continued foI
twenty years, and to take the chance Of
damnation for 80 much longer con.
tinuing to be the great s~lsve-csrrier Of
the world, and the wholesale murderer o.
the Middle Passage.
Always self-righteous, Pharissical, in.
tolerant and prosecuting, New England
at length engaged in 8 crusade agains.
slavery, and at the same time becam,
also devotedly attached to the Union
which was dstestable to it when the in
terest and safety Of the country required
an embargo on shipping, and the march.
ing Of militia into Canada. II had ther
-propouneed both measures grossly IN.
constitutional, and proposed on account
ofthem TO dissolve the Union. When
one compares the utterances Of the New
England pulpit forum and Statesmen
then, with the doctrine she now breaches
by her Senators and Representatives
with the powers she now claims for Con,
press, and with the infamous and bruta.
legislation owing TO no State more thar
10 Massachusetts, and dishonouring nc
StsTs mors, he needs nothing else Il
,~ntensify into losthing his contempt FOL
nDritanic phariseeism and almost FOL
human nature.
Tbs Old Testament, and especially the
hook Of JOSHUA, are the Gospel Of Puri-
t.nism. At first the Indians were is
pbilistines, and it exterminated them IS
.aa-cilessly as PIzAEBO did the Peru
1ians. Then the peaceful Quskers, who
only asked to be allowed the liberty Of
worsbipping Con in their own way,
rrovoked its pious indignation, n the
Puritaps vindicated their own right to
treedom Of conscience and did COP good
service, by hangings, stripes, and the
grubblng out Of ears.
Il is not very many years, since Sc
was lately said in Congress, "a semi
nary Of learning, under the charge Of
innocent and defeneeless nuns, was
burned down by 3 Boston mob. On the
lofty walls Of that blackened monument
Of Massachusetts bigotry stood the sig-
niheant inscription The LORD seeth.'
Year by year these holy, d~efenceless, in
nocent women haveAfPpealed, and APP
Pealed In vain, to the Stated Massachu-
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