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

that race born to rule. Even the
Tartars conquered China and
established 8 dynasty which still con-
tinues: but PURrTANIsM has never, since
the time Of CROMWELL, had any power
or influences in England. In the United
States 1t rules TO ruin. 1t is entirely too
greedy and selfish and fanatical to gov
ern 80 great a country wisely, and must
needs ALLEVIATE every other part Of it from
itself.
New England and the Middle Atlantic
States well know that as soon as the
South is restored TO the Union, and can
send whom it pleases to Congress, it will
unite with the Northwest in resisting
the imposition Of onerous tariffs for the
protection Of manufacture, -aRd there
fore New England does not want the
Union restored, or the ten States read
mitted, except as negro republics; and
the Northwest, with a singular blindness
and folly, assists the Northeast to keep
the South excluded from the Union, and
so enables it to plumber the Northwest
and South alike.
After the acquisition Of Texas and the
country on the Pacific, it would have al
most impossible for wisdom and justice
to have so managed the national affairs
as to keep the whole country long uni
ted. A wise monarch might possibly
have done it. A Congress of popular rep
resentatives was most unfit and incom-
petent to do so. Greed, u%nfairness and
obstinacy, invested with the powers OF
government over so vast a country, Of so
many States, could not but make 8 mis-
cradle and ignOminious failure; and no
failure could be more complete and more
ignominious than to be compelled to
resort to q military d~espotism as the
means Of governing ten States. It is
signal confession Of incompetency, a
wretched and ~disgrsceful failure.
The Union ought to have been peacea-
bly, divided into two Republics in 1870,
when the ire-bell Of a~nti-slavery agita-
ton rang out in the night, sounding the
kneIl Of the Constitution. The attempt
then to patch up a compromise has cost
the United States an acknowledged ma
tional debt Of more than three thousand
millions, and losses north and south to
the amount Of two thousand millions
more, besides half a million Of lives.
We are not speaking now of what we
desire, but Of what we believe will be the
end Of the present unsatisfactory aud
disjointed s~tate'of affairs. Every Ameri-
can felt a just and natural pride in the
greatness and power of his country, and
would again feel it, if a returning sense
of justice could re-snimate the North.
But if injustice and oppression are to
continue, the greatness and power
of the country will become detestable,
because it is by them that part
of the States are enabled haughtily to
domineer over, humiliste, Cypress and
plumber the rest. Injustice and op-
preston UiH continue, whether the
States are or are not re-admitted for
they are i~nseparable from a Government
by a Congress, Parliament OF National
Assembly: and the country will at
divide into at least three Re-
publics. The Pacific States viii estab-
lish q separate government, perhaps as
soon as Congress undertakes to force the
Chinese on them as citizens and voters.
The Northwest and South will unite
against the New England and Middle
Atlantic States. No human exertions,
we believe, can prevent this, or else the
establishment OF a Southern Republic.
The country Is too large not to disinte-
CRATE; and we do not know that this me-
cessity is to be regretted. Small repub-
lies are happier and more stable than
large ones; and greatness and power are
not the chief blessings Of q Nation.
The South will not again seek to win
its independence by force. No enc
dreams OF resorting to that. Our States
have suffered too much by war, to be
tempted to incur its hazards and mise
ries again. None Of US wish again to see
brother in arms against brother, as the
Of John J.. Crittenden were. New
erthelcss, the separation will, sooner or
later, come, whether peacefully or not,
who can say? The country will fall to
pieces by its own weight, the immense
burthens of taxation, by misgovernment
and the miserable incompetency .of its
Men Of the Norman or Saxon
win at last prefer a sober and we'll
regulated liberty in a smaller common
to power and greatness and glO-
~, without liberty, in a large one.
II this disintegratiou is to be proven
ed, it must be by a total abandonment
IF the miserable impOlioy Of ~consolida-
lion by force and oppression, and areturn
% those principles Of generous cOnces-
sion and forbearance and confidence
which seem to have departed forever. AS
HOLYNEUX said in 1898, Of the case Of
being bound by acts Of Parlia-
nenti in England, the right Oflegislation,
II which the Northern states are making
10 oppressive a use, is neither justifi-
ible by the plea Of conquest, purchase or
PRECEDENT, and is only submitted TO from
ncapacity Of ehectual resistance and
he course Of the United States, like that
Il England then, is "equally impolitic
and tyrannical.n How applicable to our
are the words of SHIEL, in
to that tyranny! Wrong was
leaped upon wrong, sndinsult was added
% injury; with this advantage on the
tide Of the aggressors, that they could
the people Of Ireland into
by raising, to drown every COM
the cry of rebel and 'Jaco-
The indignation of SWIFT was
aroused by the monstrous wrongs which
inflicted upon his country. He was
70 excited by the injustice which he alb
lorred, that he could not forbear from
sxclaiming to his friend DELANY, Do
lot the gi7lainies Of men eat into your
In the defeat Of the Radical party, in
he abandonment OF its mad leaders by
he masses Of the people whom its ex-
ravagances ought to disgust, lies the
,nly hope for the perpetuity of the Union,
.fter its restoration and to enforce this
consideration upon the people, and en-
to convince Thorn Of its truth, is
o be the Unions best friend. Restore
he old landmarks and the rights of the
States, and the South will not yield a jot
IN the score Of loyalty to the North.
MORE EECONsTRUCTION.
We republish elsewhere the new recon-
itruction bill introduced by Mr.. Stevens,
md referred to the special committee of
which he is chairman. The principal
object OF the introduction of this propo-
at this time appears to be to notify
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