Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-03
TIE n PRESS.

The northern claVeOWners are not wise
enough to be generous.
THE CRY PRESS.
We acknowledge the courtesy and
kindness of our Brethren OF the Press of
Memphis.
If the sentiments uttered by the AP-
PEAL are, and are to be extremely South
cra, it is only because we believe them
to be just and true. A wise statesman,
we think, ought to look at the late war
as a war of ideas, which should not have
left after it the bitterness of hate and the
burning desire for revenge. The people
Of the South would not have fought and
struggled and suffered as they did, unless
they had been inspired by an intense
faith in the right and justice of the
for which they imperilled all that is dear
to q people. LA VENDEE fought heroic
ally for royalty against r~epubliCanism
and when the armies Of the Republic
had conquered, there were no cOnfisca-
lions, no acknowledgements, no ignOble
and unWise reveuges. La VERDEE be-
came at once a part Of France, and her
voice was heard in the Legislative body
and peace, once made, vas not again
disturbed, even by q local eommotion.
Il was perhaps unwise and unnecessary
for the Southern States to secede, UheH,
and especially as, they did but it a
net be demonstrated that they had not
the right to do so. At all events, they
sincerely 6elieued they had that right,
and that it wa an immense injustice TO
make war upon them for exercising it.
1t is a poor craftsmanship which, in
stead Of considering q country, and both
sections of q country, ennobled by a wal
in which each, at an immense sacrifice
and with an energy and perseverance
never surpassed, commended for its con
structiOn of the Constitution, its opinion
of the origin and nature Of the Govern
ment, insists on belittling and abasing
INTO 8 rebellion, an insurrectiCn, and
the commission Of individual treasons,
the heroic struggle Of eleven States that
might, on the score Of wealth, and eX-
tent and population, well have claimed
the right to 3 separate nationality, with
out regard to the wishes or selfish in
terests Of other States. This is a simple
stupidity. and the very driveling of folly.
II We were q Frenchman, or an Eng
lishman, az we should condemn the i'm
policy Of E~nglsBd's tyranny over Ire
land, Of that Of Philip II ove the
Netherlands, Of Austria over Italy, or
Russia over Poland, SO We should deem
that Of the Northern States yer the
Southern, the CALLING insults, the petty
revenges, the little, mean acts Of spite, to
be Uorse than erimes-to be blunders, dis
graceful to any man pretending to be a
statesman.
Our extreme Southern sentiments "
are only those Of one who detests usurped
power and ignoble revenge, and who has
been trained to reverence the COnstitu- (
ton and the laws, and those who minis
ter st the affairs Of the laws. We have
q horror Of 81 that tends to anarchy and
10 that humiliation of the rights of the
States, and substitution of the great,
tumultuous, tickle, unreasoning, half
negro Democracy in its stead, which
connOt but end in universal demoraliza-
ton and disorder, to which the despot-
ism Of 3 single viii will be preferable.
We have seen enough Of war and it
is with burning anger that We see the
Radical leaders at Washington and
Nashville acting 10 concert in originat-
ing measures intended, D1eaal, invented
by a devilish ingenuity, to push the
people Of these poor, ruined, disheartened
States into a resistance that shall seem
to Justify the Northern armiesin again in
vading them, and ~drenching every Gods
acre. from the Ohio and Potomac 10 the
Gull, in blood. Judgment has fed 10
british beasts, and men have lost their
reason What can come Of a war by
Congress on the rights Of the States, on
the President, on the Supreme Court, on
the common rights ~ofbumanity, on COM
mon sense, but the excuses of the
French Revolution, and " horrors on
horrors head accumulated ?"
We have no race Of rivalry for the
popular favor, with any other journal.
There is need Of none. We shall simply
say in plain words what We think and
whether that is to be popular or not, We
shall not stop to consider. We do not
choose to be deemed the rival OF the
Avalanche, in the sense that the success
Of one must needs be the injury Of the
II We restore the APPEAL to its
old place in the peoples affections, we
hope that this may not withdraw asingle
from any other journal, nor
diminish its receipts by q dollar. We
even hope that the circulation Of the
Post may enlarge that the people may
automatically be informed Of the plans
aud purposes of those who rule Us, and
earn to detest them as the enemies OF
.hC human race. I'VE may always
,afely refrain from prosecuting error, if
ruth is left free 10 combat IT," Above
N, we desire to thrive by no ones I'M
LONG or injury. Many ships may sail
he E side by side, tRi all make safe
md profitable voyages.
wanted to see Ristori. i.
The Detroit Post says that a little Ital-