Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-30

native land and that of the Northern
Huns, which no man shall attempt 10
cross, and live.n
Finished at two O'Clock on the morning
of the day of it's delivery, and not read
over fer correction, the words, 'if these
expressions continue" werenot inserted,
as they should have been, where We have
placed an asterisk.
II the Union can be restored on the old
basis,-if our States can be readmitted
into the Union as equals,-if the Union
Of the States, a. the Fathers made it can
bs restored,-then we are ready to say
s' EsrO PERPETUAL That Union We
loved, and could wish no better fortune
for our children, none better for our
states than its restoration. For the re-
turn Of those golden days we prayed; but
the prayer is not the utterance Of hope.
Our States, so far as they have RETURN
ed into the Union, have not returned as
EQUALS, bat as interiors. They crouch TO
receive their burthen. The white men
OF the South are forced TO accept the ne
groes as their political peers, while those
who force this upon them refuse to &c
cent them as such for themselves. The
States OF the North regulate the matter
OF suffrage for themselves. Those Of the
South agree to be kicked out Of the
Union, ifthey ever take from the negro
/ a privilege that be is wholly unit to ez-
ereise.
The Northern States put ia force over
Us Consultations conceived in sin and
I brought forth in iniquity. They confirm
and enforce the Acknowledgement of
third Of the white race in all the South.
They are our tyrants and oppressors,
and We are their slaves and serfs aud vic
tins. Such Union, as We have said
heretofore, is like the union of the living
man and dead corpse tied together by
Mezentius.
"AII our States lie fainting, dying,
Each to each with sobs replying"
and the brutal tyrants of the worst days
Of Rome are reproduced and exaggerated
in the Stevenses, the Buffers, the LO-
gans, the Binghsms, the Schencks, and
their siders and abeItors.
a standing army Of negroes is to be
organized in each State, to keep the eau
easian under the rule Of the semi-civil-
lied Africans. The child of the Anglo
Saxon and the son OF the Huguenot, the
representatives Of the ehivalry Of France
and the cavaliers Of England, the de-
scendsnts of the Vikings and the Nor
man heroes are disfranchised, and the
negro, armed with the bsyonet, votes.
If this should not be 10hOlly changed /;
if the luxury Of revenge, sweet to the
base, and hate and the incalculsbIe vii
Iainies of sordid tyranny do not give
place to a generous fOrgetfulness Of past
animosities and the bloody tragedies Of
the war, then no permanent brother
hood between Us and the people Of the
/ North is possible. Hate and the sense Of
wrong, and the longing for revenge, are
/ not the cohesive attraction that can con-
solidate Commonwealth into an EN-
/ pire.
We are not OF those who hold that the
/ overpowering of the South by the
/ Northern legions in the late war, has
/ settled the construction of the Constitu-
/ ton as to the rights Of the States. We
DO not accept Forcs as the interpreter o.
civil compac:s. To US, the Constitution
is now precisely what it always was.
and the only true Union, the Union of
the States as soveTeigns, is sovereign
solely by means of their sovereignty.
/ Our oath, required of u as the condition
of immunity, is to support, preserve and
defend the Constitution, and the Union
/ Of the STATES Hereunder" There is no
union of the States now: aud cur po-
/ nticaI creed can be very briefly ex-
/ pressed. "The Union OF the States IN
der the constitutional compact between
them, all free, sovereign and indepen-
/ dent; or a South Independent OF the
/ North"
We do not admit that the consolida-
4 ton Of the States and the destruction Of
their sovereignty are legitimated by the
1 result Of the appeal to arms. We do not
love, aRd viii not pretend to love that
Union, though we have agreed to obey
the laws of the conqueror. If the Old
! Union cannot be restored, We will hope
I to see the the South independent be fore
! we die; and IL Jacobinism Is 10 become
/ supreme in the North, We wish there
I could be an impossible wall or a gulf Of
/ fire between it and our Southern States.
We are frank to say that we do not
/ believe that permanent harmony be-
/ tween the North ana South is possible,
/ while they continue united under one
/ government. One will rule and the
other serve. Independent of each other,
/ they might be friends. The North is too
/ strong for the South, and the South too
/ much st its mercy and it never yet was
/ known in the history Of the world, that
strong States did not Cypress and vex
and encroaeh upon their weak neigh
/ bors.
The triumph of the Democracy at the
| coming election, would hold the Uuion
together, for time, because the S5uth
would then be dealt with justly and gen.
erously. But this would not last long /;
and new discOntents would be continu-
ally caused by new impositions, exac-
/ tons and expressions, until the country
would divide, perhaps into three or four
! Republics. 1t is by far too large to re-
main very long under one government;
and the day will come when the South
will be independent. We may not see
that day, but our children will.
/ On THE 25th inst, notorious negro
/ thief, known in Vicksburg as Shanghai
/ George was killed by a Mr.. Nineon
| Gibson. George had robbed several
/ families in that vicinity, and Gen. Gill