Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-13

u pOlltlcil decisions ana reVOlutiO
which, in the progress of time, W
e happen in America, and the cons
j quent happiness or misery of ma
: kind, am led TO believe that muC
: OF the account on one side or the 9th
{ Will depend on what we now decid
I Our own happiness alone is not q
: tected by the event. All nations al
a interested in the determination" NJ
b Stephens says: Just ut this point
Mr.. Henry's speech the heavens blacl
: ened with gathering tempest whic
burst with so terrible a fury as to pT
the whole House in such disorder tha
he could proceed no further. 1t wa
the last speech Patrick Henry mad
in that Convention. Did he possess
superhuman vision, or had he caugh
something of the spirit of the ancien
prophets which enabled him to Sc
farther into the future and understand
better the workings of political sys
TENS controlled by human passion
than any of his many great and equally
patriotic colleagues in that renowned
/ body of sages and statesmen? Did ht
see farther into the future than Pen
| dletOn, or Madison, or Marshall, wher
he said i see At; feel it?' Did hi
! get giimpses of the terrible scenes o
! the last seven years? or of the still
more horrible ones yet ahead O
/ lis ~
Nindioattng State sovereignty and
the right mot policy of secession, after
citing the declaration of Lincoln in
the House of Representatives in 1S4S,
that "any people have this right-a
most valuable and sacred right" Mr..
Stephens proceeds, p. $40: eff this be
a sacred right, erea iA this cielC, how,
in the language of Mr.. Greeley, can
there exist any legal or moral right
anywhere else to prevent its exercise? F?
There cannot be two antagonistic
rights. Rights, like truths, alwaya MT
as between themselves. They never
jar, impinge or collide. Thus the
moral and political worlds, when
rightly understood, present the same
beauty and symmetry which pervade
the physical in all its parts extending
throughout creation; and in the prae-
teal workings of all their parts Bro
duce perfect concord. and harmony
not unlike that symThony of the.
spheres in the material universe which
has gone forth from the time the most
distant stars raised the grand chorus
in the morning of their birthW
Again, and here's the point, p. 535:
" The States We're older than the
Union. They made it. They may
survive it, but it can never survive
them! What may be called a Union
may spring from the common ruin,
but it would not be the Union of the
Constitution. BY whatever name It
might be called, whether Union, Ma
tion, Kingdom, or aAything else, ac-
cOrding to tlse tastes of its dupes or its
devQ.ves, il would in reality be no
thing but that deforIQei and hideOus
which rises from the decom-
posing elements Of dead States the
world over, and which is well known
by the friends of Constitutional Lib
erty everywhere as the demon of cen
tTaliSm, absOlutism, despOtism. This
is the necessary reality of that result,
the imperial powers be 5arzeGt
and welded by the hands ii many, Of
few, or of Onep on p. $50: Had
no war heoa waged against the South,
he DOUBTS not the whole controversy
would have been AsrmOnlOusly adj
iusted, ,just as all perturbations in the
solar system are, by the law of gravi-
tation from which they Sprung,n etc.
Now to the ethical mind, indued
with q preponderance of reiigioSitys
the above in connection with Patrick
Henry would pe viewed as one Of the
MANY mysterious phenomena with
which his ilIustri0us and Illuminated
lite ahOunded, and ,eXplicabie alone on
the spiritualistic philOsOphy--the univ
versa1 panacea for all the mystic aii-
ments of all the occult elaneRts. But
to the political atpdent these eloquent
eXtrauIs wall prove pregnant with
alarm and terror. lie Will notice the
SigRiiloantda and intentional silence
of the pen at the end of Mr.. stephens
question.
VIII Republicanism or Imperialism
prove orr political panacea? We
mean modern Republicanism in its
partisan sense, not literal import
Black Republicanism, Red RepEhli-
canism, anything hut Whtte-black
with Ignorance, or red with carnage.
Democracy 4 run " the government of
this great country for nearly cen
tury with continued and unparalleled
prosperity, This Republicanism has
governed it less than a decade, ana
with q desolatiOn equally unparalleled
in the annals of empires, states or peO-
Dle. Shall we renOunce and abjure
that time-hOnored Democracy, whose
sun rising in the wild wilderness OF
the West, hath throyn its rays 5aek
over the wild orient and warmed the
world into a new life it never telt be
fore, and accept and embrace this
neoterie and neophytic Republicanism
With its ncnhitic moral miasm, which
draned the East in mourning and has
enread its dread eclipse DER our own
Southern occident2 Teis .Erhce,nEsee4.
Republicanism, which. is the embodi:
ment and formal expression OF the IL
centiOus rabble-shall we pay It hom-
age and invoke its @gis2 In the words
of Pitt, E6gland's avalanche OF eld-
quence, "neyer, neyer!' In the lah-
guage Of
% Henry, the forest-born Demosthenes,,
whose thunder shook the Philip of the
seas -
"If this be treason (to the truly loil }
let them make the most OF it," Every
truth to them is treason.
But in the opinion of the AgGydRche,
Democracy is dead. Then the only
alternative left US is Imperialism. II
Democracy, which is liberty leagued
with law. is indeed dead, and we must
have the q Demon Of Centralism, Ah-
solutism, DespOtism, as the neees=
sary reality of that result, then let the
Imperial powers be seized and welded
by the hands of one, in preference to
MANY or even to few Heridary
King with the British Constitution,
or imperial Caesar with his civic crown
and Roman law, were better far than
the dynasty and despotism of ignor-
ance and venality controlled by ire
sponsible, fanatical and diabolical men
Of mean origin and meaner instincts.
No, we may change the name, (Which
perhaps is all the ArdIdnehe means,
and is my fault in misreadingl, but
never the nature of the grand old pa
triots that has existed since the days
of Henry, Hancock and Adams. The
old name Whig, in essence, is the
same: liberty and law. Names are
nothing with principles. We cannot
act in contravention to the organic
laws of nature, or humanity would GO