Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-09

peDNGnL cJiOliEa 20 kAg pAAGAk A2TEAA-
ment? That for this act o. separation
our fathers were denounced ss rs5elsaud
t~Feisors, subjected to Gil tbNcalsmities ol
q long and bloody wBr, AID preserved
from DETERMINATION or subjugation only
by foreign interpretation and the billowy
expanse OF waters that interviewed b.
tween them and the mother country.
Does not the record further snow thsi
cur fathers, refusing to recognize the JUS
tice of the judgment rendered against
them by those whom they regarded rs
their oppressOts, msde their Solemn APP
peal to a candid world 10 which they re-
puiisted the European dogma Of the
divine right to rule, and laid down as the
great corner stone of American cchstitu-
Jional liberty, the proposition that "GoU'
eminent Is made for man n not man
! for Government ; tina it is but sn organ
ism deriving its authority from the con-
sent Of the governed, and subject to be
modified or abolished as the -exigeneles Of
society may demand, and that OF the
right 10 make thsse changes or sltera-
tiops, the people by whom they are made
are the exclusive judges
Does not that record also show that
this fundamental idea Of Government
has been made the text aud toueh-stone
of political faith in the organic law OF
every State composing the american
Union? That upon each recurrence u
our national anniversary it has been pro
claimed to the world in strains OF impas-
stoned ~elcquence from ten thousand rOs-
strums, whist the minds of our people
have been indoctrinated with the idva,
and their throbblnAhsarts have respond
cd to the fervid languages oil the
| Declaration Of Independence? And
do not both bemispheTes besr wit
ness to the fact that fTO1 the
time we achieved our own independence,
whenever ard wherever the attempt hss
been made by any body OF people sufn.
GENTLY popuIous and powerful to or
gauizs and maintain separate govern
ment, their night to DO so has been recog-
nizsd by the great Republic, and that
without iBquiFiDg as TO the sOti1cisncy OF
the cause that impelied them 10 the seps-
ration, or the character and structure OF
! the government from which sueh u seBs-
rstion was sOught-whetner good or 6aG,
desp0tic or democratic, we hhstened to
extend to thsm our cordial sslutatione,
and to bid them welcome into the family
Of nations.
Whilst we recognized the rights OF
Gref CO 30 resist the desp0tic authority Of
Turkey, and of the South American
provinces aud Mexico to Fepudiate their.
allegiance 20 the Spanish crown, did we
any the mGre hesitate TO recognizes the
right. Of Texas to secsde from the Mexi-
can Republic, and TO establish 3 separate
nationality and when resistance 20 the
establfshe1 goverDmenthEd not acquired
such consistency and f@ce SO to warrant
the hops Of ultimate success, or to justi-
~ mn raaNrnfffnp If tho fnGuFuanf pnxfu
rs q belligerent or as a de Jdeto govern
ment, have we not, as in the czse CT
Poland and Hungary sd Ireland, ten
dered them the assurance of earnsst
sympathies; aud who cau doubt that bat
for the present anomalous posture OF our
own political affairs, and the. INDUSTRIOUS
Inconsistency, it would just now exhibit,
we would ere this have sent from the
seat Of our national government q hearty
God speed to those who are GOw resist
ipg Spanish authority ia Cuba, snd are
endssvcri0g to establish the indspend.
eDce OF that "Gem Of the Antilles"
Who then can gsiDssy the fac5
that up TO the attSn pied secession IF
the Southern States, 10 E right Of reYolu-
ton and OF self GoveTnZent hsd been
recognized and sfRrmed in every possible
msnner by every department Of our Gov
ernmenf, State aud Fedsrsl, and was
enshrined 10 the popular heart es one
tat was sacred and iaalienzb!e, un-
restricted by time, or place, or cir
cumstanees2 And may we not right
fully inquire what was there In the
circumstances attending U unfortunate
struggle to constitute ouFs an exceptional
case, 50. IS to afiX upon all thoss con
nected with it an indsiible brand of in
fsmy2
II thirteen feeble and i!sooyiant cello
niles, containing scarcely three millions
OF inhabitants, a fourth OF whom, per-
hsps, were loyaijsts a3d tOrieF, possessed
the inherent right to cut loose fr0m tbs
British Empire, to assume among
the powsfs % the earth the sep
afstG Rnd equal stSJiol 70 TEieh the
laws OF nature and OF Ds&uTeis GOQ en-
titled them, q the sabds right be con-
s~is,entiy denied to eleven States contain
ing nearly thrice that number Of inhsb-
ilsnts, shlmsfed by q uasnimlty OF rur-
pose almost unprecedented in tae history
of revolutionary m~oyemenisg Whilst
obkef States and other people nave had
their period Of infancy aud belpleSsness,
did not these Confederate States, IN the
language employed by the Supreme Ju-
dieisI tribunal of tie United States,
spring Et once into maturity ike Miner
va from the brsin OF Jupiter, organizing
a vigorous and efficient Governmsnt,
complete in ell it's psrts, and command
ing the respect and obedience Of some
eight or zen millions Of people, occupy
ing q territory OF nearly eOG,e 0a square
miles, AE3 larger than the aggregate
area OF France, Great Bfitsin, Prussia
and Austria, nanifestiDg a hsrVellous
capacity for military operations, both by
land and ser, startling The world by tae
Introduction Of al iron-cisd monitor that
vas the terror Of the eess, and created b
revelation in naval Bariare; commanding
q naval aFEas4a6Gk that Bept their enemy
in a state OF constant apprehension, That
destroyed millions Of his commerce aad
well nigh expelled his merchant vessels
from the oeesn /; raising, e~q1lppiDg and
supporting armies upon O ecale that filed
the world with smEzement fighting
battle after battle, End defeating one
great amy sitter another that was sent
to subdGs them extortiDg from
their enemies Of least ? pracfi.
cal recognition o. their character
as belligerents; maintaining fOF four
years undivided the most gigantic civil
war known to history, and keeping 81
bsy the most powerful adversary upon
| the globe, whose facilities for carrying
on 3 War we're unlimited, and who was
separated from them only by q geogreph-
lcal line. ConsPsrel with these mani
fsstations OF power and capacity to main
! tain q separate Government, those prov
inces and psople to whomI hsve alluded,
ard whose independence wes Eecognizsd
by the Dotted States, wss but SIS pigmiss
to a giant.
I repeat the question, thea, what lie
| there so special in orr case as to exclude
Us from the benefit Of that primary
American principle of the right of rsvo
luton and seIf-gOvernmept, from
which we attempted to effect seps
ration 2 MOI for that is q question OF
which, IS I have elresdy shown, the
people who desiIe TO change tGel7 politi-
cal connections are the exclusive judges
The Government OF the United States
| has 50 ~Rdiudged and acted time and
again, sud is uov stopped from asserting
a different principle.
Is It, then, because Of u failure TO
asaiaye success against an enemy, that
mona Of tns cd established governments
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