Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-14

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himself denied the right to worship
the God of his fathers, according to
the dictates of his own conscience, a
result which the importation of these
Pagans, ''in large numbers" would
probably speedily effect? Then would
the trade not be worse than that OF
Esau with Jacob2 which sale, on
Esau's part, has made his name one
of derision, in all ages, throughout
C~hristendom. Now will any candid
man say that this picture of future
contingencies is o~verdrawn? If not,
can we afford to take the risk? Can
we afford to sell our birthright for a
mere mess of pottage, or like Judas
sell out our Christian privileges, or
hazard those of our posterity for sill
yer? If we should make this despe-
rate hazard, and lose all, the righteous
verdict pronounced on US by the whole
world would be about this: "That
whereas this people did make a vol
untary sacrifice of themselves, the
future hopes of their children, their
country and their God, at the shrine
of mammon then let the chasm of
shame, into which they have fallen,
swallow them, and their name be
handed down to posterity only as the
name of Esau."
Is there any man, not a fit subject
for the lunatic asylum, who would
urge that the United States Is a whole
stood in need of another regiment OF
soldiers to defend her, or Of any more
laborers to sustain her? We are will
ing to admit, and we lament the fact,
that the Southern, as compared with
the Northern States, is relatively
weak, and needs more labor and more
money, andthe weakness of the South
in men and means is only to be e e
or felt bya comparison with the States
North, and this weakness the South
can easily remedy, if she truly de-
a moderate share of common
sense and sound discretion in
the use of the means and labor
we still have and were always within
our reach. Now, if you please, come
and let us reason together, and al
though figures are rather dry, they
are sometimes indispensable to the
subject. For the sake Of round num-
bers Let US assume that the Southern
States have ten, and the Northern
States twenty millions of inhabit-
ants-tWO to our 0ne-and of course
the majority will control and largely
shape the political policy of the ma
ton. You now desire to import, say,
ten or fifteen millions to the Southern
States and thus preserve the equilib-
rum. Did you ever think Of it, that
five millions from the North and West
would produce the same result that
ten millions would produce if brought
here from any other quarter Of the
globe? How is that? says one. Well
now, if the South has ten millions,
add i've from the twenty millions the
North has, makes the South number
fifteen, and leaves the North fifteen
millions; thus we balance the sheet.
But how Is this to be, or can it be
done? The how is to act like men of
sense and discretion, just as any other
proud and gallant rae of men On
earth would do, and that would be to
so dispose of the labor we have as 10
live within ourselves, and in one, two
or five years make it to the interest of
five or ten millions of the most saga
cious and enterprising men Of the
States above to come down
and settle among and identifying
themselves with us. This we can
easily do, by simply having our own
corn cribs, Touring mills and smoke
houses here at home, and have all orr
coarse, heavy goods and wares manu-
featured here in the South. This will
give us all the population we need,
and employment at the same time.
This is Just the whole of IL. ! am not
given to egOtism, but will assert, witng
out the fear of successful refutatiOn,
that the course Just indicated is the
only route by which the people of the
South can ever escape from their pres
ent position Of peGuniary and political
v~assalage. The very first hour that
such a fixed purpose on u part WIS
made known in the Northern States,
some of quick sighted and shrewd men
there, would be offering to sell his
realty to his less %perceptive neighbOr,
and move South. Why? Because he
would see at once that that there was
HG longer a market open in the South,
for their surplus productions Of flour,
pork, meal, beans, etc; and soon
would the farmers and mechanics re-
alize their true condition, and make
arrangements to adjust themselves To
circumstances, and move off to the
South, where each could be prOfitably
employed. The mechanic would find
ready sale for his labor, and the
farmers surplus would be in cotton,
tobacco or sugar, which at remu-
neratiVe rates he could sell
in any Of the markets Of the world.
But if we Of the South suffer ourselves
to be infatuated with the idea of cot
ton, more cotton, to the neglect or eX-
clusiOn Of a proper regard for raising
our home supplies and home manu-
features, and thus sustaining by our
sweat and toll, the great numerical
prepOnderance mentioned in the
North, then let us cease to complain
of the yoke which we have invited
the people of the North to put on our
necks, for we have taken it as u own
voluntary act and deed, and the pre-
pOnderaa0e alluded to is but the nat
ufal and legitimate result of our own
action. What say yR then? Ne
proud and gallant sons of the South?
Will you, We tillers of the generous
soil of this beloved eden of
ours, will you continue to do,
some have heretofore
done? toll on like horses the twelve
months round, in making cotton and
sugar, and then like apes be fed from
your owners crib, and paying out
therefor all your surplus earnings? IF
you will not awake and arouse your
selves to discover your true interests,
and, as a people, we persist in our for,
mer and present course, to a large eX-
tent, then why should we trouble our
to encompass land and sea for
more lab0rers to make more cotton to
enrich only our Northern owners?
Fearing, Mr.. Editor, that your patience
has been wearied by the length of this
communication, l will, for the present,
Yours truly,