Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-01


OF the Union, brought about by the IN
compromising hostility Of the Northern
States, having led % the permanent es-
Enlistment Of the Southern COnfede-
racy, and believing that the interests Of
Tennessee are indissolubly united with
the seeded States, be it therefore,
ResO7Usd b. the friends Of Southern
TiQhts IA Shelby county, That We viii
unite with our friends in other parts OF
the state In using our best efforts 10
place Tennessee in political communion
with the seeding states, and that We
accept the Constitution Of the Southern
Confederacy as furnishing a platform OF
SOUND principles, upon which good and
true men IA safely stand.
ResOlUed, That the administration
parry Of Tennessee, by whatever name
they may desire to be known. or what
ever shades Of opinion they may advo-
cate, do not, in our opinion represent the
rue interest Of Our State, mol viii such
al organization eve be successful in
indicating the rights and honor Of the
State.
RssGUed, That all efforts at settle
meni having failed, we hold il to be the
duty Of the Governor to recommend 10
the Legislature Of Tennessee to take, at
its next meeting, steps for the passage Of
an ordinance Of secession, dissolving all
connection with the Northern Black Re
publican COnfederacy, with a view Of
uniting with the Southern COnfederacy,
which ordinance should be submitted 10
the people.
Resofrod, That We viii vote for no
man for any political position who is not
in favOr Of an immediate and unccndi-
tional secession Of the State.
D~e-Fa~Z uha# the IT.a % a ATs1A1.
State C~Oufederacy, as advocated by po-
Iitical leaders and tricksters, deserves
the condemnation Of every Tennessean
who regards the present or future safety
Of constitutions.
ResOlUed, That Ishsm G. Harris, Gov
ernOr OF the State Of Tennessee, and W.
Il. Avery, our late Representative IN
Congress, by their statesmanlike and
patriotie course, have endeared them
selves TO the advocates and supporters OF
southern rights, audthat they will carry
with them, whether in public or private
life, the confidence and gratitude of
the people whose principles they have
50 faithfully served.
These resolutions have riled the AUa-
lGnche, and from day TO day it is max
ing war upona all who favored them. In
this fight we repeat that we are emphat-
icaliy for Colonel Kellar. We shall
raise our hat and give him cheer every
time he smites his antagonist upon
the snOot, brings blood or sends him to
grass. We shall, at all hazards and 70
the last extremity, continue our defense
Of Colonel KeIlar for the patriotic reso-
lutions be introduced at Raleigh on the
first Of April, 1861. The AUalGnchs
must be actuated by a fendish malignity
toward Colonel KeIar, OF else it would
not thus sssail him from day TO day.
The Avalanche il seems can forgive
an original abOlitiOnist cam pardon
original Southern Union men, and for
give Beast Butler; but it has no mercy
for Colonel Kellar and those who Co
operated with him in 1851. In the
second century, the Emperor Adrian
had his own brother-inlaw, an old
man Of ninty years Of age, executed on
suspicion Of 8 conspiracy. When about
to be beheaded, the old man protested
bis innocence and uttered a prayer,
that Adrian might wish 20 die and find
death impossible. The imprecstion
was fulfilled. He was soon tortured
with the most ex~crueiating disease, and
longed and prayed in vain for death
He implOred his physician and priest
TO kill him, snd offered large brides 70
his servants to take bis life. He actually
stabbed himself with a dagger, but il
proved not fatal, ard only added TO his
torment. Every child he had died, and
he was left desOlate and alone. Thus
lingering without the cessation Of pain,
he is said to have composed that cele-
brated ode which Pope has paraphrased,
beginning:
"Yital spark Of heavenly Game.
Quit, Oh quit, this mortal Trans" etc.
This is the sort Of torture which the
Avalanche would inaict upon Colonel
Kellsr for one Of the most patriotic acts
OF his life. II the AudlGnche viii assail
Colonel Kellar FOX becoming an indie
pendent candidate for Congress against
the regular nominee Of his party, we
viii commend is course. But when the
Avalanche denOunces Colonel Kellar for
favoring war and secession before Ten
nessee seeded and before Fort Sumter
was fired upon. Il viii always find Us his
champion. The avalanche can forgive
Horace Greeley for his long war upon
the south, but it has no forgiveness for
Colonel Kellar and al who Endorsed the
sentiments Of the Raleigh resolutions.
But we beg Colonel Kellar to stand firm
and bid defiance to the prosecutions Of
the avalanche. The people Of Tennes-
see are not ingrates, and they win never
desert a man for being true to them.
Why, even the New York E0eaiaq Post
Bryant's paper, comes 70 the defense Of
Colonel Kellsr. 1t says:
We are not among those who hold
that 1t was IA objectionable sin 10 be-
ieve in November and December, 1860,
that rather than have a civil war we had
better submit 70 a dissolution OF the
Union, any more than We hold it 10
have been an objectionable sin 70 be 8
rebel. Not only was il quite possible for
an honorable and honest man to be a
rebel, but, onc in the rebellion, the
manly thing on the part Ofanative Ofths
South was to be true 70 his own section.
Taking the average man, the best test OF
character is his fidelity TO his surround
ings, his education, his order, and al 10
which he belongs, and which belongs 10
him.
Accepting this as the true principle,
We a understand and respect the POI
siuon which an honorable Democrat
might take In 1860 on the question.
Having no objection whatever 70
slavery believing, perhaps, that il was
a good thlng-at al events, believing
that its existence AZ the south was none
Of our business-he had ALWAYS CON
demned what he conceived to be North
ern interference with it as utterly wrong
gvmpathizing thus far with tie South.
he might, when Lincoln was elected. SO
far acquiesce in disuuioa as to think II
preferahle 70 civil war. Believing the
North to have been the first aggressor,
he might propose to submit to the IN
happy consequence
Taf Il be distinctly understood here
tbet al the while we believe the rebel
snf ~ who supported him to have been
nTfsrIv In the wrong. We judge Of their
lion bv its consequence, and IN the
iighf 81 our own convictions. But We