Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-06
LETTER FROM TEXAS,
PRAIRIE Lea, Texas. Feb. 20, 1866

PRAIRIE Lea, Texas. Feb. 20, 1861.
Editors Of the Union and american:
You may have plenty of these documents on
hand, but if not. request you Southern Guard OF
Southern Institutions, to publish VANDyKEs Sermon,
which you will find herein enclosed, not only that,
but ask you to call on your contemporaries in
Tennessee, to do the same, that the good people of
my old native home may see and know that we in
Texas and the South generally, are not run mad or
governed altogether by lcid mad cap Disunionists,
as some loodld be Union editors, would have them
believe. know the position of the p0lQDteer Sqte
is ere this decided upon. Bat whether she has gone
North or South, she is still my native home, and
but cling to her people, my brothers. so long
they maintain and fight for rights our insti-
buttons. religion, and our superiority Oger the
African races. l am Onstrained to ask this much
ar your hands, by two considerations
First i received yesterday, from a FREUD in
Tennessee, a paper styled The World GUe IN, !"
published by Sandiord & Co. Cincinnati, Ohio, an
ayowed Rep lblican, maintaining their itideL doc
yiae. in long ssee, Uery brOtherly leader, to his
Southern brothers, and then his beautiful poetry,
castgatiDg even his own Republican brsther for
not being willing to eqIdlize himself With his fiat
rOse. thick lip, long heeIed Sambo. On the margin
of this hrotherly eheet, few lines were written
requesting me to stop in my sud eqre of trying to
break up this Union. Ny Lord and goqf What
shall | think. What shall ! say! What can he
DINE to prevent this od TnOls, fdnq'iedt i9fdely,
from taking hold of the Southern peopey is It
POSSIBLE such papers are circulated, read ana De-
Gesed in Old Tennessee? and then thrust in the faces
of secession men, TO stop them in ptd career. Can
not we be allowed at least, to SkoH Title resentment,
little resistance TO Northern wrongs and aggres-
siens Why could not the Goptb haze been united
IN demanding redress of these wrolgsy without
being insultedy With reading and recit2t Of the
very doctrines that has caused all this mischief had
we been united (nsteac Of oHF vile oppressors eX-
uung over our diVIsiOnsj our wrongs would long
since have been redressed, and whether they had
not, we could have separated peaceabiy, and q
dozen AEdy Johnsens, could not have brought on q
lodT.
My second reason is, that l see certain little
Union Saving paper in Tennessee urging its readers
to take and make family Textbook of Harper S
Monthly" lie offers it very cheap, in connection
with hIs sheet, and thinks by all means that all
should read Harper. Now only submit the ques-
ton 10 you, and all others, who baye or may have
read 'HarPT'S Weekly" especially that BuHbef OF
January l2th whether the time has not yet come for
the South to shut the door such pictures, such
stuff and such letters purpoFting to be written by
Southern men, and shareholders, Union or no Union.
ask all seriously think of these things Are sgch
men our friends? | know we have friends in the
North but if real true friends, they will remain such
in peace or Gsar. As regards the Union that ledS,
was As good Union and yet, as any that
dare deay it, but mean Union with a soul in Il,
this one that WAS las Andy johnson says, page 81
rioSated, broken up, and a an end long go'
TIT-ToR-TAT.