Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-26
9alg gppeal,
LETTER TO REV. HENRY WARD
REEGEaEB,
IS originally p]gbiislod IA the ST. Ions DAILY
Morning Herald, % Of DecCubcr 18th, joJ9.

Morning Herald, 81 DecCHtbcr Lct1r J015-
ST. LOUIS. December 2, 1859.
To the Rcr Henry Ward Beecler:
SIR: This is the morning of the anniversary
of the " crossing of the Delaware ~ by George
Washington, and the battle Of Trenton. The
governor of Missouri has appointed to-day a day
If Thanksgiving in memory of the achievements
OF the " Father of his Country And / keep II
with a two-fOld feeling Of fiial duty, for George
Washington and my own father, who was with
him on that dreadful night and the two succeed
ing days. ! do most heartily thank God, my
Father in Heaven, for their deliveTauce in that
most perilous adventure. ] thank Him that
lie parted the ice as He did the Red Sea, to safe
ly and on that stormy night that small but nero
ic band 70 battle with the enemies OF liberty
and made them successful against hve times
their number. THANK Him for the freedom anu
prosperity of our common country both North
and South; audI thank Him for the preserva-
ton of our Union beneath the hollow OF HIS
hand. But above all things have l thanked
Him tlat He has not made me such a man as
Henry Ward Bsecner. with a heart full OF such
black ingratiIude for the achievement of human
liberty by that heroic band. I thank Him that
not one drop of blood flows in my veins, or the
veins Of my family for disuuion; and there stll
lives the same love Of liberty IN my humble
bosom thar imbelled them TO battle and TO cross
TIC Dcluf llrf ulA hoflA -AEfHt At. ~ 49, -
Mississippi 10 battle with the foes OF TINS
UHiOn-tne only hope for civil and religious
liberty for the human race. SlT, let me reason
with yOu, and carefully read what write yol,
that You may % see yourself as others see you.
Huu profess TO be a Christian, yet IN 10 wise DO
you follow in the footsteps of your Master,
or are actuated by the spirit Of His religion.
His was of peace, yours OF the sword Ills
was forbearance, yours assault, even unto death,
1r-,, r,v7- Ff-r7Hs and vLr-v n.14HfTV He mr.
chased no weapon even. 10 be turned upon His
enemies while yours Is the religion OF the
bowie knife aud the rife. Ills was mercy, yours
is murder. You would turn the brutal negro
upon the unsuspectiuE white man and the de
f~enseless white women, and see them gloat On
murder and rapinc. He would gather little
children to his bosom, while you would consign
innocent white girls Of your w race TO the
brutal embrace of the African. l therefore can
not address you rs a minister OF the Christian
rengiou, or a follower of Jesus; but as a heart
less, uuleelng, uncompromising knaye, too wise
TO act without a deadly purpose, 100 httlerelglon
81 be a biE0t OF a fanatic, but possessing the
power 10 make fools and fanatics OF others. In
vuur church bat recently Won have raised
money 70 excite Instruction in my native
country and when the damuiug deed was
done, say with bypocThcal cant, did not do
it: that no force should be used except moral
nAaG'ADAa Aha NHAA -Ai'A eEf-l N-N N-N W.
your neighb8r's dwelling; and excite black men
10 murder white men, then say you only wish
20 Gberate the slave. such conduct no reason
can Justify, no honest Christian can approve.
Jesus Christ lived IN a province OF the Roman
Empire and never excited feelings % anger in
man against his fell0w-u3n, and never plotted
treason against the government under which he
lived, but said render unto Cesar what is
Caesars. servants be obedlent unto your mas
ters,n and that toe, when there were siNty-thTee
millions Of white slaves in the Empire.
70, SIT, your excuse for such conduct is, that
you wish TO confer a boon upon tie human race,
why prefer the black and inferior race TO the
wniIe-wby spare the one and butcher the otheri
Why IN blood instead of peace aud mercy
Or, If your philanthropy must be exercised, why
NOT begin with your moral suaSiOu,' your
bow e knives, your Shapes rifles and bloodsbcd
IN Africa the parent country, where the field is
wider and the harvestripe2 But, sir, turu in az
home and look upon yourseli-cleause FIST the
lazar-huuse Of your great eastern cities before
You begin the work of reform in Kentucky and
Virginia and when your work is finished at
home, d not paTtlal. 90 color, we would invite
your phianfhrOpic efforts to Asia, where there
are four hundred millions more degraded than
the African of your own county. Why excite
men TO iauaticai deeds which must destroy both
then country and themselves Why press the
Southern States TO disuuiOn, when destruction
will fall alike on both North and S0Uthi Il
this Union is dissolved we must Of necessity be-
enguIied IN the maelsuom of European politics
and European wars, and 90 down forever as a
nation or a republic.
The South can in six weeks make an alliance
with either England cor France, commercial or
political, offensive AID defensive, and in either
case it viii be utter ruin 10 New England and
the manufacturing States. If with England,
your tariff system (Which has ever been Oppres-
sive to the South wiz be broken Ike a rope Of
sand and scattered to the winds, and you come
at once IN collision with your ancient Compel
tor without protection, and your manufacture
must be destroyed. And far worse would il be
for you. for Us, and the whole civilized world, II
that alliance should be made with France; f0r
then tie cotton, the sugar. and al the products
of the southern States would be landed ar
Hayre and purchased at a much higher rate, and
Old England and New England would see the
handwriting on the wall.
Think you. that most sagacious and willy
monarch Of the French wOuld not see the way
open 10 crush thr mmer and manufacture
of England. and make her feel that she is de
pendent upon h-r ancient enemy possibly feel
the head Of the iron heel Of war. This oppor-
tuuity offered TO Louis Napoleon, and we should
see 100000 Frenchmen q]uaTterei at New Or
leans and at the Chesapeake, and the South
hHNAAA NeAAAtlaA'h aL. aAr"-0aItt hoAAN1 t-a
whip Ohio, Indiana and Illinois into her South
eTu COniederacy. At the mouth Of the Ohio
would be a toil-gate for the entire products %
this wide and fertile country, while our railroad
bridges would be burned and the tracks Of eve
" quarter would be snapped like a spider
web 10y the hurricane of civil war. And while
the strife between England and France is i'm
pending foT the mastery Of both sea and land
the armed millions of Europe would look OF
with hrao+hf..9z auvraFv vvliIa nr~ guen hanrv
land, aud peaceful land, (bUt for the abolition
list and the negro would be the scene Of civil
war. the most deadly OF all wars-Eaife to knife,
fac to face, steel TO steel, brother against broth
er, father against son, mother against child, and
this iair land would bleed at every pore. Better
far, that the whole African race should be ami
Inflated, and all the silly white race DESTROYED,
and our Union and liberties pcrpetuated.
If the course that has been so wickedly and
wilruly pursued by the fanatics of the North j.
continued, tine result VIII bea | have portrayed
il, and your wailiur for your fallen country
VIII come too late. Pale-faced poverty and dis
may viii stare you in the face at every corner.
Your manufactures VIII cease and your starving
thousands viii fly 10 q more productive and les
flnotical land for bread. But should the South
be unable to make an alliance with either Eng
land and France, think you She viii tamely sub
NIT to northern insult and domination ? No,
never. She viii command the commerce Of the
Mississippi TiveT and its tributaries, aud should
the North, after years Of bloodshed, be success
full ia the contest, it VIII cost the North more
than the price Of all the negroes twice told %
possess the land and the life OF every white man
that has a soul. The South for a thousand miles
ho.u TIE outlets OF the Father OF Waters, and
viii dye them and Its sUamps with the blood Of
thousands, both sons Of the soil and its enemies.
While there Is a luciior match to burn your
bI.dgrs, or a stone Or log to obstruct your COM
mere, the vengeance OF the foe at midnight
viii be upon yea. Ia tuuI, You can DO much 20
desolate and destroy but YOU cannot dam up
tie Mississippi nor dip II dry. Swamp foxes
val beupOu you ateyeTy bayou, and even the
aligators VIII be your enemies.
Pause, then, sin, and l1j the veil of the future,
which Is just before you, and stay the f~anatical
band now lifted to strike. II you do not, like
Macbeth, your own sleep viii be murdered and
the sleep Of thousands. You shall never wash
tue stain Of the blood Of your relatives from
your own hands, the hands Of your wife; or the
hands Of your sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Call around you Senator Seward. Wendell Phil
lips, Joshua bidHugs and Fred. Douglas, and
HsIt your first victim IN a lunatic asvlum-Ger-
NIT Smith, OF New York Call a prayer meet
ing and pray Old Brown aud bis coniederates
out OF purgatory, perhaps from hell, where all
Of you should have gone before. Ask God TO
forgive you for your wickedness, wash voul
hithy garments, 60 thy way and sin DO more.
SIN no longer against your conscience and youI