Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-13
THE GREAT QUESTION At ISSUE
OCR DUTY IN TUE PREsENI

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1 EDTTORs APPEAL At this late ds.s letter
! are, in great measure, valueless. There are
/ however, few plain facts that should be born
ia mind by every Southern man, and it may b.
vel to ssk for them moment of sober thought
calm reelection.
/ A fearful issue is upon Us We cannot shrinl
/ from it dreadful as the result may be, and f,
/ clCSs our eyes against the dangers which have
( gathered around US, would be worse than mad
1nsss The causes which have led 10 this uuhOly
/ crusade egsiusf me South, and The reasons why
our most sacred rights have been denied Us, Gri
sot now 10 be inquired into. No alternative il
I left but TO choose between submission aad sub
/ jugation, as ssrts and slaves or liberty and ia
/ dependence, as freemen. We must now decide
/ for ourselves whether we viii yield in uncondi
ti0ual submission to a despOts rule, give up oul
I property to pay the immense war debt incurred
/ By our enemies, and our persons to ths halter OF
gibbet to satisfy their insstiste thirst for reveuge
/ and power, or gather around our Southern stand
| erd. as did our revolutionary sires Ia tie days 0
I It's. and With proud hearts and strong arms
/ drive the iuvsder from cur sell; and then unless
our rights ss Tree American citizens are TecOg-
A!zed, and sc are acknowledged aR iudepend.
sHt nation, earn the war into Africa and
sszeh the iEsolsat Yankees that Southern soil ard
! Southern rights cannot be violated with impuni.
] I've II III luLuLE llll5 - must EltlEL D6 ice
men u sATss; ssccsBs AUST crown our arms
victOrJ perch upon OVr banners. or the chains 81
sseYasl SOndEss will fsstsR in eur lssh, and the
clouds Of dsPotBnl, black rs the shades Of per
/ differ, fal upon eur sunny South forever; and
te ohoR must W look fos protection and safety
but II the God sf our fathers and our own strong
arms.
{ That flag, 50 long admired By every lover Of
tFesdom IN the civilized world; the pride Of Amer
ice asd terror Of tyrtns; under which our pstTi-
OF fsthsrs ia the cid revolution poured out their
blood in purple torrents, has ceased to protect Us
n our constitutional Tights,-thst flag which our
( brave Sons sseried VIGOROUSLY through Mexico,
and hatsd il trfanpA over the halls Of tbs Mon
s~zgnsG, bears nov upon It's sacred folds the
curse Of ps-I uT5d men st HasbingtOn-neD who
il the broad sunlight Of heaven swoTe to sup
port the Constitution Of our common country,
but ere the echo died upon their lips ssssied aud
overthrow its hOliesF and mO& sacred principles,
and a. one dash struck O despOts dagger % the
very hears of American liberty; that proud old
hsg, like Sampson in harlots power, is shOrn
Of ia glory, Rpd now Is borne against Us by hos
tile foes, dripping with a brothers blood and
every breszs shat waves is CORY stars and stripes,
bears upon is wings the clash Of arms, sud m
ce@sing tread Of Linc3ln's miui0ns, who with
lie, sword and seTViIs insurTectiOu have sworn
to subjUgaJa or extermiUat5 an Independent pe0-
PIE who have always adhered 80 ths principles
Of freedom wOn for Us by Washington and de-
Tended BY Jackson.
We have a powerful enemy 70 centend again st.
He embraces in his immense army, brave, daring,
desperate men, of su grades and classes, some
Of Whon are the dupes OF designing politicians
aHd are hindly fighting for the % Union with
out knowing whether theic cause is Just Ol
tuujust; others are compelled 10 take up arms
sgBinht the SOuth 10 save their reputation aud
/ property ia the communities where they reside,
/ and some 70 keep from starving ia the great
I ci,iss Of the North. Another class thought il
W0Gld be fine holiday sport to come hero with q
flourish Of trunpets and take quiet possesso2
( OF OuT country, bei-ving that our Southern men,
aved by such q magnificent display Of gold
/ lace, brass buttons and vast numbers, would
! sUbniaig gsly lay down their arms an3 disperse.
These are the few. The many are those who,
/ tor ys.Es, have caGSshed hatred bitter IS the
woImwOOG and gall used at the cruciixion,
sgainst the South and With them are demons
| luTed on by dazzling dEesms OF wealth, who
expect 70 rSyel in our Southern homes spariug
only tbs young and bssutiful Of our wives and
Fistsfs as prizes WoTthy Of theiJ cAEtOrs One
year sss this assertion vosld, ia ali probaoiI5y
have been questioned by msnYf buf the inta-
moss order Of General Butler, the hellish deeds
]
and elsewhere daring the last ten months, and
the violated honor Of the lairest daughters Of the
South, cry aloud for vengeance, and stamp it as
3 fIightful truth terrible indeed to contemplate.
I Their own press tell Is that men have been par
donod out Of Northern prisons and put into the
ranks What else csuld we then expect from
consicts, turned out upon rs, fresh from a felon
csl, with a promise that Southern blood and
Southern virtue should be the price Of their
| liberty.
The Yankees Of New England are the same
/ in principle to day as they were in early tines
and the same spiris Of persecution with which
! the puritan fathers were infused in 1916 has
been faithfully transmitted down to the present
! generation. TurH over fe= pages OF their
early history and there, from the pens Of their
own historiGHs, learn the fate of the Quakers
they burned, hung, whipped and pressed to
death, and thrust red hot irons through their
! tongues, not because the honest Quaker was
lis!oyal 10 the government or violated public
decency, the civil law Of the land OF the penal
code" but because he dared to declare snd as
ssrt his religious opinions, and would net wor-
ssip God at the time, place and manner pre-
scrbed by his puritan masters Read, thsn, OF
| the deisnseiess women and children they put TO
torture and to death for riding through the air on
bTooms.ickB OF besitching the pious d puritans
while they were whipping their cider-oRrrels for
working on Sunday, or bsnishing Bsptists and
other good men, with their wives and little ones
| from their midst to seek safety in the wilder
ness, exposed TO the dangers Of wild beasts an6
Indians. But pass BY this disgusting picture
this blot upon civilization, aud hastily glance
STeT ther loyalty to toe Union" and their pa
triotigm a later date.
In l776, shortly after the federal Constitution
was adopted, an ASSOCIATION Of men, the mos
prominent learned, and influential, was organ
lied in Hartford, Connecticut at a time wher
all was peace and quietude throughout Tie
length and breadth Of the land, with the avowed
parpose Of disuniting the bonds which held th'
several States together. They matured and Fut
the whole plan Of their operations into eXecu
tion. to accomplish the destruction Of the unicI
Of the several States, and employed the press t
aid them in their designs and bring upon tn
country sll tho dreadful consequences Of clvi
war. To array one portion Of the couutTy agains
the other, create hostility, and soT the seeds o
sedilion and rebellion was their first step &
bring about g separation Of the States then form
ing the federal Union. Ia one Of those ehole
essays published by the Hartford press, th
Constitutional COuraHt, the frontspioe OF which
represented a serpent cut into eight pieces o.
the part Of the head, were the initial letters q
NEW EEGLAED and on that part OF the body
the initials Of the other colonies as far as Soutt
Csrohns and over it, JoE OR DIE F' in lsrg