Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-14
Lady RsbeIs-Thsir Tender msroies.


For the Orion Appeal
The rebel ladies of Memphis, bless thenil
how soft and tender their hearts beat towards
the vandal Yankee hordes, who to their great
discontinue are row desecrating the sacred
SOIL OF Dixie with their unhallowed feet, and
whom the pious DR.. Waddel deeply moved by
the anticipated wrongs insults and miseries Of
these same delicate ladies, had it in his heart
an1 on bis tongue, net long time ago, to
pray that the good Lord would "send them
oacK TO their polluted soil, and polluted
homes" Now let US have an interesting and
deeply pathetic lesson or two by way of Illus
tration. Not long after these same bastard.
daring, ruthless invaders made their hated
presence in, and took wicked possession of this
sacred heritage of freedom, $50 happened, that
poor confederate soldier falling into their
barbarous hands, sickened and died. Savage
like, these Federal barbarian soldiers, prs-
pared for the fallen foe decent coffin and
laid him in it, and then bore it and its sacred
dust, like decent christian men, (which they
were not) in solemn procession to the cemetry
specially consecrated to the sacred dead of tile
confederate army, and there laid him in the
grave they had opened beside his confederates
in arms and in death. A Federal officer and
rebel lady riding though the grounds, and
turning their attention to what was passing,
alighted, and drew up to The grave around
which the Federal soldiers were gathered, per-
forming the last solemn rites Of sepulture for
their own, and their country's enemy. Tho
kind lady's eyesaw poor toad at the bottom Of
the grave. "Be so good, men, do" she cried,
"ee SO good as to throw out that poor toad
don't lie. it be crushed under the coffin, DON'T
And instinctively they did as she wished.
Soon the question was suggested by the lady,
"why do you wage this cruel war against the
South2 Nothing else" she declared, "but to
set the negro free, enrich yourselves, and ruin
US" "No," replied the officer. The point
was warmly discussed, as the grave was being
| filed, the fair one affirming, and the officer
denying. "And to prove to you," said he,
shat am right, I'll take the votes of these
men, with whose names and opinions on this
! subject, l am unscquainted." Then address
| sing the men, he said, 'iSoldiers, all of you
who are in favor of freeing the negro by wa
| ging this war, raise your hands" Not ono
was raised. "Well," said she, "Im still un.
convinced that such is not the desire and
design of the North, and such will bs
the effect, at all events, if you succeed and
my prayer is, that Yallow Jack" may coma
along and sweep your whole army to the same
grave in which you have now placed the
dead" Oh the exquisite tenderness of that
lady's heart, who could not bear to see tho
toad crushed beneath the coffin, but who could
utter the prayer with the same breath that the
Federal army might be crushed in the grave,
not in due process, and by the ordinary casual.
ties of war, but by power more fell than tho
Confederate army can wield--the power OF
that fell Southern destroyer, the yellow fever
Really, cannot resist the temptation of ap.
plying to these tender hearted Souther lady
rebels, the proverb of very wise man "Ths
tender mercies of the wicked--even OF these
rebel ladies-are cruel' Who ever heared the
semblance of such prayer uttered by North
ern lips, coming up out of the depths of ram
corous madness2 have never.
But a second lesson of illustration is at hand.
| a loW udyE SlHCo1 Inc I1Ln 1nQlhna QaQ q ike
solemn and mournful duty to perform to-
wards one of its members. As the funeral
certege bore their dead comrade along with SOL
emn sound Of music to, probably, the same
cemetery, certain ladies came to the door of
their mansion, and patted their delicate hands
in the face of the mournful procession in the
ertacy of their joy that another Federal SOL
dier was going to his long home, where he
could no more molest the South, and whittier
they wished the whole army might be swept,
} like Senacheribs, one hundred and eighty-ive
thousand in a night.
Did Solomon take moral and social daguer-
reotype of these ladies' when he says; ".the
| heart of her husband doth safely trust in her
SO that he hath no need of spoil, she will dc
him good, and not evil, all the days of her
| life. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and
her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth out
,, her hands to the poor, yea, she reachsth forth
her hands to the needy. She opeseth he,
: mouth With Oisdona and IN her tongue is the
lao Of kindness" Is such the tendency and
effect of slave-holdingf Are such to be the
. future mothers of a civilized and chistiar
? racer CARoLUs.
! of United States bonds which formed part OF
, the school fund of Texas, and were deposited
in the treasury of that State, were not long
lain uyifh h1 nxstra N oh 30 ho