The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-03
NJ. @. GALLOWAY,

1t was not our intention to use these columns
to specify and hold up to general odium any
particular individual simply because of con-
nection with this foul rebellion; but when an
apologist for this past acts of man who stole
from the Federal government all he could steal,
who became a rebel because his tenure of office
was slipping through his fingers, when an
apolcgist, we say, is found in public iounal-
list; and when we see journal daring to step
forth TO shield him from the consequences of
his varied and fragrant crimes, we hold it high
time 10 review the past; and however great
the sufferings of those dependent on him may
be in the hereafter, to recall to the people
that if a man intelligently, willfully, continu-
ousy and persistently advises rebebellion
against the government which fed and tended,
protected and fosterei him, it is sheer nom
sense mere petty trickery to endeavor to
style him an honorable and scrupuously Just
man, words applied in yesterdays Avalanche
to the late postmaster of Memphis.
! Mr.. Gall 2~1, says the Avalanche, "handed
over to tn ~ atedarate government what
moneys and ,bles b. held belonging to the
Federal goveiL. FL LIS simply is to say
that man may rob one government to bride
anoJher to grant him continuance in an Office
he is about to lose, and yet, in Avalanche
morals be "no thief, but man of sterling
industry, held by all who personally knew him
as an honorable and scrupulously just man"
The article in the Avalanche is eveidently
based on wish to preserve from possible con-
fiscation the property of M. G. Galloway for
his wife ana family. We can sympathize with
the amiability of the design; but we must,
and do, reprobate all attempts to style thiev-
ing honorable and just, whatever disposition
was made of the stolen property.
In the article referred to, we read that the
house and lot on the corner Of Third and
Court streets does not belong to Mr.. Galloway,
but to Mrs. Galloway, who inherited it. The
good folks of Aberdeen Mississippi, have no
knowledge of such inheritance. The cost
of the building, greater than anticipated,
led to the purchase of the lot, after the
embezzIement of the $4,000 and odd dollars
of the postal funds. The property may have
lately passed into the hands af Mrs. Galloway,
her inheritance of it requires proof, which,
for her sake, we sincerely trust will be forth
coming, if called for.
1t is stated that Mr.. Galloway had no
option. The date of the theft contradicts the
assertion far too positively to necessitate our
wasting space in refutation Of the statement.
rebel for profit and office, a thief to the
government that cherished him, coward to
the wife whom he abandoned after repeated
assertions of his own belief that all women
were in danger from the lusts of the Federal
} soldiery, Matt. Galloway could have found
no advocate of his cause save in the columns
of a paper, which strives to hide its lack of
principle by indiscriminate adulation of the
officials of both the real and pseudo govern
ments, paper which can extol him and such
as he, and dares to do it in the same issue that
contains an official charge of incendiarism and
treason against itself. If it styles rebellion
honorable and treason just we fear that the
: authorities will remember that its editors
! pledged themselves to continue in the path of
NJ. q. Galloway when they succeeded him,
and have never yet given single evidence
that they have departed from it.