Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-13

which places the Southern people on par with
Camauche Indians and South-sea islanders
forgslful that q YTginian, in the person o
George Washington, was then the Chief Magis-
trste Of the Repubic
Negroes are, in all respects, except IN regard
10 life aud DEATH the chattle of the ctiz7ns oi
the southern States. Ii they were good tor
food the probability is, that even the power OF
destroying their lives would be enjoyed by their
owners as fully as il is over the lives OF their
cattle. 1t csnuot be that their laws prohibit the
owners from killing their slaves because those
slaves are human beings, or because 1t IS a
moral evil 10 destroy them. Ii that were the
ease how can they justify their being treated,
Ia all other respects like brutes for it is in this
[ uoint OF view alone that negroes in the South
/ arm States are considered in fact so different
rom cattle They are bought and sold-they
sse led or kept hUngry-they are clothed, or re-
duoed 20 nakedness-they are beaten, turned
ous to the fury of the elements, and torn from
their dearest connexions, with little remoTse
as if they were beasts of the field Such is
the il amous csricature drawn of the Southern
people ia 1896 by the leading men OF Connect
cut when their own State held negroes to servi-
tude as strictly as any Stale south of Mason
and Dixon's line, and al q time, too, when Yam
kee ships were busy in the African slave trade,
stealing negroes fr0m their native homes, and
sending them to this country by scores and by
Z LLUQeGLt+ tr JDuAA tttbAf - SIG Has q "
done, bore with the oppTobrium and insults
heaped upon her, by people whose very name
from its earliest existence has been synonymous
with cheat and tricksteT; and never was peO-
pie more UNANIMOUSLY slaudered than those of the
South from that period down to the present.
! The arrogant New Highlander then bOasEed to
the world that the Northern States could well
do without the South, as will be seen by the
| following paragraph, quoted from the papers
Just reieTed to:
The Northern States can subsist as a nation,
| a republic, without any connexiOn with the
! S,utheTn. 1t cannot be contested, that if the
| Sluthern States we-e possessed of the same
1 political ideas, an union would still be more De-
! siYable thRa separation. But when It becomes
/ q serious question whether we shall give up our
/ governments OF part with the Southern States,
no man north OF the Potomac river whose heart
is thoroughly democratic can hesitate what de-
/ ssion to make"
| The press Of B BJston lent helping hand, and
published articles not only intended TO embitter
! The South against the North, but calculated to
! iucite serve insurrecsion in those States, whose
noble SOUS barred their breasts to British bullets,
I when the cTaY5n hearted sons Of Gankesdom, by
Disgusting themselves as indians, tried to avoid
the responsibility of throwing the tea overheard
| in their own hsTbor at 3 lston. Inhsmed by the
| extravagant and yirulent attacks upon the
/ South, to which was added by the Boston press
! in the strongest possible terms, that the East
! e~n States were entirely commercial and all OF
/ that part Of the country lying south of the Sus
/ Quehsnna river as being wholly agricultural" ,"
| and that a natural, insurmOuntable barrier was
| placed between the North and South; and by
multiplied fslsehood and misrepresentation,
/ Connecticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island
were soon in a blaze Of excitement New Hamp
/ shire and Vermont were likewise aroused and
took their position beside the first named trio
Maryl and and Vrginis were TIE especial objects
Of their vituperatiOn and attacks, and considered
worthy of their guns Of largest caliber. Ehe
| people of these two States were always spoken
of a belonging to the lowest and most ignorant
and degraded class, and were frequently, with
those of other Southern Sta,es, mentioned in
contrast with the pure, refined, intelligent and
enlightened inhabitants of New Englsnd. In
this they were as mach mistaken as their
estimate of commerce. proves 70 be by a
careful examination of the exports of for
eign and domestic goods from the several
States as it appears upon the treasury returns
- Washington. From 1871 to 1902, Inclusive
Maryland exported eight times as much as
Connecticut, seven times as much as Rhode IS
land, two per cent more than Massachusetts,,
and very nearly as much as Massachusetts,,
New Eaupsh re and Vermont combined, and
above three huGdred and thirty per cent moIe
t6an New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut
and Rhode Island, while Virginia exported
seveuty-.hTee per cent. more than the four miner
Casters States, aud Virginia and South Caro-
( Ina exported eight per cent more than the Give
| great commercial Eastern States" From 1903
! to 1918 Maryland exported $50 2I4 600, while
/ the last named four Eastern States exported So
9i5,UO0. During the same period South Caro-
/ lima exported more than ten times as Esuch as
( the four States Just named. Thus we see the
1 ground plan Of all their operations, and the sub
stratum upon which the dissension of those
Z States was built It was an inheent hatred to-
ward cur people and our institution They
] then determined to dismember the States, and
after seventy-one years Of untring labor in their
unholy work, they have succeeded at last in
driving the South cut Of the Union, and COM
pelling her people to form a new COnfederacy,
! and establish government in which they can
eujsy the rights Of American citizens beyond
the reach of Yankee interference and puritsnicai
inhuerc&
Soon as the South had become fully aroused
/ to q sense Of her danger, and forbesrance had
ceased to be virtue, she determined to resist
the expressions 50 long endured from the North.
! Then there went up howl from Washington,
terrible, indeed and they cry, 'et slip the dogs
Of WAR; IssOunded from Maine 70 Oregon. At
once the most stuDendOuS scheme was entered
upon by the Blsck-Repubican sdministra ton
for the destruction Of the South, aud as Mr.. Lin
coin ssid to crush out the rebellion" which be
promised 70 do in a very few days.
Their - dogs Of war" were let loose and sent
hitheT to prey upon our people, plunder our
property, and destroy our towns and cities and
who do we find foremost in the van Why,
the witch-luTing, Qdaksr-whipp Yankee from
Massac ~ 5etts-a STATE too coWsrdly to send
her quota Of men to the Mexican war and other
New England $acObins, who, in the war OF
| 1872 refused bash men and money IN defense of
Al 4bas, AM
man who lends money to the government at the
| present time will forfeit al claim to common
/ honesty and common courtesy among the true
friends Of the country * Boston Gazette, April
| Is, ISI4) Now they are first to send men to
| invade Maryland and Virginia, and first to pour
out money 70 carry on this desolating war
| With them are those too, who shared our South
ern hospitality, and who have been received into
our houses as strangers, ald into our private
social circles and confidence as friends-alWays
rnanifestiDg the kindest feeling and most gener-
Gus courtesy toward theR. Those men have
now, IN many instances the uublushing etfrOnt-
cry, in company with Billy Wilson's thugs, to
return 10 us with fire and sword, to desOlate the
homes of happiness to which they once received
warm and friendly welcome and thus our
hospitality is rewarded and our forbearance
repaid, by people we have ever treated with
the most unselish consideration, and whose
Golfers we have filled with gold, in return for
clap. traps and Yankee notions, made in New
England workshops.
The language Of H. W. Wadsworth, in a
speech last session in the Federal Congress, shad
/ ows forth unmistsksbly, the true position the
/ South win occupy if we are overrun by our en-
/ emies He says "OVeTtbrown in battle they
! viii wander melancholy and degraded exilee in
foreign land or they shall deliver up their ae-
cursed lives to the judgment Of the courts Of our
1 country" This IS the spirit sad language OF
one who pretends to represent portion Of the
! people Of Kentucky il the Lincoln congress;
and this is the spirit Of the North to-day and it
is truly as tAis slave Of the perjsred despot at
! Washington has said if we are subjugated. We
must protect cur homes, aud maintain cur honor,
or sink into everlasting disgrace, slavery, exile
! and death
/ NnL only with iha millinn If men v-biLa and