Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-03
REsPONsR FROM THR PEoPLE.


EDITORS APPEAL: In my travels l found
your daily with Lincoln's emancipation procla-
nation. Every one agrees with you in your ee-
itorial, wherein you say submission 50 taInely
as to treat those who plumber US as enemies en-
/ gagged in honorable warfare would entitle US to
the derision of the world" etc.
An say raise the black fsg-send one hundred
thousand cavalry, such as Texas, Arkansas and
other southwestern States can instantly furnish,
into the grain growing territory Of the enemy,
and let them, torch in hand, burn corn, wheat,
-four, bacon, hay, aud every combushbe thing
upon which man or beast can subsist; let them
furthermore Kill every horse, mule, OK, or other
beast useful in Transporting supplies for the enc
my; nsy, let them spare no beast, no machinery
or suppaes that viii either directly or indirectly
aid the enemy to prosecute this internal war
Stuart, Morgan, and others like them, can break
down the enemy in this way in forty days, and
no enemy can meet or pursue them with any
success.
If this were done the Yankees would not hold
Europe bound to them on the bread question
They could not feed the negroi no, nor them
selves.
The high tone of the Presidents message has
gone before the Yankees as pearls before swine.
No responsive throb of honor beats in their
pulses He says that Eve cannot make war upon
unaTmed men, nor upon private property" etc.
These sentiments show well the high moral
worth of our President, snd every Southern
msn would say amen if the enemy were to
pursue the same policy; but in the present atti-
tuds Of affairs the President must instantly re-
cede from The high ground he has taken, or he
will lUlict an unreasonable injury upon the
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eye and "a tooth for a tooth" has always been
the law Of war amongst the most enlightened
nations, and any ruler that does not give his
people the full advantage of this standard rObs
them of their natural right of self defense; and
when this means of self defense is taken from a
people cOntsndng with three times their number,
this injury is increased beyond endurance-itis is
ruin.
Is the private property of the enemy better
than cur private property that it should be
sacredly protected, and ours be destroyed
should he be allowed in peace to- cultivate
his fields, hold his wsr,meetiDgs and bias
phenIe the name of God in his hypocTitical
thanks to God that he is not as other men, even
as these secession traitors aad are we to sane
ton all this when our houses are in flames, our
wives and children screaming for protection, cur
property Of every description destroyed, and
when even our slsves, who are our hereditary
friends, are invoked at midnight to butcher our
wives who in childhood were the playmates OF
their wives, and are yet the best friends their
wives ever had; and when these slaves whose
children are the playmstes of our children are
invoked to destroy our clildren with the knife
and with FIRE Under these circumstances can
th9 President hesitate TO adopt any means Of
defense that will be most likely to thEart the
enemy In cold blood the enemy is shooting
and killing men in the South that never bore
arms sgainst him. Mnst this be borne una
Venged ?-iustice says never
1t necessary to the protection Of our wives
and children, we should adopt the Indian mods |
Of warfare, and as the IsIaelites did on some
occasions, spare neither man or beast woman
nor child. Bat enough, let your doctrine ring
in the ears OF the nstional councils
Yours, truly, d. o. B.