Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-12-24
on TEE WING.


To HoratiO Seymour, Dean RichmOsd, John pa'
Bursa, Charles O'COEnor, Washington Hunt
Fernando Wood and james Brooks, Rspressn
tatiUs Men Of the Triumphant Revolutionary
Party Of Nsa0 York:
December 18th, 1862.
GENTLEMEN: I congratulate you upon the
glorious successes Of November, 1862. The
world has already accepted it as evidence thai
there still exists in the North an appreciation o
State and individual rights, and a genuine re-
spect fer progressive civilization, so horribly
outraged during the conduct of this war by alb
olition officers, both civil and military. truIi
that you will reflect by resolute and decisive
action the indication sgnaed by the people al
the ballot in this massive and successful effort
this outpouring of righteous scon, against the
nulatto usurpers who have kept you in leash
for two years sgone the hucksters of your
national reputation; the jewellers in yeur ma
tional wealth-the fruits of long years of Dem
ocratic and Southern craftsmanship, fidelity and
forecast. Civic Law beeds and Humanity
stands agest at the atrocities of your Humani-
tarisns. State lines ebliterated rights Of svery
kind, popular, religious and commercial, ell
| swept into one common ruin; homes violated,
riAsd and burned private papers sacred
mementoes, national rewards for honorable
conduct - TemOrselessy destroyed or thiev-
ingiy appropriated Even the abodes of dead
patriots, whose memory should be as dear to
you as to US, dcsecrated and piIlaged. Venera-
bic citizens, matrons, maidens and infants driven
out to seek the protection of charity. Mothers
and daughters imperiously domineered over and
! insuted in the absence Of their natural protect
| oTs. Even the negroes, that childTen-peOple
who have never yet reached their majority in
| any age or country, and who owe whatever they
| possess of goodness, ciViliz EtiOn, moaesty and
/ religion to the Southern matrOns who have been
their friend, nurse and guide, in benefits to them
/ which generations of faithful service on their
part cannot pay, and whose fidelity under all the
/ cheating temptations and lying delusions to
which they have been exposed, is truly credits-
bic to them, enticed or dragged away IN ropes,
the men cruelty worked down, the women,
shrieking for help, brutally outraged in the pres
ence of their husbands, children and mistresses /;
men, women and children left tlast to ssffer and
starve and die the rosdsides. This is a slight
synopsis of the memories Of the Abolition army
of your bsboon President.
Can you longer stand still while these things
aye being enacted before you A programme Of
peace and settlement is what the people expect
of you. All eyes are resting upon you for
action.
/ You should at once proclaim to the world that
not a dollar of the bondS-FederRl, State or
municipal-issued by the Federal usurpers for
| the prosecution Of this unholy war, shall ever
/ be paid. Few strangers have taken shares in
/ the despetc loans, and this Just blow will fall
almost exclusively upon the usurpers. There is
need that history should be marked by the utter
annihilation of the debt created by the c0nspira-
tors against the rights and liberties OF American
citizens and States. The licentiouI dollar should
now receive such a retributive lesson that bar
shall be raised for all time against its being had
on this continent for the usurpston of the rights
and liberties of sovereign citizens and States.
Not emily do you owe it 10 yourselves to repu-
diate every dollar of this unconstitutional debt
but you owe it equally to your pOsterity to pay
the half if not all the debt that the people of the
South have had to incur to maintain the rights
of citizens and of States, in the establishment
of free trade.
Do these things generously, heroically, snd
New York city, as if by magic, will re-assume
the enviable position she held before the black
sixth of November 1860 Her magnificent
streets will continue their march upon Manhat-
tan Island and her Central Park will progress
in municipal mBzes of beauty, in ststuary, and
fountains and foliage. True, your political re-
lations with the South will probably never be
restored, and it is now useless to discuss. But
you will nevertheless gain much by the revolu-
ton. You will be rid Of infdel puritaR rule,
which has been nearly as oppressive aDd intOl-
erable in New York as in the South. You will
have free navigation and free trade with the
South and Greer trade than ever with the world
Let heart and brain into the revolution; ae-
celerate and direct the movement; get rid Of the
Bsbosn, Cor what is it y Abraham Lincoln, pa
c6cally if you can, but by the blood of his fol-
lowers if necessary. Withdraw your support
material and moral from the invading armies,
and the South will make quick work with the
Abotiouists that remain on her soil. Suffer no
degenerate son of the South, upon hOwsOever
plausible pretsxt, to idly embsrrass your action,
by throwing into your way rotten plsnks of re-
construction Unity is no longer possible. The
very word Union, once so dear, has been made a
cover for so many atrOciOUs acts that the mere
mention of it is odous in the ears of Southern
people. The State Legislatures will be called
upon to obliterate the hated name from counties
and towns.
The ocesn-bound republic was the dream of
my life, the end of my lAbors, the principal OBJ
ject of my aspirations for my country. That
political monster, the fatal election of 1862 ab-
ruptly and forever dissipated the illusion.
Commercial relations are sttainable, and eve
~ hour of alienation from the South is your
less. The recent elections show that New York
| city is the centre of circle of one hundred
miles radius, with compact, organized major
! ity of two hundred thousand against your sbo-
| litionizOd government. It has but to will, to do
| Halfway measures, always unsuitable to revO-
luiionary necessities, will not avail you. I'm
mediate, wholesale reputation is your only
| safety valve
Against the Abolition invasion the whole ma
| ton of the Southern Confederscy is now re-
solved into an army, the most numerous, intelli
| gent and spirited the world ever saw-in good
health and high discipline, ready to fall upon
| the enemy with that momentum which belongs
only to the patriotic soldier, fred with indigns-
| tion against the insolent invader. While the
| Abolition generals have been successivey with
! drawn in disgrace from the field, our generals
| and subordinate officers, brave and efficient
from the frst have steadily increased in charac-
ter and number. Never has an army been Off
cered by such a body of accomplished, high
| toned and gallant men, as the Confederate army
| boasts to-day. And while her generals give the
grandest proofs of their skill and science in the
management of the war in whole, the country
shows itself, through the cheerful sacrifices and
noble aid of its women, and the daring strategy
of its partisan chiefs and their intrepid follow
ers, alive at its every extremity.
On a recent visit to Europe, l found that of
| all Americans, past or present, none stand so
| high in public estimation for exalted patriotism
and craftsmanship, as the President of the
Southern COniederscy. Our governors, orators
and statesmen furnish you with models for en-
| ulatlOn. Our women nave e1celled the VlItuOus
/ daughters of the colonial revolution. Our cler-
gy have nobly endured exile and Imprisonment
| without fslter.
Men of the revolution in New York, q redeem
ing career lies open to you, in which you can
protect yourselves and al that is so dear to you
as citizens and Americans l trust you will
walk in it at whatever personal cost. Release
your press from censorship, your citizens fIom
bsstes, your trade from shaskles, your name
from ignominious reprOach!
GEORGE N. SANDERS.