Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-23
70 The R.ala-. Of d. c.g- 80 Enz-.

@C-A1 -eA4NA cave Ila4~raua. wax lle l4IHL
relentless ana saVast, has been waged upon a people
born free. bee use they determined 10 continue E. ana
maintain inFloa'e the principles and lights of the gonst-
tuition bequeathed them o. their forett1ar-ths ssees
and patri0 s Of 100. A war, not upon men in arms
| alone, for considering the great number q He-sisus In
the field, they have done but Grtle of that. but a war
the Constitution and laws Of the land % war uo8n DO ii
cal and civil rights; a war upon social and community
relations d war upon the right Of speech and the free
dom OF the press a war upon opinion thought and
/ eOnsoleuce- a war upon the sa-ctlty OF family
points Of is history would put % Shame D-r5anaus;
d war instgated and iuaugurated by the demon
of a0oltionism- fatal f~zHaticism that has seized aud
swaps the people Of the North. Ma1d2ned by It's i-
1 Huenee they rush to certain destruction, and unless they
are soon relieved Of the blindness incident 70 madness,
the name and government Of the United States viii ere
long be among the things that were, aad be remembered
only by coming generatons1vith curses upon those who,
| under the cry Of Union, the Union forever were driven
by 81 heIish fauatcisD 10 the destruction Of their own
g5venmest-the once great, glorious AID protecting gov
eminent of the United States
In those seven months your State has been in
yaded by a ruthless foe-tne desPo5s miniJns Your
Governor and other officers of State have been driven
from your State Capitol NOur State government has
been dsorganizsd Il body OF men without authority
have assumed 70 tear down The goVeIument you built for
ourselves, and set up another u its stead, with rulers in
those selection You hadnJ voice.
Your State has been the theater Of war. armies have
| marched and c5uutermaredrd through It's length aud
homes made desJiate families separated; citizens i'm
J prsOned without warrant. aud women aud children bra
I tAAg AAtL4-ANHr a- %" saw tt AAANAH Pr HrA ANA-ah jug
syren song continually cbauted u your ears. You were
told atthe beginning Of h0s-lites that the rebel leaders
had deceived you thar neither the administration nor
the Republican party Intended TO war upon si2yery-
the peculiar institution OF the South that tie eonsttu-
t'ual rights o. the people OF althe states would De re-
spected and sedul1asly guarded. while BY the waving 81
Eutng before your eyes, and bawl rs iH yJu- ears,
THE Union must be preserved hey hoped 20 blind you
as To- their rea2 object ami deateu you to tha warnings Of
real patriots, until they should BE- able to TX drmiy upon
yooEuecks the heavy heel of d~espotisn- unfortunately
for yourselves, if not FOR your country and pOsterity,
msly Of you were deceived, or worse, were craven
eariedAenougn TO TAI Increasingly INTO the suacAles
| prepared for you Then when You were no longer
freeaeu-when On slavery of your own negroes was
! liberty compared with yours, when YOU minds ceased
| were (or thought % be- rendered. incapable Of resistance
aud dared Ht MaraHr, then. and not I'll then, was the
mask thrown entirely aside, and reclamation made that
/ African slavery must and should Le swept off the conf
nent that a servile instruction must De encouraged
me slaves armed and mctedao commit arson r5pile
and murder 10 help them cruS-upe olt t1e rebels and
SAGE tc Union.
a little more than seven months ago sou were divided
into thgee parties the SseassioHiss, per Sc the Beconsuuc-
tiOnist, and the Aboltionist or oerci0nisI say Adolf
ZIONIST, because, though they thea dared not own il. they
were 90 10 fact. Some Of you were excessively ultra in
your secession and southern views 7ul feelings and bad
oeen Ior months previously 9'n'anelns every one tnat
even expressed "a wish that the threatened danger night
be averted and the Union saved Time wore on apace.
A desppt wa euthrOEed upon the altar of liberty couse-
Grated by Washington, jefers0E, Madison, Jackson,
and others Men sworn % support the Constitution tram
pied e under foot. Judges were gagged, and the civil
fereA Good men and true gave the alarni To arms.
TO armsl! resounded through you- State; and while
thousands Of Union men-uen tlst were for the Union 80
long ~ there was a hope 81 mamtafnigg i-ani q few
Secessiouists answered the call and went f0rsh 60 battle
Tor freedom, many Of you See ssi0ui=ts perSe-you, too,
Lhdt bai been most uus3arluE In deauNCialou or the pre-
ylous Ju.onsts-Degan. with one accord, 10 make excuse,
Il have married q wife. bought q farm, own negroes. h-
vested money In stocks, have merchandise on hand or a
speculation In view and must needs see 20 its I pray thee
therefore, TO have me excused Tor q little wLl-. When
have provided for the one. or disposed OF, or removed or
accomplished the other, then win UgclIe On uy arnor
and go forth to battle with y0u
some Of You that responded promptly, and went out
most valiaaty, and who imagined yourselves the especial
Objects OF Lincoln s8Fftsh. tIu.J oacf- some were
arrested and mad 10 take. and Others voluntarily sIcreu-
deref and TOOK. q huInililtiug oath This IS true as %
former Secessioaisfs and Cuiauists. 1t is true also Of
some of you that were formerly ai0us southern rights
men. that you are ROW - .imid and fearful Of the power
over you that you refuse O former friend and uoigh5or
shelter under your root, and dislike 20 be San in CONVEX
saion with him 4 be happens 20 b. a 5olher-scarred
though he be-5hat has been batting for the cause SOU So
early espoused and abandoned. Ihe& structures may
CRATE harshly upon the ears % many 81 you, those too.
who have been N friends and acq aiutances for. let
them JAwhCm they may they are intended only for those
that l have known in times past
The true friend speaks plainly aud aaIy. / be-
heve you have never charged me with much whip
! ping round the bush or other eHort to colceal my opin-
ions, Or likes or dislSes- Iwris not in anger, but with
pam ana would thar truth would uCsMl- the admission
that it was produced without a real cause. i know that
some of y u have valid reasons for remaining az home,
as rel as J kRDU that nee great Number Of u14 hare rot.
But wAee a man il able bodied and can leave IFS family
provided for, or hayii g nom. and 40 means OF rendering
assistance to families Ieft beaiad- aadcsa get Alvey. who
struggle for f-eedom-this second war Of i1d-1enae1s-
Is being wagsd, must be ueaIe ess'a7aE. Er he who.
whether Hom f-aT or mottvesot Eiu- willingly submits
% tyranny, - a save llreadE n heart and mi-d-
There are others Of the former readers of the EagI-.
those, too, who, when told that they were giving ad aud
comfort to tn abol ton party AID That the necessary eoa-
sequences Of their principles was permanent dissolution
Of the Union and a bloody and releujes civil war w8uid
lift thsr hands and tam tleir eyes Hcar-nTard, and WITH
hypocrucal cant declare they would never c0untenance
an administration that would war u10u the constitutional
rights Of the citizen Of any State and thar if Il war did
ensue between the North aud S0uta. they woald not en-
gage mu-W0uld have nothing % do with a war wased
TO enforce political opinions upon their fuow.cidzsns- or
violate their con ttutona rights
These were men, too, wao, last spring when politics
ran high, and southern feeling WAS aroused and Cape
Huardrau tul of military eraag, were supFdcants for
protection at the hands OF honest and unsupported men,
and for permission 10 join military companies composed
principally of gentlemen known to De intensely southern
lie and disprOViug their true afiuities. These dastards,
true to their real chancter, aseoan as the sreater number
Of their brother abolition thieves had, az tigir instance,
taken possession Of Cape Girardeau, organized coupa-
MES in violation Of State and Caiued states law. and
accepted commissions from Lincoln, and 1-efLse COM
menced ct once 70 make 8arupuu tha men or their faui-
lies who had warsed them into iHe all protecedthem
when they thought d4nger was near iiodE1, q 1lei,
there was none. They made tleusalrea supple tools IN /
tbs h4uds Of petty tyrants in having men arrested, their
houses searched property stolen. and carried OF and their
families insulted To This class q my readers / VIII say, I
you are welcome 10 the piuaed ard epauletted houors
you bear, and 10 the satisfaction OF moving that you are
n0H-in a position that you can neie gentlemen salute
you. But remember thar i-sre isa day of Fsuibnd0n At
hsnd-not far of, when the aveuger VIII come. o day
when many Ct You VIII cry p YAM 19r rocks and
mOunulus 70 Mde you from te euiAiH@ STEADY ana
piercing gaze Of outraged freeH-n- j were better for
many Of you that you had not been bonn or were with
mii-st0nes about your nceNs ~ TIE bottom II iLr Lltz=l5
,fnDi river than continue yourccu-se. and hereafter -lIic-
70 the hands Of some Of your outraged victims You are
spotted. your names are known you are not al Dutch,
.n- 80 Aw-a~nruE and "a few OF ven were hwgW- I
NothiuEs Thea take warning n tu1e, repent while
there is yet day, show wor.s mser tr repentance begin
now, wait not Tor the day Of uA A1Jlesuent-H WI
During those seven nor. bs / have basa kept from my
Was separated from my family tr I'VE mouths
Three months Of the time ? was prevented from core
spondiag with them Insnlts aud iliigliles were offered
my wife and daugiter-they being the only white mem
of my family 81 home-s9De of which, it l. true,
were atonsd for by the punishment inflicted upon the
perpctfai5r by Col Marsh, the Lincoln officer ia COM
mand, for which he viii ever have my respect
Ny house and yard were made a masEet gallery to
-ntimidate and alarm my family. They were finally
driven of. My house WAS taken and converted to- hos1t
tai us-s, ard. as ] am credibly informed, my parI0r and
chamber fuuit IRE (atter the officers had helped hem
selves TO some Of fhe better artcl-s1 was distributed 10
women OF ihffmy 20 set up bawdy houses with. NY
property. as far as it could be found, was DESTROYED
Jr parceled out. Ny printing presses and office, and the
paper published in il an thar lhf5 edited, was convert
d 10 their use, aud while employees Of mine were sdu o.
detained in the office, they were made % do the Hessaus =
bidding and not permitted 70 express an opinion other
han the mere reflex Of thers-not even 10 ex. ress q
ceiling OF sympathy Tor the uerelf eneHls Of o friend and
mpl0yer. This I Judge to be the case. from the man d,
Ter in which Capt J. W. 1ocris Introduced a card Of
nine. copied from the Memphis APPEAL. In the Eagle Of
he 18th nit, for am sur--judgug from the former inu-
macy Of our fanii {, and lis proirssiols Of friendship for
would, unless prevented by @ tyrluuoaI censor
have EXPRESSED some regret and offered some com
5rTiug expression On account Of my sore bereavement IN
he loss Of my wife away FROM huTei and among strau-
instead Of sunFE saying, In tie Memphis APPEAL
the 18th we Gld the the following ctrd from ID. III
I0orz, Esq, formerly Of this city Gsd az 1as tsss con- =
e-ted uNh 1bispGP1 2" =
Missouri is, and as certain as chat Der cisizaas that ire !
rue remain sc, VII continue 10 be tAe twelfth star of the
Confederate States. She has gone through sore trials.
nd there may be more in store FOR her; bus the more OF
er true sons, and the sooner they raiss tleir arms for her c
rfense the sooner aud less expensive VIII De her deliver :
from association with aud impression at the hands of
2ad fanatics and corrupt officials Then Hsous-, Aissou