Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-12-25

To HOTatiO Seymour, Dean fschRlORd John Tan
Burea, Charles o. C0aROr, Washington Hunt
Fernando Wood and James Brooks, ReyreSsR-
tatiUe Men of the Triumphant Revolutionary
Party Of NeIo York
December 19tb, 1862.
GENTLEMEN: congratulate you upon the
/ glorious successes of November, 1862. The
world has already accepted it as evidence that
there still exists in the North an appreciation OF
State and individual rights, and a genuine re-
spect for progressive civilization, so horribly
outraged during the conduct of this war by sb-
olition officers, both civil and military. trust
that you will reflect by resolute and decisive
action the indication signaled by tAe people at
the ballot in this massive and successful effort,
this outpouring of righteous scorn, against the
mulatto usurpers who have kept you in leash
| for two years agOne; the hucksters of your
national reputation; the jewellers in your ma
honal Wealth-the fruits of long years of Dem
ocrate and Southern craftsmanship, fidelity and
forecast Civic Law bleeds and Humanity
stands apast at tho auocltes Or - -:
tsrans State lines ebhtersted; rights of every
kind, popular, religious and commercial, all
swept into one common ruin; homes violated,
Fihed and burned ; private papers - sacred
mementoes, national rewards for honorable
conduct = remorselessly destroyed or thiev-
ingiy appropriated. Even the 8bodes Of dead
patriots, whose memory should be as dear to
you as to Us, desecrated and pillsged. Venera-
BILE citizens matrons, msidens and infants driven
out to seek the protection of charity. Mothers
and daughters imperiously domineered over and
insulted in the absence Of their natural protect
Ors. 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, civilization, moaesty and
religion to the Southern mstrons 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 credita-
be to them, enticed or dragged away IN ropes,
the men cruelty worked down, the women,
shriekiDg for help, brutally outraged in the pres
ence of their husbands, children and mistresses =;
men, women and children left stlsst to suffer and
Etarve and die on 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
are being enacted before you A programme of
pescs 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 dollar of the bonds-Federal, 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 despotic loans, and this Just blow will fall
almost exclusively upon the usurpers. There is
need that history should be marked by the utter
snnihiaton of the debt crested by the conspira-
tors against the rights and liberties OF American
citizens and States. The licentious dollar should
now receive such a retributive lesson that a bar
shall be raised for all time against its being had
on this continent for the usuTpstOn Of the rights
and liberties of sovereign citizens and States.
Not only do you owe it TO yourselves to repu-
diate every dollar of this unconstitutional debt,
but you owe it equally to your pOsteTity to pay
tho 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, heroicaly, and
New York city, as if by magic, will re-assume
the envisble 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 m8Zes of beauty, in statuary, 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 in6del puritan rule,
which has been nearly as oppressive and intol-
ersble in New York as ia the South. You will
have free navigation and free trade with the
South and (freer trade than ever with the world.
Let heart aud brain into the revolution ac-
celerste and direct the movement; get rid of the
Baboen, Cor what is It y Abrshan Lincoln, pa
cifcally if you can, but by the blood of bis fol-
lowers if necessary. Withdraw your support,
material and moral from the invading armies,
and the South will make quick work with the
AbOGtiOnists that remain on her soil. Suffer DO
degenerate son of the South, upon howsoeTer
plausible pretext, to idly embarrass 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 odious in the ears of Southern
people. The State Legislatures will be called
upon to obterate the hated name from countie,
and towns.
The oeean-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 1860, ab
Tuptly and forever disspated the illusion
Commercial relations are attainable, and eve
/ ry hour of alienation from the South is YOU
/ less. The recent elections show that New York
/ city is the centre OF a circle of one hundred
| miles radius, with compact, organized major
! ity of two hundred thousand against your abo
/ liblOBiEtu RONtIuDAcLt IL has Dub 10 W liz 10 GO
| Halfway measures, always unsuitable to revo-
| lutionary necessities, will not avail you. I'm
mediate, wholesale reputation is your only
safety valve.
! Against the Abolition invasion the whole ns-
| ton of the Southern ConfederRcy 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-
| ton against the insOlent invader. While the
| Abolition generals have been successfully with
drawn in disgrace from the field, our generals
and subordinate officers, brave and efficient
/ from the FIRST 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 thsir 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, 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 COnfederacy. Our governors, orators
anu SJetebLA6u luIulou yOU Win ihOuoAo luI olLl-
ulation. Our women have exceed the viTtuous
| daughters of the colonial revolution. Our cler-
! gy have nosly endured exile and imprisonment
without fslter.
Men of the revolution in New York, redeem
ing career lies open to you, IN which you car
protect yourselves and all 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 fIon
bastiles, your trade from shackles, your namt
! from ignominious TeprOsch!