Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-03-20
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EDITORS APPEAL: ! love my native South,
all my beautiful South; and desrer to m4 than any spot
Of it is my home, my wfe's home, and the home and
BIRTH ace Of ny brghteyed ones I have cherished
pride the growth Of Memphis and in the large enter
prise that has promoted and honored Ler have wit
messed them for fourteen years Let me- therefore, while
all other seem to berate her aud in her own
bosom passiysy to sanction The assaults upon her
good name venture plea in her behalf.
It is not claimed that, differently from all mankind
some among are hesress monopolsts spectators
exoroners loving thrift gresty, and their country
little or none On such but on such only let the blow
fail heavily; but because some among not Of
ike unto as many others elsewhere and everywhere, let
not that blow fail on our innocent city her
The sin connected with trading the monopoly Of goods
low rates and selling them at exravagant If
merchant pay fifteen dollars for our and fifty cents for
coffee supply his customers he may properly sell them
sixteen dollars and sixty cents. il s looking at tn
selling rates Alone without regard TO the buying rates,
that deuouucs the city and dealers for greedy secu
lst0n and Uupatoc ruin 20 the country, because here
t0tore, these articles sold for much less price And yet
if friend out Of Memphis have chicken, dozen Of
eggs or pound Of butter for sale he wants forty cents
for them from the city and much he get,
although, heretofore they sold Tor fifteen cens5 WIN
wheat, -four hay, and evev fnc country has Tor
sale TO che ni. ne producer in Arkansas Mississippi
AID Tennessee wants Csnd he gets properly) from Mem
plis all that he for what he has sell 10 her al
though one hundred per cent and over previous
ras, and without the least trouble of conscience And
so men have always traded and viii trade But it is
wczed in Memphis 20 trade thus and yrtuous in people
out Of Memphis
Double shame on Angelo
To weed my vice and let his grow"
The fact is it is every day seen that Memphis pays
the highest market prices for all she buys aud those
selling her sell for all hey get and grow rich by
Their sengi and is if the country contributes 10
she growth Of Memphis either side of the river, Mem
phs contributes 10 the growth Of the country. The
advantages mutual and equal, and the dependence
recip-oc BY the laws Of trade and Of production
purchase and sale this must be So OF necessity Like
water trade viii seek ito level and ad ust itself Supply
and demand aud demand and supply regulate them
selves Therefore then, let there be strife betgiX,
thee and 81 let discord be melted mischevously
and prejudicousy to either party between buyer and
seller although the government itsef should be Of
them nor between city and country. In sister State
It Is unguerdedy unJusuy- and NO doubt 100 hastily
said and lately printed that Memphis sticks ike leech
10 the side Of Arkansas Unfortunately some there in
tuge this nconsderate railing, for it might be said as
well that Arkansas clings TO the paps Of Memphis
But the truth is clever young ueghbor over the
way highly valued by Memphis and, hence the latter
has done more contessedy, for her advancement than
she has done for herself or perhaps was able to do She
has given her people highest market price for all
they have had to sell to her and 20 has prospered them
She has paid her money freely TO drive the iron horse OF
commerce and progress through her silent forests,
awaing all her latent energy into life. Her people
spades and barOws have recs med her valueess
from their swampy burial, aud made them wealth to
her territory, and long to be source Of immense
revenue TO her treasury and this in the face Of unknd
y and discriminating legislation.
If advantages have ensusd TO any OF people from
this they are no less TO her and were more free her
people than them and were legitimate and Under
her own laws, the result Of her own organic wisdom
In short without dollars interest in that state wish
to feel, I know. that Memphis and Arkansas, ike
Memphis and all the country contiguous have and
should cherish mutual pride in each other. Located
together in the great valley separated by only an
imaginary conventional line their interest is one
their destuy one and theirsympates ought 10 be one
and those ympathies should bury deeply all rancorous
dispositions and teach them tbs lesson that the rise or
fall Of the is the fall of the other And es
pecialy should u BE- remembered whatever may nave !
no more IN Memphis for her size than elseWber( she
is common sharer with Arkansas, with all our states
in the lights and shades the hopes and fears the glory
and gloom Of the impending future. And, an indeed
second Of independence When our State has just
declared by unanimity the old Union, and Arkan'
sas was hating and Kentucky HARDLY, stood back aud
the powerful OLD government with fS hosts o. men ana
array Of arms, and means Of war, brising with
vndictve ire aon and defenseess but dauntless Mem
phis arose and with her voice. facing the eonsequen-
declared herself out o.! the old Union and on the side
Of the gallant States and hieh-heartei people Of the
South and TO this declaration she has stood fast re-
utterIns in all her words and all her acts As corpo-
ration shs has freely poured her money by tens OF
thousands for the common defense whilst her people,
with open hand have contributed their means by hun
dreds Of thousands and almost 90 exhaustion, sud yet
giving and gying and giving in the glow Of sublime pat
riotism They have unused the sick, mnistered win
their own bands to the wounded and clad the uncothed
soldiers OF the country by thousands and day and night
are tney yet bending the beds of suffering their
gentle women ever ike angels of mercy, with al the
tenderness Of the human heart per0rmng all those acts
Of ofhumaaity that fr sick bruised demands and
that viii caunonze the 0yerton long one brick
rests upon another TO tell the place where s pile ms
heavenward- And more than her whole voting popula-
ton and exceed by other city Of her numbers, her
citizens and her her free offering 10 the country
have gone forth 70 ght or TO die for Independence ON all
March Ii, Is65 'D' '' ~ IT.s. !