The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-11

Heaven, "Give me my Government, aud let
the negroes gol'
These traitors who are perpetually clamor-
ing about Southern rights and slave property,
as if there was no other rights or property in
existence, manifest the utmost bitterness big
otry, and narrow-minded sectionalism. They
are perpetnally calling out Slavery. Adolf
ZIONIST, Yankee, and Lineolnite How ma
licious and invidious are all these slang
phrases. Are we not all Americans, de-
scended of one blood, and composing one
great family? | recognize no such miserable
narrow and selfish feelings as that which re-
fuse fellowship to the loyal and just of all sec
tons of the Republic. / scorn the trammels
and fetters of sectional bigotry. / claim this
world as my home and every honest man as
my brother. love my country, her Constitu-
ton, her laws, and her free institutions. I
love her history, and the memory of her glo-
rious dead. Hove the precepts and teachings
of her glorious founders. love my State, /
pray for her happiness and prosperity, which
must be found in the laws and under the flag
| of the Union. Looking around me tonight,
l say to the gallant and patriotic soldiers who
bear this flag, " Welcome, welcome, thrice
welcome, defenders of the Union y
On with your glorious work, and in the face
of all opposition, even at the point of the
sword and bsyonet, and amid the roar end
crash Of battle, let the Government Of Wash
ington be defended. We have heard these
troops called Northern invaders and Hessians,
\ but we have seen and compared the rebel and
I patriot armies. The first spread horror and
| desolation among us, the latter have been law
abiding and orderly, and have been a protec-
| tion to the people.
! The rebellion is animated and controlled BY
! the worst spirit that ever filed the bosom of
man. With singular audacity or ignorance
\ some persons pretended to compare the rebel
[ liun OF 1861 with that of 1776 How prepos-
ferrous and absurd There is not the renlotest
! analogy between them. They were, on the
/ contrary, the very aatipodes of each other.
| The old revolution WAS to establish and per-
| petuate freedom, but this one was to subvert
/ and destroy it, and make us the vassals of
! France or England. The modern revolution,
would, if possible, reduce US to the very servi-
1 tude from which the former delivered us.
The spirit of rebeliiop was 6endish, proud,
cruel and lawless. 1t was 50 from the day
when the devil raised the standard of revolt in
heaven, and warred with Michael the arch
angel for the supremacy of the skies. We are
told that the devil was conquered and chained
in the Internal pit, but that he was to be let
! loose for season. If ever the devil was let
loose in the world, believe that now is the
time. and that he is actuating this Southern
rebellion. Yet men who had aided this dia.
bolical rebellion now pretended TO talk of
tyranny and oppression How long has it
been since you had your minute men, YOUR
vigilance committees and your passport COM
mittees2 How long has it been since men
! were driven from their homes for the crime of
! loyalty2 / was driven from my owa home,
and for what2 What crime what offense had
done? None, save my devotion to the gov
eminent, and my attachment to the stars and
stripes. Yet men talk of oppression, and CON-
planned of the arrest of ministers of the gospel
Ministers Of the gospel indeed Pardon the
expression! Oh 1t was great outrage to ar
rest Parson Elliott, and Parson Howell, and
Baldwin-Armageddo Baldwin,!
What claim has these traitors toindulgence!
l do not profess to be a profound theologian
/ reverence the teachings of the Gospel, and
thought that the Gospel of Jesus arched the
whole circuit of the skies, and rested on the
ends ofthe universe. Who are these reverend
traitors that they should 90 unpublished fol
their crimes
| hold that this government is of divine
birth, that it is gift of God himself, and thai
neither Parson Elliott, nor Parson Sehon. mol
Parson Howell, nor Armageddon, have righ
to break it up. punish these men, not be
cause they are priests but because they arr
traitors and enemies of society, law and order
! \
, silly women, and inculcated rebellion, ane
!, now let them suffer 1hs penalty. received
the other day request to allow some ham
sweet pickle and other deheacies to be carried
to these persons. / told the applicant to senC
them to me, and would find persons gooC
deal more worthy to receive them than thes,
rebels l would give them to the suffering
widows~a and orphans among us, whose hus
bands and fathers were deluded by these mer
] snto q 10 HoI -,
: grave or lie in prison lShouts of g Coed
, good that's right ~ EshW wxatA
Ii delicacies are to be distributed, thinl
that these innocent sufferers, the victims O
these corrupt, rebel priests, are a good dea
, more worthy objects of charity and compass
| sion than the deceipers themselves VIII,
should they be feasted and lionized, and theil
, wretched victims be left to perish "a whis
tie in the rear Of the crowd L hear whis
, tie. / believe it is Goldsmith who says in bi
Natural History that there are only two AM
mails that hiss; the viper, by reason of il
venom, and the goose, for its simplicity.
, think the present instance is an exception
and the whistler is a gosiing. 1t is sorae fool
! ish creature instigated b u others who are to-
cowardly TO show themselves. Let your mas
tiers show themselves, and I will attend t
, them. But why should these parsons ask fo
I'sympafhy7 When did they ever expresssym
: pathy for the loyal men WHIP lie in the jail o
/ Tuscaloosa, covered with filth and fed OF
tainted meat? Alas, to their agonizing erie
no response is made but the clanking Of thei
chains. E91zz . EZ&u
These men who claim special regard, hay
stolen the livery OF Heaven to serve the devi
! in, but am determined they shall feel III
: powerof the Government which they hay
7 sought to destroy. Some professeG to enter
j I tain holy horror of coercion. Why, ferc
| and terror have coerced the South into he
: present position, and nothing but force an.
power will bring her back. You were coerce,
j | By the violence and f0rce of secession, an,
. the spirit OF secession must be subdued an,
E controlled by force. The strong arm of til
: Government must be barred and justice mus
}. do her work. We mayas well understand tn
f.o4 r44 last end - -, x,zl,-t-f NJ .