Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-06-16
A Cutting letter from Emerson
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terms member Of Congress from Tennessee,
having been invited TO in in a public eel
eiration OF the aunis5rsary of the su7ren-
der OF MemPhistj the Federal arms, re-
plies in an able and interesting letter. It's
jusraad cutting IA casm upon tho Presi-
Dent !Ur his broken vows and nnaladninis-
tratiun of fhae, commend it to the>consid-
a'i'n IF honest eaIl5.
Mr.. Elheridge was made Clerk of the
Republican House in July 1851. He had
labored hard to keep Tennessee in the
Union, and in 1862 visited his State. " here
he was instrumental in bringing hundreds
into the Union Army, and pursuadinu
thousands to take the oath of allegiance.
No man has dore more to strengthen the
Administration in the Southwest, but il
seems that he cannot 90 the Abolition DOL
ICY OF freeing negroes and stealing.
We give the following extracts from his
letter:
"How can you or encourage the Low.
al" when our matchless President, the late
less military subordinates, have already
done and promised all which wisdom can
suggest, which our sacred Constitution tnl.
crates and approves? There remains moth
ing tor us to do, unless to obey our ipcom.
parable President and all bis wise meas
ares to conquer glorious peace True,we
have among us croakers and CopperLeads
silly, brainless men-who are SO unwise
and unpatriOtic as to question the wisdom
Of our indefatigiLle President. If Won have
any such in Memphis, you should at nnca
oenounce them as in sympathy with the
rebels; you should send them to their
friends down South" or to the Dry Tor.
tugas, which is understood by manv to be
place where every body is tortured with
thirst Tor rifle whiskey, and not drop can
be obtained No good man can complain
OF the wise men who conduct our public
affairs. They should be taught to remem.
Ger that ScGRddtum magndtam was former
ly high crlme-it is most heinous Of
fence howard nothing saves such copper
cclored wretches but the christian charity
of our most pious President.
AT your proposed meeting you should 50
arrange matters as to secure a list of all
who iaII to attend or omit to render a suit
able apology, and you should adopt reso-
iutions OF the most "lnyaP' kind. Allow
me to suggest the committee on resolutions
be selected from contractors and Office hold
ers. l PARTICULAR recommend one Coon,
er, who has been recently appointed asses
scr tor the large, rich, and porulous dis
trict Of WOst Tennessee lie WAS oriui.
nall firm New York. True, he was never
IN West Tennessee until sent I:an Llss-1,;.u
on his cf4iUiui arrenG, but he no doui;
knows by intuition the true value If tLn
goods and chatte!s, lands and tenements,
w., OF country he never lived in. Bat
he is so loyai-so much so that Doubt not
be Is better fitted for the Office than anv one
OF the native born sons, brothers. and faith
ers OF the thousands Of our soldiers which
before the 22d of last September. West
Tennessee had furnished the federal ar
my.
Let the committee initiate the 'Ioyal
Leaugue" of Baltimore aud resolve tina,
you not only approve of all the present
wise and patriotic administration have
done, but that you vii! sustain and UNFOLD
1t in everything it may hereafter do. Let
the Committee make an elaborate report
accom- panied with resolutions denounciDe |
all who find fault With our most excellent |
President. For instance, the last Congress
TN july passed law to clnfs,ats the
property of certain rebels. That Congress,
though very wise body, did not possess
rs much aggregate wisdom as our great |
and good President. In proof of this we |
need but to rele: u the fact that the Con.
sress aforesaid provided that, under this |
law, trial should precede conviction. and |
forfeiture, and that guilt should be proy-
en-, not presumed. Worse still, it offer
ed an amnesty to repentant rebels; it mer-
clluliy gave them sixty DAYS IN which to
accept it, and provided further that our
most noble President might suspend. for n
period, the operations Of this law. as our
armies advanced south ward, so rs TO aff,rd
1t an opportunity to accept pardon. Worse
still. this matchless law actually apnlied IN
no one but rebels. And it is astonishing |
that 1t applied to them everywhere, North
ana South, IN Springfield, Illinois, as well
as Springfield, Tennessee But worse still: !
1t dld not wantOnly affect the rights Of
property OF Union men, women, and child>
rem, or Iunatics, in any section Of the coun-
try.
In North Carolina, Charles Henry Fos-
ter, Esq, originally from Maine, and a
warm political friend of Breckenridge, has
organized a Free Labor Association, and
Governor Stanley has gone back to Califor-
MIA in disgust.
In Nashville we have q regularly organ.
lzed abolition society its origin is the same
as that OF the State and federal govern
ment, aud the editor, though imported
from abroad, is doing more to sustain the
glorious administration of President Lin
coln than any native born citizen of the
State can do. This abolition society, and
rms aDohtoE newspaper. although connect
go within the Notifications of the city, is
doing no doubt very much to induce the
people OF Middle Tennessee to cease all on.
position to the wise, gentle and constitu,
iionaI rule Of our distinguished chief mag
istrate.
10 Memphis the harvest is a feminine
one. With cotton at q dollar per n6nn5
and likely contrahands lying about loose
our enterprlsing Northern friends who L.
the Union and wish it preserved under tho
guarantees of the constitution NAV 80
a good thing of it, Already hear oF
several who have loyal States which oro
now well filled by negroes who once 90
!lngeo % the Union men If the Soutb -
acts IKE these will tend greatly to the 70.
storation OF peace and harmony and ma.
'efiaiiy AID In removing the nreind;c.
~hich the people of the insurrectfonarU
States have entertained against their No.,
them kindred. They now kno,o that tbo
war Is not to be conducted as wantonlv 70
aeprlVe them of any portion of their nTon
eFty ana they now have the positive propf
tnae southern secessionists and Nortbern
CopPerheads, who charged that the war
was to be finally wagod against the Soutb
as S,t a section, instead of the rebels and their
aiIes' are guilty Of falsebOod.
:, Fnrthermore, there is large partv at
the North who have presistentiy refused TO
regard the African as the best representa-
i've Of the human race.
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