Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-01-02

On the l4th day Of Dscenber, 1779 says The
Richmond Dispatch, WASHINGTON died. He was
the greatest benefsctor the Yankees ever had.
To him they owe, primarily, everything except
the natural badness of their character His
sword eonqured for them their independence of
Great Britain. His influence enabled them to
form the Union, from which incaI1ulablo pres
perity flowed to them and their descendants.
1t is no violent inference from the circumstances
of the times, TO aver that but for WASHINGTON,
his commanding influence, and his great talents,
Great Britain would never have been dispos-
sessed of her hold upon the colonies. On the
anniversary of the death of WASHINGTON, sixty
three years after that event, we find his country
men engaged in a desperate struggle for exist
ence, with these same Yankees, on the spot
where repose the bones of his mother, and
within so short distance ofsBdount VeriloH, that
the roar of artillery may be easily heard. The
very men whose liberties be preserved are slriv-
| ing, with the aid Of all the vsgabonds and out
laws they can rake from the cutters of the Eu-
ropean cities, to destroy the liberties Of those
among whom he was born and bred Can any
thing more strongly mark the character of this
war; Can anything give more accurate idea
of the character of the Yankees Ingrstitude,
the bssest ingrstitude seems to be, with all the
other vile attributes which is ever found united
with it, the distinguishing trait of the whole vile
race. When the Israelites left Egypt their
great leader took up the bones Of JOSEPH and
carried them along with him. He would not
leave them to be trampled on and otherwise
desecrated by the vilest Of nations" In our
opinion, the same thing ought to have been done
with the bones of WAsHNGToN the moment
this war began. Who knows what sacrilege a
Yankee may not be guilty Of They have al
ready rihed the tomb of sister of no. Marshall
In Newbern they attacked every grave, to obtain |
the small piece of silver plate with the name
engraved on it, that is usually put on the
cofiu Among other graves thus violated was |
that of Governor STANLY, whose son is now the |
Yankee ruler in that city, protected by those
very soldiers who sscrilegiOusly tore up and |
scattered the bones of his father Who knows
that the remains of WASHINGTON may not be
deseerated in the same way The Yankees are
not too good for anything vile. They would,
every man of them, dig up the cofins Of their
own parents, and make buttons out of their
bones, if they could sell them to advantage; if,
to use their own vile slang, they found " it
would pay" We wish tie bones Of WASHING
TON wero somewhere else. The seouDdrels that
removed the gravestonas from jamestown would
not hesitate, in the hope of profit, to steal these
precious relics and exhibit them for money in
every city in YankeedOm. They would do the
same thing with the bones of the Saviour of
mankind for the sake of profit.
But, to conclude; Is it not strange that on
the sixty-thiId anniversary of WAsHNGToN's
death, his countrymen should be fighting the
greatest battle ever fought on this continent in
defense of their liberties, against the Yankees,
whom he redeemed from slavery As we write
this, we have not heard the issue. But we do
not doubt it in the least We have the frmest
reliance on just God who We arc persuaded
will not permit the success of the vile cause in
which Yankeedom is engaged the cause of
murder plunder, and sacrilege.