, 1863-01-05
AN EPISTLE FROM GE0RGE
SANDERS.
Addressed to his Loving Friends, Ho-
ratio Seymour, Dean Richmond,
John Van Buren, ct al.
THE TRIUMPHANT REVOLUTIONARY
PARTY.
"R0ITEs PLANks OF RECONSTRUCTION, !,

"R0TTES PLANKs OF RECoxsTRuCT1os,s
We find in the Memphis Bulletin Of the 31st
ult., just received, the following loving epistle
from George N. Saunders, ''to the Representa-
tive Men Of the Triumphant Revolutionary
Party in New York" The letter is dated
OK TIE Wrse, Dec. a, 1862.
Horatio Seymour, Dean Richmond, John Van Bu-
rem, Chns O'Conuor, Washington Hunt, Fer
nando Wood and James Brooks, Representative
Men Of the Triumphant Revolutionary Party Of
New York:
GENTLEMEN: congratulate you upon the
glorious success of November, 1862. The
world has already accepted 1t as the evidence
that there still exists In the North an appre-
genuine respect for progressive civilization,
SO horribly outraged during the conduct Of
this War by abolition officers, both civil and
military. trust that you will reflect by reso-
Lutte and decisive action the indication sig
nailed By the people at the ballot In this mas
sive and successful effort, this outpouring Of
righteous scorn, against the mulatto usurpcrs
who have kept you in lush for two years
agone; the huckstcrs Of your national reputa-
tion; the reyelers in your natioua1 wealth aud
reputation 1.-The fruits Of long years Of Demo
critic and Southern statesnanship, fidelity
and forecast.
Civic Inv blccds and humanity stands aehast
at the atrocities Of your humanitarians. State
lines ohlitcratcd; rights Of every kind-po2u-
lar, religious and commercial-all swept into
1ne ;l,st. common ruin; homes violated, rihed and
burnt; private papcrs-sacred mementoes,
national rewards for honorable conduct-rc.
morscleEsly destroyed or thieyingly appropri-
ated. Even the abodes Of dead patriots,
whose memory should lie as dear to you as to
us, desecratcd and ,pillaged: Venerable citi-
.t111SE rr,1 s-Fr
out to seek protection Of charity. Mothers
and daughters imperiously domineered over
and ineultcd in the absence Of their natural
protectors. Even the negroes, that children
people who have never yet reached their ma
lorlty IN any age or country, and who owe
tion, modesty and religion to the Southern
matron who has been their friend, nurse and
guide, in benefits to them which generations
Of faithful service on their part cannot repay,
and whose fidelity under all the cheating
tsail tsmPtations @ and lying delusions to which
them, entfced or dragged away In ropes, the
men cruelty worked down, the women,
shrieking for help, brutally outraged in the
presence Of their husbands, children and mis-
tresscs-men, women and children left ut last
to suffer and starve and die on the roadsidcs.
This is slight synopsis Of the memories Of
the abolition armies Of your baboon Presi-
dent. X
Cam you longer stand still while these things
arc Icing enacted before yon? 4 programme
Of peace and settlement is what the people ex-
peet Of you. Alleges are resting upon, you
You should at once proclaim to the world
that not dollar Of the bouds-Fedcral, State
Or municipal by the Federal usurpcrs
for tue prosecution Of this unholy war, shall
eyer tc paid. Few strangers have taken
shares in the dcspotie loans, and this just blow
will fall almost exclusively upon the usur-
pcrs. There is need that history should be
marked by the utter annihilatfon Of the debt
created by the conspirators against the rights
and liberties Of American citizens and States.
Tie liccntious dollar should now receive such
2 retributiyc lesson, that bar should be raised
for all time against its being had on this con-
tinent for the usnrpation Of the rights and;
liberties Of sovereign citizens amt States
Not only do you owe 1t to yourselves to
repudiatc ttery dollar Of this unconstitutional
ray ne Aa!, if not al, Tic dbl The I,eoWc Of the
South hare had to inc,tr to maintnin tie rights
Of citizens and Of States. in the establishment
Of free trade.
Do these things generously, hero1cally and
New York city, as il by magic, will reassume
the enyiable position she held before the black
9th Of November, 1850. Her magnificent
streets will continue their march upon Man
hnttan Island; and ler Central Park will pro-
gress in multiplied mazes Of beauty, in stat
political relations with the South Will prob
ably never be restored, and it is now useless
to discuss. But you will nevertheless gain
mucl BY the revolution. You will be rid Of
tnfidel Puritan rule, which has been nearly as
oppressive and intolerable in New York as in
free trade with the South and Crccr trade than
ever with The world.
Let heart and brain into the revolution; ac-
ceiente and direct the movement; get rid Of
the Baboon, Tor What is itD Abraham Lin
c9ln| Ras;iiaeally 4 you can, but by the blood
support, material and moral, from the inyad-
ing armies, and the South will make quick
work with the Abolitionists that remain on
her soil. Suffer no degenerate son Of the
South upon however plausible pretext, to idly
embarrass yonr action, By throwing into your
nolonger possible The very word Union, once
so dear, has been made cover for so many
atrocious acts that the mere mention Of it is
odions IN the ears o Southern people. The State
Legislatures will be called upon to oblitcrate
the hated name from counties and towns.
Commercial relations arc attainable. and
every hour Of alienation from the South is
your loss. The recent elections show that
New York city is the centre Of circle Of 100
miles radius, with compact, active, organ
ized majority Of s., COG against your aboli-
tionized government. It LAS but q will, to
do. Halfway measures always unsuitable to
revolutionary necessities will not avail you.
Immediate, wholesale repndiation is your
only safety yalye.
Against the Abolition invasion, the whole
nation Of the Southern Confederacy is now
resolved into mn army, the most numerous,
intelligent and spirited the world eyer saw
in good health and high discipline, ready to
fall upon the enemy :vith that momentum !
which belong, only to the patient soldier,
While Abolition generals have been success
siyely withdrawn In disgrace from the field, |
our generals and subordinate officers, brave |
and efficient from the first, have steadily in |
creased in character and number. Never has |
eon'rlishcd, high-toned and gallant men as
the. Confederate army boasts to-day. And |
while her generals give the grandest proof Of |
their 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 followers,
alive st every extremity.
On q recent visit to Europe, found that of |
ail Americans, past or present, none stand so
high In public estimation, OF exalted patriot
ism and etatesmanship, as the President Of
the soute1n ConfedeTacy. Our governors,
orators and statemen furnish you with models |
for emulation. Oar women have excelled the |
virtuous daughters Of The Colonial Revo1u-
ton. 0nr clergy have have nobly endured
IAI4% 0A4N At4 A1VAlllEul HlLNQuI
Men Of the revolution in New York, re-
deeming career lies open to you In which you
can protect yourselves and all that Is SO dear
to yon as citizens and Americans. trust
you will walk In it ut whatever personal cost,
Release yonr press from censorship, your citi-
zens from bastiles, your trade from shacklcs,
your name from ignominious reproach.
GEORGE N. SANDERS,
Ohio and Tennessee Democrats.
4 Nemphis corresnoudent of the Madison |