The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-09-15
II. w. NEWMAN, Prest.
c. X. HANpLEY, Seo'y.
a Memorial from the Ladies OF
Tennessee.

The following beautiful and touching
memorial, addressed to the President,
on behalf of the great Representative
of our "Lost Cause" was written by |
Miss Josephine Eaton, of Murfrees-
boro. The petition, to which was APP
pended thousands of signatures
names Of the patriotic women of Ten,
ncsscc, has been forwarded to Wash
ington. .-Lodies Home.
10 his Excclency, PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
We, Ladies Of your adopted State,
come to you to add our names to the
LONG list of Southern women, who have
supplicated you mercy towards Jeller-
son Davis.
Crushed and broken by the trials AND
sorrows of the four terrible years
Through which we have passed, we
come entrcating you to take from our
lips the last and bitterest drop in the
cup of our humiliation and anguish
We come to you with a feeling Of con
fidcuce and assurance that no others
can have; for we remember that you
are our own Tenncsscean, and that
through long years we have looked to
you to guide the bark of our loved na-
tive State safely through the dangers
that cnvironed her. We now see aud
feel the sublimity of your position,
standing as you do rearlcssly between
the liberties Of the people and that de
structivc fanaticism which would lay
waste the fairest portion Of Gods herl-
tagc. We appreciate yournoble efforts
to restore constitutional liberty, and
make this Government such that the
peoplc of all sections can sincerely love
il and earnestly desire its pcrpctuation'
When YOU have accomplished this
more than Hcrculcan labor, you will
have earned for your name an cnviable
place in the pages Of history and Ten
ncsscc will be as proud of her Andrew
Johnson as Virginia is Of her George
Washington. TO us, it seems that the
release ofJetlcrson Davis would be an
important step in this direction.
We bcg YOU to forget his faults, how
ever great they may appear to yo", and
, remember him only as a gray-haired,
sorrowing, heart broken man, We
beg you, as you desire peace and con
B, cord between the sections, to " let the
prisoner 90 free" In prison, Jciler
son Davis is still the representative o
our dead cause, suffering for our sins
and standing in our stead before TIT
= tribunal of the world; and our hearts
cling to him in his sorrow, and w
share his suiIcrings as we shared TIT
!, acts for which he is punished. Releas
1t him. and he sinks from the great rep
G resentative of q loved cause to simpl
J. citizen of the United States.
:, Since it hath pleased high Ilcavcl
10 that the cause of which he was tn
Y chosen leader should perish, we boy
l. in humble submission to the Dlvln
l. Will, and would fain bury our dead on
,c of our sight. And now, we pray yo'
to help us to forget; to teach us to low
again the whole country, that we ma
- - no longer be strangers and aliens IN tn
IS land of our birth. But while Jelfcrso
III Davis looks out from his dungeon bal
ut with sad eyes over the land for whic
! he has suffered SO much, he stands BIZ
l tween our hearts and the Union, keel
III inc ever alive the remembrance OF I'll
10 pangs we have endured. :,
ne We do not attempt to justify Ii
,ef course to you, as that would ill-bccon
ne as. nor do we even plead his convlcti'
~ that duty pointed to the path he tro
lef nor refer to those great qualities WIN
have rendered his name conspicuous
all future time but we iniplore "
by the memory of our suiterlngs Il
nc tears,--by our dcsolated homes a
'de ruined hearth stones to grant the Ito
ig- ty of this man to the Women OF IL
rs nessee. Then willn spectre of p
80 sad prisoner rise before us when
IVY bow to supplicate Heavens blessil
'm upon you; and no shadow will dim
nst brightness Of your fame as you sta
the forth Jacksonville, saying to the G
pm mics of our loved South "Thus
ana shall ye go, and no farther"
Dpe
Der A singular and melancholy affair t.
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