Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-24
sUeGnsrsOSs FaoM ! SOHrnnnx
We lately received a private letter
from a person unknown to us. from
which we make the following extracts:


C~1xcISsAqT, Msrch %, 1867.
Editors Memphis Appeal;
An article that you wrote lately, and
some criticism upon il by the Commercial
OF this city, induces me to trespass on
your time for a few minutes. You ad-
wise non-intercOurse with the north.
Pardon me when i say such advice is
bad, as 1t is OF no avail, and only tends
TO make things worse. The south is
unable to compete with the north, fol-
want Of capitol-and again, even acflh 1t,
they could not compete Sn~ccessfhYv, fol
men tcW buy in the cheapest market,
say or do a0hn yoa aH. That is my
first point. If you cannet succeed fOl
these potent reasons, why not do that
dfhtch IS az your POioer?
The south have been, aud are noU en-.
riching their de0dlfeSt enemies by thejI
neglect in not discriminating between
democrats and radicals. Here in this
city there are establishments that look
to the south for the sale Of a large part oil
their products, and are filed with Dutch
radicals Of the very U0Tst stripe. If, by
chance, a democrat got there, he would
be discharged the moment ii was found
he wss one The worst enemies Of the
south and of the peace of the eountry,
are these Dutch radicals they are the
prime Of the defeats Of the demoC-
raey in the west. They are honey
eombed with secret Jaeobinical societies,
imported from the fatherland, that H3OUe
IN concert as one man. BY these means
they have got control of almost every
mechanical bench, by driving Off Ameri-
can mechanics of far greater skill than
themselves, by underwriting them.
These men control the machine business
of this city, and they have also de-
str0yed u. The work that formerly was
done here is now done in the vicinity of
Louisville and New Albany, and the
only effect of it will be that they will be
deluged with them as Cincinnati has
been. They will, by working for lower
wages than American mechanics, sue
coed in driving of democrats, there and
here and elsewhere, and theresult will be
seen in an Increased radical UOte. II you
have workshops in Memphis, and any
liberal Germans, as they style them
selves, one hundred to one they are
the WorSt stripe Of radicals, although
they may pretend to be opposed to their
schemes. You have secret, oath bound
societies to contend with. When I use
the phrase "yOur friends do not con-
strue it as being friendly to disruption
of the country into sections. On the con-
trary, the copperheads, as they are styled,
are the only true friends of the union.
Where there is n disuniOnist in the
democracy of the north there are five
hundred IL the s~elf-styled union party.
If the question was brought up to-mor-
row TO admit the south to their full rights
in the union, or to separate the country
into hostile sections, l am confident that
the section, under the lead of Chase,
| Sumner d Co, would vote for the latter.
These are the men that have brought
the country to its present condition, and
the true reason of the opposition OF the
democratic party to the war. was the
knowledge of the true Intentions of those
leaders; for, while pretending to restore
the union, they were the worst and most
malignant enemies it had, far more so
than any southern man.
Had the democratic party the power,
they would have fought the people of
the south until they anne back into the
union, and they would have been re-
stored precisely as before the unfortunate
/ contest. They utterly epudiate such men
as Butler, Logan q Co., who were demo-
Gratis so long as they could get into Office.
The people of the south cannot say that
the true democracy of the north have
had any hand in the de%plOrable eOndi-
ton they are in. They feel for them and
would do all in their power to restore
them, but the villainOus frauds of every
conceivable description, IN the purity of
the ballot box, perpetrated by and under
cover OF these secret societies, are too
much for them. II rests with the people
of the south Themselves, whether the
yoke they bear will be broken or not.
The whites are disfranchised and the
negroes under the lead of some Of its
puritanical, praise-G od-barebone stripe
of yankee preachers, will carry all before
them, with the aid of such measures as
are initiated by that prince of ~scOundrels,
Brownlow.
II societies are established, and the
members thereof patrOnige only their
friends, and give their work to those who
will have nothing to do with the radical
pests, an important point will be gained.
They will be driven off and their places
filled with a different class of men. As
manufacturing cannot be carried on to
compete with the north, why should not
a sOutherneT come here, establish his
business, get the trade that is-,monOpolized
by the enemies of his section, so thai
they would have the satisfaction of en-
riching a friend instead of an enemy,
anu sLllhC LAEm IL t4I EAluAEA
of their strength by depriving
them Of some of the power
they now possess to Cypress you ?
If southern men were here they could
give employment to hundreds, nay thou
sands, from the south, where they are
pOwerless and staryg. 1t is in the
power of the south, " iadicjoUs action
in directing q temporary migration Of
say1 $50, 000 Of those that are BOU pOliti-
cGhy beneath the negro, to the states of
Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and one or
two other st2tes, that would carry these
states overwhelmingly, and as soon as
they controlled these ststes, the negro
states in the south would not last one
month, with the fact of nineteen-twen-
tieths Of the population being opposed to
them. Unless something Ike this is
done, 1 see no hope for the people either
north or south,
+ DLMOCRAs Or 1lIE JAcksO& CHoOL,
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