Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-21

HAUL 6All EOANAEAn d AA1hANA E41SAAEAaA2N
HALLECK, BUELL. MCPHERSON, STEELE
and SToNE8lAN, and a host of others, DC
Southern soldier had any other word:
than those of respect and honour. Nc
DowELL, MANSFIELD, RUCKER, CARLE.
TON, Donaldson and FRANKLIN wer,
at Bueua Vista, SIS well as DAVIS, BRAGG.
MCCUIdOCH, Chiffon, HANSON, BU-
FORD, HUMPHREY MARSHALL and JOHN
S. WILLIAMS. None Of these, we be
keve, and few OF the officers Of the old
army, ever forgot either the sssO'
Citations OF those better days o.
The Republic, or a soldiers obligs,
tions of honour, which some who are
now magnifed as heroes never cared tC
remember.
We do not even find fault with those
who, honestly regarding secession as re-
beIion, and fanatically devoted to the
Union, looked upon Us IS criminals, en-
titled to little mercy. These were harsh,
severe, and sometimes merciless-forgOi
sometimes, for the moment, that they
were gentlemen and Americans, but they
we're never devils, like Butler, Paine and
Turchin.
Still less do we, in speaking Of the
atrocities Of part of the Federal soldiery,
mean to include all the soldiers or all the
commanders of the North, or to held ali
the people of the North responsible for
them, as having ratified and approved
the most infamous villainies, and ap-
plauded aud honored some Of the worst
men and shabbiest soldiers that ever dis
grsced a flag, and made it seem absurd
for the Son Of Man to have died for the
human race.
No q more honors than We do the
honorable and generous gentlemen Of
the North, with so many Of whom we
have had raternal relations. We hon
ored them in the heat Of the conflict for
being T u to their principles and devo-
ted to their flag, and to the Union in
which they conscientiOUsly believe lay
the last hope of human liberty. We
only asked that they should believe Us
equally in earnest and equally sincere.
Neither do We unite in the vulgar
prejudice against the common people Of
the North. We came, ourself Of that
common people. We know that vast
numbers of them are honest, upright,
true-hearted lovers Of liberty, bold and
blunt, like their Saxon ancestors. They
are sadly warped and misled, to have
consented 10 the establishment Of 5 Nil
itary Despotism over ten Provinces, the
most gigantic crime Of the age We do
not confouud this fair, frsnk yeomsury
with The tin-pedlsr and woOden-nutmeg
sub-species, who breed as rapidly as
/ other vermin, and whose meanuess and
i~guob.lity are Intensified as they rise
into a higher sphere, and become, with
a thin varnish Of gentility, Wal-street
gamblers, editors, politicians Gnd preach
ers. Yhe human race, in these, displays
q type lower than The negro; for the
negro is what he seems to be, and feels
himself their superior.
When the Captain Of a Federal gun
boat, stationed below Memphis has hung
up by the thumbs, from noon until night
Of 3 lsng summers day, a non-combat-
ant merely suspected Of knowing some
what Of the movements Of Confederate
~partizaus, there were subalterns to whom
I such cruelty was isgustingsn revolving.
Thee were Federal officers enough who
would have deemed themselves dishon-
CURED to have served a day under g Colo
mel who had given his men two hours
license among the young girls Of a board
ing school. There were many, let US
hope for the honour of human nature,
who would have slain the miscreant
sooner than have been secomplices in a
yillainy 80 hideous.
Those who, 6eeming their states rash
and unwise, yet felt constrained by
honour and loyalty to share their for
tunes, and follow the hard path Of duty
whithersoever it might lead, could well
understand that the sons Of the North.
could feel for the Union the loyalty
which Us felt for our States. But we
could have no such regard for the vile
scum OF The cities, who neither knew nor
cared what principles were in dispute in
the controversy, nor for the foreigners,
neturaliEed or imported TO order, who
hocked 10 the Federal standards, and
had no nobler springs Of setiOn than
those that make the myrmidons Of Eu-
ropsan or Asiatic royalty true to the
! thrones supported by their bsyonets.
No one respects the mercenary cut
throat, especially when the right to pils
lsge is part Of hispsy.
We sympathize with those who, living
ia the North and detesting and ashamed
| Of the name In which the wal was too
( generally conducted, and Of too much
that has been lone since its close, still
have 10 share the odium that attaches 10
their armies and their States. II one did
not know that these const tuted a third
or more Of the North and if the coun-
/ try were to be held to answer FOR the base
acts OF the majority Of its people, o
would justly say that something Of no
bility Of soul survived at Rome even
under VTTELLTUs, still lived in England
under JAMES THE FIRST, and occasion
ally -coruscsted IN France under LOUIS
Nv but that it was reserved for the
Christian North to applaud the savage
atrocities Of barbarous leaders and mer-
csnsry trOopz, and 70 honour those who
had dishonoured it and that even the
Devil Of the Northern pulpit has lost
ever the darkened nobility Of soul al
lowed him by the justice Of M1LroN-
1t Is bad and base enough to be inhu-
man; but being SO, to boast Of ones hui
mainly and pirate Of the inhumanities Of
ones adversary, is detestable.
The New York Daily Ne'0s, in Sep
TENDER, 1865, said |
We aver our belief, from extensive in
formation, that the suffering OF the on
federate prisoners not caused by them
selves. was greater than that Of the fed
eral prisoners not caused by themselves ;
the mortality and sickness at Rock Is
land aud Elmira we're dreadful the
was allowed 70 rage, and al the
suffering permitted, while the means Of
relief were s~bundsatly st band, While st
The south, their poverty, not their will,
inflicted the evils; at the north, the viii
and not the poverty did the mischief.
ne a1oTtatag among he CoaJsderatel