Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-10
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ton OF this communication. Its senti-
ments ara such as must commend them
selves TO the sober judgment aud good
sense OF the southern people, while COW
eFing as liberal ground as any right
thinking citizen of the north has right
or reason TO expect. Moreover, the arti-
Gle in question enables me with the
greater assurance to reiterate what Thave
often suggested to my friends in the
states, that the masses OF the south-the
men who truly represent her worth and
intelligence, her " brain aAd heart"-in-
stead of being blinded 20 their self-inter-
est or deadened to the instincts or frater-
nal good will by the sorrow of defeat
and the resentment of ~perseeutios, stand
ready 10 welcome with open arms and
magnanimous greeting, the advent
of every Immigrant who ONE not
among them as a traducer, a plum
derer or \ satrap Of oppression.
There Is, however, q peculiar set OF
men, mainly OF northern origin and
foisted upon the south by congress or
some other " aecident,u who have basely
and systematically misrepresented the
u provinces" upon this very subject, a
if to extingGish the last hope of national
concord and repress the lingering i'm
pulses which in SUMMER days made the
states one in fraternity as in coAfedera-
ton. They are, TO a considerable ex-
/ tent, individuals merely, who have been
erupted by the conclusion of wal from
the I" lower deepsu of life, and too often
untitled by the circumstances Of their
origin, or the ingraining of 2 ruthless
fanaticism, for the associations OF q true
manhood, still less Propositions o respon-
sibility in any community unfortunately
burdened with their presence. They are
not to be trusted as citizens. They on
tribute nothing TO the public good. 1t is
through them, in no small degree, that
the public mind at the north is misled
and perverted. They are often emissa-
ries Of the {" powers that be" paid by the
month or the page, to malign the south
and call her good faith in question.
Many OF them have no permanent re-
eognition as citizens. Others are the fell
lows vino strut in the trAppings Of would
to God it werel a "bFief,3' authority, 8
sorry sequel to the regular service, Of
which a united country once felt justly
proud. Still many more are these who
steal into offices of trust and emolument
to the exclusion of men not to be named
beside them, and from month to month,
and year to year, fatten upon the spots
of a broken and Impoverished people.
It is not in nature that such as these,
whose identity with the south is based
upon a merely temporary or uncertain
tenure, should be regarded or cOurted as
desirable accessiOns TO her body polite,
not so much for the reason that their pO-
litical and social status is wholly distinct
and ~antagOnistic, as from the fact that
they use their political character and
influence to the direct and serious preju-
dice Of the interests and rights of the
southern people.
But the class Of men with whom it has
been my privilege to correspond in re-
gard to this matter OF immigration, is of
quite a different stamp. They are Of a
school whose immediate prOgenitors, or
perhaps themselves, in other years, wOr-
shipped at the shrine of civil liberty and
ranked among the true friends and zeal
Gus defenders of OF. republican system.
Having no sympathies with the aggres-
sive puritanism which nursed and pre-
cipitated the rupture of the states, and
swept away the sober ems Of the eOun-
try as with s Whirlwiud, they were left,
a decade of years ago, without power or
influence, buried in obscurity beneath
the scum and refuse which the revOlu-
ton stirred TO the surface Of political and
social life.
And it is no marvel that the old ties
which bound these men to their native
states have, in many cases, been weak
ened, and that they are looking south
ward to enjoy, even under a military
government, that freedom Of thought
and those social amenities which they
cannot have upon the soil Of their nativ-
ity. In New England, as throughout
the north westward to the Missouri river,
} the persecution and prescription of the
"hereticsO were systematic n relent-
less. The spirit which banished into
exile and forced into poverty men who
2 refused to haunt a flag from their door
I posts or hOuse-tOps, at the behest OF a
/, rabid pOpulace; the spirit which con-
verted fathers aud sons into miserable
infOrmeFs against their own kith and
2 kin, and consigned TO prison and dun
geon thousands Of upright citizens, with
: out warrant of law or privilege of trial
4 the spirit which pursued an OutspOken
expression of opinion even unto death
and then winked at the murder, is still
rife in the dominant party Of the north
and has, by no means, served to reconcile
the minority to their fate, or make more
|. tolerable a "daiIy contract with the
4" things" they 4" breathe"
t Men of this stamp, and they embrace
much Of the sterling prObity and fruga
virtue of a PALMER age, are certainly
aecessiOns to be desired and valued by
!, the south, as additions to her intellectua.
} and physical strength, and partners IL
her future, be it for veal or Woe
!, They viii find here 3 hospitable cline
: and hOspitable hearts. Ard so viii
every M whose motives ale worthy
2 and whose heart is not gangrened with
f puritanic hate and venom. And l re-
) jOice that the APPEAL, which truly rep
resents the sObriety and sagacity OF the
south, so welLand wisely, so generously
and temporarily, discusses the question
of immigration from the north and
{ that, Notwithstanding the pestilentia
falsehoods which are studiOusly dissent
mated to place the southern people be-
fore congress and the country in 8
: far different AMI hostile attitude, we msy
add to the frank and open sentiments OF
their leading organs the substantial truth
/, Of experience on the part Of mansss an
honest northern man, who has come
here neither 10 steal nor swindle nor log
roll for Office, nor TO tear afresh the heal
ing scars of civil strife, but for laudable
and legitimate purposes and permanent
? Identification with the home of hi:
adoption.
Then, welcome capital Of sound brains
And stalwart arms! Welcome habits oil
Thrift and industry Welcome eLter.
T Pprise and brotherly cooperation Wei
come all who would build up homes in
!. the southland and give the weight Of
their character and benefit Of their labor
to communicating the symmetry Of oui
( social system and the soiidity Of U po-
litical fabric. K. H. 5.