Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-06
uIssISsIPPI CoRREsPONDENCE.

DESOT0 COUNTY, Mss, March 10 leo''
DEAR GENERAL:
Are YOU startled at the appeliatlon and
my impudence? II so, your generous
philosophy will turn upon you is genie
1iueer when assured that the freedom
1aken adds tFifie 10 my scanty stock OF
pleasure. have been promising this
midnight foray upon you for several
weeks, and have just sprung out OF beo
fbv the clock past eleven after hldeous
nap Of nightmare and indigestion 10 teA
YOU that | cannot praise your new paper
enough: and that never in my time mas
ANYTHING aFpeared more OppOrtunely
than your vigorous thoughts and pen
and that never has my liking in such
matters been more delightfully."- served.
i am really OyeriOyed to be presented
with journal whose thoughts not only
can read but with continued pleasure ana
commendatiOn. Now let me Gssure you
that ] have designs neither upon your
psn nor purse; for I am not ambitious t0
want the first, and / have doubts
n the latter would pay for the
filching. But J must tell you my admi-
ration Of the journalistic tout ensemble
Of the APPEAL, which in my judgment
has struck the true and only line OF con-
duet and temper that may eZtort good
oct of Nazareth. For the public mind
greatly needs lifting up and stTaighten-
Fns, from the prOstratiOn and twistings lt
,eeeived from 80 secession A" and its war.
And before the south can ever be reno
waited 70 D condition Of comfortable eN-
fstenee as people, il must apply 10 ltseu
the revitalizlng regimen USED 20 restore
TO former usefulness and power, 8 use
less blade, that by hsrc Use and aouse
has become badly warped, all. full OF
mus
ceive deal OF grinni2g, smoothing snd
retempering before il cap again cut lts
way through the political thorns ana
ehisties that cucumber aud hedSe IL on
every side. 1t needs something else
from its journalistic cOunsellors than sys-
temstie panderings to its prejudices, en-
mites aud augsrs; something imparuug
more healing than TRADES Of coarse, ag-
pravating words towards a powerful and
insolent cOnquer0F, whose civil sword, no
less remorseless than its sword Of war is
now being welded against the organic
a. we'll as natural rights OF rs people
with the same feraciOus spirit that stained
with atrOcity and everlasting lniany
the merciless inhumsuities OF ITS sword
OF steel.
You are wisely and feariessly telling
truths that must work good, il needed.
IL IL well TO look back q little, ana not
a. many wish, insist upon burylng the
usst Let its errors be blaZOned forth,
even 70 the dislike Of those wh0 enacted
them. that they may not be repeated by
others. This Il the chief value OF his
forv. which furnishes TO succeeding time
Ali its lessons Of wisdom.
The mast. then, should not and cannot
ha Hblried.U For the living draw rich
nourishment from the dead, and feed
uoou it, eKbaastless treasures Ana
though it be dead, il yet /" "spe2keth.'
We sSould look back closely ana Often
IL learn the better bow TO so forward
Tbe errors Of the past cannot De 100 oIteh
s,Tnased and reproduced 10 the pubic
eve. lest they 6e forgotten and re-en-
acted. and the perpetrators escape q
.T,roper accountability from the people
Sghom they have wrOnged and led estrAy.
They should not aud viii not be permit
.fsd 70 shift of upon others, or upon false
.sDsea the condem nation and OppEo-
f,igm Justly visited upon theig violent
We must look back, aud refer to the
sa,,ses and actors that produced events
destr0ving the happiRess Of mourning
s,Illiong. We must remind those that
insugurated them, Of the sound yieE-z OF
those who plead ana protested sgainsi
Efs impOlicNf auA w. NCAl
acofiad al. and themselves viewed with
dsTisionaud obIOquy, as being Attle better
1Lsn Infamous, and as o. unsounu ~ aEa
disloval citizens And yet II IS nov
Mainly seen that their cOunselsi II Leeded
5,o1Id have ayerted the wrath and curs'
nov uDon us-the terriblei unceaslni
and apparently endless persecution en-
Welcoming Us, making even llie Dufoeh
snd fo fsmedv or oppose which We hay'
nsde ourselves utterly impOtent. Ae7
ahere were those who thought 81 bette
90 bear the ills then upon as, Whethe
imaginary or real, than proVok'
more intolerable ones. wise, thougnt
ful, true men, not given 70 pas
sion and bravado, who Wer
earnest in their eudeavOrs 70 save
and who did fear the worst. In the DIT
Ter aud venOmeus vocabulary OF I'd
ffaur they were dubbed and denounce
- su ',nissionists,n and by those Wh
hsve 100 truly proved to have been
-,-hat was then feared, destructives; VII
s-enficalIy rSshed where these wise an
.ar1,ost a. snbns sssiOnists " feared 70 tread
Tsnt now they ais, In sad truth, " sui
--,fssioIsists," as Wei As their tagntln
a1e1aars. And 30 now has become ever
- woman and child in the south
I'd al wear the sable, seryile badg
=, = tnaeea we'll to look back. La
,,nrv be refrezhened with a cursor
i1snca nre ~ the position OF the two gres
SoiitieaI parties Of the country eonten,