Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-02
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Editors Memphis Appeal
In your editorial of yesterday headed,
/" BY the King" in your closing para
graph you say, There is 30 tyrant like
your quondam democrat or Irishmanf
booted, spurred and on horseback This
you have remarked in connection with
/ the names OF Sickles and Sheridan. or
the former have nothing to do; of the
| latter &c is my province to speak. From
the best information obtained, this man
| Sheridan Is not az Lrishnian, but born OF
( Irish parents in this country, and edu-
Gated at West Point at the eountryss
expense. Whatever Puritan notions he
now entertaiBs have been generated by
his education, and are not traeeabie
| to his Celtic or Irish extraction. IL is
unnecessary to recall to your mind that
! In all the struggles in which this country
! has been engaged, for the right of self
government, whether amongst the re-
Dublics Of South America, or Ia our
I struggle OF i776, or later still in the
| struggle of the southern states to perpet-
uate liberty on this continent, IFisbmen
have ever been found in the foremost
/ ranks.
! 1T is true that numbers of my country
men have been fighting ON behalf OF the
north, but yet she must remember that
the motive, the cause why they did so IN
e great measure, was owing 20 the PRONG
| ises held forth by Seward and the cabS
met that after quelling the revolution
In the south, the next objective
noiut - was England thus playing on
| the credulity Of Irishmen, and turning
their love Of "native land /" to lead them
into becoming the supple tools of
tyranny. But those promises have been
like Dead sea fruit, "they turn to ashes
on the lip,n and the lying and infamous
tongue that uttered them, cared not
what sliiction he entailed on cOnfding
Deople. if his own ends we're subserved.
Witness to-day the futile attempts Of
Ireland-attempts brought about by
promises of aid from the government Of
the United States. It is not my motive
to prove that Ireland don't produce bad
men and tyrants-nay, dishonest men,
soeislly and politically so-but my
aim is 70 prove that the south
erp Irish have no utilization
with Phillip Sheridan. They have no
cause 20 notice him as an Irishman, and
would sincerely wish be was now en-
gagged at the same occupation with which
he commenced life-namely, seated at
the tail end of mule driving dirt
wagon. In this latter occupation he
could have preserved the character OF an
honest man. In the sphere in which
chance has thrown him, he has proved
himself disgrace to humsnity.
As far as tyranny is concerned, please
don't cross the Atlantic ia search of its
supple tools. Close perusers Of your for
neT editorials, with regard TO the late
war and the present political aspect Of
affairs, will prove that this country esh
furnish tyTants, that in comparison
with their prototypes Of former days, the
latter Will pale into "insignifeance.n
Massachusetts, in the last few years has
turned out more tyrants, booted and
spirred, ;" than did Ireland in the last seven
hundred years Of her bondage. NJ.
We acknowledge the hit; but we take
back nsthiug. II you give ean Irishman,
Of a certain class, power, you make q
tyrant. We don't speak Of Irish gentle
men. God forbid.