Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-24

1E7 PHIsi darcn = Aoo~.
In your editorial on the sub
iect OF dBlunders, etc, published IN this
mornings issue, occurs the following
passage: "Stitching shirts at q few cop
pers each for JeaUs, and yankees worse
fhan Jeaos.u The inference which the
naturally draws from this asseT-
tion Is, that Jews and yankees, as a
class, are 3 bad set Of people, the former.
being not only quito as bad as the latter.
While the /" children OF Israel y are thus
cstegorieally denounced as wicked tor no
otker fault apparently than that Of pos
sessing 8 creed different from that of the
dominant faith-for in all other respects,
politically, socially, morally and intel
lectually, they share alike the merits as
well as the dement's Of their christian
fellow-citizens-it must, no doubt, be a
consolation for them to learn that they
are, after all, not quite a. wicked a. those
yankees who, in turn, denounce the
little JewU Benjamin and other Jewish
statesmen OF the south as being the
most wicked on earth. But, no
doubt, the Jews must be bad enough,
for, if you will peep into our several jails
and penitentiaries, you will find them
filed with drUnkards, thieves, defauitersi
incendiaries and murderers of the-well,
1Chdt persuasion? Certainly not OF The
JetOish persuasion, you will say.
Then why make such swt eping,
wholesale denuneiations Indirectly
&c Is true, yet nome the less
emphatic for that against aclass which,
in proportion to its population, has fur
nished more aid and counsel dgal1sst
than for the yankees ?" The other
day you announced hat the Jewish rabbi
of this city had accepted an invitation to
deliver q lecture next Tuesday for the
benefit Of widows and orphans OF Con-
federate soldiers. 1t will certainly be
/ exceedingly trying to that gentleman's
sense of honor 70 appear before & select
audience of ladies and gentlemen, with
the recollection fresh upon their and bis
mind, that he is only the spiritual repre-
sentative of q class of beings little infe-
rior to the " yankees" Surely you could
not have intended thus to insult 3 class
of men, whom in other portions Of the
same issue you hold up as a pattern OF
soeiability aud respectability to all our
| citizens.i The character Of your editO-
| rial staff, particularly the well known
li6eraliy and higb-miRdedHess Of your
editor-in-chief, whom the writer
Of this has the pleasure Of per-
sonally knowing and esteeming)i
preclude the idea of any Intentional in
suit on your part; but as an insult 1t
/ must be felt-and painfully sO-by a
large class Of your readers, in being thus
represented in al improper light, side by
side, In an inYidiOus comparison, with a
class OF individuals whom the south has
learned to detest as the worst of the
wicked. The publication Of this, there
fore, with an explanatory note on your
part, is all that is asked-nO more and
no less-in the name of JUSTICE.
We very readily yield to the wish Of
the estimable author Of the preceding
communication, by publishing it. But
he is unnecessarily sensitive. We did
not speak of the Jews, meaning the He
brew people, as a people, any more than
of the Yankees, as the people of New
England, or as q race. We happen to be
ourself NewFE ngland-born We spoke
only Of those Jews and Yankees, who,
engaged in a particular business,
" grind the faces of the poor" by
paying sewing-wOmen starvation-prices
lOA hOIhs we liz MhAG AlNAAN
any reproaeh of such Hebrews
as Justice " and the many Others, here
and elsewhere, whom we respect, than
Of that most generous New Englander,
Mr.. PEABODY, and the thousands of true
and liberal gentlemen aud haters of
oppression, Of that race. We are too
well acquainted with the Hebrew char
acter, as displayed by Sir MOSES Mon
TEFIoRE and many Others worthy to in
herittheo old glories Ofthe chosen people,
we have relations too intimate as Masons
with many Israelites, and esteem them
too highly as Brethren, to have thought
Of including a whole peoplein n sweep
ing denuneistion; IS we certainly did
not include ourself among the Yankees
who employ women to make shirts y
s~ixpenee each.
II our friend would know how I'M
consciously one may say what is readily
to be misunderstood, we beg him to pom
der on his own words,-"in an invidious
comparison with a class Of iHdiUidWals
whom the South has learned to detest
as the worst of the wicked" We spoke
Of Yankee shirt-dealers. He denounces
the whole race of New Englanders.