Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-13

affairs OF the paper and Office, TO give it
claims equal 70 those OF any other journal OF
the city to the support and condolences Of the
community.
JOHN s. c. HOGAN q &c.
THE ASSOCIATION OF SONS OF Izz4'
We. the United States most loyal sub
ieets. inhabitants of the several Prov
inces of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama
Nississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkan-
sss and DISTINGUISHED citizens Of the
State of Tennessee, avowing our ale
q TO the Constitution Of the United
states. and our respect for the just rights
of all the citizens and subjects OF the
limited States under that Constitution
affected with the deepest anxiety, and
most alarming sPprehensions at those
and distresses with which
the People of those Provinces and the
DISTINGUISHED Citizens Of Tennessee are
oppressed snd having taken under our
most serious elaboration the state Of all
our Southern Country, find, that the
present unhappy situation Of our affairs
is o-ceasioned by q ruinOus system OF
measures adopted by the Congress Of
the United States, reducing TO the Prov
inces aforesaid, the States lately existing
under the same names, and providing
f,r the government and administration
thereof. aud prescribing, DISTINGUISHING,
dis1ualifying and incapacitating to vote
or hold offcet the larger part OF the people
of the same, and placing the same under
Military rule, suspending therein the
privilege of the writ OF Habess Corpus,
threatening to onfiscste the lands Of all,
and proposing a standing army Of whites
and negroes to dragon the people into
the acceptance of indiscriminate Negro
Suffrage all which measures, enacted
and proposed, and others in respect TO
the Chief Executive Magistrate and the
Supreme Judicial Tribunal, are evidently
calculated for inslaving these Provinces
and part OF the people Of the States OF
Tennessee, Missouri, kentucky and
Maryland. and with them the other Of
the United States.
In prosecution of which system, va
rjous amendments to the Constitution
have been made and proposed, snd vsri-
Gus acts passed, without the concurrence
Of the said ten States, now reduced to
the condition Of Provinces, for placing
the political powers Of the said Provinces
in the hands Of negroes recently emanci-
pated, and by their votes determining
upon the provisions Of new COnstltu-
lions, wherewith to re-create the said
States as commonwealths under negro
domination; and in prosecution Of the
same system, several late, cruel and OPP
pressive acts have been passed respecting
persons p~ardoned for political offences,
depriving them of many rights and
privileges, without any previous convic-
ton Of crime OF offence and citizens
and subjects of the United States are
now exposed to be tried by Military Com
missions, and other unconstitutiOnal Tri-
bunals established by Military officers,
and so to be deprived Of the cOnstitu-
tionaI trial by jury, and their lives and
liberty exposed to danger by such illegal
trials, even for acts not known to the
general criminal law as crimes or INSIDE
meanors, but made such only by the ar
bitrary viii of the General commanding
in the District and the freedom of
speech not for many years denied to
Englishmen is threatened TO be abrO-
gated, and the discussion Of public meas
ures and public wrongs deemed to be dis
~turbances Of the peace, to be repressed
by the military power: by all which
measures an arbitrary government is to
be established in the said Provinces and
in the State Of Tennessee and in the
said Provinces the civil authorities are
to become subordinate to the military
power.
To obtain redress of these grievances,
which threaten destruction to the lives,
liberty and property Of the subjects Of
the United States in the said Provinces
and Of the DISTINGUISHED citizens Of the
State Of Tennessee, we are Of Opinisn
that a non-importatiOn, nOn-cOnsump-
ton and incorporation agreement,
faithfully adhered to, will prove the
most speedy, effectual and peaceable
measure: ans therefore we do firmly
agree and associate, under the sacred ties
Of virtue, honour and love for our coun-
try, as follows
FIRST That from and after the first
day Of May next, we will not purchase
any goods, wares or merchandise what
ever, with the use or consumption
whereof we can possibly dispense with
out injury 10 our health or that Of our
families, OF deprivation Of the ordinary
aad moderate comforts Of life, unmingled
With its luxuFies, when such goods, wares
and merchandise have been manufac-
tured in any Of the States north Of the
Susquehanna, the Ohio and the Missouri,
or imported from foreign countries into
any Of the ports o. any Of the said States.
SECOND: That after the said first day
Of May next we viii purchase nothing
whatever from any person OF firm that
shall have come iEtO our country from
any one Of the Northern States aforesaid,
nor from any firm Of which any person
from OF living in such Northern States is
a member; unless such person or persons
shall have become 3 permanent resident
of the country in which we reside, and
be known to be a true friend to US and to
our States, and opposed to the grievances
--,r.aa9ona aforaaafF j
THIRD That we will hereafter pur-
chase no books publishedin the Northern
States, when we can purchase the same
from England or other countries abroad
nor will we subscribe for or purchase any
periodicals, Of any kind, published by
persons or houses who have libelled the
people of the Southern States, and reviled
them, OF suffered it to be done in books,
pamphlets OF periodicals published by
them, moi any newspapers that have ap-
proved the establishment Of a military
despOtism in the South, or the admission
Of the negro race 70 the right OF suffraga
FOURTH We will use our utmost en-
deavOrs to encourage frugality. eeonomv
and industry and promote agriculture,
arts and the manufactures in our statos
and Provinces, especially those Of eottc,-
wool and iron; and will discount1
and discourage the wearing O., 6necIatLe
and silks and other CO. lv fabrics and
jewelry and ornam nts; and will also
uScouh'ehahce and discourage every
species Oh s4p avagance and dissipation,
esPsoi9ly all tournaments and horse
racing and al kinds Of gaming, cock
ngp ing, exhibitions Of shows, plays,
? .neras. and other expensive diversions
ond entertainments; and none Of our
fau,Hies will dress extensively and gau-
AL Init neatly and eheaply, in cloths
weda in the south, and ~calicoes and
bamespuns, As modest women in Ads
- country should do.
p9ETE That such as are vendors of
Or MERCHANDISE viii not take adj
gsntsge Of the scarcity Of goods that
a,sfoned BY this association /