Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-25
CAED.

I do not propose to reply to the letter of Mr..
HarrelI, OF Little Rock, published in the AUd-
Ldaehe of the I'D inst. One who borrows ibels
from a common enemy, descenss to q level be-
low contempt.
It is not very Important TO me whether Col.
Harreli appreciates the motives that induced
| me, about 1850, while electioneerlng and voting
| for John Preston against Robert W. johnson,
! to de tie latter the simple justice TO say that 1
| did not believe that he desired the dissolution
Of the Union-or those that induced me TO
abandon The American party, when It's con-
vention struck out the section OF its platform
which declared that Congress ought not 10 pro-
hibit slavery in the Territories-or those that
forced me to support Breckinridse instead Of
Bell. because he stood on Ihe platform OF the
rights of the States; and to write the pamphlet
" stats or Province; Bond or Free"
should not notice the letter in question, but
for that portion Of it in which the writer says
of me-:
Ihe people of Arkansas are in extremity far
greater than was ne when, obtaining from the
President his pardon, he sWore:
Il, Albert Pike, Of, SIC, do solemnly swear that
I WAL bear true allegiance To tie United Statee,
and support ana sustain the Constitution an
laws thereof; that l will maintain the national
sovereignty paramount TO that OF all STATE,
county or Confederate powers that l viii dL-
courage, discOunJenaDce and forever oppose
secession, rebellion and the disIntegraton Of
the Federal Union; that l discla1m and re-
nounce all faitn and Ieho WShtp with ths So
SdHAOA LAAC 0A@ RACAAo -
honor, my property and my life to the sacred
performance or this my solemn oatn Of auegi-
Gnce to the Government OF the United SIates
Of America"
But having taken this oath, a year or two ago,
he would ask OF kqueamish geatlsmen of weak
stOmachs:
Do you not wish for Southern Independence,
and 40 you not wish that II Butler, Summer,
wilson, Chandler, Boutwell,, Bingham, and the
residue OF Be~elzeDub's amps, with Joe Brown
and Orr, and others OF their kidney from the
South, are 70 rule The repubio-doyou not wish
mat - Keep out OF tie South the ldolatrOus
AbOm1aEJIons, political and social, % OF the
Northern SIaycs, there wsTea line between US
ana Lusm Hu1cn tbs devuish emisssrles OF mlA-
chief and MaleVOlenc5 could not cross? |
Upon which 1 may well ASK who Is It that has |
sworn, OF va ready To swear, hn oatn lie diG
not unezu 10 keep, ana ADVISES a Whole people
to commit rank md damnsble perjury?
an dTgHHGHtuns Ud hOHtpenB u exceedingly /
weak, when Tvs only basis is a falsshoOd. l
ueYer toSk any such oath. Colonel Harren
FORCES it. ! have taken but one oath, which l
tooH after ! returned from Cansda, by permis-
sion orthe President in 1855. In LOS a pardon /
rendered me, which, on account OF its con-
1 declined to accept and under the
proclamation % amnesty 1 took no oath at
all. Tue people W whom Ihave spoken through
The columns OF the APPEAL nave q right TO
know, as 1 also have a right to tell them, that
never took any oath that made me an unfit
adviser OF the people Of whom l am one, or
which 1 have violated. He who publishes an
1ther oath, with my name embodied in it, may
apply to himself, SIS the public will apply to
MIN, the epithet that he has earned. IscOrn to
use it. This that 1 subjoln is the only oath
AIRERT PIKE