Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-24
EUREKA, MISS, JUns2O, lS6O-

EIREkA. MISS j A1es-
Hon. Albert Pike:
Dear Sir: Myself and several other
Young men wish 10 go to some country
where We can be free from negro aud
Yankee rule, or rather HIsrule, but we
are at loss 10 know where to 70, unless
we leave the United States, and We have
Tut little means to go upon, Is We were
Confederate soldiers, and all We had was
swallow wed up ia the war. We ale now
moor. and wish TO emigrate 20 some
country where the energy aud industry
of the country is not crushed cut by OPP
preston aud taxation. We have been
thinking Of going to Oregon or CaiifOr-
MIA, but we are at loss to know which
would lie the best 10 60 to. We know
but little Of either State, and as we are
sons Of Old Line Wings, and knowing
Won to be one Of that noble old party, we
Tegpectlully ask your advice as to what
yoU think best to do. Our occupation Is
that Of farmers. Please give US your sd
vice, either through your excellent paper
or by letter.
We are, respectfully, yours,
i. I. tL-ANION. and Others.
P. S.-Were you other than an Old
Line Wing we would not tresDass upon
vour valuable time, but our fathers are
dead, We must go to some Of their old
friends for advice, and as secession ana
Radical rule have both misled US, we can
trilst none but those who have proved
themselves true and worthy OF being
trusted.
Nothing SO deepens and intensities the
profound sadness and sorrow for the con-
dition OF our distressed Southland, which
all who love it must feel, as such letters
as this which We here publish. Self
exile is as melancholy an act as the sui
eide that ends long struggle with des-
pair.
1t is true, that
an cur States lie faintirg dying,
Esch 10 each with sobs reply ingi'
and that there seems nothing to hope for
or TO live for since no one Of US can see
any mode Of escape from the manifold
ills that an Reeursed legislation has
rained upon US; no prospect Of relief for
us. until after cur ruin shall have become
complete. DISTINGUISHED and impoveT-
isbed, the bayonet threatening interior
enee at the least struggle FOR what once
were rights that now are nothing our
controversies with those who rob and
maltreat US, TO be decided by vena.
Judges and juries OF negroes; sdven-
turers elevated TO power by negro votes,
ruling Us, legisIsting for us, closing
against as the avenues OF employment,
and hoarding or squsndering as the case
may be, the revenues they wiring with =
nerciless greed from ruined country
and be- CARED people, it Is little wonder
that We despair.
Would it be strange II love Of country
should not endure, when that country
is q corpse on which hyenas aud obscene
reptiies feed aud fatten T; when men are
sfangers in the land of their birth, aliens
under their own skies, branded as the
lepers were Of cid, and the goitered ere
tins of the Alps more recently, as out
casts to be avoided, because they dared
once TO L" rebel" against the insolence OF
a vulgar villaiBy that menaced the ami
bilation Of all their rights in the Union,
and spat upon the Constitution as the
rahhIe spet upon Christ? WHAT'S there
"a lave. but tue land ITSELF in whose
hosom our dead children sleep, happily
unconscious of the sOTrows OF their pa
rests, in whose bosom We ourselves
almost long to rest, and be relieved Of
the many calsmities OF this world
Whist else to love, where the sobs OF an
guish are punishable as evidences Of dis
affection; and where it may be truly
said,
There lives not one Of US,
But lives IN peril OF the midnight shot"
and that
Lists Of prescription have been handed
round,
"In when our general properties are made
- Our muTdeTer's hireg'
Yes, there IS something else 70 love.
There is the PEOPLE to love, the white