Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-09
Aniau aud 1ispatfh.
SUNDAY. AUGUST .. 1855.
AN ENPHATIC CAUTION.
The Hebrews of Memphis and GEN
Grant.


Grant.
Sometime since the Jews of Memphis
held meeting at which the record and
orders Of Gen. Grant were pretty thorough
ly ventilated and denounced. OF this
meeting a correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial said -.
owe have had big meeting OF the J ews
here, to denounce General Grant for the
order issued in his absence by his Adiutant,
excluding Jew traders from the army lines.
Nearly every Jew that figured in this meet
ing, was, il is notorious here, contraband
dealer, who grew rich during the war by
treachery to both sides. The order was
wrong because it was aimed al whole
sect, bat more nnmitlgated set Of scoun-
drels than the Jew traders who were en-
gagged running goods through the army
lines, it would be hard to find anywhere.
The idea Of such men, whose whole lives
were disgracelul to their religion and race,
meeting TO denounce General Grant be-
cause his subordinate issued an order which
reflected ou all Jews, and which General
Grant almost Immediately annulled, Is abb
surd."
This the Traelits, Of Cincinnati, a lead
ing organ Of the Hebrew faith aud opinion,
replies, pronouncing the letter "slanderous,
false and contemplate" and proceeds:
owe have 10 say to the Commercial and
all other organs, that we fairly caution
them to desist, and remain within the
limits Of propriety and good sense If
they by slandering and Safeguarding the
Jew, on account of his rising Ia defense of
his honor, will drive us to the utmost, we
will show q new version of the Grant
story and the smuggling business 10y the
sworn aildavits Of men Of undonbtCd
worth and integrity. We will show who
were the cotton dealers and gold smug-
glers, the Jews or the Spragues, the mer-
chants of Nassau or the Union officers
We might give somebody an insight into
the oItortions Practiced by provost mar
shals, poet commanders and commercial
agents. the dirty brokerage in trade-per-
Inits practiced by officers high in rank, tho
bribe which was not merely asked, but de-
mandcd, and the infamous lies invented by
that exeCrable class styled detectives, to
coin money off the blood and flesh of 9TH
ers. IL those gentlemen drive us 10 the
utmost, we will also resort TO energetic
measures in defense Of our honor, and
expose the secrets connected with the
notorious Grant order. We will show
by aihdavits, where the corruption, the
smuggling, the greediness after money,
was most prevalent, and it will be
found, that the Jews had very small
portion Of it. II might be discovered
even that the Memphis correspondent of
the Commercial was one Of the government
detectives and denunciants during the war,
whose execrable business afforded him the
opportunity to belle and belittle his fellow
citizens and gave him the practice in the
trade. Many an unpleasant thing might
be discovered, if those persons drive Us to
the extreme.
You know, that Grants order was based
upon a falsehood and a love of money;
You know it was issued in favor Of some
speculating daddies, uncles, nephews and
sOn-in-law; you know that the noise against
the Jews at that time was a strdtagem 10
cover the huge swindles practiced on
Uncle Sans purse you know that all the
Jews together did not do a. much cotton
specializing az did Uncle Sans cotton firm
of New Orleans, and somewhere near Baton
Rouge; hence keep decent, or we will
show the actual causes Of all the black
guardism of those days az Of the present.
We have an honor TO defend, and we will
do H."