Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-27
d then adjourned.
The Rev. j. w. Rogers Answers
ShurcEmaB.
spicy Correspondence.

1 am delighted, HoratIo, at your arti,
Gle, for although I had heard of some
"cowardly shoulder Struggling" about
the Southern Asylum" there was nc
way to wer 6 shrug but by Struggling
again. Now l may answer boldly
c%heerfully, happily
DaRcan MoRse, Ssm'l P. Walker, IT,,
Hon. P. T. Scruggs and 81. A. Rogers,
Esqrs,, were my attorneys in the fol-
lOWing-oniy transactions | ever made
|ith tails Institution
l obtained the charter and turned
IL over, with a large body of my OWE
lands, TO a company which professed to
hsve plenty of money to run it. To pay
their officers salaries frat out of pro-
ceeds, and secondly ten per cent to build
an orphan asylum, as ordered by the
charter-in failure of which the penalty
was, by the Law, the penitentidry.
For my lands they paid me of their
own funds $4,000 cash, the day they Or
ganized, and gave their obligation to
pay the balance annually. Judge
ScTuggs drew the contract, and you can
see II, my dear "Churchman," at his
Office. Was there any thing In this to
shock your eiety? Why? In common
with the very frst ofyour business men
the oldest msTchants-the most prudent
and richest members of st. Lazarus
C5urch, 1 submitted my lands for sale to
this institution. Mine consisted of 5000
acres, for which / had given $4,000 be
fore the war, in q block of Memphis
property, bounded by TreZevant and
Chester streets, Of Jonn G.. McLemore's
valuation, all of which appears on the
records OF Shelby county and also Of
an equitable iDteies which I owned in
go, 900 acres conveyed 10 me by the ex-
ecutrjX of the late DR.. Fowlkes, before
the Southern Asylum existed. All
Of this they bought from noe, as above.
IL the month OF June, 1867, The pecu-
mary difficulties Of this whole country
increasing, they desired to get out OF the
contract they had made, by a compro-
clise, ans finally agreed to pay me $1,000
in cash and their note of $1,000, if would
cancel their obligations to me, after they
had allowed all the lands to be sold FIR
tGpss, Il / would take them back and
assume cir responsibility for $50, 600.
Duncan McR1e, Esq, drew this CON
tract. And now, dear Churchman, my
kingdom comes: taking this $4,000 and
the deeds for all the bonds, I went to see
the Pan Anglican Synod, to retrieve my
own fortunes, and to build the Monn-
mental Church. Alas on account of the
unhappy state OF cur country, English
men Woutd not i1Vest in Southern lands.
| got out Of money, wrote to the vestry
of st. Lazarus for what they owsG me
for services rendered before I L9t-the
first quarter of the $4,000 which Church.
man ~Insinustes they raised as a charity
to me, CfOr they had neUer paid me the
first cent ofH.) DJyou hear me, Church
MIR. Wm. Harrington, my agent land
a noble n for any man sent this Obli-
gsIiOn, by my directions, to protest. Mr..
Slsnks, the senior Warden, Il have his
wrote in reply to my urgent de-
mand, that the "Vestry paper won't go
ia bank /; +" and as they could only raise
S240 of il, Mr. Harrington sent that
amount. L answered shdrpy-daQTiy-
Tor which God forgive me-: men will
not,) for my children were suffering,
ana when they sent the balance, mot of
the $4,000, but of the quarter which L had
earned, after seven months delay, ! had
to pay 10 out for debts incurred, instead of
bringing my family Home, as l intended
had they paid it before. And now,
Churchmsn insinustes that there was 8
VAST SCASAOcNS w OHSeothS hC SOVVV lOI
a years work!
I do not blame them now, seeing the
~pecuniary struggle going on here,
but / did then, and wrote too angrily.
It was this My dear Churchmen /;
Rather than my merry letters F" from
France that made you hide your head
for shame" and elected my assistant
Though you say he put aside the kingIy
crown "three times ny in my place.
Against him, | have not 3 word to say,
but am glad that bis instructive delicAcy
made him thrust it aside, for he knew
/ was suffering in London; and II
he acted with professional delicacy, l re-
joics in it, and go will every Weu bred
gentleman in this city.
Aud If nov, signing a letter to draw
me out Of another place, when L assail
one, but humhly offer my poor servi-
ces to the poor, he acts we'll, being, as
you think, obliged to "O6ey the Bishop"
/ rejoice IN that, though my Old frIsad
was rot OF the same mind, when / in
him here against the Bishops
,piH. j.. w, Rogers,