Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-06-09

are such as to bring the most stole hear
Ito tears. Ex-soldiers, let us unite anC
provide measures for the disinterrini
and transferring Of our comrades from
| the soil of the hated Yankee--made SC
by their infamous conduct-to their own
native States, and where We know they
will not be insuited and trampled upon,
and denounced as traitors, as they were
the other day in an Grafton delivered by
| a ck-hearted, religiously.robed, nasal
twauged and psalm-singing coward, cali
ing himself Newman, and who Is
chaplain of the United States Senate,
one of the highest halls of legislation in
the world. Hear him: II held that the
representatives of this nation can never
sanction Che decoration of the Confsde-
rate soldiers graves until it has been
first decided by the Christian Church to
nav honors to JUDAS Iscariot, and until
wehave ourselves agreed to commemorate
Benedict Arnold" Noble words, indeed;
falling, as they do, from the lips of one
who has pledged himself TO follow the in
structions of our Savior, and to exhort
"Peace on earth and good will to all
men," And, what is still worse, the out
rage has, 10 manner, been approved by
men calling themselves the brave, sol
iiers-nay, more, officers, Of the best
government the world ever saw" Such
deeds and expressions cannot come from
the hearts of the true Federal soldiery,
for thew know we are of the same land,
same blood and of the same heart. But
il is of Henry Ward Beecher, Greeley,
Newman, Logan, Shirley, and oil those
of Loyal League notoriety, who perpetu-
ale dscord and strife among the living,
and insult the honor and the graves of
the dead Southern soldier. Yes, men
who never had the courage to meet us
upon the field, but made war upon women
and children who fell victims to their
mercy. Men who took from our mothers,
wives aud sisters the last crust, turning
them out of doors in the cold stripping
them of the last garment they bad, and
frightening them with threats Of violence.
Men who followed in the wake of the
armies and insulted, abused, and, in
many instances, violated the persons
of the fair women OF our South
by brute force and who did all to burn
and destroy our hsmes, cities and towns,
as we'll as to lay waste our beastiiul and
prosperous land, the pride OF our hearts.
Men who melted the negroes, once our
slayes-and who are even this day drill |
ing and arming the ssme-to insurrec-
ton and murder. Men who murdered, in |
many instances, our sick and wounded |
soldiers when prisoners. In fact, men who |
are characteristic of all crimes of arson,
murder, rapine and theft These are
the men, and the only men, who now
insult and taunt Us, hound and helpless
an we are and who trample and desc
crate the graves Of our noble dead.
Then, Mr.. Editor and comrades
of the "Lost Cause" let us up and
be doing. Come, one and al, or
Wednesday evening, June 10 (the
place of meeting will be given at an
early day., and organize and improvise
means NECESSARY to carry out the chari-
table objects proposed. Don't let as be
weighed and found wanting when the up-
lifted hands Of the Confederate orphan,
tina iHploying tears of our comrades
widows and the groans of the sick and
MANNED of onr brothers for help ere seen
and heard. Mol Come forward; wheel into
line as one man, and let US act, now
10 these oar days Of oppression and suffer-
ings az veil az in the iitare, With The same
spirit es was our wont in days OF free
dom aud glory. Let our motto be
Honor to our dead; protection to our
sick and MANNED brothers, and care for
-. v;dowa a nd ornhaps"
Hen PRIVATE.