Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-27
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To she Victims of the Great C0nnagra.
item at Chicago.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, October IS, ls71.
We of the Bluff City sympathize with your
terrible calamity. AS evidence, we a sent
you many thousands Of our hard earned
money, gathered since the wreck OF war.
But you are not a people long to brood over
blasted fortunes, nor to he'd ~unavailing tears
where energy, nerve and effort Will answer a
better end. The past cannot be helped look
to the future.
COME TO MEMPHIS.
Now, with eager eyes to your good and our
own, we invite you to leave Chicago-or what
was once the great city OF the lakes, but now a
gray bank Of ruins-and come to this bright,
beautiful, new and growing young Chicago
ofthe Southwest. Your few thousands, or even
hundreds, saved from the destroying element,
would give you a footing here, and very soon
restart you on the road to permanent success
and fortune, In which your late misfortunes
would speedily be lost sight of forever. h
same amount would make but a sorry mock
cry perched upon the grim ruins you now see
every hand, and which but serve to mark
the site Of your late thrift and tempted gran
deur.
THE COMM wINTE
1t would surely be a dreary outlook for
you, In your present exposed condition, with
your wives and your little ones, to contem-
plate the long, hard winter just before you,
with It's fierce, pitiless winds and eddying
SHOWS. By coming to this most genial and
equIble climate, you escape all hat.
STOP NOT AT ST. LOUIS,
the most terrible of all cold places In
winter and hot places in summer. Besides,
while about Cairo and 81. Louis they have, at
certain seasons of the year, upon one extreme
ice-locked and useless river, upon the other
q dried up, s~hoal-exposed and insufficient
little stream, at the feet OF our bluffs there roll
the tides of an ever-open inland sea, bearing
upon its bosom the countless wealth of a elf
mate and a soil which produce everything In
fat abundance, from the fruit and flower of the
tropics TO the hardy cereals Of the North.
WORK FOR ALL.
There is an opening here for anybody who
wants to work, end who is willing earnestly to
work at something else If he cannot right
away find a chance at his favorite occupation.
MANUFACTURING.
Manufacturers especially will find this their
Fl Dorado. Whatever can be made of iron or
wood, cotton or wool. can find in Memphis the
very best opening for its msnufa ture in the
world The raw material is here IN largest
quantity and best quality, and the few expert
ments which our people have made 1T manu-
have met rich rewards. There are
more small, but neat and con- ortable suburb.
an cottages being built now than at any time
since the war. Many of these are for rent, and
hundred of others viii be put up should de-
ample premises can be obtained upon reason.I
able terms for the erection of homes or factOJ
of apy sort in and nearthe city.
PRESENT MEMPHIS, PAST HIoAG
Memphis is to-day pretty much what Chica-
90 was In 1859 after Long John" Wentworth.
By his matchless energy, pluck, faith and sa-
gacity as mayor had set her upon her feet after
fearful struggle of 81. And mark 1t, our
was after that period until In 1876 we
will have 100000 population, and in ten years
from to. day more than twice our present mum
Der.
We want your experience, your energy
what capital you can command, and
together we viii have the joint satisfaction
Of seeing rise right up here, like the work of
magic out of the great NJ ississippi river, az II
were, a colossal city; a very queen of the
lestic "Queen Of The Lakes"
NORTHWEST TRES.
Bring along with you any of those hardy,
industrious people who have met with like ca
lamit es throughout the Northwest, and who
end slow methods. however sure, of getting on
by raising corn, whe { and stock for the faster
and just as sure plan Of combining with all
these our great staple of cotton In a home full
as healthy, taking one year with another, and
q climate unsurpassed on earth. These people,
many of them, will naturally want to max a
change, anu now Is the time, ana w est IeOneS-
see, North Mississippi and Eastern Arkansas is
the country for them to seek. For Information
upon this point any communication addressed
to Messrs. Donaho & Buckley, thoroughly
and reliable real estate agents of
this city, will be promptly and satisfactorily
attended TO.
FORTY MILLION oLLAR
Last year we shipped from Memphis $4,000
bales of cotton, bringing back 30,000,000 What
you think of that This year we viii ship
100000 worth of cotton. Suppose you were
that q gold mine had been discov-
cred around Memphis, and that S3O,OOO,OO had
been dug out in ne year, don't you suppose
you would be found tumbling ont of Chicago
and down this way faster and more of 1t than
the people leftthe doomed city the day after
the great firef Well, cotton is surer than gold
and far better as a commercial commodity.
YOUR
And as an earnest that You will be welcomed
warmly aud with the hearts of a people
who have a sympathy for your misfortTnes
no less than an eye OF appreciation for your
value as an accession to any business commu- /
nifty, witness the $4,000 Memphis sent in a
has been sending you almost daily ever since
and still sending you Afraid such people
wouldn't treat you right; afraid they would
L haven't the patience to talk
about such stuff, and won't stu'tify myself nor
nity Ola serious denial. We have a wide |
awake young city, with most OF the advanced
improvements, such as NicolSon pavements, |
aXCelttnLE gas WOIhHs n CdpANAl I0AlLC dDu nE6 1
an excellent city government, |
an intelligent, practical mechanic, John
Johnson, for mayor, our city finances in good
numerous nne ehurches, and a pubic !
school system equal TO that of Chicago or any |
city and withal, the healthlest city,
south or west; also, a magnificent network of
railroads running out OF this great center to-
ysrd every point OF the ompass like the |
pointers of a many-legged spider, bringing TO |
and carrying from the plethoric body, already
rich and growing daily richer.
POLITICS.
As for politics, we ere here just as you are in
Jhicago-of every complexion, from q red
mouth Republicsn to a blatherskite Democrat, |
4 those terms mean anything, but every Iel-
ow at full liberty to have his own notions and
% talk EN- and vote 'em just as freely as you
II l ever did in Chicago; and anybody who
will tell you different, If you knew them well,
you would not believe on OATH AND when
you come here, you will say there isn't on
sarth a freer, a more friendly, nobler and more
and liberal people toward strangers
come they from north, south, east or west
han this very community of the City of the
CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
As for local politics, we wan the man fit TO
.overn our glorious young city and to insure
Is prosperity, and care no more for his politics
han for his nationality, and no more for that
han for tie size shoe he years. As for the
han for 10. Meddill, instead of running for
mayor of what is left of Chi ago, to move
himself and his Tribune down here, body
nd brooches, and he may be mayor If he
wants to. providing always that "Long
ohm " shall have the preference, and We VIII
n subscribe for his paper aad advertise In 1t
or course Won win find here an element, very
mali, L am happy to say, n growing beau
fully less by degrees, Just such as you would
cave behind you in Chicago-6eree, foolish, |
intolerant and noisy, but power
esq but then they only take the place OF
Give yourself no thought upon
bat subject; you will go nowhere where you
Tin meet less trihlng annoy ances.
"NAP" AND "BILL."
II is true, at one time even some OF our ex-
client newspaper men dweit among the furies
I political hate and revenge, and fed upon
lncied lightning and brtmstone; but they
ever meant half they said, and have happily
OF well over even what angry passions they
loved so well to vent, for a short
Ihile, and now are apparently as thoroughly
ooled of as NAP" after bucking up against
Bill in n little bout Of six months or so.
will more warmly welcome you than
he Memphis press L,
And l may say, in conclusion, that while 1t
an afford me great pleasure to impart any
nformation desired-as will our excellent
mayor, or any one of our business men whose
anne you may chance TO have-none will be
to serve you In that particular than
he editors Of our city press.
YOUR GOOD, OUR GOOD.
And now, before closing, lest any should
the object OF This communication,
beg to assure anv old friend 1 may have In
our terribly stricken city, 1t is not to inIure
he people OF my home for three years before
be war / would. but to beneht them. God
1rbid / should be so base as to aim a vindlc.
We thrust at the old city in her calamity.
banges must and will be made, l know, and
IL would ba distngenuous IN me 10 deny
nv whit OF selfish motive in the interest OF
~ own home and city, still, / hop the Justice
IN be done me Of also desiring, and in this Of
the very best interest and welfare OF o
eeply distressed and sorely tried element of
lost excellent and worthy citizenship.
JOHN 8. KERR.
TEsrIMoNY,-Tboussnds of mothers are
Dnstantly speaking in exalted terms Of
1mmendation of the magical effects of
Irs. whitcomb's Syrup for soothing in