Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-20
..wICKED PEOPLE,
About their BurIaI-A Correspondent
Corrected.
sympathy Lest Upon Ihem-Their Op.
pOrtunities.

The following are on the other side of
a question that excites great deal Of
attention here.
"BURIAL OF WICKED PEOPLE"
EDITORS APPEAL-An article in your
paper of the nineteenth, with the above
caption, needs explanation. As il stands
it is, by implication, very unjust to all
the ministers of the city-those named
in the article and those not named.
The author wishes to place the rector
in New York and Doctors White and
Wheat in contrast. In contrast with
whom? The implication is that other
clergymen Of THE city have refused to
bury wicked peaple. If this is true their
names should have been inserted to
complete the contrast and disperse all
doubt. know that the implication is
not true of all Christ's ministers in this
city, and have no reason to suppose it
true of any one of them, or of any
Gospel minister in the South.
Your correspondent does injustice to
Doctors White and Wheat. These gen.
tlemen, presume, would not have an
invidious distinction made between
themselves and others whom they
would confess to be their equals in tai
ent, learning, and in all the amenities
and charities of men and Christian min
listers. S. LANDRUM.
SYMPATHY WASTED.
EDITORS APPEAL read the com
municatiOns and poetry in your paper
yesterday in regard to ''the burial of
wicked people" | don't like them. ]
think that nowadays there is far too
much sympathy wasted-thrown away
upon wicked people. Hence the fire.
quent murders and rObberies that dis
grace the annals of this and other cities.
| would bury wicked people quietly and
decently, and without any parade of
their peculiar vices. ] would be glad
that the grave covered them all out of
sight that we might, by having none
but good people, have fOretaste
of the millennium. All the pc.
etry and prose expended upon
the unfortunate is so much time and
matter for nothing. 1 think your space
would be better occupied by sounding
the praises of the good, and teaching
your readers that "virtue brings its own
reward" Try and reform the wicked
people by all means, but cease your
twaddle about the wicked people who
when they are ready to reform, will find
plenty ready to help them in the good
work. Your wicked people are gene
rally ineorrigible, and nearly always pre-
fer wickedness for its glitter, show, and
the good ~ time they have by ii, to
anything like Christian course, which
they count tame indeed. KORRECT.
EDITORS APPEAL-Your correspond
ent an" and several others, have fine
feelings but little practical appreciation
of the facts involved in the matter thew
discuss. 1t is all sheer nOnsense-the
blather about uncharitableness and cru
city to the unfortunate. Every woman
that will work can get employment in
Memphis. There is no disposition to
prosecute frail or unfortunate women.
The feelings expressed by "AIu are COM
mon to all men and women; but "Mu is |
sadly at fault when she says "there are
none to give a helping hand to the
fallen" Five hundred, even one thou !
sand white girls, can get employment |
in Memphis-such as women who acW |
work would gladly have in all countries |
but this. The trouble is the women |
won't toll. They are the lilies of the |
valley we read about, and can neither |
toll nor spin, nor do chores. They are |
too old to learn new tricks, and not |
young enough to be taught the proper |
ways of the old. Begin your good work |
at the other end of the line, and train |
up girls to work, and young men will |
not dread marriage which nowadays |
IS only an entangling alliance with 8
helpless bifurcated clothes-line. Re
ieem your Magdalens, and what will
you do with them? Many would take
hem, but they know how to do moth
ng, and they would not be Magdalens
t they had been taught how to care for
themselves. Go to the root of the evil
md reform systems of women-training
md women schools. Teach girls how
% work. MARY.
EDITORS APPEAL surmise that the
oious preachers and sympathetic women
who have been trying to rouse up feeling
n favor of those females that dwell up
stairways, are moved more
" the poetic aspect of the question than
~ the Christianity involved in it. Why
lot interest themselves in the sufferings
If the plain, honest hard-workers, wko
are often cheated out of their earnings, |.
md who can hardly get money enough,
lfter a weeks toll, to purchase decent
Inner on Sundays? Is it because they
ire rude, prosaic people that they are
outside the fiction sympathies of the far
etched Christianity evinced is the COM
which have appeared in
7Our paper about that social nuisance?
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