Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-12
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.


EDITORS APPEAL-My letters are
awakening such an interest in the north
that | am asked almost every hour of
the day for Information that | am not
yet very fully pre- pared to give. What
is desired is the price of lands in differ
ent parts of the State, the opening for
different branches Of business-manu-
featuring, etc. They want something
definite as to prices of different-sized
farms, specific description OF improve
ments, II any, with the very lowest
prices and the very best terms. Letters
are beginning to pour in for similar in
formation. Now, want you to make
a mention in your paper OF these facts,
and request everybody who has any in
ducements to offer TO emigrants to write
me at once with particular specifications,
so that can give the desired infOTma-
ton, and | will do all | can, free Of
charge, for them. Again: / wish to
mention matter that cannot fail to re-
suit to your interest, personally. Get
up some kind of an organization in
your place, or county, that will gather
up such statistics and items of inter-
est to those who are being attracted
toward your State, and have, say one
page, more or less, OF one issue OF your
paper filed with such matter. Then let,
say one hundred, or any number of your
leading citizens, take, cash, a certain
number of these papers, and agree to
send them off, thus flooding the whole
north with them. Then in that issue
you insert an article, stating that your
paper will hereafter contain much in
teresting matter about Tennessee and
her resources that every northern man
wishes to knOw-Offering to furnish your
paper to all such at so-and-sO. Then
you can reach those who will be turned
to your lovely State. 1t seems to me
that an immense work can be done in
that way. Truly yours,
VT. HATCH.
MINSEAPOLIS, MINI.
The Escort for General Forrest on the
1We0Iy-fOurIh of may.
EDITORS APPEAL-I notice that q
call has been made by the survivors of
FORESTS Old Regiment" for them to
meet and join in the sOlemnities on the
twenty-fOurth instant, and act as a spe-
cial escort to General Forrest, the chief
tain who led them during the late war.
Those gallant men have extended to
other eX-COnfederate cavalrymen who
followed General Forrest sn invitation
TO join them on that occasion. 1t Is
greatly to be hoped that the invitation
will be generally accepted. We who
moved at his command, and Won many
Of the most signal victories Of the war.
acted then upon convictions of right and
what We deemed the dictates OF patriot
ism. We followed his battle-flRg until
it went down with what is now cOnsid-
cred the "iOst cause" forever, and with
him surrendered our arms and received
honorable paroles. Like him, we ac-
cepted the situation and our paroles in
good faith, and have followed his exam
pie since then in endeavOring to build
up the waste places, made so by the
dread havoc OF war. Like him, we still
hold dear the memory Of our comrades
who fell in the contest, and have an
nually made pilgrimage to their graves,
stTewn them with flowers, and bedewed
them tears. In going there we followed
no leader, but each went OF his own
prompting, bearing flowers. But now,
when the eX-Federsl and the ex-COnfed-
crate soldiers are about TO unite
and mingle together as Americans
around the graves of the fallen COM
rades Of each, and show to the world that
we are proud OF their valOT as Ameri-
cans, regardless Of sectional origin, OF
which flag they followed, it would
seem appropriate that we who followed
our chieftsin in battle should join in the
escort to him. By doing this we show
to the living that in the hour of strife he
enjoyed our confidence, and when he
approaches the graves of the dead Of
both armies, with floral offerings, we go
with him as a body Of men who have
banished from our hearts all vestige Of
snimosity engendered by the past, and
under his guidance, around the graves
Of the dead, shake hands with former
foes and thus close up forever the once
wide chssm that divided the true sol.
diers OF the two sections. AS one who
witnessed his first effort as private SOL
der in the camp on Indian creek, near
Randolph, Tennessee, in 1861, and sur.
rendered with him at GAINESVILLE, Ala
bsma, in 1865, earnestly hope that all
OF our living comrades will join in es-
cortipg him on the twenty-fourth in
slant, and while thus paying q just
tribute to the dead soldiers, we are not
unmindful Of the heroic deeds OF the
greatest cavalry leader America has ev-
er produced. t. H. LOCKWOOD.