Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-09

Let me describe one scene and II Will be
a representative OF the balance. A
beautiful house, with pleasant grounds,
stood by the roadside; large cribs for the
storing Of corn, etc, were near at hand
smokehOuse and dairy and other con-
venieuces were there; the lowing herds
stood in the broad lane before the dwell
ing, and an air OF comfort pervaded the
whole scene. Within the house all that
deserves special mention was a library
OF seven hundred volumes. Upon this
happy home Of mother and three chill
dren Gather in the army came Sher-
mans hosts with "nO eye to pity and
no arm to save" and soon this
whole scene was heap OF
smoldering ruins. The cattle were
shot down in the public road and the
pens about the house; all the hogs and
chickens were killed from pure savage
devilry; the banks Of sweet potatoes
were torn up and the potatoes scat
tered up and down the road; the
books were torn to pieces by these hui
man wolves and scattered to the four
winds; the carriages, buggies and Wag-
Ons were broken to pieces, the fences
were pulled down, and last Of ALL the
houses were all burned, with their fur
niture, wearing apparel, books, corn,
fodder, bacon, flour, and everything
else they contained. The worst part Of
all this scene was the weeping mother
and terrified children, without food or
shelter, looking on at the desolatiOn,
with no place to go to for help or CONF
fort, all other hOmesteads having SUI
fered q like fate. What a monster
Sherman must have been, and how de-
void of sill pity or tenderness of feeling,
to give his bummers unbridled license,
if not positive orders, to thus slay and
destroy. And yet this "hero," whose
name should rot in infsmy, imagines
that his own Memoirs, "Written by
himself will crown him with immortal
praise. EX.CONFEDERATE.
A Fourth of July Barbecue.
EDITORS APPEAL-Your liberal in
diligence to the public in the free columns
of the APPEAL, kindly given without
regard to color, enables US to place before
the world our views, in part, Of the re-
suits of ten years peTniciOus advice and
guidance by assumed guardians and
supposed friends, in whom we are de-
ceived. But We confidently trust that
the day is at hand when united and
prosperous people will greet you for the
sincere efforts you have made on the
part of peace and reconciliation. Though
our people feel keenly the injuries done
US, and would like to tslk them freely
through the press, it don't seem neces-
saTy to remind the public that we have
been the implicit cODfiding dupes of pre-
tended friends, that have fleeced US and
our children of every penny we earned
in those long, weary years Of hard labor
and honest toll. Nor is it necessary to
infinitely go into particulars or call at
tent'On to many other grave frauds
against our we'll being We realize them)
that these cunning people led US into to
help cOnsummate their varied well
known tTickery, leaving us estrange-
ment and degradation. They have used
our simple, COnt1diDg people to cOnsum-
mate every shade Of political malice,
and now, when the Handwriting APP
pears on the WALL" they cast Us from
their fond embrace, Invested OF our
earnings and polluted With their own
slime, SIS unfit for human consideration.
COiOTed men Of Shelby county, you are
American citizens, and now under no
obligations to men that have defrauded
and deceived you, Let the scales fall
from your eyes, and rend asunder those
shackles woven by designing men to
trammel your heart with imaginary
fears. Show to the country that you
appreciate franchise and freedom as in
dicated in Gods holy laws, "By your
fruit shall We be known" Eudeav0r to
cultivate coed fruit by industry, frugal
ity and due respectful regard for your
fellow citiZen, and, like the phoenix,
you will rise from the niTe and ashes in
which those false leaders attempted to
bury your whole race. We want every
society In the city to call its councils to-
gether and consider the foul stains that
have been cast or US by men whom we
have clung TO with unprecedented devO-
ton in the stormy past. Let Us, in
christian spirit, cOnsign them and their
acts to that oblivion where ii properly
belongs, ana let Us bend every energy to
insugUrats the new era OF peace and
concili8tiOn. Let Us stand shoulder to
shoulder i'll getting up grand old-style
barbecue on the glorious Fourth Of July,
to commemorate our sincerity. Let us
get up & TOusing one, and invite ali our
old white folks there to help bury the
hatchet. Let US particularly invite
the heroes in WSr and the true friends
in peaca, Generals Forrest and Pillow,
to join anu encourage Us in this good
work, either of whom ii would afford
us much pleasure to see the next mayor
Of Memphis. We desire to thank Mr..
Ed. Shaw for the stand he has taken in
our and his own defense, and we do so.
licit the smiles of the city press in our
behalf between now and the glorious
Fourth, H. HENLEY,
President of the Independent Pole Bearers.