Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-03
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.


Forgive anu AuHSCt MIN
To the Editor Of the Ledger:
The Avalanche of last Thursday re
publishes, without comment, an article
from the Boston Advertiser. The article
alluded to, pirate-like, sails forth under
false c%olors, but soon we see its true flag,
the bloody shirt, flying in the breeze, and
before its close gives uttersnce to as
much falsehood as the Grand Army of
Winnebago in their Rockford resolu-
tions, which it really indorses. The au-
thor Of the article in question evidently
belongs to that class oil determined and
INSCRIPTIONS fanatics who found the
constitution and laws of this country un-
suited to their designs of plumber and
oppression of the Southern people, and
applied themselves systematically to the
work of educating the Northern people
up to the point Of conceit, hatred and
fanaticism that eliminated in the cleo.
ton of a sectional President, and the
adoption of their false theory Of justice
and honest government, and they are
now engaged with the same earnest and
unceasing energy in reiterating false
hoods and SANDER OF Southern people
so as to keep up the blind fanati.
cism and sectional hatred that has
prevailed so extensively among
their W people for the last twenty
five years, that they may not see that
their whole scheme is plumber Of the
people by their ring-masters aud that
the great mass Of the people may not
realize the ruin wrought by their perni-
cious teachings. 1t was the result of
their falsehood and unprincipled teach
ings that forced the South to seek hat
protection out of the Union that they
could not p~eaceably enjoy within it. 1t
was the v%illainy and dishonesty result
ing from their teachings hat forced the
South first cut Of the territories (belong-
ing alike to all of the people, but ac-
quired mainly by the craftsmanship,
blood and treasure Of the South and
finally out of the Union. 1t was they
who pretended to be willing to let the
Union slide. 1t was they who declared
the Constitution OF the country a league
with hell. II was they who proclaimed
a higher law than the Constitution. 1t
was they who induced a majority of the
Northern States, by Legislative enact
ment, TO violate the Constitution. 1t was
they who denounced the Supreme
Court and declared that it should
be abolished or reconstructed. 1t
was such creatures as these who
introduced such lecherous scoundrels as
Beeeher into the temple of God TO preach
Sharp's rifles and the murder of South
ern people. 1t was such men as they
who wrought old John Brown up to his
attempts at instruction and murder Of
women and children, but who we're too
cowardly to share his peril when he, with
the knowledge of many prominent
Northern men, proclaimed himself Pro.
%visienal President Of the United States,
captured West Point, and raised their
bloody flag. Il was this same class Of
men who, during the war on the South,
incorporated the name OF this same John
Brown into their national songs, and
proclaimed him a martyr. And notwith-
standing their cry against treason, they
would level the present unfinished monu-
ment to George Washington to the dust
and in its place raise one to John Brown.
And yet they call Jefferson Davis a
traitor, and would forgive and forget
him. In point Of impotence. the next
thing in order will be for the devil to
propose to forgive and forget his expul-
sion from Heaven. l..