Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-25
LETTERS FROM HE PEOPLE.



EDITORS APPEAL-The effects of the
Hayes and Wheeler poW-wOWs that are
being held in various parts of.the city,
are cropping out in a variety of res ults
on the soft brains of the regular attend
ants Of these reviv8ls. Oae of these re-
suits is of character that demands inn
mediate attention. An explanation can
he given in no easier manner than by
relating al incident that happened Sat
urdsy evening. Between twelve and
one o'clock Saturday night a man by
the name OF Flaher, who is at present 8
clerk in the Southern express office, was
on his way to his room, and stopped in
front Of two gentlemen, when the fol-
lowing conversation took place: Fisher
Well, have been to q Fourth ward
Hayes and Wheeler meeting, and you
just ought to have been there. 1t was
just ole Of the finest meetings that
could be. At the same time they had q
meeting at another place to start Til
den and HendTi5 ks club, and they dido
have hardly any one there. IteU you,
gentlemen, a0e'U hang rebels in this
country get, and the day airt far off
U hen your southern gentlemen, as
you cdU 'enl, DiH be ashamed
to hold up their headsn About this
time Fisher got tired talking and started
off very rapidly for his room. Now, il
this is the sort Of spirit in which these
meetings are held, and if this is the
kind Of feeling that is to be engendersd
il the minds Of the people who attend
them, it is highly proper that men who
were rebels, who do not wish to be hung,
and southern gentlemen who do not
wish to hang down their heads, should
Immediately take the proper steps to
prevent SO unpleasant q series of trans
actions as the hanging up of ex-rebels
and hanging down of southern gentle
mems heads LIST the next Hayes and
Wheeler meeting be well attended. A
general expression on these facts will
there be In order To be heard.
A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT.
A Sabbath with DIR lotions COngrega-
ton.
EDITORS APPEAL-'iVisito1 dropped
in on DR.. Lotions congregation on
Sunday morning, the sixteenth in
slant, having been informed that
"Solomon's Temple" would be the
theme Of the disc ,urse. In this, how
ever, he was misinformed, as the "Taber-
nacle; the Type of the Church Mill
tant," was the subject discussed, pre-
paratOTy to the one that followed at
night on the "Temple." Both the mat
ter and manner of these discourses were
novel, the speaker departing from the
usual tenor of thought followed by the
preachers OF the day, aud clothing his
subjects with facts and inductioLs differ
ing widely from those ordinarily present.
ed in their discussion. The subjects in
voIved so much of interest on both Oc
cas'ons as to thrill and rivet the stten-
ton of the full HOUSES which listened to
their delivery, notwithstanding the in
tense heat under which the cOngrega-
tens heard them. DR.. Lotion makes no
effort at display in the pulpit. Indeed
his manner dsfies to some extent ordinary
rhetorical and elOculonsry laws, but
there is about him native power Of
thought, forcible pointedness aud
earnestness which abundantly compen-
safe for their disregard, and which place
him among the foremost men OF the
southern pulpit, and would have so given
him prominence had he directed his en-
ergies to other than ministerial pursuits.
Though q young man, comparatively,
he stands deserved y high in our minis
try and with the ministry of his denom-
ination IN the south. VISITOR.