Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-13
A CHRI 81 LIKE LETTER.
Full of all Chri tian Graees aud Excel
IeHcies, md Breathing the Very
Spirit of Love for the Poor
and Those who Have
Fallen.

EDITORS APPEAL-Whst maguani-
nous humanitarian your local must be,
and what credit he deserves for that
noble scheme of providing q decent,
comfortable room in the siatiJnhOuse
for certain classe Of women who are so
unfortunate as to get drunk, - and fall
in the gutter! What nice powers Of die
elimination he has a. to whst cGnsti-
tutes ''cTime," aud what "misfortune;"
lot in legal sense altogether, but in a
moral point of view. "These poor IN
fortunates!" Theirs is no crime,
neither do ley cause others to commit
crime! It's emily weakness-a mis-
fortune to be classsd under the general
term Of visitation OF PrCvidanceI By all
means, have little more added to the
Taxpayers burdens, and provide m ere
comfortable room than ordinary crimi-
nails occupy; especially, if they are
handsomely dressed and rather pretty.
Besuty in tears or misfortune, you
know, is always more touching; 30 Of q
well-drs ssed drunken woman! Is not
this viz, ually saying: "Never mind,
you poor unfOrtunstes; you still wear
fac clothes, and drink, and If you hap
pan to take enough to make drunk
come, and shall fall in the street, why
you shall have comfortable place in
Which to get sober?" Then
again, when you have advocated
baseball games, thsaters, etc, etc, on
the Sabbath, and by your influence as a
journalist, broken down all restrictions,
go thst this day is one Of mere bodily
recreation and enjoyment for the 10 asses,
then turn the powerful stream of your
Influence to advocate WOman's rights,
suffrage, equality before the law, and
puff, applaud such as Woodruff, Mrs
Crono1UeU (oh! that she might heed Car
dinal Wolsey's address to her husband,
when he says: Cromwell! l charge
thee, fling away ambition! BY that sin
fell the engelsW How can man then
hops to win by it, to say nothing of
womsn?). When you have conserved
the morals and manners OF this psople,
by advocating and establishing these
fssIful and destructive principles, then
you will see psrd9mOpiUm of your
own creation; then too late you will
know that "ho thst soweth to the wind,
shall reap the whirlwind" MessIs.
Editors, do please study this Sabbath
question, ard see if you cannot give your
journalistic infiuance toward a proper
religious Observance of the d0y. And
once more let me beg of yCu-editOIs,
reporters, and all Of yOu-when any Of
our SIX will thrust herself before an as
sembly Of intelligent meD-as in con-
vention or any ouch place-and in
sist on making spe ca, as you south
ern men nave too much Chivalry to re-
fuse, why let her have her say out, ard
don't you al say anything about it; let
her pratiDgs fsIl into the Vacuity which
originated them. II you wish or prefer
it, let this letter share the came oblivion.
Do what you choose with it. NJ.
I'VE do not know the writer of this
letter. But, if, as is asserted in the body
of if, woman hiss penned it, we advise
her TO study carefully the life of the man
Christ, who preferred publcans and sim
ners, whose most devoted friend was
MsgdaleD, and who taught US to pray:
Lead US not into temptation, but de-
liver US from evil. "-EDs. APPEAL
Tom, Lend ME Five Dollars,
I want to go to the great clothing sale at