Year: 1861

CtSStOus


The following is correct copy of procla-
nation posted up in the streets of Memphis,
Tenn, for few days BEFORE THE ELEcrIoN,
which was to decide whether that STATE
should remain true to the Union, as she then
was, or should ratiiy the revolutionary ordi-
nance Of the Legislature


Whereas Abrahain Lincoln, President Of
the Northern States, has seen fit to make a
call upon the States Of the Union for $4,000
men. for the declared purpose of suhjugating
the States of the Southern Confederacy, and
making them subservient to his will and
whereas, such a call is repugnant to the feel
ings of the people of the Border States, and
must, therefore, be treated with contempt; ;
and whereas, also, the Republicans of the
| North are heapng insult and injury upon
! friends of the South in their midst, and have
forced them to leave their homes in the
North in consequence thereof:
/ We, loyal citizens Of ihe : outh, who have
pledged our lives, our property and our sa-
cred honors, in support of the Government of
tie Confederate States, deem it incumbent
upon US to urge immediate armlng of all our
able-bodied men who are willing to resist
the cohorts Of the North; we also urge all
friends of the South to be viglant, and use
their utmost efforts to preserve the honor
and integrity of our united South Our safe
ty requires that those living in our midst
who do not wish to abandon their allegianc f
TO Lncons Government, who are in favor oe
negro equality and the degradation of the
white race, should ieage Mis city as soon as
possible. That number of me- from the
North, who have made their homes in this
city, are true to the South, there is no doubt
but there are others who 1t will not do to
trust.


They are men who, twithstanding they
have made all they are worth from Southern
patronage, are recreant to the South, and in
her hour of peril will prove themselves trail
tors Those men must be compelled to leave
here We do not counsel force for this pur-
pose, unless a refusal is given 60 comply with
such demand. Let the proprietors of busi-
ness houses, machine, carpenter and cabinet
shops, toundres, printing-oflices, paint and
tailor shops, hotels and boarding houses, re-
port Immediately the names of all those
whom they know cannot be trusted as friends
TO the South. 1t is important that this be
done-the security of our property and the
safety of our families demand it. Our gal
liant sons, who are anxious to march wherever
the service of the South requires them, wish
to carry with them the consoling thought
that they have not left behind them the
lurking enemy, who, while lingering around
their homes and firesides, wond incite our
negroes TO instruction, and bring the worst
calamities upon our wives, our mothers and
our daughters.


"Those who are not for us are against us.
Let every one remember that Eternal vgi-
lance is the price Of liberty"


Ex-Gov. LETcHER.-This worthy recently
issued a proclamation TO the good people Of
Western Virginia, in which he said


There has been a complaint among you
that the eastern portion of the State has en-
joyed exemption from taxation to your preju-
dice. The State, by a majority of $4,000,
has put the two sections on an equality in
this respect


BY display of magnanimity in the vote
just gicen, the East, by large majority
consented to relinquish this exemption, and
is ready to share with you all the burdens of
the Government, and to meet all Virginias
liabilities.


Let one heart, one mind one energy, one
power, nerve every patriot arm in a common
cause. The heart that will not beat in unison
with Virginia now, is traitors heart; the
arm that will not strike home in her cause
now, is palsied by a coward fear


The troops are posted at Vile
Come with your good weapons and meet
them like brothers.


Vain bribe Eastern Virginia is indeed
magnonimous to share with W estern Virginia
al the burdens Of the State from and after
1861. The loyal Virginians will come with
their good weapons, in defense of, and not
in hostility to, the General Government. Ex.
Governor Letcher's bombastic proclamations
will now produce but little effect.