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FROM MEMPHIS
Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1865, page 627 (Article)
A gentleman who has peculiar advantages for knowing what he asserts, writes us from Memphis describing the feeling in that city. What he says is interesting, because it confirms the almost universal testimony:
"The rebellious spirit of the people here is as bitter and strong as it has been at any time during the last five years. What I hear and see leads me to believe that slavery even and the rebel debt are not entirely given up. Hints are thrown out here and there that the rebel money may be worth more some day than at present. I have talked with many officers here, and their opinion is, that if the troops were withdrawn now, in two weeks a Northern man could not live here with any degree of safety.
"I believe if the rebel States were allowed in the next Congress full representation that, united with the Copperhead party of the North, they would repudiate the national debt. Maybe I am wrong; but if I were a representative from the South I should not feel like voting taxes to pay an army for putting me down.
"The disposition of the people here is to make heroes of those who fought and fell in the rebel ranks. Only last Sabbath one RE. ___ Rogers, Rector of the St. Lazarus Episcopal Church, delivered a discourse in ‘honor of the Confederate dead.’ This Rogers proposes to build in Memphis a cathedral which ‘shall hand down to an admiring posterity’ the names of the ‘heroes who fell in a noble cause.’ Three thousand five hundred dollars were pledged in two days for this cathedral.
"Does it not stand us in hand to teach these men what treason is, and the punishment due traitors?
"It is common talk among officers here that the war ended too soon. We expect to fight it again if too lenient a policy is adopted by Congress in dealing with unrepentant and still proud and haughty rebels.
"I sincerely hope you will continue to advocate the principles you have so manfully defended, and can assure you of the heart-felt gratitude of every true soldier in our army."
Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1865, page 627 (Article)

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