The Avalanche, of Memphis, has been . . .

. . . giving credit to Gen. Buell’s soldiers at Nashville for good conduct and scrupulous respect of the rights of citizens.  This not being the way to “fire the Southern heart,” the Appeal thus [criticizes] its neighbor’s truth-telling propensities:

“What does our contemporary of the Avalanche mean by the publication and reiteration of such deceptive phrases as that the Lincolnites at Nashville are “conducting themselves with marked propriety” – that their conduct thus far was “free from objection,” and that everywhere private property was “religiously respected” by them, etc?  Such unguarded assertions are very apt to deceive the ignorant, and tend forcibly to combat what we all know to be true, that, in case of submission, the property of all but Southern traitors will be confiscated.  Even the Federal Commander Foote, in his proclamation issued at Clarksville, alleged that the property of those “loyal” to the Lincoln Government would alone received protection – and what dastard dare accept such disgraceful and cowardly terms?

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3