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ordered the plant of the newspaper to be seized and the news- paper suppressed from May 23 to July 9, 1864. Other papers of the South, when they learned of the suppression of The World and The Journal of Commerce in New York, enlarged on the fact and declared that it was Lincoln's policy to suspend other news- papers " until freedom of speech was effectually suppressed and crossed out in the North."

PERIPATETIC PAPERS

Of all the peripatetic papers published in the South, during the War of the States, possibly The Memphis Appeal had the most interesting history. This newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Southern soldier, for it spoke for the Confederate army in general and for the Army of Tennessee in particular, was forced time and time again to move its type, presses, etc., from place to place in order to keep in advance of the invading army. The first of these migrations was on Friday, June 6, 1862, during the "sea" fight in front of Memphis, when The Appeal retreated in a box car to Grenada, Mississippi. The following Monday, June 9, it appeared as an afternoon paper, and was published under difficulties because the exchanges and mail from which it got most of its news continued to be delivered at Memphis. When the Federals crowded down toward Grenada, The Appeal went farther back to Jackson, Mississippi: from November 29, the date of the last issue at Grenada, there was no issue until De- cember 13, when The Appeal made its bow at Jackson as follows: "Though driven from home, we are not among strangers." Here again the paper had its same troubles with the exchange list and the scarcity of paper, and for over six weeks it appeared with its news set hi nonpareil type on paper of varying shape, color, and size. Shelled out of Jackson on May 14, The Appeal, taking its presses and its type, retreated by way of the Southern Raijroad to Meridian, only to find a more permanent place at Atlanta, where it was located between Whitehall Street and the Atlanta and Westpoint Railroad, but it left a few cases of type and an old proof -press, with which to get out small extras daily, at Meridian. From Atlanta the press and type were shipped to Montgomery, but part of the staff continued to issue extra