Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-23
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THE TREUNPHs or PHILANTHROPY.

HI aAaaAa EAA1 gA - -
1T viii bea crievous thing, if, after
fighting for the integrity and freedom OF
your country, You shall fail in dealing
honestly and justly with the black
population SO long suffering in your
midst
Tbe f3recoine Is from a letter written
bv John Bright, of England, to Adj
Gen. GAYLORD, Of Wisconsin. Mr.. Bright
seems 10 have q forebOding that negro
philanthropy in the United States was
short Of wind, and might break down at
the very place where serious labor and
genuine sacrifice were most necessary.
:" Eh1Ue had says Mr.. Bright great
faith in YOU, and viii not abandon
it, Faith is involuntary, and the re-
mark itself is evidence enough of the
foct that the faith OF Mr.. Bright had
departed.
Il viii indeed be 2 ~grievous thing if
those who have been the means of plac-
inc the black population of the South in
their present condition fail in dealing
honestly and Justly with il. The negroes
OF the United States were no party 10
ghe proceeding by which the rela-
lions between themselves and their pro-
priec0rs were broken mp, and them
selves thrown helpless and homeless upon
Lhe world. The men VINO doGld turn
the domestic animals of another OUT OF
their stalls, drive them unprotected upon
the common, and prevent 10y force Their
owner from taking them up, would
thereby incur a moral obligation 10 save
them from p%erishing by the exposure
Even a horse would derive claims from
eT-n treatment. claims which il would
he most mhumau on the part OF ms pro-
resSed le-ellcJoi 10 ignore.
Ii O. uiev1us thing. The sun does
nos shine upon q more piIifuI spectacle
than that presented by those who, IN the
lide1us can't Of the day, are called the
freedmen Of the South. They are starry
ING and dying by diseases incident 70
want ana exposure IN hundreds and
thousands. 4 recent dispatch from
Washington says:
"Lle regular army reports snow Jnat
the mortality among the negroes during
The war varied nom thirty 20 forty
Ter cent. and disease is making the
same mtal ilroads O rs before
peace. During eighteen hundred
and siNtv-tour. the deaths in the
interior If North Carolina amounted
10 it,y per cent. Of the Whole cell
ored population of these sections. The
medical department Of the Bureau COM
plains that it is p0Weriess TO stay the
progress Of disease. Surgeons are scat
Terei throughout the southern country,
and funds are not provided requisite for
The employment of local practitioners. -
AEa late meeting In New York, called
20 consider the state Of the negro popula-
ton of the South. Gen. Fish said
SIN South Carolina, Georgia anu Ala
bama there Is au excess of freedmen. As
our soldiers heumed the Southern plan
tiers iu. they sent their slaves TO the cen
Ter. which accounts for this. in these
ulaces. owing 10 the drought and poverty,
the people are unable to sustain this eX-
cess Of Population. If we do not assist
them we drive the Southern people to
another system of oppression. If not as
sisted, thirty thousand freedmen wilper-
ish in Georgia before the first Of March.
TICy ore s'GrUi7QuH4 dgHg here calling
fCr sg3a1s because tsCV can't get bread.
I do not want TO renn0ach the Govern
meut or the people, but the freedmen re-
nuire the assistance of both 70 save them
from DEATH
And the result OF this meeting Of phi
lauthr0p-s.- 10 consider the case of the
starving and dying negroes, who are
calling for collins because there Is no
bread, was the passage Of the following
resolution, introduced by the Rev. DR..
CheCEer:
P1a.-ccd. That The black race of the
South have, in every respect, the same
national and constitutional right as the
white man. and have a natural and in
right 20 life, liberty, and the
pursuit Of happiness. That as the right
Of suffrage for The protection Of these
is deemed natural and necessary for
the blacks, and that The peace Of the ma
ton. the honor of q Republican form
o. Government and the Interests Of jus
ice, human and divine, require that this
'ue-timable right he accorded and Sc
cured 10 blacks a. Wen rs % the whites,
ithJur respect 10 persons, and that this
e the law fundamental and essential Of
ust, righteous and and constitutional re-
obstruction OF tie Union"
They pray Tor that present mdwhich is
absolutely necessary 10 preserve them
rom death, and are answered by a decla-
ration that lIey hayea natural and in
llienablc RIGHT to life, liberty and the
pursuits of Eagnincss.' They c-am0r in
-le tones Of expiring misery for bread,
and are met bv g series Of rhetorical
about their title TO the inesti-
nabje privilege 10 vote By ballot.
We need a now vocabulary. There are
ufamies so the present day in the United
--at@ which we have no terms or coli
oclti1Hs or words adequately 70 char
lererize. There are hypocrites which
even the bro8dest Of dramatic .
-aricatIres. We once thought that the
']artUlles and Nawworms, Admiral
Ieek and SUCgins, and the Rev. Chad
and were Withdrawn but we confess th1
lisr0ke. Iuimpudgnt pretsnses 10 beaev-
.eucel1 the face of the most giarinz Bro3f
T their utter d~estitution of humsn
the philauthropistS Gf the Uni
ed Statos can beat The verdi. Not even
be Pilgrim Fathers, who came 70 this
ountry for freedom 70 worship God"
nd who tortured, killed, imprisoned or
rove ont ala who did not think fit 10
-Orahip God exactly ia the forms y-ilich
hey prescribed can claim precedence 5o
leir SUCCESSORS in thar mearzsf Of an
Ices, and most hagranI Of al sins. NV
The day has come when we have a
snt 10 50 back owe. Two OF three years
uLne- ana recall TIE question WHAT
10 DE cone WIN the negIo - IN the
&c OF 60, we protest that when, in
r4-r ame, VIC asked th0r question, we
n IL in ali honesty and faitEfllness.
e ~ - ~ -orlg'e MI.
e were ny u wac nGhe OF
II business LaL SAeh Ame sifeGla
axe tne ques-31 L3e
yaliy anu lhe
.lAtt1 Woud put - siSLue
giving = 1880 -
ms come "a an -
TOT the Pi~'ucai aaet elat Wfs
3iAl-el- me He5t9 = 10 me eA4eAi-
7 q ms misery Inc Weak Srs a.
aly dead aad the strong .pIafnS WEn
nine ana cropping VITA 9asease apon
e brink OF the grave whose Elrxora-
e Jaws are open ior heF reception