The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-05-09

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The Negro Riots in Memphis
The Radicals Respo4eiDle lot
We stated yesterday our. csSiollo ) that
tbe negro riotsi in Memphis wsse &c ~
suit Of the teaching IF Radical pSiiisians
and mischief workers, were their doctrines
reduced to practice. How they have op-
Grated in Tie South is thus stuffed BY the
Washington correspondent of the Hnfee
Post: ~
sThe emissaries-from the Moth are
encouraging thrnegro to form So qs'
sociatiohs, and to make public 14des,
demonstrations and celebrations; nj 10
Richmond they are often overhead & and
insulting to the whites, which bvokes
retaliation, and riots General 6hy says
there is now probably over . epadred of
these semi.secrct organization smong the
blacks in Richmond, aud III names they
assume are often ludicrous and blasphe-
nous, one being styled the ..tHoly Sons OF
God" The whites are patient and tor
bearing, except, perhaps, o few drunken
rowdies, but it Is easy to see that d con.
hict Of o serious character is 10 embryo
Serious rejecting men shudder at the fu-
ture Of the black race, if they are to, be
. backed up aud encouraged by, the Gov
I eminent. It is generally believed by the
(; most prominent men Of the South that
' the war has already reduced the negro
population ~Ope-third." 'p'
This was written before The Memphis
, riots took place. There are undoubtedly
branches Of this secret association in
Memphis. The Avalaache Of that city,
under date Of May ; says :i.gIs,i g6 ~.
:. "The bloody appetite of the Radicals,
i in and out Of Congress, has begun in
earnest,its terrible satiation. The reports
10 from all parts Of the country have indi.
g Gated, for some time, that Radical fend.
~ ishness was indulging a partial s%atisfac'
If ton ; but not until yesterday afternoon
a. did the Paople of Memphis become fully
m aware of the terrible consequences which
~ the Radicals have entailed upon the coun.
. try, or Of the fearful volcano upon which
n they have been so long sleeping. The
N idea inculcated into the sluggish intellect
Of the negro, that his new condition ac
= cords him superiority over the white man
!, in oil the pursuits Of civil and p%olitica
~ life, has at last eliminated in the activ,
belief that the civil laws Of the land ar
y to be over.ridden with high-handed out
u rage, in virtue, forsooth, of his dusky
~ swarthy color. The language of thu
J white negre.worshiper, We know, has no
been directly to this effect, but the doc
'h trines of their political school, and tn
secret work of their personal influence
be have led to the result, as unerringly as i
be direct words hah 9 them their action
Its "a riot of serious magnitude has tax
of en- place in our city, the consequences o
ID WHICH have been bloodshed and DEATH
h. The quiet of our large population is dis
o. turbed from!ccnter'to circumference, ant
excitement is at such a tension that rea
-e. son can not define its bounds. Even a
he we write frequent random irings can b
pg heard over thereby, and the whirr of tn
he bullet is as familiar as on the skirmis
cir lines of the Federal and Confederate Al
as mics. The very wing of death is in on
Il atmosphere. Blood has been shed. Lii
,al has been takcn--the result of the incer
,es diary impressions of the Radicals upo
10. the feeble and too willing intellect of th
nut negro" %. s0
tie, The Memphis Argas of May I'd says
to "THE REIGN OF BIooDsHED."
~ HAgain the irrepressible conflict Of II
~, ces has broken out in our midst ar
again our streets are stained with blooc
W And this time there can be no mistal
about it, the whole blame Of this mo
tragical and bloody riot lies, as usua
an with the poor ignorant, deluded black
,k A full report of the affair will be four
-ies In our local columns, to which the read
led is referred. ,a.3
urt "But we can not suffer the occasion
Re. pass without again calling the attentiC
I'm. Of the authorities to the indispensable n
nty cessity of disarmiug these poor creature
nsi. who have so often shown themselves q
SITS. terly unfit to be trusted with firearms
low On this occasion the facts all 60 to she
ate that but for this much abused p~rivileg
to accorded to them by misguiding and mi
ERIK judging friends, there would have bee
his no riot-no deadly attack, in the fir
place, on sworu officers of the law goir
forward to make an arrest in the regul
discharge Of their duty.
Ls ''The universal question asked on Q
,ho the corners Of the streets, is, why a
not the negroes disarmed q"
~COnsciOus. Intelligent Tn