Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-05-18
A srupENDoUs FRAUD.

we bhNo uNAfeN ''Nt"N"T'
uresepce Of Yankee missionaries y the
South, their line Of cohdpct,th The doctrines
they preach, the cool deceplonS
they practice, the oath'bopnd' hostile
leagues they form among the coiorep
people, will bring great trouble, |. has
already com menced, Tbs ball Is IN
motiop, and unless some power, not pos
sessed BY the South, shall check its
headlong plupees, great calamity viii
hannah. Proof accumnlates. on every
hand that in nearly all parts of the South
Yankee missionaries are secretly work
ing among the colored people What DO
they. how do they, aud what DO 'hey
teach ? Equal rights to white and
blackP Sobriety, justice, industry re.
igion2 No They preach the gospel o.
vensea nee, con6scation. They preach
that which, ifitshAlI hotinyoke war OF
races, will not owe the circumstance to
any lack of energy on the part Of the
preachers. The Northern people are
beginning to understand this matter.
OF this class of rowing vagabonds and
disturbers Of the peoples quiet Mack
Of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing
from Charleston, says; 30 .sI b De- I
There is more mischief in this sort OF
" missionary work than thepeople OF
the North. who are so far removed that
thew can not watch its effects, and can
hear of ii only as step in the right
direction of human freedom, imagine. l
have given the subject a good deal oil
attention since | entered the southern
country, and have heard the views oil IN
teiligent and patriotic Southern men
upon il, and / feel justified in saying that
h will lead to nothing but bad results.
There is no objection 10 free speech to
The negroes but ehe class OF men who
have undertaken TO do the missionary
work" do not stop with public speeches.
Then hare organized the negroes into
secret leaoxes, phich are held together
Jy promises of contscation, and farms
and all that ssrt Of thing They have
already taught the blacks to believe that
the soil of the South belongs to them
that they have titled it and improved 1t
and enriched their former masters out OF
n and that it is now theirs by sacred
right Why not go TO the factory hands
Of Boston and Lowell and Providence
and tell them that upon this newly dis
covered principle they own the factories
and the Icons they have been working
at wages not convertible into more than
was paid to the slave.
MACK" is Republican, a man of
great information, close observer, not
likely to be mistaken, and is making a
,our of the South. Are the colored peo-
nile of Memphis organized into secret
leagues What are these leagues for ?
Will any man answer Will any man
Who knows the secret dare TO tellit2 All
the great secret organizations of our day
have some public object to subservc
They invariably teach virtue, charity,
peace, and good will among men, tits
only the forms and ceremonies that are
concealed from the world The acts Of
the organizations speak for themselves
What is the object Of secret political
leagues Mack : tells u.s. The grand
end to be accomplished is to get the col
ored vote. To effect that, the colored
voter must be offered an inducement,
Money is out Of the question, for these
fellows have it not, and would not, if
thew possessed it, use it in that way.
Ofice-but ah, there's the rub. Of
fee is wanted for the Radicals The
colored man is not to have
a division. What, then, is promised ?
Confscation Of the property of rebels
and its transfer to the colored people
Is there league in Memphis founded on
this stupendous cheat and swindleR Has
any black man in Memphis been fool
enough 10 sell his soul to a few Radical
Office seekers at such price2 I'll is false,
devilishly false. Never will such con-
fscation and such transfer take place.
1t is impossible, and the men who prom
Use it, know that they promise that which
will never be realized. The North is
opposed to it. The Radical party cannot
carry 1t into execution. Any attempt to
do SO would destroy the party, And
if such an act could be forced through
Congress, it could not be executed
never, never. Let the colored people
open their eyes They are standing
on slippery ground, if they rest their
feet on such platform of promises,