Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-23

splendid estates; ruins Of magnificent
dwellings and gin houses meet your gaze
where we're once thrift and plenty
Sambo then basked in the sunshine, as
happy as the day is long
| have recently travelled forty milts
through portion OF this State. Along
this road in former years had often
been; but how terrible the change i
met but one human being in this long
ride, and not drop of water on the
Journey could be obtained fit to drink.
The negroes 20 to the cities and villages,
where they are protected by General
Howard 8 swarms Of Bureau agents You
men of the North who fought TO restore
the Constitution ever all the States, can
not you arise and come to our assistance 2
/ do not believe you battled to degrade
the whites of the South and to place an
ignorant and degraded race over them.
1t cannot but bring ruin upon the whole
country. If the elections 60 for the
principles of Sumner and Stevens this
fall, shall give up, and so will the whole
Southern people. We can do nothing.
We are in the hands Of Bureau agents,
who are like the locusts of Egypt-their
presence fills the land. They make fire.
quent trips TO the various plantations
through the country; they are hailed as
the purest beings upon earth. Let the
educated and respectable Northern men
who have lived among US speak. They
are all disgusted and trying to get away
We are bound hand and foot, and to the
noble efforts which your paper is putting
forth every day we feel under ten thou
sand obligations.
And still another from Noxubee coun-
ty, Miss, gives the following account of
n political meeting: at Ia
A meeting was called through the
Macon Beacon for mass meeting of the
citizens by the Conservative Republican
party, and sigued by three negroes and
three white men, for the purpose of
appointing delegates to the general con-
vention Of the Radical party to be held at
Jackson, Miss.
1t was announced that If the negroes
did not attend their registration tickets
would be void consequently the planta-
tions were depopulated, and the village
of Macon was full to overhowing. After
they had assembled, a saddler, noted for
| his worthlessness in Macon, got up in
large crowd of freedmen and announced
that "all who wanted land and mules
would follow him." He drew the crowd,
of course, and assembled in grove,
having marched there with the negroes
armed with guns first, then those with
pistols, and the rear brought ap with
clubs, etc. SO soon as assembled pickets
were put out, and this saddler made
them a speech, promising them land and
mules of their former masters and then
took up subscription to pay his ex.
penses and the two negroes appointed
with him. Over $500 was raised for this
purpose.
The conservative radicals had the wind
taken from their sails, and had not over
thirty attendants.
If the whites had been thus armed
military restrictions would have been
Immediately placed upon them. The
promises of these designing men, the de-
ception prscticed upon the negro, totally
disqualifies him as a peaceable citizen
: or laborer Under these promises he
: becomes insubordinate and idle, and
those who reside among negroes can see
no solution Of this question except in
civil disruption, and perhaps bloodshed
II is more the fault of the mean whites
than the blacks and nothing but a change
of action at the North can prevent ultl
mate ruin to one race or the other at the
South. | state facts, leaving comments
to YOU
Your recent views of negro suffrage
are highly indorsed, and with those living
in the South are felt to be just and right
The South does not wish to oppress oil
defraud the negro, but they deny his
competency TO become a statesman, q
lawyer or doctor in his present Ignorant
condition.
But we do prefer to send him to Con
gress TO the white trash, who can secure
his vote by practicng on his credulity
and ignorance, as the lesser evil of the
two.
To look now on the condition of the
South, and see its wretched impoverish
ment, its people going on foot, or OF
poor, broken-down horses and mules
and liz OK wagons, to their parties anC
churches and funerals, must make tht
fends laugh, who have delighted to bring
about this state of things. They have
the fullest satisfaction. And now they
can have the glory of trampling on the
fallen, or the honor of magnanimity, as
they choose We have only the salts
faction left to know that if we tai
further we shall drag them down with III