Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-09
DIRTY WORK BEGUN.


We percieye from some Of our Ten
nessee exchanges that in certain quar-
tiers the foreign and home Jacobins are
engaged in the satanic work Of arraying
the negroes against the white inhabi-
tants. This dirty work is all for mean
party ends, and disgraces the men who
engage in il. 1t is doubtful, however, if
such fellows can be disgraced. They
have faces Of brass, hearts Of stone, and
consciences ofgumelastic They have en-
franchised the negroes that they may con-
stitute standing army of Radical voters,
but it is necessary in order to secure
them, to embitter their natures and
arouse their resentments against their
old masters and friends. There has APP
peared on the surface Of colored senti-
ment ripple of conservatism that bodies
no good to Radicalim. Brownlow has
probably overresched himself, for with
all his vast army Of improvised voters,
he is not certain of success. But the
worst feature of this diabolical plot is
that which threatens the peace OF COM
munities and sets the races against each
other
There is no good reason why the white
and the black people Of the South should
not live, move and act in the strictest
harmony. They are all Southern men,
and the interest of one class is the In
terest of the other The two populations,
spread over vast territory, must have
common interest, or no interest at all.
They must either live in harmony or in
antagonism. How will bitter antagoH-
ism benefit the negroes2 Landless, they
must rely for homes and employment
upon the white landowners, of course.
There must be an intimate, amicable re-
lation between them, or there can be no
prosperity for either. The miserable
wretches, male and female, who sneak
about over the South corrupting and de-
ceiving the negroes, have vile purpose
to accomplish. What do they care for
the colored mani Less than nothing.
Their business is that Of the missionary,
and they are working for the interests of
New England and Cineinnati-working
10 consolidate, with the aid of the colored
vote, great party, formed first to over
run and rob the South, and preserved for
the damnable purpose Of enriching them
selves at the cost of the political slavery
ofeight millions of people.
We do not believe that tie colored
people are silly enough to be caught in
this devilish trap. They have sense
enough to know that they can gain
nothing by a war of races, but have
everything to lose. They are just
emerging into an existence new and UNI
tried, and It is OF the last importance
to them that they cultivate the
friendship and listen TO the coun-
sells of those under whose protec-
ton they have grown up. Any other
course will be fatal to their interests.
We tell them that the miserable adven-
turers who seek to embroil them with
their late masters, are their worst enc
mics They are thoroughly unreliable,
because they are thoroughly bankrupt in
purse and character. After working up
an antagonism to the point of collision,
they would fly the country and leave
their wretched dupes to take care of
themselves. Let the freedmen spurn
these fellows and adhere to those who are
their best friends, as time has proved,
and as time will still prove.