Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-05
HOW HECONsTKUCTIoS zShE-
Hp NEGRO STAIES I'M
RAYOHEIs-

now EECovSrKUCTIoSTS HFFS
SSp NEGRO
1parD AND BAYOSEEs-
The returns Of the registering officers
&, VIRGINIA show l14,953 whites ana
n, "a ,epr,es entitled to vote giving
vbita msiority Of 8, 400 votes.
T..t vesr the books Of the Commis,
sfoDa- Of revenue for that State showed
raj s1s adult white males listed for tax
.,i-r There must, Of course, have peer
,,7as increase, by minors coming Of age
II f-7m this number We eduetthe "H4'e
-sgfs-ared vote, we find the number OIL
v5ita men disfranchised by the Is" Ahl
erHoFrELD in Virginia to be IHOV0.
% The ballot Is peace says HORACE
GREELEY. the man who has done more
=, destroy the Union than any oINei
Ten men in it, and is now working
nth all his might to make such q he'll
of+be south IS the world has never
seen.
last wear. again, in Virginia, the num-
her OF negro males over tWenty-one
years Of age, listed for taxation by the
commissioners, was only 1921.
Queer. isn't it, that by the ScHoFIELD'
7,y process the number Of adult Whtte
males has decreased, while that OF the
,5Brt negroes has increased nearly %
ooos The Commissioners OF the Reve-
ma took account Of every man, white
o- black. in the State. They did their
work in 1856, when the late ~reconstrue-
+ion sets were not passed, and hardly
even thought Of. They had DO possible
rolitical motive to make the white list
Larger or the black list smaller than facts
warranted.
The National H~tsLigeBcer says:
While the Commissioners Of the Reve-
mo f5D1d only -7.20I blacks for the pur-
Dozaz Of taxation, the registration om
esrsu have been able to enroll lOl, Dos
fbs+ is to say, "a 352 more than the
others Is there 8 man Of common dis
comment in the land who does not know
fhs+ This is a vile and dsstardiy fraud
DarDatrated by unworthy instruments, 10
TIrsar 70 accomplish the bssest purposes
N nartv power and revenge, and 70
secure hy negro supremacy s vote which,
On the Presidential election, IN the senate
and House Of Representatives. shall help
10 Offset that OF New York or Ohio2
There were various modes Of accom-
rlisbfng this fraud. Negroes are dlTilcult
n Identification, especially In cities ana
TOWNS. and il is there, therefore, that We
And the greatest excess in registration OF
0sgr7es over the lists arrived at by the
taT commissioners. The came negro has
hen made 20 do service by registering
IN too or three different districts, with
ss many different names; and although
A. . recent election some OF these negroes
forgot their aliases, and thus lost their
votes vet we apprehend that on to-
morrow their memories will be refreshed
bv means Of the ready access their friends
will have TO the registration books. Inc
most fruitful source OF fraud, however,
was by registering every likely, well
grown negro lad who presented hlmseii'
from eighteen years OF sge D upWaTus'
Rv this means 8 very large ADDITION 10
tie Iist has been secured. Ana yet VINO
80 uot know that very few negroes
were ever able TO tell their ages untll
admitted 10 the ballot2 They nov learn
HE@rF HEH= hlA VA o EAANNAH --Nf
announcement Of the registration OIL
csrs wear to them without scTuple.
Rsdicalism wears the mark Of the beast
on its forebead, everywhere. The same
scenes Of fraud were exhibited in Mem
pbis. Hundreds, il not thousands, OF
negroes wereregistered here fraudulently.
We are told that since the election, piles
Of certificates OF registration, signed, bat
in blank. have been found in the country,
whittier they were sent 70 be used.
Fraud held high carnival here, and is
now holding it everywhere in the South.
The Hpte1igeEceT again says:
And vet a acknowledgements Of 1000
whites. and q fraudulent registration Of
9a-s52 bIacks. was not enough there
vas still a msj0rity Of 1890 white
wen In the Old Dominion. What was
Id be done with this ugly fact. These
syures bodied 20 good for the scheme Of
tbo.a who expected to secure negro rule,
and 10 make n Radical State out o. Fir-
-51is Some men would have been
spnslIed, and would have given up hope
a, tbis noint Of the business. Not so
with the Radical managers. They had
wsSed too deep in crime 70 turn back at
tbIs stage Of the affair. There was Sill
hone still q means Of juggling the
-ao,la ont OF their rights. There Uds
\ onn0infment Of delegates to he con-
.,S1 According to all ordinary aud
o. v,,les the whites would have a ma
J1ritv on The convention pr~oporuoDsd to
80 msiorifv on the poll books. The
Military however, arranged the districts
A. A. 10 give thirteen negro majority IL
the convention.
Twenty Radical Senators, in addition
10 those from Tennessee, and an undiSi-
ded Radical and negro delegation 10 the
House from the ten Southern States now
demonstrating, will, the lesders Of the
Jacobins hope, maintain their faction IN
mower and make SALMON P. CHASE
President. No fraud il too revOltiEg 70
be resorted TO, TO achieve that purpose.
Never since the making Of the world
was such q scene OF filthy and sordid in
enacted as that which Radieaiism
IS playing al over the South. No other
o earth, no other civilized people
that ever tU1s on earth, would so have
lost all pride Of race and blood and an
eestry snd individual manhood, as to
have Incorporated into itself, with all the
rights OF citizenship and suffrage, the
brutal and ignorant millions Of an infe-
rior and worthless race. Not content
with that, it descends 70 the lowest,
neanest and most pitinl frauds, to
sheating in registration, to the issue Of
false certificates, to every possible low
md shabby device that will suffice to re-
ect a white mans vote, and every one
hat will gain for the party a negro vote
it IL perfectly Indifferent IS to its
naHipuisuons being known.
Well, they will succeed. Eight Of
be ten States, At least VIII become ne