Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-29
yENPHIS APPEAL
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A NEGRoFiOt Is thus described by the
Savannah Repu6iicdn:
Early yesterday morning the various
roads Leading intOour eitywere throngec
with deluded and ragged negroes, whC
! vera eg, route TO attend the conhscation
/ homestead meeting, announced to bt
held In Chippewa square. On Sunday
| night the poor, ignorant, misguided peo
ole. WHO had been led astray by tins
/ hGreat WaRhoO," Kept watch and warJ
over his house, patrolllng and picketing
/ the neighborhood for two squares on
every sides ...-a-..5 .s. .ti
Asthe hour for the meeting drew on
the oolored people commenced to cengre'
gate in Chippewa square in large mum
| bers. all of whom appeared to be country
negroes, from the plantations, hnt a few
| Of the cOlored people Of the city being
mixed IN the audience, and those were
I there. like q few white people, TO crafty
| their curiosity. About II o'clock sometwo
hundred negroes, most OF them carrying
clubs, pistols and other weapons,
marched up BroughtOn and Bull streetsi
eresting no little excitement, as they
were escorting and acting as body
| guard for the notorious and disreputaole
| braWler At the same tlmei IS II by s
concerted signal, another crowd ap-
peared from an opposite direction many
| Of them armed with loaded shot-guns
and muskets. One venerable old colored
man, who saw them, shouted: NGreat
| God, look at dem dRr muskets Deys
| Qwfne to have row sush! Use gWlne
| home. Come on, JACK :"
At the square, Aaron Bradley, VINO
1-ss mounted upon q table, called the
meeting TO order, and was made Fresl-
E5sn+. and other officers, all cOlOred,
Wsre appointed. Striking his usual
| fhaatricai attitude, he eOmmenoed- TO
resS tha cal, and that finished, made q
barangue to the people in attendance.
BRADLEY talked for sometime, pitching
| Into things generally, and especially the
mulattoes aud intelligent negroes OF our
oifV he declared himself IN favor of
mira black ticket. A collection was
taken M. the greenbacks coming in
npite freely. This concluded, the
Z yVsnboo - commenced yelling again,
and the scene that ensued beggars de-
scription. Several blows weIe struck,
blood flowed, and pistols and knives
were hourished freely.
Word was instantly conveyed to the
limited States barracks, and in less time
tIar n takes to tell Of it, q battalion of
fToons. with fixed bayODets, who had
haen held in readiness for the eHner-
gsnev. were on the ground. When they
srrivad a bloody riot was on the point OF
breaking out, and nothing but their
finely arrival was the means OF aVertlng
blOodshed. The police force, which was
drawn up in line, wss also 10 readiness
to ouel any riot. By order Of the
Nsvor Lieut.. Howard rode forward and
ordered the crowd 20 disperse. The
police and civil officers soon cleared the
square, and they and the soldiers retained
possession Of tie ground. e =. ...--.--l
Several negrs men ana one or Two
women, who were engaged melting the
crowd TO resist the police, were arrested
Immediately and conveyed to the police
barracks. The crowd shortly after this
assembled at BrAdley's house, on Brough-
ton street, blocking up that thoroughfare,
from whence they were once more dls,
persed by the police force, but not Intll
several arrests were made Of the most
turbulent men. Several pistols we're
,lraUn on rfficers, one or two attempts
made 70 resist sheriff Cole, and to shoot
sheriff White. but the offenders were
arrested before they had chance to do
auv damsge. Another crowd was dis
persed from the same place later IN the
afternoon.
The Mayor and officers OF the city gov
ernment deserve high cOmmeDdBtiOn for
their indefatigsble efforts to secure order
and maintain the pesce. But for The
wise course pursued by them, riot and
blogdshed would have ensued, and many
human lives have been sacrificed.
Thus it is that the men or devils in the
shape Of men, who are everywhere in
the South exaspersting the negroes and
exciting them TO acts Of outrage, are
"lsying up wrath against the day Of
WRATH They do nothing that it is not
approved and lauded by that most WICK
edly mischievous and unprincipled Of all
Northern journals, the New York IN
6srqe B; and to it more than to any other
newspaper in ell the North, it will be
owing, If the South is desolated by war
Of races. tits the evil genius, the Me-
PHIsToPHELE5, Of the negro, and seems
to hate the white men Of the South, to
malign whom it never omits an OppOr-
tunity, as bitterly as renegade hates
thoss who adhere to the religion from
which he has apOstatized.