Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-20
VoTocH psrsuaded SOLOMON

ann NIoLocH persuaded SOLOMON
"to build
axis r.,1ple right against the temple OF God,
that opprobnons MI anu TSsbat s0cs
and black GsnenUa called the type OF nsh
The Reconstruction Convention which
Is u regenerate Alabama, lie in session al
Montgomery, as the Devils were in eOun-
ell 10 plot the fall Of man, and it is thus
ambrotyped by s correspondent OF the
New York World:
MONTGOMERY, ALA, November s,
ls5T.-It IL impossible 10 treat this thing
Of reconstruction, as seen here AZ the
South. with seriousness. Men SPEAK OF
il on the street with a lurking grin, and
even a. I write there rises the black and
meditative delegate, ID mil Withdraw
himself into his cOat-cOilar after the
likeness Of g tortoise in his shell. Given
q Toll in proceedings, out comes this
i~uri=ts'z heed-let debate arise and forth
with i. sinks into his very sterHuH. Mr..
Summers Manhood" or Thad. Ste
yers' late appeal to the Constitution are
not greater jokes ia their way than this
same Alabama Convention. Itsmells OF
the circus a league OF, and II not drama
TIED. will be an ~irreparable loss 70 the
repertoire Of Farce. Picture TO yourself
q legislative pdrterTe culled from the
barber shop and bureau. Speekle this
bed Of roses with disappointed aspiration
and soured hate. Garnish its edges with
the fufpriority Of race aud the animOsity
Of section, and the great uBeonstitu-
fioual and misrepresentation Alabama
Convention Of 1857 is before you.
No wonder that men say the poT-
trait Of Washington looks ~unwontedly
stern from its place upon b wall
or the eighty-Odd delegates present II
this assemblage some account has al
ready been given you, in q prior letter,
and s~ubtracting the ffty-fOur aggregated
Northern men snd negroes, there remain
seine twenty-five, or O~ne-fOurtb OF the
whole Convention, who are either Of
known OF probable Southern birth. Az
% the obscurity Of these men d fact
alone will suffice. The Secretary Of
state, the Clerk OF the House, and the
Chairman Of the State Central COnserv-
alive Committee, meE who, from the
necessity Of their several positions, have
the politics Of the State az their fingers
ends, are not able between them TO locate
more than nine out o. the number. The
rest are as utterly unknown as 30 many
Esuufmaux. AL that can be seen Is hat
thew are Southern men, though whether
Alaba misDs or imported from Brown
lows domains for the occasion, does not
supear. One man in ten, therefore, Is
the ratio OF citizenship in this surprising
State Convention. As 70 the delegates
OF Northern birth, there is hardly y pre-
teBce OF residence. A slate was made
no here. IL seems, and sent out 10 the ne
groes. who dutifully voted e. they were
told. " e~lecting" Ia this manner men
who knew 81 little Of their constituencies
a. their constituents knew about them
How Delegates to these "Conven-
lions are elected, We are thus informed
by a correspondent OF the New York
Times, writing from Georgia:
Experience Of the in which
the negroes exercise the suffrage, does
not tend 70 remove the conviction as 70
their incapscity. No n In . thousand
who voted had the rennOtest idea Whd
he Uds doing, aid very few knew the
names Of the candidates. saw q who
hsd In some way got a slip upon which
eight or nine sets Of tickets had been
printed, and Il wss with difficulty he
c1uld be induced 20 permit the severance
Of the tickets, and that be could be per
Euaded 70 deposit but pa Ia the box.
I heard OF another who voted IN the
morning, and who returned in the after /
noon to vote again. He was recognized
by the poll clerk, and when asked what
he meant, be said hat he had voted for
Jack Bell negro in the morning, and
he thought she had done wrong and
ought 10 have voted for Mr.. AkermRn,"
and wanted to repair his error by q
second vote.
A correspondent Of another New York
ournaL. writing from Alabama, furnishes
this description OF the ann in which
affairs were managed in that Province Of
Negrodom
Ths negroes were everywhere driven
N The polls by the cl.iefs OF the Union
Tasgue Councils. The day before cleo
tion. Radical agents travelled through
Montgomery county and summoned the
fhe blacks % come to the city and vote,
telling them that Gen. Swayne had or
darsd them TO DO 80, and would punish
Them N they did not. on the afternoon
bafore the day OF election, thousands Of
,agroes marched into Montgomery, in
reSIlarly organized regiments, each man
hearing arms; and 81 night they camped
around the city like q besiegiDg army.
The danger Of 3 disturbances was so great
fhat the military authOrlues ordered
them to be disarmed. Ten per cent Of
negroes who voted could not now
an And indeed never knew, the name
The ballO. which they deposited IN the
they acted simply in obedience to
- instructions Of the Bureau agents,
~ without the faintest glimmering Of
- idea OF what they we're doing.
About half Of the delegates elected az
1ooS by the Radicals TO be natives Of
~ Stste. but this is ridieuled By every I
Nv Csc IS PROFESSIONALLY false The 4,
S,ayantion is made up chiefly Of men
- sre entirely unknown = the people {
!. ~ STATE. and most Of tAse who are ]
! II All are known 70 be men Of
Isiaerent character. Z
ILL., coIored brigade In the Convention
Aln,onosed. with one exception, OF e
coGaPsted slaves. The one exception, 81
mAnnSaF Is their leader, and he is un- c.
the sblest mar among them. a
~ o'eess i Gregory, ami be has made q :
Is "a sartsbIs little fortune by selling :.
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