Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-12
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From the Montgomery MsiLf
THE registration business in \ Alabama
has been managed entirely in the Inter
| est Of the negro radicals. In the major
itv OF counties Of the state it was with
great difficulty that a respectable white
man could register. Men like old Stan
wood, Of LOwndes, would ply every
decent white man with insulting ques-
| tions, and express his valuable opinion
as to the applicants political record IN
such manner that a gentleman would
I prefer to fall short Of his duty rather
than be brought into contact with such
/ iusolent and impertiment adventures.
/ Every negro was admitted to the regis
! try lists with open arms-fFOm the ten
! der age Of sixteen to that Of majority.
Two hundred Africans in Montgomery
and Autauza counties, who came over
| in the Wsnderer, and cannot speak
| English, were allowed to take an oath
by touching pen, for the purpose Of
voting for some registrar who would be
candidate for the convention. 4 num-
her Of negroes, debarUed from suffrage b.
felony, registered the day after receiving
Gov. Patton's pardon, Thus the lists
were swellsd by the names Of those whs
we're expected to vote for Swayne's party
and were reached with difficulty by those
who expected to vote for the constitution
Of the United States. After the reg istr2-
ton farce had been concluded, it was
found that the one hundred and twenty
thousand white voters Of Alabama had
been cut down by every appliance which
could be brought to bear, to the bare
mOiety of seventy thousand, snd that the
seventy thousand Goiored male adults Of
the state had been swelled in numbers to
near ninety thousand.
According to this registry we find that
the cOlOred population is ten per cent.
larger now than in 1850, notwithstand-
ing the fact that several Of the northern
tier Of counties have lost nearly all Of
the negro population by the ravages Of
war and by emigration to the elysium OF
Brownlow, and notwithstanding the fact
that large bodies OF negro laburers left
Alabama last year by the Selma and
Meridian road for the Mississippi valley
This registry has the impudence to assert
upon It's face that the adult colored pOpu-
Iation OF Alabama is larger than it was
before the war, when II is notorious
fact that a number OF plantations in
each county are not worked, aud that
none of those which are worked have q
full complement of lsbOrers.
clerical AADAG ak
It's often very amusing to see what
mistakes a clergyman will make in
giving out notices, or in extempOrsneous
speaking.
Thus distinguished bishop, within
the border Of New England, on the Oc-
casion Of 8 great marriage, when his
church was crowded and noisy, the mass
being impatient and the greater portion
standing upOn the seats and backs 0f the
pews, in his desperation exclaimed, /" will
the people, remembering that this is
Gods house, be pleased 10 sit down on
the floor and put their feet upon the
sests " .
The uprosr that followed these words
was perfectly fearful, and the uneon-
scious bishop fell back into his chair,
feeling that he had been grossly insulted
in his own cathedral.
We know clergy man who once de-
livered sn extempOre lecture on the first
chapters of Genesis and eudeavorinC 70
answer the question; Who was Gains
wife he reached the following singu-
lar conclusion Prom eli which facts
We are forced to the conclusion that
Cain, the eldest born Of Adam, must
have married his own lri(e.H He meant
sister, but the actual words were Ger
tainly the safest.
Another clergyman Just married) IN
dertaking to give out notice of q meet
ing to be held at his house, which hap
pened not to be rectOry, said "Thsre
will he service at my-Our-at the house
Of the minister"