Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-29
r,uE 1EPnosY OF THE STATE.

THE EEPROSY OF THE STATE
When We said, recently, that We
wound vote nothing but q halter 70 those
men who had cursed the country with
n~apro-suffrace. we expected TO have .
universal howl Of Indignation 90 up from
the various Radical b~urdy-gurdies whose
dulcet strains, when the crank Is vlgo-
rouslv turned, delight the delicate ears
Of their negro patrons.
We propose TO shock still more these
lovers Of the negro who have taken
refuge in patriotism. We publish N
another column an article OF almost TN
~eouaIIed truth and force from The Ma
ti5aGg HteHigencer, with which we
wholly agree, in respect 70 the sccursed
consequences Of the presence Of the negro
in the country. It has indeed been ihe
source Of all our woes. Intermingling
with the white race, the negro operates
Ike milk injected into the arteries.
Mixed with the blood in the circulation,
il is As deadly g poison as prussic acid.
Il is a disease Of tie body polite, Of the
same nature with the trichin9 swarming
and feeding in the flesh and muscles Of
the agon.zsd and tortured criminal. Il
is contamination, pollution and putrefac-
ton and the instructive repugnsnce Of
the white race to any contact with the
negro, Impotence Of the presence Of the
blackamoor in large numbers, is an at
--.a q -. .. An~nm nHE tho mfEn0Ha
There will be no permanent peace or
health for the South, until this intrusive
and poisonous element is expelled from
the body polite. All other proposed
remedies are bus ~charlatanry, or, st the
best palliatives that only postpone the
dissolution OF the States by a disease
that rOts the flesh and consumes the very
bones. There are many laws Of nature,
that We DO not understand, and one OF
these is that the superior race ele-
Yates the inferior, when the two are
thrown together as component parts Of
the same society but the lower and
baser and more animal and savage race
drags the higher and nobler down to its
oWnlevel. unless the DstinctOfselfpreser-
walton constrains the latter 10 extirpgte
the former, which il generally does, with
disturbance and spasns that, like fever,
are the efforts Of nature % eXpel the poi
sen and the disease from the system.
Man hss much In common with the
animals, and sympathizes With that
which be resembles. He who feels no
repugnanee at association on equal terms
with tie negro, is Of the nature Of the
negro. The absence Of that instructive
repugusnce for 3 filthy, lecherous and
ieBerous race, which God gave the
white man and woman Tor the same pur-
poses for which He gave even the ami
mails their sltipathies, proves The iden-
tity Of nature. Appetites and passions
that are unnatural are the consequences
Of physical and moral disease and we
instinctively shudder and are Disguised
when we near that a fair white girl Ia
some Northern State has become Ban
CURED Of and married & negro.
Even the animals have those instinc-
tive antipathies that are given them to
be their protection against concealed
dangers. The horse has it against the
Insignificant fly that neither bites or
stings hun, bat only deposits on his hair
the ova that Afterwards ind their way
into his stomach and become the "a
OF death. Men feel q singular uneasi-
ness, for which they cannot account,
when they are IN the vicinity Of a con-
cealed enemy, OF Of one who is, even
long afterwards, 10 work them injury.
We are as yet profoundly ignorant Of
the nature Of aBtipsthies and sympathy.
We understand the meaning Of the
phrase that blood is blacker than
water - but We have never troubled
ourselves to inquire why the people Of
the North were always mote impatient
OF the presence Of the negro, though free
and sometimes q prodigy because res
pectsble, tdsn the people OF the South,
they we're a th0usand-fOld more
Where they were slaves, the
andpatly OF the white race against
NUEIu HAaILlkEAEAa NLEAGEHEA lAEEf AANAE D
is tbatinsuDctive feeling Of repugDancs,
that swiftly ripens into d~etestation.
While the inferior aud unclean race &C.
cupies It's natural and legitimate position
Of subordlnation 70 the higher and nobler
race, the poison Of the presence u the
inseBsibly permeates society, and
corr4pUs the blood Of the body polite.
Uneasiness and rsstessBess, and instiDc-
i've efforts % rid itself Of the " oorporis
aaiUi aaUtla cOHtagia " are the re-
salt. bat the instructive antipathy and ]
.ntagonism are for the most part latent, I
y The meaning Of their manifestations )
nistalfen Tor something else by the pro- I
.endsrs that are imagined to De States
The moment that the negro, singly,
,r4b numhars. ceases 10 occupy his sHbOr-
posiaoa. he Is in ~aDtagonism Ia the !
white nan. not because the latter fears !
is rivalry. bat BY that mysterious law
4 antlpathy between races which has
.sosed aineteaa-fwsntieths Of all the I,
q fha Eof,d. {
simply 3 emancipats the negro was c
.asne Astey TO develop th2t lnersdi- y
.6le an1agoaisIn, that soon Becomes :
Istred ard ends IN The ex srmtsaaon or G
-bioeagoo 81 the inferior race. Eman- a
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anen eyer been eonmiltsd BY
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