Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-18

e eonplement to the United States con
= press in the persons OF eighty citizens 0
African descent, in the hope that tn
hair of the dog will cure the bite" ans
, that practical radiealism may turn M
white stomach Of the north and west, bI
all means Let us do it. When man or
people are cornered by the desperate
chances Of fate, the'man and the peoPt'
must call I'D all their wits and thai
courage to piav the best game on q small
hand. We believe that even the theo
logians admit the morality OF lighting
the devil with fire;" and ct al event:
pature has written it among her cardina
laws that self-pEeservatiOn Is primor'
dial right and most sacred DUTY
And the New York Herald, with 8
bitter malignity says:
The southern whites, and particularly
the leading men among them, possess q
power they may not have realized
Such men as Wade Hampton, Henry A,
Wise, and others like them, while they
have not the suffrage ami cannot hold
office. are able to exercise great infiu-
enee over the negroes and political
affairs. There are from fifty to hun
dred thousand Of these Ostracised old
leaders, who are still powerful through
their intelligence and position aD<i on the
stump. We advise them, then, to carry
the revolution which the northern radI-
Gals have inaugurSted to dts end-to
its utmost limit. In doing this
they should advocate sending ne
I groes TO congress. In every state
aud district Intelligent blacks can be
found. Let them be sent te congress in
the proportion of the negro vote. sup,
posing the southern states are entitled
I to ninety mem bers in the house of rep
/ resentatives under the increased vote,
/ thirty negroes should be sent, as that
would be about a fair proportion to the
numbers OF the two races, and out OF the
I tweRty senators six should be black by
] the same rule. Henry 4. Wise has
fine. intelligent and faithful servant
who should be sent from the Old Do
miuion to sit bv the side of Mr.. Sumner
I in the senate; and that negro friend of
/ whom Wade Hampton spoke so patheti-
cally, 3 noble fellow, evidently, might
{ be seated by Wilson, Chandler, Sprsgue
or Trumbull, and be called tn the
chair occasionally by Ben. Wade,
+ he president of the senate. This
/ Is practicable, reasonable and fair, and
would only be carrying out the theories
already established. True, the smell
Of the negroes might be unpleasant 10
the dainty northern senators and men,
hers; but the southerners would not find
IL so: they could have no objection TO
black colleagues en that score; fori as
/ Yaneev one said, the smell was perfume
to southerners. BY all means let the
south carry out the theories OF the radI-
Gals 10 their logical results by sending
both negro representatives and senators
to congress. It would create an extra
A..#s tdfan n
the north, undoubtedly; but what Of
that The principle is the thing. Per-
ish everything rather than sacrifice prin-
ciple In whatever point of view We
look q the movements now going on IN
the south, and at the position OF parties
with regard TO the issues that have been
raised, we foresee that remarkable
changes must take place. We advise
the sOutheTners to use the power the
radicals have placed in their hands and
bring the revolution to its logical end.
The true children of the South, with
out surrendering any right, or binding
themselves by any pledges, could have
said to the negroes, " You out-number
these loyalists twenty to one. They are
willing that you should vote, for them,
but not that you should have any of the
Offices or profits Of the Government. Il
is a free fight go in and win. We only
look on. Register, organize, take care
Of yourselves, put up candidates of your
own celor for at the Offices. Make men
Of your own race legislators, judges, Gov
ernors, members Of Congress, Senators.
It is your right. Exercise it -
Of course the governments SO estab-
Iished would be simply faTcicsl. So
much the better 1t would finish radi-
calism, by revolutionizing the Northern
States. Until lately, Indiana would not
permit a free negro to come within her
limits. They cannot vote, now, in more
than three or four Of the Northern States
Send thirty or forty negroes to the lower
house Of Congress, and ten or twelve
into the Senate, and WADE, STEVENS,
CHANDLER, and others Of that kidney
would be hung to the lamp posts Con-
grezs would not dare approve Constitu-
tions made by negroes, knowing that
the immediate consequence was TO be
negro representative and Senators to
sit in its gaudy gilded halls, their voies
compelling their admission into the
Society of the pinchbeck nobility Of
Washington.
Instead of annihilation OF Radicalism,
It is now proposed that the Chivalry Of
South Carolina, aud the Sons of the
First Families of Virginia shall fraternize
with the negro, undeg the delusion that
he will prefer them to himself, recognize
with humility their superior claims to
office, and ask nothing for himself but
the right to vote for them. whenever
they choose to tell him that he must be
content with that Do they know the
negro no better than that? Human
nature is not one thing, and negro ma
lure another thing. The negro is espe-
ciallv an initiative animal, and if you
agree that he shall vote, you must divide
the offices with him. If you do not, he
will take them in despite of you.
Moreover, the negro is not very easily
cheated or deceived, in what concerns
hisown interest. Hei shrewd enough at
driving a bargain. He must believe that
YOU mean honestly by him. You viii
not win him from the Radicals, unless
Won convince him that you do not mean
by and by, to take away his right to
vote. He knows you do not relish him
as a political equal You must become
bound in honour to maintain him always
! in that right, and in the right to hold
office-if he can get elected. II you be-
come SO bound, even tacltly and by i'm
plieation, you would disgrace yourself il
vou ever broke the promise. Therefore
we will be no party TO any such engage
ment. We eoiH agree that he shall al
ways have, unless be forieits them by
misconduct, all the rights of citizen,
A ta suffrage, those who have the votes
cannot long be kept from the offices
and we are not ready for negro judge:
and legislators, as permanent institu
tions.
We have not heard that the disabili
ties Of any one have as yet been re
moved, bv way of reward for his ser
vices in encouraging reconstruction. Tn,
resolution to that effect in two psricula
cases, introduced some weeks since, is I
standing bribe, like the CondscatioI
Rill. as well as a standing menace {,
those who will not help.
This, and PoPE's warning to his me
pials. the civil officers of his SatrapaCe
not 10 impede the progress Of recon
struetion, and the significant hints O
SIcIzLEs, and JOHN SHERMAN's letter
and HENRY WILSON'S pilgrimage, al
mean one and the same thing. Recon
sfr,tcfion is a necessity for RadicaIisna
To give il new lease of life, to proven