Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-16

nEWe call attention to an article on
our first page from the New York Times
on the subject of Tennessee as model
reconstructed State" which is full oil
sound sense and statesmanlike counsel
What is wanted Peace or strife, pros
perity or adversely, good will or veno-
nous bate, the rule Of the best, most
conservative and able men of the State
or that of the partizan place hunter, the
demagogues and Jack Cades ? Has any
man in the broad land except Brownlow'
Fletcher, Stokes, Lewis, etid onsne genus
any interest in perpetuating the present
Internal state Of things2 Has any white
man an interest in itf What one would
not prefer military domination Who
would not be glad to-day to see the gov
eminent of Tennessee in the hands OF
Andrew johnson, as the commander-in-
chief of the armies Of the Union1 We
belieye we should then have our rights
under the Constitution of the country,
sucb rights at least as are due to con-
ouered people, such as the terms of sur
render OF the Southern armies implied,
such as enlarged wisdom and magnan-
unity compel, and such as consist with
the integrity, homogeneousness, happi-
ness and greatness Of q great people
Give 70 Tennesseeans amnesty for the
mast and old fashioned security for the
future. and the State will spring like the
Phenix, to universal loyalty and to
greatness. Make capital secure, let in
dnstry be well rewarded, let every man
know that obedience TO constitutional
law is the sole requirement to the enjoy
ment of every free Americana rights and
privileges, and we voueh there never
more will be a well grounded cause of
complaint or dis.rust Of the State Of
Tennessee.
And in all thist poor black man has
precisely the same interest as the poor
white man. 1t is the law Of God that be
who will not work shall not eat and it
applies to black men and white men
alike. Do not the black men know that
their old masters always performed their
promises1 If they said they would pay
them anything or do anything for them
did they not do iti Aud now that those
very men, yielding to the course Of
events. have pledged themselves to
maintain the rights, as freemen, Of the
colored population, why should they moi
believe the pledge will be cheerfully re-
deemed, and now unite by their votes and
labors with their white felloW.citiEens-
with whom they expect TO live, in build
ing up the State in all its material inter
ests, their own included
Why are they not prosperous now
We will tell them. These Radical pre-
tended friends Of theirs are no friends
and they want to hurt tie white people
MOTTO benefit the black What they wan
is 70 cheat the blacks and make then
believe they are their friends, 50 as &
get fat Offices and get fat with plenty o
money. They may give out very dirty
clothes and pay half price for washing
them, but that is al they have any no
lion Of doing for the poor black man. I
the colored men Of Tennessee have NJ
friends smong the old white citizens the
are bad of indeed. And they viii I'm
ont one ofthese days that the old citizen
Of Tennessee, including al their old ma
tsrsa and their sons, are the only true IN
reliable and enduring friends they hav'
DO the Radicals give them anythin
more than the white folks2