Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-06
A Packed House-The Most Dis
graceful Proceedings on
Record.
Beeoher. John Bowen, NOLAN,
Col. Chandler aud Helm
the Coming Men.
Shaw, Steve wilkins, Sangster
and Uncle Jeems Davis
Nowhar."
A Practical Illustration of What
Men Will Do for OHce.

Should any one hereafter deny the
ability Of :" dat colored cuss from Africa
to govern this happy and otherwise dis
tracted country we shall spot him as
hellish fend, whose breast is envenomed
with deadly treason to the best govern
ment the world ever saw We shall shun
him as pesiilence, and point the finger
of scorn at him as one fitted only for
treason, stratagem and spoils. The
mark of Cain shall be ndelibly stamped
on his brow, and the midnight owl shall
boot his name in accents discordant and
frightful that will freeze ones young
blood, and cause each particular hair TO
stand on each particular end. That's
what's the matter.
The grand Radical thingamy, which we
should call convention if not fearful
that the author of the word would shiver
us with thunderbolt fer perpetrating
such exquisite irony, came off at the
Opera House last night We never
enjoyed the felicity of intimacy with the
bowling Dervishes; but if those mystical
beings can compete with the beatific
assemblage alluded to, their knowledge
of the Dervish business is ample for all
practical purposes. 1t was a conglome-
ration of all the odds and ends, rag-tag
and bobtail of Memphis Radicalism.
Africa everywhere predominated. His
numerical superiority darkened the
spacious edifce like huge, black shadow,
and the gentlemanly ushers were COM
PEELED to increase the volume of gaslight
that white folks might get about Big
niggers and little niggers, large niggers
and small niggers, immense niggers and
petite niggers, old niggers and young
niggers, aged niggers and youthful mig
gers, centenarian niggers and spring
chicken niggers, black niggers and
yellow niggers, brown niggers and
saddle-colored niggers, spry niggers and
lame niggers, dull niggers and bright
niggers, blind niggers and deaf niggers,
mig niggers and niger niggers, with a
sprinkle of African niggers, and here and
there man and brother, were on hand,
with chalk eyes large as saucers, which
glistened like pewter dollars in a mud
hole, or unhealthy mackeres by moon-
light. Interspersed with these noble sons
of the soil were small squads, whom the
unattired optic revealed as white men.
They seemed duly conscious of their
inferiority to the great colored Jugger-
naut, and humbly abased themselves
before it's magnetic presence, willing to
be crushed beneath its wheels. The
spectacle brought tears to the eyes of the
few disloyal white men in the rear, who
were too unfortunate to be either niggers
or enjoy the felicity of Africa's social
recognition.
The Opera House seats are cushioned
and not being used to " sich," Africa
declined reposing his manly form there
on. So his manly hoofs, fresh from the
streets, were deposited instead, and this
morning Mr.. Greenlaw found his real
estate largely increased. 1t was evident
that the contest for Mayor lay between
Shaw and Beecher, and the champions
of each had stunning transparencies in
abundance, wherein the virtues of these
noble champions of freedom and this
glorious Union were engraven in the
highest style of art A few of these
virtues were thus touchingly and CLASH
cally enumerated:
"Shaw is always Shawest."
"Tiger for Shaw"
"Old Wheelhorse Shaw"
Bully for Shaw"
"Shaw-T Sweet"
"Shaw thirty years an Abolitionist-
he was"
"Beecher is for the People"
1--WE is for P. d. Beecher."
Come this way, Beecher.
Others equally touching we're waved in
the parquette, but the genius who con-
eeived these ehaste notices and the
eminent artist who trans6xed them to
immortal canvas, do not advertise in
this journal, and we dismiss the subject.
The" What-is.It" was called to dis
order by the venerable Grandmother
Hunter, who resembled patience on a
monument smiling at grease. She occu-
pied front seat on the stage. Blewis
was also there, his classic face beaming
with smiles DR.. Toles occupied a
prominent place, a veritable incarnation
Of the Apollo Belvidere. Ham Carter
aud all the conspicuous white and black
brethren we're sprinkled over the stage
in bold relief; while John h. Bowen,
Sam. Sangster, Steve wilkins and other
rev converts, modestly kept in the rear.
Although Of course nothing was farther
from Ae fact we could not help thinking
they felt little ashamed Of the com
pany they we're in. Doyeiailed among
the colored pafriots were also WNker-