The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-31
TENNESSEE ANO KENTUCKY.
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MEMPHIS, Nay %, 1857.
The political canvass between Ethcrdge and Stokes
being removed distant Geld luil indeed al
most silence has here taken tho place Of the excitement
OF Inst week. Even the newspapers experience the ef
fects o. the indifference Of the great OF the ne-
gent people Of Memphis to politics political AFFAIRS
and have become prosy and dull upon tho progress Of
reconstruction the s'outsde' States. An exception
70 this, perhaps, the Avalanche which occasionally
iashcs the turbd waters into foam but light that
MONDAY brings foryefuness OF tho effort Tho cry for
'bread breadi has no. yet gone up from streets
OF this once hourshng city; bat next thing to it. one
hears the regrets Of failure the of apprehension the
msspent opportunities, signs for the rast
and resolves for industrious future which latter uu
fortunately for the resolvers only be induced by
the thing wanting to rekpdIe, here as well az
elsewhere throughout the SOUTH tho Hres Of dead In
dusry-money year ago those Of the people Of this
State DISTINGUISHED shared with brethren in hope
Even that fast disappearing and its place being occu
pied by despair
As il has como to be everywhere throughout the
Unou the industrious and the skifui are here at tho
mercy OF few money changers whose success induces
many in the Same line, and encourages consumption
without production. Young men, reared In the lap or
luxury, cannot think OF labor in tho field: as or
old that must be left to the negro the consequences To-
all Of our Southern cities and filed with can.
ddases for clerkshps Oiled with canvassers Of all
kinds aud for all descriptions OF insurance and assur
ance schemes and lotteries and with more commission
merchants than would suffice to sell out the world and
its satellites. Everything and anything but work The
country 10 deserted for the city by blacks we'll az
whtes and members Of all the learned
press among ebowed out Of business by cheap
adding 70 the want ooaadsocs thai each oos ss:s
Tue health Of this people vas never better; the con.
sequence 10 the medical practitioners half pay
There IL much law, but clients have not the money TO
pay fees. and lawyers are compelled to 2obblc
the cupidity Of the profession, the want OF money
squeezes evon those who generally attenug upon
oa a 70 ss ou a. 1s
purchasers Tho little contemplate street
played OUT TOO they have loaned all their
money exorbtant rates and upon coateras they may
and will have to seize, but upon which they will be
able TO realize. Memphis and Memphiaas have all bus
Some are over sanguius that another cotton crop like
that OF last year will bring u out Of this fghfl
don Of things But the cotton crop depends upon the
weather. and that Is Is caprcous Hitter litter.
will not be large last year. for the double rsason
that farmers raising more and less
last year. and the negroes owing TO the stampsdes from
farms and labor generally by radical lee
ana ns 1901 :ss % 70 are not working
Is that OF last year. There 10 no chance 70 get out
Of this terrible dilemma but for the Southern
the North who will come down and settle upon them
and TO European emsrans who will into healthy
and revival q IN. prosperv Of this s1s ooSn,r1
The North must to the assistance Of these people
In such an Effort and they must seace by their votes
the tongues Of the envcnomed Radical leaders who are
sowing broadcast dstruss between the races which
susains dsquie and pcrpstuates OF things which
adds rather than dmInishos the troubles ombar-
rassments OF the SOUTH
To-day there Is revival Of the chvairous jousts OF
the middle ages TO- witness which well nigh the whole
population of the city has turned out, that holiday
has been enjoyed and the minds Of the people been
taken from ther troubles by ephemeral and
obsolete game. Fun fro,c aud crowd have been
joyed and great deal Of money for these terrible
times boon gathered for the sick and dying OF the
sponden. to make sh, OF such methods OF aisinS the
wind but the high character OF the crew who sail
ing the ship and the unorunass who 70 be benefited
Browniow has ordered out several companies Of the
State Guard ana is currently reported BY tue radicals
that there win DO several bloody riots before the
closes. The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rs forearmed
will not permit themselves TO be unnecessarily drawn
into trouble OF that nature But II II cannot be avoided
and such q contingency Is possible under radical
tnen shall have the fuinment OF radical prophecy
With all tho awful conseq growing out OF H.
Tho General Assembly Of the Cumbcrsnd Presbyterian
Church IL still In session and 10 II thought viii al
proposition made by tho Old school Presbyterian Church
tSouhl to unto with that body, which IL Ia thought will
also make peace with the Church North. thus making
aggregate OF that will give form
OF faith more strength than any Christian BODY la the
United States. These efforts At reunion important as
indicating the progress OF reenn.rucon more solid
aud enduring than any that ppitcaaas can aloct So
mote IL be.
Tho Late Kentucky Elections as Explained
in Kcntucky-A Warning to the Radicals
Against their Policy Of Negro Party
South-The Contest for Governor la Tenncs-
see-Iively TInes-Bitscr Feeling of the Con.
0Hl
the Crops-The Blacks Of Nashvilie-yvhas
the Tennessee Anti-Radicais say Of Senator
Wilson, Kelley and theis Schemes. 60.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. May - 1857
In the journey between Louisville and Nashville At
the present time the traveller need not nger on the way
to discover that the very backward and unprom-
Using for corn and tobacco and that the growing wheat
does not look 90 well a. In Ohio West Virginia. Virginia.
Maryland and Pcnnsylvania: nor will he meet with
much dificulty In getting an explanation Of the lass
Kentucky election, with 10 democratic majority Of
forty.two thousand the radical Congressional
ticket
The radical explanation s that Kentucky s sim rebel
to the backbone, and Ia badly In want OF sound
thrssbing; that she where South Carolina vas in
$780, intent upon rebellion for state rights that her re-
turned rebel soldiers have taken control OF the state
and terrified the wavering Unionss into Submission,
and that Congress will probably be called upon and
compelled TO guarantee republican government to both
Kentucky and Maryland Certainly we have never sesn
anywhere In time Of pesce such feeling Of bitter
tli,y ~ that which IL sharply defined In Maryland,
more sharply in Kentucky, and most vindic,ively in
Tennessee
The democratic explanation Of the late popular Of
Kentucky a. broad and suggestive that Of tho other
side. tobacco planter OF that State observed to-day
discussing the subject -" You ask TO explain this
1900 democratic majority IN Kentucky; will, sir II
rising Of the people TO put down the radical party
before they any fuher They have gone tar enough
We must stop them In the next Congress they will
abolish the constitution and reconstruct all the States
they like confsc~se lands In the South, divide
them up among the nggers. and drive 40 against them
the nggers against 70 Of exterminaton The
radicals getting up Southern black party, cir, and
getting up white party sfpressvvauon, cir.
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