Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-06
OUR SOCIETY.

A correspondent of the Chicago Times,
writing from this city, INDUCES this re-
mark:
Society is not yet restored. Many
families are still divided The Northern
and Southern circles do not affiliate
and there is much complaint on the part
of Northern parties in that respect IL
will, of course, require time Tor the
working of conciliatory measures ana
feelings.
If the Northern and Southern circles
do not affiliate, the fault surely is not
with the latter. Affiliation includes the
idea of equality, and one cannot exist
without the other. Radical circles hold
themselves above circles composed OF
rebels. They are here as conquerors, to
disfranchise, prescribe and outlaw the
people. They deny to them the priv
lege of voting and of holding Office, while
they accord it to the black population.
The Radical circles do not wish to
affiliate with Southern circles, and the
best proof Of it is found in persistent
and unwearied struggle to produce bad
blood between the two races. Will any
man associate on terms of equality with
another man whom he thinks unworthy
TO vote, or hold an office, or sit on ajuryf
Certainly not, nor should he. A man
may commit murder, rob, burn houses,
and 20 through the whole cata'
lopue of crimes, and he may walk
up to the polls and vote, or hold an
Office, and do anything free man may
do His crimes make no disqualified
ton. But if he is known to sympathise
with brother or a friend, who went into
the Southern armies, he is stript of every
right ordinarily exercised by freeman.
Does any sensible man suppose that
Radical circle would stain their
regulations by an association with
other circles whose crimes are
greater than murder, arson, robbery,
etc, etc. Surely not Nor can South
ern circles aspire to an afihation with
circles that are truly loyal Such an
aspiration would be absurd, if not crimi-
nal Southern men who have no choice
between governing themselves and be-
ing governed, should be duly grateful
to Northern men for relieving them OF
the cares of Office, and turmoil Of the
ballot-box. Northern patriots, those
kind and genial eonquorors, in con
nection politically, not socially, with
the colored people, are entirely capable
of taking care Of our interests. As to
the thing of association, or utilization Of
the proscribsr and the prescribed, the
cououeror and the conquered, 1t is out OF
the question. The party Of the first part,
that is to say, the proscriber and con.
oueror. will not, socially, affiliate with
the colored people to whom they have
extended the franchise. What Ounce
could expect them to affiliate with q
class from whom they have withheld the
franchise2 Does any one ever hear OF 2
social parry OF white aud black Radicals
in this ciiy2 Does any one ever see q
black man sitting at the table Of q white
Radical2 Does anybody ever see any
evidence going to show that the white
Radicals regard the eolorsd people in
any other way than as convenient tools
TO carry out their ambitious designs
We are told that the great body Of the
colored people viii vote for BroSn-
low. Would any colored man dare 70
approach BrownloW's table except in the
character Of waiter Would any col
orsi man dare to approach the table Of
any Memphis Radical except in the
sane charactsr2 Never How, then,