Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-11

unit OF aggression, and 30 temptations
were held u TO induce them to unite
against She whites, for the purpose OF
~plundering them. It would be as sensi-
bic to arm an insane man with a razor,
as to give the negro that weapon Of Of
fence, the ballot They know nothing
about political history and political sci
ence, nothing about the true nature OF
the Government, nothing, any more
than apes, of the laws Of trade, Of politi-
cal economy, Of finance, Of the cur
reney,-Dot a whit more, Of any Of these
matters or of anything else that human
creatures ought to know, before being
entrusted with the ballot, than those OF
their own race who yetinhabit the equa-
tOrial regions Of Africa. The right OF
suffrage is sn immense destructive
power, created by Congressional Scoun-
drelism, and put at the disposition Of the
political adventurers who have come
south to erploiter q subjugsted country,
and are in every way proving them
selves the enemies of the human race,
=" towering" to borrow in part the words
Of GRATTAN, tower the country appor-
toned to them, like ill-omened birds,
with s~epulehral note, cadsverous aspect,
and broken beaks, watching to stOOp and
pouncs upon their prey
Giving the negro the ballot, the Gov
ernment, STOPPING to 3 detestable vii
lainy, gives to these greedy and raven
Gus demagogues as many votes as they
can bride and buy with the Inducements
and g~ratuities which 1t furnishes them
by an Infamous and unprincipled legisla-
tion, and those which the Iscarist Of the
Commonwealth supplies by his PROPOSE
ton and promise of confiscation. To
unite them sgsinst the whites, obscene
emisssries traverse the South haraugu-
ing them, and with 3 depraved malig-
nifty limiting at eonfscstiOn to inisme
their cupidity and buy their votes with
the hope and expectation Of plunder. II
was inevitable, under the wisest man.
agement, that they should abuse the
right Of suffrage, never before so prosti-
tuted. never before entrusted TO such
paws since the making Of the world. It
was inevitable that, pulled up and AFRO
CANT with their new importance, they
should become every way offensive to the
whites, and provoke collisions with them,
and BY degrees earn their ~detestation.
/ Nor was it enough to give them the
right Of suffrage, bat military despOtism
also interfered to increase the mischief,
by compelling their admission to public
/ eonveyanees, so that not even ladies
/ should be permitted to travel without
being liable 10 be placed in immediate
contact with animals redolent with the
odours Of their own persons and the sta
bic or hovel combined. The small
mesaness which suggested to 8 pitiful
tyrant this new humiliation Of a gener-
Gus people, cared little for its conse-
quences in swelling the seIf-importsnce
Of the negro, and making his very pres
ence intolerable in a community, where
as yet gentlemen and ladies survive, and
the social equality Of the negro is not
regarded as the beginning Of the mil
lenium.
WILSON and KELLY, SICKLEs and
! SHERIDAN, and those who here in Mem
phis make speeches to the negroes, and
Iabour to exasperatethem against thepeo-
pie among whom they have always lived,
and hold out to them hopes of confsca-
ton, and organize them into Secret So
/ cieties which prostitute Masonic f5rmU-
las TO most unholy purposes, and secure
secresy and blind obedience by hideous
oaths, are all i~ncendiaries alike, and il
their plans succeed in full, viii prove
asssssins; for they are leaving nothing
undone to wake and arCuse the savage
passions of tho negro, to e~zaspeEats his
insoIent and staggering arrogance, to
excite bis greed, oupidiJy and lust, and
to produce collisions between him and
the d-isfranchised whites, that shall end
in all the horrors and atrocities Of Ssnto
Domingo.
MOsl Of these men are merely willing
to hazard these horrible consequences, in
order to secure power In their own bands,
and be able to enrich themselves at the
expense Of the people whom they have
relieved Of the trouble Of selfgovern-
menL We DO not suppose that they de-
sire a wal Of races bat they are willing
to take the chances Of it, with al lis hor-
rOrs, rather than lose power. There are
men in Congress whom to accuse Of an
intention to produce such a war, is not
injustice for it alone could satiate that
intense hatred Of the South which burns
in the bosOms Of STEVENS and COvODE.
These, and many like them, men of the
stamp OF that Chicago miscreant who
proposed to mix arsenic with the 6our to
be sent to the starving women and chile
dren Of the South, would rejoice to see
all the atrocities Of the French revolution
and the msssscres Of Santo Domingo re-
produced in the detested Southern land
They are maddened by their own evil
passions, mere drunken raving maniacs,
who beloh out the blasphemies and the
hideous howlings Of hatred, and long to
be able to prosecute and murder,
If it Is desirable that peace and har-
mony should be restored, and that tran
guilty instead Of disorder and discOn-
tent should reign in the South,-if the
leaders of Radieslism really want a gen
uine restoration of the Union, it is sheer
lunacy to diafranchise the leading men
Of the South, and so create a foreign, a
hostile and a disturbing element in the
State, while they confer the right OF suf-
frage on every ignorant and ~semi-eivil-
lied snd semi-christianized black barba-
rian in the country. Stand with US on
the corner OF Main and Madison, and
take note Of the men and animals that
pass during half an hour. Here is a man
whose name is known to the whole
country, long a prominent statesman,
and the editor Of an influential journal
at the Capital, a nan Of mature
intellect, ripe Judgment, scholar
and cultivation. He has no
vote. He syapathised wah he
ttptetDHs heio passes a nefCuauti
princely in his charities, public-spirited,
intelligent, weIl-read, familiar with the
laws Of commerce and the intricacies Of
trade, arm-in-arm with a banker to
whom the mysteries Of finance, banking
and exchange are as familiar as the simp-
knowledge 70 common men. On
like these, the prosperity Of Mem
phis and the whole country, and the
comfort Of the labouring classes almost
entirely depend for legislation can, at
the utmost, do little more than refrain
from doing mischief. These men own
estates, aud contribute thousands
to the revenues Of the nation and of the
wretehed State that disfranchises them,
and consents TO be governed by men Of
that class which never rises TO the sur
except in times Of popular commo-
ton, and when the aecursed souls of dead
miscreants like MARAT, CoUTHoN, Ro-
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