Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-24
An ALABAMA APPEAL.


From the New York Tribune.l
We are pleased to notice that " con-
servatism in Alabama still clings to
those emollient patriarchal principles
which distinguished the old original
Abr8bams of the state. Conservation -
is speedily to hold a convention, and the
Montgomery Mail humanely hopes that
the colored men will send large delega-
tions.n There is still a ehromatic dis
tinetion in Alabama, but it seems to be
altogether in favor of the African de-
scendant. Now, it is quite a credit to
have had so much as adusky great grand
mother, while the ~noble-nOsed white
great-grandfather, with his beautiful and
unexceptionable facial angle, is allowed
10 slumber in his sepulcher without
eulogy Or regret. Nothing more sweetlv
confidential, more tenderly sympathetic,
more gracefully frank, and more finely
,raternal than the appeal Of the Mail
to "the colored men OF Alabama was
ever issued by the spiders of party TO be-
guile the flies of the voting lists.
Canaan mas a ballot in his fist, and ali
his sins are forgiven him-his old tesla
mentary d~elinquencies Genesis tx. 25,
26) his share in the crimes of the
Jebusite, the AmOrite, and the
Girgasite his indomitable iucapacitv
for instruction, and in~cspability Of
rising in the scale Of being, the
hOggings which he has provoked, the
anxieties which he has caused, and the
corn and chickens which be has stolen.
The white man is still to watch over him,
but be will guard and guide him as an
elder brother might care with Affection
ate wisdom for the footsteps of some
unsophisticated Joseph. Really, this
world is getting to be too good a world to
last much longer. Father Miller must
have been right, with a difference. We
shall be swept away, not for our sins, but
Tor our virtues. Human nature is clearly
becoming worthy Of a handsomer resi-
dence
More of the same sort follows. If
Conservatism engages in the business of
cajoling the negro, it deserves precisely
such e~astigatiOns.
Somebody, writing from Memphis, on
the 9Th Of August, to the New York
Herald, saysi
One or two hasty and indisereet per
sons have discharged their negFO porters
for exercising their right of suffrage in
behalf Of BrOWnlow, and one or two of
the papers have counselled such a course.
as retaliatory for what they regard as the
detection Of the negro from his former
masters and present best friends, forget
ful that in so counselling they are proving
themselves their worst enemies. TheV
do not take into account the negro's ig.
nOraDce, nor reason that the negro is
voting for the supremacy Of the radical
party, but enforced his convictions
that through hat radical party he
was made free and through it was
given the privileges of the fran
cbise. They forget that only a
few short months ago many of the lead
ers and leading organs of the conserva-
tive party were not only in opposition to
negro franchise, but bitterly inveighed
against it; and that when forced upon
them by the logic of events, they were
SLOW to take advantage of a power that
might have been theirs well nigh alto
getber. Then, too, they fail to remember
that ever so late as the week preceding
the election the negro was sneered AT
and tainted with being the creature he
cannot help being, and that by conserv-
alive politicians and editors: and that
the evening before the fatal day when
fresh violence vas to be inflicted upon
the body of unfortunate Tennessee. a
sharp and cute conservative orator told
his negro fellOW-eiuizsns how they were
to be debaTred the privilege of voting bv
being challenged SO slowly that but
q could vote per minute, sixty an
hour, and in the i've hsurs set apart for
voting, only three hundred votes could be