Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-02

| and what their True iuteres'o "'S'
vote. without knowing how, just as some
body tells you, is to become his tool and
slave. Is that freedom to chuckle oves
pea. The communication of b. b., IN
another column, is on subject oil
great importance, and in when
there should be q concert OF action
or nothing COED will be done. We
have no hesitation in saying that no
man who voted the Radical ticket, black
or white, should have the patronage OF
any Conservative citizen in the town or
country. In this matter we must divide,
and there is no need of any quarrel
about il. Birds of feather will Hook
together and what is the harm OF 1t
Was it ever considered oppression and
persecution to anybody that man
should patronize his friends Suppose
Radical wanted some tickets printed,
or an advertisement inserted, would he
come to the LEDGER Office, or would he
90 TO the Post, when it was possible for
that paper TO answer his purpose That
is all right. Let him patronize his
friends, and let Conservatives patronize
theirs. If the "colored pussons have
turned governors,o of course they are above
work And as we have many white friends
who need the very toork they are
doin0, and would come here in one week
in sufficient numbers, if they only knew
they would have no negro competition,
let MS at once make it known that we
want them and that we will employ no
other labor. We believe this stand may
be taken by common consent by mer-
chants presently, and by housekeepers
also very soon, and that they will have
an ample supply of white labor by the
time the fall business fairly opens.
A good Conservative man comes here
from the adjacent couA ry and hunts for
Conservative mere ant. He will not
patronize Radical, he says; and SO
hunts ND some old friend and crony, who
is very good Conservative. How would
il work with him if he should find this
friend of his had bought oil his goods of
New Ysrk freedom shriekers, and turned
off good white American. Irish and Ger
man laborers to employ, in preference,
these Radical darkies, who have par
tally quit work and turned their atten-
ton to governing Tennesseans
We must really come to terms about
this matter. And we think it advisable
that there should be such concert of
action as will induce result, or no
action at all. Let an agreement and
understanding be had. Then advertise
the fact far and wide that laborers and
servants are wanted, and we believe we
shall have them without difficulty, besides
the added security of their presence and
sympathy. We must oppose any mere
spasmodic action of few which shows
somebody's spunk. We have tried that
and it will come to nothing. What one
does lot all do Either agree 10 feed
all your sable governors or let
all shirk for themselves. If nothing
is done, except on the spur and by few
individuals, It will not be ak weeks
before things will revert to their present
status. There have been many strong
apprehensions, and there has been indi-
vidual action in this direction heretofore,
and ell to no purpose. The Radical
whites, and the negroes, too, understand
this. And so they laugh at your threats,
We say organize and be thorough
in your work, or quit talking about
it. We want to Cypress no one.
We would do no man whatever
any injustice. But we have been feed.
ing and clothing population since the
war winch OUT tubUicS arc uoluH W up
press US. And we have fair right to
devote our resources to other and better
purposes. Let us have q systematized
and judicious plan, which will result in
bringing in population which cannot be
used to our injury.
r9. Returns from different parts Of the
State, received up to noon to day, are
abundantly sufficient to decide the result
Of the farce yesterday. Brownlow'S re-
election is fact as certainly known at
this writing as it will be when every vote
shall have been fled at the capital That
the complexion Of both branches Of the
Legislature with as black as their pr0de-
cessors, may also be conceded as well now
as at latOr day. Radiealism has swept
everything in the larger towns--Mem-
phis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Co umbia, etc, and with such over
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