Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-30


Not for the benefit Of the negro him.
self, whose welfare Is Of As little impor-
lance or interest to the leaders of the
Jscobins, as the pawns are to the chess
player, or tie lives Of private soldiers to
strategists Ike GRANT,-not ia order TO
make freedom, il possible, a blessing and
not an unmitigated curse to the ETH
opian race, nearly a million Of whom
emancipation has already ex~terrainated,
and In a great degree stopped the in
crease Of the raees-but in order to Sc
cure the domination Of the miserable
radical minorities in the Southern States
aud perpetuate the republican reign Of
raseality and corruption, the Congress
OF the United States committed one of
the two great GRIMES, Of which the coun-
try'sgttsrrui ni is TO be the eonsequence,-
a crime without 8 parallel in the history
Of the world, a crime in comparison
with which assassination is laudable,
and the treason Of ARNOLD was a virtue,
a crime enormous in its guilt, as its con-
sequences must inevitably be stupendous
and horrible beyond the reach Of human
Imagination.
Already the dire results Of this i'm
mense crime are beginning to deveIope
themselves, and the prophetic spirit may
begin to read the terrible aud bloody
pages Of q horrible future. The univer-
sal decentralization that must inevitably
end in despotism has begun, the resort
to Misrepresentation, lies and all the APP
planes Of corruption. Not only is the
negro becoming of less use as a la
bourer, but causes are at work that must
make him utterly worthless, destroy the
cultivation Of sugar and cotton and
turn the great a~lluviaI plains and fertile
fields Of the River Mississippi and its trib-
utaFies into deserts aud thiekets Of weeds
and brambles and hrushwood. The
party that Gala Itself Conservative, led
Gsha~ q terrible illusion, blinded by
its eagerness to throw off military des-
potism, to reclaim its right Of free suf-
frage, and re-invest itself with political
power, has flung away everything that
was worth conserving, and engaged
heart and hand in the wretehed work
Of destruction, by accepting the negroes
unfortunately as political equals, in
the vain and idle hope Of winning their
votes from the Jacobins and the Freed
mems Bureau, with as little reason to
hope for it, as a pauper would have to
compete with a Wall-street millionaire
on the New York Stock Exchange.
They hare the means to Bag the negro
p0ts, and ue hare not. Meanwhile it is
a mad race, already commenced, be-
tween the two parties, TO see which can
do most to make freedom a curse and
calamity TO the negro, and the utter ruin
Of the country.
a secret, oath-bound organization, in
tended, perhaps, to effect only political
purposes, bit ready to be used Tor Others
from the contemplation whereof the i'm
~agination recoils with horror and con-
s~ternation, exists and is constantly ex-
tending and become solidified, through
out the South. The whole land is, as it
were, mined in every direction, and the
military despotism established over the
country is likely to prove most aceepta-
bic, and to be p~erpetusted, as the only
security against the fearful excuses Of
anarchy aud the horrors of relapse into
bauSarism. Those who most detest it,
viii become r~eeonciIed to it, and beg for
its continuance.
TO extend and perfect this -organiza-
10 secure the negro vote to the
Jacobins, an immense fund is being
raised in the North, and itinerant ex-
hOrters are to traverse every portion of
the Southern States, not to teach the
negres anything they ought to know, not
30 pgomote harmony between taem and
those to whom they must lock for en-
ployment, not to urge them to peaceful
labOur and the pursuits Of industry, and
TO prove by their good conduct, sobriety
and self-restraint that they are fit to be
free, but only TO exasperate them against
thei- old masters, to impress upon them
that the Republicans alone have been
their friends, and to urse thea to close
up their ranks and vote in solid phalanx
against all rebels that offer for Office,
and in favour Of their p~hilanthropic and
disiuterested friends. HENRY WILSON,
the first Of those in the field, assures them
that " there viii be no impeachment to
representation in Congress, if
they elect Union men :" and that be
will leave Virginia with the full eonvie-
ton that a Republican Governor, Legis-
end two Senators will be elected.
In other words, he indicates this con-
summation Of ViTginia's disgrace, as the
condition OF her restoration 70 the Union.
He should also have expressed This full
conviction F." that her old motto, " Sic
'e1lPer 4ranais" viii be erased from
lsoutsheln.
While be repeatedly and urgently ex-
lorts the negroes to vote together, and
IL no case to vote for a rebel he hypo-
..ritically tells them that he is noeSin
avour Of creating "a black mans
No he is ~lab0uriBg to make a
iulatto party, Of negroes, loyalists and
enegades, in which the negroes are to
'ote, and the white men to hold the
.fces and %monopoize the profits. He
s in favour Of arrayiug the negroes in a
old body against all white men who
pheld the Tag Of the C~onfederacy in the !
moke Of a hundred battles, Of creating !
p irrecoaeiieable hostility between
hem, and or causing those who would
ain help the negro to become worthy Of !
civil rights Of freemen, to detest him !
s a curse and pest to the country. Heis
J favour, and so are those in Tennessee
hose sentiments be speaks, of making :
negro the political ruler and master q
{ MISREPRESENTATION Of the white men f
the South. WILSON tells the Vir- c
mia negro that he has no fear of the y
'loured vote Of Virginia being con- +
oiled by the secessionists," and advises d
I who favour freedom OF progress to go v
His whole object is to e~onsoli- Z
ate the negroes into one party, that x
icy may cast a united vote. It is for d
at he is stumping the South. He is an Of
cendiary, aud the woEst enemy of the
ce Of which he pretends to be the sin -
re and di-sinterested friend. &
Nor are these white missionaries the it
lly persons who are engaged in per- 10
aiding the negroes 70 that which is to a.
owe their undoing. The poor misera- N
e fools, crazed with the unexpected "
yacy Of freedom and expecting a car 70
val Of license and laziness, are also TO Pi
the prey aud tools Of worthless and IN ag
incipied persons Of their own colour, of =,
ore Intelligence than the masses, glib ~ =
speech, fashy fellows with oiled locks Of
d glossy garments, who ape the man vo
rs Of those above them ia the social co
Ne, and assume to be the gentry and S Se3
.tricians Of their race. To these. des- =
led to become ~nuisances and pests. the sta
nservatives foslishly give an exaqger- eai
d imPortanee by cabling them with sh'
newhat oBseTaious attentions. ana ov,
gaining cor their Influence by nrop,. no.
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