Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-04-22
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veins and arteries of the body polite the
poison of negro suffrage.
The negro suffrage organs insist that
we shall argue tbs matter, and show
arhg the colour of mans skin should
exclude him from the right to vote. AS
well insist that we should argue to prove
that Hottentot, an Esquimsux or 3
Digger Indian, Paiute, sn Apache or a
Toncawe should not vote. 1t IS because
the race is an inferior one, which can
have 10 right by majority of votes to
rule a superior race or TO OverTule it: be-
cause God has taught the superior race
that 1t degrades him and is dishonour and
suicide to submit to this: because the
superior race has no right to abdicste the
power Of governing, and cannot, by put
! ting it in the hands of negroes, relieve
I itself of the responsibility which its su-
periOrity and capacity impose upon it.
It is because, although a fer Of the black
/ race, chiefly those who are in part OF
white blood, are competent to vote Uu-
derstanding,y, the mass of the race are
not whit better fitted to do so than the
apes, and never viii be. Education, if
they can be educated at all, does not in
the least increase their capacity or their
fitness,-
The gift of the right of suffrage to the
negro is a fatal and deadly one. It is
the Upas for the race, which, seeming to
shelter and protect, will Wither and de-
stroy it. 1t at one instant made them
a hostile and intrusive race, the aptsgo-
nists OF the white race, encsmped on
the soil, like horde of bsrbarians that
swarm into q peaceful land to rob and
plunder it. Brought at once into COLI
sion at all points with the white man,
and their antagOnism exsspeTated by
military folly and Bureaucratic encour-
sgement of idleness and insolenee, the
negro wastes away and dies, by means
Of influences as mysterious as those to
which the great epidemics owe their
birth and their powers of destruction.
/ The two races cannot live together, IN
less the iuferiour obsys and serves the su-
perior. That is GOD's law. If it is un-
lust the injustice is His. The Indian
was not made to serve. He endeavOured
to Withstand the progress of the white
race. and has melted away. The negro,
freDzied with the boon of freedom, drunk
with the sense Of power has cut himself
/ of from all the sympathies Of the white
man; and the very soil on which he
walks is uneasy at his presence.
What fate do the malignant reptiles OF
Radicalisrn deserve, who have achieved
this hideous result? Isit q mere political
question, that permits those of different
! creeGs to respect and admire each other,
as generous enemies may do? No. They
/ sre the enemies of the human race. They
should be despised and detested by every
white man who believes in the superiOur
dignity Of the Caucasian race, and that
it alone is able to maintain tree govern
ment or can attain intellectual eminence.
Is there a white man in South Carolina,
with q spark OF manly feeling in his
bosom, that does not hate, with a con-
eentrated bitterness ofiudignation, every
man, high or low, who has assisted to
make the negroes of that State the mas
ters of it, and to set Ethiopians in the
places once adorned by the PINCKNEYs
the HAYNES, the MCDUFFIEs, the But
LERs and the LEGAREs?