Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-23
POLITICAL sPECULATIoxs

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Jan. 4, 1858.
| Judge Sharkey, of Mississippi, is here,
/ and represents that the Constitution
I which the Convention of the State will
submit lriH certainly be defeated BIZ the
| people. He declares that with eOni-
dence, Notwithstanding the fact that,
upon the passage OF the reconstruction
bill, It will require only a majority oil
the votes cast at the election for the
adoption Of the Constitution. Further,
Judge Sharkey states that in case of the
failure Of the people to reject the Cousti.
tuition, the Ufite citizens sOiU unite for
the purpose Of sending negro Senators
and Representatives to Congress from
that STATE, excluding ali white men, but
obtaining a majority Of whites in the
Legislature of the State.
Citizens Of Virginia, just arrived here,
also confidently assert that they can de-
feat the Radical negro State Constitu-
ton about to be submitted. They have
no resource for it except by dividing the
Radical negro interest. But they say
also, that, falling to defeat the Constitu-
ton, they will give up the Congressional
representation to the freedmen.
1t is ap~prehended, however, that there
are so many white Radicals in each OF
the ten states who aspire to Federal
Office, that no combination for the cleo
ton of negroes can succeed. Besides,
the National Radical Executive Commit
tee have this matter in hand, and are
using all their power in the South to
keep dorm negro representation for the
present. and till after the Presidential
election. They will buy off the negro
aspirants, and we learn from good au-
thOrity that funds are now being raised
for this purpose. Any negro nominee
for Congress can sell out his chance for q
handsome fortune, because, even if a
single negro should take his seat in the
House prior to the election of President,
the Radical candidate will certainly be
defeated.
The men Of the South could not crafty
and delight the Northern Jacobins rs
much by any other step they could take,
unless it were by numbering their wives
and children and then committing sui
eide to the last man, ss by sanding
seventy negroes to Congress. Witness
the applause with which E negro from
Delaware was lately welcomed as a Del
egate to some division of the Grand
Army Of the Republic. We need not
suppose that that dose will nauseste the
JseObin stomach. Nevertheless, IL a
negro is to be the political peer of the
white man, at home, we hope the
reconstructed States will make him the
peer, at Washington, Of the FEs-
sENDENs and TRUMBULLs, who de-
test ~Jscobinism in their hearts, some
times pretend to a little independence.
and end by being kicked and cuffed into
the traces again. The Northern Jaeobin
is, that the negro is the natural
equal ofthe white man in intellect. If not
his superior; and that the intermizture
Of his "rich tropical bloodU will i'm.
prove the Caucasian race.
The soone the miserable farce of
J aeobinism and Anaeharsis-C Oh otz.sn
IS played out, the better. 1t has to run
course. The negro is to sit in Con-
yress, and be forced into white comnan.
onsbip on railroad cars and steamboats
It hotels and places of amusement
That is the holy mission Of ~JacobinIsm
md its labour Of love.
w. NJ. B., the New Orleans cores.
,ondent Of the New York TINES. snesk-
ng Of the proposed provision in the Ian.
siana Nig-RadicaI Constitution, that
All persons shall enjoy equal rivbtg an,
whils travelling in this Staie in 81
conveyance Of a public character, and ali bp-t
ess places or oLherwlse, carried on by charter.
: for which a license Is required from eitnerI F.,
tate, parish or municipal authority. shall ~
places o. public character. and shall
e open 10 the accommodation and parrona0a :
T all persons without distinction or dfscrins3
alton on account OF race or Color" T,
avs: ;
This is more specific, and gives
egroes the right TO enter the sleeping [
theatres, and bathrooms OF the civ 7
he consequences Of enforcing this pro- I
will be very serious. It will ocea- q
on frequent conflicts between the races. Z
nd will compel the abandonment Of
any social and dramatic enterprises. Il
bless they shall be adapted to the q
liked patronage of blacks and the very L
nall proportion Of whites who will b
with them. When We con- g
Ter that il has been openly a
ocIaimed in Congress that the r,
gro should not vote at the
orth, but that he must vote at the q
we remember that the two 4
ces are separated ia the North Ia the n
sools and IN all places of public enter W
.nment, we feel the degradation still q
lre keenly. Suppose the argument s.
le that the negro at the South must be cl
ned with q vote TO protect his political 81
hts, why does hat involve his right al
eat at the same table, and to dance ia
; Same set with the Southern white ? ia
is a duty to advise you, upsn what is so
sufficient authority, that if the W
g of color shall be drawn in this fiji
many Republican immigrants 81
"a the Northern States will leave IS
State, or combine with their own a
e in resisting negro domination. Some to
hem speak with bitterness of those ia
lgress who surrender the Northern tiy
a residing here to cOmpanionship co.
b, or obedience to, the negro. 1t is IA
5ainly very hard upon those who have fin
tied for the Union and the reconstruc- Co
scts to condemn them either to op- Ms
g their own race d submit to the 95c
70, Tou nsed not be surprised 81 see SIC