Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-10
A War Of Races Imminent.

WAT OF HnCHn ImmluoAl.
From the New York Worldl
We are profoundly impressed with the
conviction that war Of races, initiated
by the Radicals for political effect, isim.
minent in tho South. The reasons oil
this belief may be thus given:
/. Ia North Carolina the pretsnded
Lieutenant Governor. the pretended
Speaker OF the House, aud eighiy'threo
members Of the surreplitious Legislature,
lately issued an address in which, among
other revolutionary utterances, appears
the following detestabe Indictment Of the
negroes TO rape, arson aud murder:
did II never occur to you, ye gentle
men Of education, property and charac-
ter, We men and especially ye women,
who never received aHything from these
colored people but services, kindness and
protection-did IL never occur to you
that these same people, who are so very
bad. will not be willing to sleep in the
cold when your houses are denied them,
merely because they will not vote as you
do2 That they may not be willing to
starve while they are willing to work for
bread2 Did it never occur to you that
revenge, which is so sweet to you, may
be as sweet TO them? Hear us, IL moth
ing else you will hear, did il never occur
to you that if you kill their children with
hunger they will kill your children with
fear2 Did it never occur to you that IL
You, e cd people, maliciously determine
that they shall have no shelter, they may
determine that you shall have no shel-
ter r. tA
The result of this teaching is seen in
the following dispatch:
"WMMIxGToS, N. c., August 3l.-A
difficulty occurred in Wilson county, on
Saturday, between Zsno H. Green, q
white man, and David Rufin, colored
man, 10 which the latter was sho, and
slightly wounded in the leg. Green was
arrested and bound over to appear before
the Supreme Court Afterward, Bill
Grimes, negro. made long speech |
from the courthouse, in which be urged |
the burning of Green's house. About IL |
clock, Green's barn was discovered 10
be on fire, but he aud bis family were
afraid to venture out ofthe house. Grimes
was seen near the barn just Before the
FIRE. he was arrested and brought be-
fore the Magistrate, and in default Of
$500 security was sent to jail. The Gem.
muHiry is greatly excited, but no further
disturbance is apprehended." O. us
So much for North Carolina. The
scoundrels who have been foisted into
power here at the point of the bayonet
are rousing the negroes to the use of fire
and sword, and who knows how long the
patience of the Southern whites may suf-
g a., Eon~, n n, frnrn raprsaa1
IL In South Carolina the negy oes are
organizing into military bands, aud arms
are entering the State from the North for
their use. Some few days 81 nee we were
privately apprised that certain parties in
The North we're sending these weapons to
Ibe blacks, and now the carpet-bag Gov i
ernor, who finds that he and his cosdju-
tors have raised devil they cannot lay,
is out in circular reprehending the for
nation of military organizations and 'the
Introduction of arms into the State"
Who isintroducing these arms? We will
ell you. 1t is the leaders of the Radical
party. All these threatening Indications,
III these foreshadowings of blood and fire,
IRE dictated from the Radical headquar-
ers in Washington. These men are mad
md desperate. 1t is all or nothing with
hem. The issue is not simply defeat,
int snnihilation, and, as last desperate
esort, they seek to repeat the murderous
trategy by which they fred the Northern I
eart with Memphis and New Orleans. :
I'LL In Georgia the pretended Senate I
as called upon the man who writes him
elf Governor, to disbsnd all armed asso-
tatt bn L.
anne dispatch which states this say that I
rmed bands of negroes exist throughout
he State, and in one county have re-
listed the Sheriff. More than this, the
Chief Justice, Ex-Governor
oseph E. Brown, the captor of Fort
'ulaski, and afterward orator-in-chief at =
be late Radical Convention in Chicago, e
nd fuglemanin-cbief for that interest in II
be State, offered indictments TO the 6
lacks to violence in his late speech in ! Q:
Ltlants. The streets of the reconstructed
apital have already been the scene :
{ one pistol fight between the races,
nd in Georgia at large, as through
ut the other Southern States, it
Iould seem that this latest Radical adj
ice is ready to bear fruit in blood. A
~. In Tennessee the situation is, per-
APPS, even more appalling The unre-
trained ferociiy Of Brownlow at the head
{ his loil" militia, for it is more than
robable the militia bill will pass, will Al
eyond doubt lead to bloodshed, and 90 :
imminent appears this peril that on be- +
sf of the good citizens of the State, a
enilemas has been dispatched 10 the
forth to represent the situation in hopes A
{ producing such moral pressure upon z
Irownlcw and his Legislature as may Is
lske them halt in their desperate de- 2,
igns. anf y
V. In Arkansas there are grava de Z
lrbances--so grave that the -,reteaa "A
Governor has been forced T., hurry 10 The
ecollec,ion OF the ..lllican riots and the
lo.Dusn ssa.e :" preparation then shown
sue nes' ,es is still fresh, and in all
We, ." ..es OF the South the telegraph,
,.," information and the press repre- ,
6 the came condition Of latent ami. !
ready at the least occasion to
burst forth into active violence.
For this state of things the Radical
party is strictly responsible. II took the
whole management Of this Southern
question, and if we are, unhappily, TO
see a war Of races in that beautiful but
oppressed region, it must be held an
swerable for all its horrors
Henry Ward Bsecher.
This sanity politician, who prayed for
the dsmuation of the South, and who