Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-08

ana tApuuhucf VI tht Ituoihi NoholNu-
ton, and the birth place OF President
Taylor--the county of Charles City, the
birth place aud home while living of
President Tyler; and many other
counties equally noted on account Of
some proud or pleasing historical Incl.
dent were represented in the late sove-
reign Convention -four State by ignorant
and semisayage Radical negroes. And,
as IL to cap the climax OF grotesque and
revolving absurdity-as though in su-
preme ridicule aud contempt Of the
"eternal fitness of things" and Of all the
proprieties and decencies OF lile-nearly
all our institutions of learning were
also represented by stupid and illiterate
negroes = Hampden Sydney College,
Randolph Macon, the University OF Vir-
ginia, and the illustrious and venerable
College of William and Mary. Surely
these details should be sufficient TO afford
even to the blind people of the North, q
proper conception Of the bitter aud hu.
initiating fruits of negro suffrage, and
awaken their disgust and abhorrence for
that Radical and Jacobinical policy
which seeks to trample "all that is lovely
and Of good report among men beneath
the feet of stold ignorance and savage
brutality
Look, also, at the character Of the
white Radical leaders OF the South, who
have banded the negroes together in
secret, oath-bound league organizations,
who have, without provocation or decent
pretext, arrsyed them in hostility to
their former masters, and who, in fact,
own them body and soul, and control
their every thought, sentiment and mo-
ton. The Radical party south Of the
Potomac-ths white portion of it, at
least-is infinitely meaner, more un-
principled, vindictive and brutal than
the same party at the North. There
its leaders, at least, are men Of talent
and of social influence, and of personal
respectability. Here, on the contrary,
they are the very scum and dregs Of So
ciety. There the hateful and dangerous
element of race antagonism is absent;
here il is the prevailing and dominant
influence. A few mean, selfish, un-
scrupulous white men, having separated
themselves from their race, and placed
themselves at the head of the blacks,
brandish their weapons and urge them
on a crusade against the white race,
lust as we have recently seen few
white men of the same class leading the
savage Indians against the whites, and
encouraging them in their brutal ex.
cesses.
Under such circumstances, with such
mass of ignorance and superstition
compacted, organized and controlled by
such reckless and depraved desperadoes,
what prospect is there for US of peace or
Justice, or security Of life, liberty or prop
erty, in the event of the ratification of
the proposed Constitution Why, negro
suffrage and consequent negro suprem-
acy established in our organic law, would
involve our certain political and social
degradation, despoil us of all our rights
and liberties, entail upon US inevitable
and irremediable pecuniary ruin, and
put US, in every conceivable way, wholly
and completely at the mercy of a scurvy
set of white knaves and colored barba.
rians. With the executive, legislative
and judicial power of the State in the
hands of these venal and self seeking
white adventurers and their penniless
and infammable black followers, the de-
struction of the very last vestige of our
liberties would be easily accomplished;
and the confscation of the entire prop.
erty of the white population, by the sim
pie process of taxation alone, would be
the speedy and infallible result. 1t is
we'll known that all laws relating to the
tenure of real estate are passed by the
State Legislature, and that all suits re-
lating to real estate are tried by the State
courts; and, as the negroes would un-
doubtedly elect the Legislature and Dr.
ganze the courts, it is as clear as the
oon.day sun that they would have the
property of the whites, and all they hold
dear, completely in their own hands and
at their own disposal To vote down the
Constitution, therefore, is at once duty
and necessity, and constitutes the only
probable hope of escape from the unex-
ampled evils and perils that menace US.