Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-28

urday next, at two o'clock pm, for the
purpose of organizing q Seymour and
Blair club.
HupPERrows.-The Democrats of the
Ninth Ward will meet at l.. Correlrs gro
Gerry, corner Of Huppert avenue and Pop
lar street, on Thursday evening, July
3Oth. Prominent speakers will be pre-
sent. siit H-
81 MEMPHIS. July %. 1868.
EDITORS LEDaER: As Brother Mullins
says II have an idee," and, as the
weather is exceedingly warm, propose
to ventilate it. Cannot every Conserva-
tive in the State Of Tennessee, who makes
the proper effort, carry at least one vote
for Seymour and Blair? Admitting the
practicability of this; number the Con-
servatives, voters and disfranchised, and
you will find that it does not require
that every man should make q vote in
order to carry the State for the Demo-
cratic nominee. But admitting that
business disinclination will prevent a
great many from making any effort Of
the kind, the State can yet be carried for
the Democracy, if even one-half Of the
Conservatives will assign to themselves
tasks in this respect and 20 to work with
the determination to wrest from Radi-
calism from one to ten voters.
have another I" idee," viz: That
every man who trades in the city
Of Memphis should enthusiastically
look over the Post and Bulletin to
see who advertises in them, and avoid
such houses in making his purchases /;
for hold that the man who does any
thing to foster and support such papers
in our midst deserves the same contempt
which the papers themselves receive from
the decent portion of the community.
Let these sheets subsist on the earnings
they get from their own homogeneous
crew. Let the Bulletin sue Barbour Lewis
for SANDER, and Esq. Carter divide the
profits of his office with the Post; but
let not man who associates or wishes
to associate with gentlemen support such
sheets.
Now, have heard that some men in
this city, who would dislike to be classed
with the white and black Radicals, upon
some himsy excuse, take the Post instead
of the LEDGER. Now, this seems to me
like very large straw, and exhibits toll
erably clearly which way the atmos
phere is moving. If Eastern or Western
men come here and prefer the negroes as
associates to Southern gentlemen, in the
name of God let them have them. Or,
if a Southern born man is base enough
to join this thieving crew, we can assure
him that we gaiu by all such
losses. There Is some apparent ex-
cuse to be made for imported
radicalism, Notwithstanding the fact is as
palpable and plain as mountain that
radicalism is living lie; but when a
Southern man tells You he thinks that the
whole of this ignorant population Of
blacks should vote and that you should
not, you kno,o that he lies. But if i'm
ported radicalism is mean, how much
meaner and baser is man born and
raised on Southern soil, who perhaps
voted and bawled for secession, who wore
the blue cockade, who Joined the Confed-
crate army, and who of course deserted
"a Ia Beaumont When such men
preach to you radicalism you know that
they not only lie, but that they have some
mean, mercenary, selfish purpose to
serve when they join the party. If they
were possessed of any sensitiveness, it
seems they would wilt and shrivel before
the ten thousand glances of scorn and
contempt that should pierce their mean
and diminutive souls from every quarter.
Il
The rem embrance oftheir conduct toward
their own race and own people should be
to them blighting curse that should
wither their very souls-a frightful ghost
that should haunt them in their waking
mon ents in the deep hours Of the night
it should be to them
g One fatal afiictioR, enc sorrow that throws
It's black shade alike Ger their Joys and
woes.p
If good men in this community think
they are consulting their own interests
when they advertise in the Bulletin and
Post, they should be taught that the
converse Of this is true-thst they can
no more do this thing in this community
With impunity, than they can associate
with thieves without sustaining some in
Jury to their characters Let the line OF
demarkation between the negro worship
ers and Democrats be broad and plain
let Il be extended until there shall be no
intercourse whatever, except from sbso-
late necessity. LKuNAa
sThsy must certainly be ven fss. for We
have not missed any,
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