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

lighting. linen they want eho o'"ee'
the salaries, and money TO ill their car
pet.bags. Aud they cannot have tna'
unless their party succeeds at the North
| Ii they can get up difficulty here be
tween the whites and blacks, 1t will he'll
their party in the Northern States
because they can then write up ana 'ei
them of outrages and crimes anc
horrible things, which will happen mere
and which they will be sure TO say are
ali the fault Of the Southern whites
That will gain them votes among the
friends of the colored men in the North,
who always serve them by voting and
saving a good word for them, but never
by giving them any money. 1t is be-
causs they want to keep their offices and
get all the money Of the white men,
and the black men too, that those fellows
are abusing the white People so much
and pretending that they are rebels, when
they are doing nothing but trying to make
an honest living. They know that when
these troubles are all over and the coun'
try is at peace they win have no better
chance here than they had in the States
they came from, where every decent man
kicked them out of doors. And so they
mean to keep up storm as long as they
can-no matter if thousands Of white and
black men, women and children lose their
lives by it. We ask colored men to think
about these things. What good can it do
any of the Southern white people, except
these carpet baggers, to have any DIS
turbance? The merchants DO not want
it; they want TO sell goods The farmers
do not want It; they want TO make cot
ton. The mechanics and laborers do
not want it; they want large prices
for their wares, plenty of work and
good wages. And the honest black men
do not want it They want a chance to
work, make property, have as good right
to it as any white people have, have their
own churches and schools, and enjoy
themselves, and be happy with their own
families in their own houses. And that
is lust what all the Democrats want them
to have, and mean they shall have, unless
they let the carpet-baggers lead them
into violence and crime against white
people. If they 60 to war against white
people, do they think the whites
will not be their enemies2 The carpet
baggers tell them the Ku-Klux are their
enemies. There is not word OF truth IN
that story. The Ku-Klux may be known
by their acts. What have they ever done
but to punish some criminal rascais,
black and white? Nothing-and they
mean nothing else. They are just as
good friends TO peaceabie black people
as they are 10 peacedble chife people.
They will never harm either. Every
body knows that from their acts. Let
there be no strife between honest black
men and honest white nen. Honest
black men should combine with white
men to prevent it. If they will do that,
we shall have no trouble. If they do not,
and we have trouble, there will be
great deal of harm done, not only to the
whites, but to themselves, which cannot
be avoided. Do they love the carpet
baggers SO we'll as to be willing to lose
their lives for them7 Have the carpet
bsggers never deceived them? Do they
share their money with them, as men
who came all the way from Massachusetts,
down here to befriend them and nothing
else would do? Such characters are
never friends to nybody, any more than
thieves and pickpockets are. Wetell col
ored men the honest truth that they should
beware of them, and never irnst one of
them, and keep the peace with white peo
pie, in spite of Tom Hamilton's militia.
If Tom Hamilton did not want to 90 to
Congress and get sone more sugar, what
would be care about the black peoplef
The black men of Tennessee have only
to do right now aud scorn the advice of
all such rascals, to make the white peo-
pie their fast friends forever. The only
way such fellow as Hamilton deserves
to be received by black men is with a
shower of rotten eggs. Let all labor for
the peace. And when Mr.. Harris or any
other respectable colored man walks by
such fellows, let him hold up his head
and look down on them with contempt.
Mr.. EDITOR: There 10 one reason why
Hon. John W. Leftwich ought not to be
elected to Congress. That reason is this;
be is now Mayor of the city of Memphis.
The city cannot, in justice to the citizens,
surrender the Office of Mayor for the
present By the ordinances of the city,
&c tha Mavor resign the election of a new