Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-06

Northwestern States are any criterion,
the people Of the United States are OPP
posed to negro suffrage. Pride Of race
and the distinctive Tepugnsnce OF the
white for the black man With them Ope-
rates SO an insuperable barrier to politi-
eal utilization: equality, in any sense,
they will not even consider,
Unlike the people Of the South they
have not had to deal with them in any
great numbers, but the few they have
serve all the purposes Of a criterion
from which they judge Of the de-
ploEable consequences to the South OF
their existence ia so many millions.
They,sre wiling, IS We are, that the
negro shall fud a place among them IS
a useful la5oTer, industrious, self-sup-
porting, obe3ient to the laws and sub.
serviens only to public opinion.
They would educate him to such an ex-
cent SO he is susceptible Of education, but
uley tCiU not lift him to q political G6ijd-
jjon or equally Jor Uhich nature has not
fitted him and that he cannot be educated
to sustain.
Such il the settled conviction of the
Northern people as to the negro.
Here in Tennessee, as a political expe-
dieney, the Democracy has three times
tried him, only to find that to vote
means with him to array himself by
the strongest means known TO the law,
against his former master and his best
and most ~considerste friends. They have
lesrHed, or seem TO believe, that the
ballot and Radicalism go together and
without either their reinstatement is q
certainty. Under this plea they act
with the men whom they claim set them
free and against those who formerly
owned them and who they they alledge
would bring them, by the triumph OF the
Democratic party, into complete sub
lection sgain. Argument 10 change
them from this belief hes been ex-
haustcd, and they have been plead
with face to faoe by Intelligent white
men anxious for the success Of the Demo-
cratic cause. But sullen silence, or an
insoleut smirk, are the only responses
we svor heard Of TO be followed, as on
Tuesday last, by an almost unanimous
vote against as. Neither a sense Of
gratitude, such as thsy owe to the
Southern people, nor that selfish instinct
thst dictates to white men tue sensible
policy Of good-GeighborhoOd, could move
this creature o. one political idea from
the pursuit of the plans and purposes Of
his Radical masters. "For GRANT and
fer SMITH" wac the cry by which they
were rallied 70 the polls, and such we're
the names that h6adgd every ticket but
S6 out of over 1000 offered by as many
registered negroes in the city. Some of
them, too, added dup'i.i.y and deceit to
their indifference to Democratic appeals,
and pretended to vote the Seymour
ticket, when in fact, "a the returns show,
they were in fullest sympathy with BAR
BOUR LEWIS and his extreme Radicals.
Not content with which, they, at lesst
in M instance, relying upon Demo-
cratic desire for peace, drove the chsl-
leDgers OF our party from the polls and
for hours controlled the election after
their own fashion and to suit the ends Of
their masters.
With these and other evidences OF his
unfitnsss for the post Of citizenship,
added 70 those which the Northern peo-
pie have discovered in him and which
are commonly accepted by all, we are
opposed TO an acquiescence in the extern
sion Of the suffrage to the negro, by the
people OF Tennessee. Il is traa, that il is
for the present an accomplished fact, ana
that argument by Us will not presently
avail to turn back the unfavoratI e tide, yet
IS 6 prineiple, we are unwilling TO accede
to it, 6us prefer TO struggle on in the " old
f1gsyn way for the white mans party
and for white rulers with white princi.
pies, hoping the time is not far distant
when Democratic Tennessee will vote
with Radical Ohio, Michigan, New York
and Missouri, against "neggo suffrage"