Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-03

as the surest means Of building up the
city, reviving enterprise aud business,
retaining aud bringing in money, and
giving the prosperity Of the city, when u
returns again, somewhat Of permanenee
Our suggestion has met prompt. favor
able and earnest response from the
mechanics OF the city. VIII not CAPT
talisis alsa come with some portion OF
their means to the rescued We shall
see--and we know they will have reason
enough TO regret II, if they do not Now
is the time, when everything is ripe for
il, when manufacturers and mechanics
are jealous, when everything else Is so
depressed, aud real estate, houses ana
goods 20 a.begging. Now is the time
for the best terms and the surest sue
cess.
As auxiliary to this, and greatly cal
cula,ed TO give security, and bring in
capital, we have also suggested a STATE
CosvEgrIos, which we believe is the
mos, certain as we'll as the shortest road
out Of the darkness of the night Give
us good government and equal rights
10 all men alike, black and white, and
We believe the city and State will spring
forth to greatness with surprising and
magic power Manufacturing and BUSH
ness enterprise will be rife at once. All
who are enemies to such government
as we had before the war slavery now
dead, and which is abandoned by
common consent, excepted are
enemies Of the State. And such
government, and no other, is pre-
cisely what the proposed Convention will
set up. And hence, wanting to wrong
and Cypress no one, but only to escape
disaster, which is the consequences at
this moment Of bad government alone,
we hold those who oppose us enemies in
this war, in peace friends. And as
pressing necessity of the hour, and cal
culated to facilitate the meeting of a
Convention, without which the State iciu
still remain under bondage, eren sup
posing Democrat in The presidential
chair, we also urge the present union
and organization of all white men and
patriots into one solid, working mass.
And in this connection we also indorse,
as necessity of the situation, the fol-
lowing advice of Saturdays Avalanche
which speaks rather with the energy
the times demand, than as an extremist
which the effeminate and insipid, not the
voice of sturdy patriotism, would urge
as its fault:
Let call be made at once to bring the
people together in the different counties.
Prepare n constitution and bylaws for
the organization of white mans party,
upon the grand principle that white
men shall rule the country" Invite the
whole white population to enroll them.
selves as members. They will do it. All
that is needed is for some one to
start the movement and give it
shape and form. Draw q broad
line of distinction between the white
Southern people and the negro Radical
party. The latter are seeking profit in
| the degradation and ruin of the white
race. They demand the degradation of
the Southern people as the only means
of their prosperity, and are willing to
obtain the latter as the price of the
former. They are the enemies Of our
people, and deserve to be, and should
be held and treated as such. Refuse
them all social and business in
tercourse with white men. Employ
no physician, lawyer. school teacher,
mechanic or laborer who belongs to the
Radical party. Deal with no merchant
or tradesman, of any kind, who refuses
to aid in the work of restoration upon
terms of equality, justice, and constitu-
tional right. Kind treatment, constant
employment and fair wages for those OF
the negro race who know and keep their
places, but no social or business quarters
to any white man who aids or approves
the despotism that disgraces the State.
There must be no more namby-pam-
byism and "take care T" irresolution, eff
feminacy and undeserved charity to those
men if we would have and maintain the
rights of free people. That our State
government is a sheer usurpation is no.
torious. And that the men who domi-
nate it do 90 for selfish and unpatriotic
purposes is equally so. We do not wish
to revenge our wrongs by injury to one OF
them. But the men whose business it is
TO deceive, mislead, and pander to the
negro population, against the interests
Of all men alikey black and white, and
sap the life blood of the State, should be
resolutely ostracised from society and
business. Halfway measures will not
do. And when we shake hands with our
enemies, it must be when they cease their
infamous work of pelf, d0magoguery and
destruction.
Give, Give.
CT. ,ka Convantiona have got fairly