Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-11
NESEso ssFFRAGE.
what the Press Has 20 Say
About "a.

From the Louisville Courier and Jour
ysCJ CT Sunday, we clip the following:
Both Iowa and Minnesota have adopt
ed negro suffrage. no doubt negro SUI
/ frsGe is good enough for communities
/ where the negroes are as good as the
white people. But would the whites of
the two States mentioned favor that
GbOmin8ti0n il the negroes we're q tenth
/ part ss numerous there as they are in
/ the South Would they favor il in their
/ own States but for the fact that By doing
SO they think that they can with the
more EisUsibility urge its enforcement
/ in the South by Federal power?
/ HIe hope thGt the dag is ct hand lghea
/ the negroes Of the South J0iT in, IKE
8CgaTD25 Of gTGsshoppsrs or clouds Of SeO-
/ eateen-year LocUsts, every State that UOt-
unfairly adopts negro suffrage.
From the Bolivar Tenn Bulletin, of
the 7th, we take this paragraph from al
article on the election:
There ia no excuse. One hundred and
fortg-six negroes in this neighborho0d
belCng TO the Loyal League, every ore
OF whGm can be feTTeted Cut-the most
OF them already are knOwn-aGd should
be made to feel what it Is TO encourage
a common thief in opposition 60 a gen
tleman. They have taken the advice of
such men as PrOsser and Smith; let
them remain with their Idols and en-
courage only the few honest ones who
did what they could to ward off the hard
ships which Radicalism has aad intends
30 force upon us rs . people. The white
man who efuses 60 do this Will fail 10 Do
his duty, and Il but little, II any, better
ta2n 3 Loyal League aieve himself For
cur part, our bands are clean-of Pretense
or pauds~iBg and shall ever remain SC.
n here is a white mau IN this comC1u-
nifty who desires 10 hsrb0r viper that
viii tuTn upon him and sting him TO
death, let him whistle 20 tns wind and
give employment to Loyal Lesguers.
We are satisfied that all will be we'll that
ends we'll. Are yeu?
From the St. Louis Times, Of sunday
The Memphis AUal1achs, hitherto
deemed the especial organ Of the anti
pOdes OF Greeley sBd Wendell Phillips,
now declares for 3tgsysTsGt suffrage, and
urges "upCn the Democratic party tue
necessity OF cultiysting the confidence
OF the colored citizens" The wisdom of
this policy, in p narrow, partisan sense. /
is unqusstiopable. Democratic leaders 1
msy oai-generHi their r ldicsl rivals, and /
the negro may become the plant tool OF
new class OF political masters. But |.
the inquiry remains to he solved whether .
the eouDtry's good will be promoted. II /
there had been lever ignorant, unworthy (
votes in 1850 and i6l, the South and he .
Unicn would have been spared multiplied .
ealamities. Since negro suffrage in Ten
Dessae is 3 fixed fa0J and the policy is .
incorporated ia the Laws OF the State and
habits OF the negro Tsce, there might be
valid reason for 5asent 60 impartial sg1-
frsge.n Greeley hes never demanded
more. the exponent Of extreme South
eFn opinions and preiuiices goes bow.
shot beyond the Tribune; and, il its
teachings be approved, the tins may
soon come when tie eight hundred th0us-
and negro voters CT the South, Thoroughly
with the Democratic party,
viii become more terrible in the eyes Of
Ra3iealism than the foreign vote Of New
York city.
This is mo- s oEestion of psrtisanship.
Ia Importance IL rises above ali questions
the triumph or defeat Of party
leaders. The Accession % the Whole body
OF Southern blacks u the ballot box is II
the overthrow Of civilization in States in +
which negroes either constitute a major
ity Of voters or WELD the balsnoe OF
power. Tne more depraved, vulgar and
ignorant the candidate, the more certain
bis election. The worst men in the South
viii hold undlsputed sway. These facts
are illustrated every ywhere Ia Tennessee, 4
fhe very candidate for Congress, in the
Memphis district, who con tests the palm
with DR.. LaftWich-one w. J. Smith
owes his partial success solely 70 blacks.
There is no epithet in the vocabulary of
which the Ag0t1ache has
not applied to this negro deity, Smith. |
La truth, opposition TO negro suffrage is
net 6n en2aaati0l from selfisbuess, or
from hatred TO blacks. It does not origi- /
nate in hostility to Northern sdventur-
ers in the South II is deemed by every
good citizen, who would promote the
best Interests of society, fatal to good
government. That negro suffrage has
given Tennessee the worst possible class
1f rulers is fact which no one will
ieny. It happens to-day, that these :
rulers are Radicals. IL Democracy es-
oouse the negro's cause, the next masters .
IF the State, in Ike manaeT, will owe
potency to savages, and though they be
Democrats, Will accurately represent
heir constituents IN morals, Intelligence
md capacity.
from tho Paris Tenn.) westly Intelligencer !
of saturday
The States being then beyond the
,lutches OF Congress, and with clear .
majority, as shown by the
sturDs OF the late election, the c0nclu-
ion is inevitable that the end of the car. =
,et-bsg and sesiHwsg rule Of the South
5 near st haad, and reoonstrUetioB, al.
hough as aR Issue it has been triumph 2
mt, is TO all practical purposes most
failure. There is but one