Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-02
n sometimes these secret oreaniza

tions have toppled over thrones which
were upheld by million Of bayonets,
but still more frequently they have driven
the dagger Of the oppressed into the un-
feeling heart Of the callous aud merciless
oppressor. We know little OF the OBJ,
jects aud designs OF the secret society
whose barbaric name and grotesque dis
plays have so .erribly frightened the Rad.
ical tyrants in Tennessee, but in all OF
the Southern States the negroes and the
Radical squatters who are prompting and
melting them, have committed outrages'
and excuses which call fory prompt and
elective measures for their suppression
and punishment. In this State we hnd
handfsl Of the most malignant and in-'
famous white adventurers, the filthy sed.
imentary deposit of the armies which
laid waste our State, and the debauched
traitors to their race who were born upon
our soil, conspiring with the negroes 70
disfrsnchise, degrade, and rob BY unjust
taxation, the white men of the State.
These men are not content TO give
those who we're yesterday our slaves,
equal political rights with their masters.
nor are they satisfied with clothing the
ragged and thieying black barbarians who
fight over "Hambrick's soup-kettles,"
privileges which are enjoyed by supe..
rior race possessing oil the property and
intelligence in thu State. This does not
satisfy them. The bummers Of Butler
and the suffers, quartermasters and camp
followers who followed Hooker, Pope
and Sheridan are sitting in the capitol OF
Virginia, taxing the people Whose lands
and cities they laid waste) to support
them while they are plotting with the
blacks TO strip the noble heroes who
fought with Lee and jackson Of all
rights in State where they we're born,
where their forefathers lived, and where
they fought with a splendid valor which
challenged the admiration Of all save the
vile carpet bag reprobates who are seek
ing 10 disfranchise them. And this is
but sample-a specimen of a multitude
of other equally atrocious outrages which
these enemies Of our race propose to
commit The sum Of all their contem.
plated villainies is the Africanization Of
Virginia and the Acknowledgement, out
lawry and persecution Of every Virginian
who was not base traitor to his section
during the late civil war. qsIb rw I'd X
~ The tyrants of no age or nation ever
attempted darker crimes against the lib
critics and happiness Of a people than
those contemplated by Hines, Hunnicutt,
White, and their black allies. 1t may be
that the enormity of the crimes which
are contemplated by these men render
their preparation Impossible. But the
| animus of these offenders marks them
as worthy of punishment zia asmodI
The first duty of people whose lib
erty and property are menaced as ours
are by abandoned apostates, greedy
souatters and insolent negroes, is to or
eanize with such promptitude and stern
resolution as will strike terror into the
guilty souls of the secret negro societies
and their delegates in the Convention,
and the next will be lesson to these
criminals which will teach them that the
man who for nearly four years defied the
armies of powerful government will not
submit TO political outlawry and negro
and souatter domination, and to dishonor
and degradation ia hundred loathsome
forms, in State which they have made
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