Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-08
Awalsp. Ere Il is Too Late.


IL the South has ever been, and still is,
one of the main roots Of whatever pros
perity this country is TO enjoy, what
hope have we in the future, when such
evidence OF rotten ness and decay as the
following, is patent to the whole world 2
Read. voters, for your benefit and the
benefit of your children. and then draw
your own conclusions: Sheriff Thomas
sold, last week, In the Pickens District
of South Carolina, several quantities Of
rich lands at the following rates: $50
acres for $36; 200 acres for $26 $50
acres for SAT; 300 acres for $2l 80
acres for $l4; 200 acres for $40; 100
acres for 50; 60 acres for $ll 20" This
is the fruit Of the present administration.
Now, we ask the Northern business men
how long they intend to supinely sit
and allow the Internal scoundrels at
Washington to undermine them CONNER
cially and socially, as well as politically 7
Soon we shall all be suddenly let down
into so deep and foul pit, that extrica-
ton will be impossible. Eternal ruin
will be the fate of this nation, If the
wretches now ruling at the seat Of Gov
erpment are 10 be allowed TO continue
their hellsh work. Are the people OF
this country demented ? Have we no
manhood left? Do we think so little OF
what it cost our fathers to frame that
Constitution, which was once the boast
of every son and daughter so fortunate as
to call this Union their birthplace Have
we less fidelity than dogs 2 Are we so
unworthy TO be called free people, so
debased, so lost to all that constr
tutes patriotism and veneration for our
ancestry, who gave their blood for
the glorious Constitution, that we are
willing to see it wrested from us and
trampled under foot by handful of po-
litieal poltroons who first ruined the
South, and are now about to ruin the
North2 Voters of the United States,
this thing cannot 60 on; it must not 90
on. This fair land, once literally flow
ing with milk and honey, is fast being
transformed into desolation, black
enough, God knows. The South will
soon be bowling wilderness. To-day
white men, white women, white children
are starving there, dying, through the
want OF food, perishing, through the
want of the necessities of life. Com
merce and trade are being crushed oui
there and here, by the iron hand oi
ruthless, cold-blooded, heartless des.
potism. A hellish carnival reigns
in Washington. Justice is being
mocked at, the Supreme Court il
being ignored, the Constitution trampled
upon, while the fanatical wretches there
are going through the farce of trial
which they rendered a verdict upot
before the trial commenced. No mar
is safe, no principle is safe, no rights arr
respected, no law is revered, which
stands in the way of perpetuation OF
mongrel despotism of the most frightfu
and revolving character. This coun
try will be cursed by one of thu
most debased and cruel monarchies
no matter what name may be given it
that history ever made record of i
the people do not awake from the extra
ordinary and alarming apathy which
seems to have settled upon them, and a
once go to work to arrest the impending
evil. Voters, this is white mans gov
ernment Our fathers made it such
Let not the nation be debauched by filthy
niggerism. Let not that curse OF hu
manity, "amalgamation," pollute thu
blood of your posterity. Keep thu
physical purity of your ancestors un
sulled in the veins of your chill
dren's children. Let the stink of Africs
be carried about by the Summers, the
Stevenses, the Wades, and their fou
progeny, but keep the finger of scorr
from pointing at your descendants
Stop the terrible destruction. Restore
this Union. Restore the Constitution
Restore the sovereignty of the States
Restore the ermine which the wretche'
have ruthessly snatched from the Su
preme Court. Place this country, COM
mercially, financially, socially and po!it
ically on the high pedestal it occupied
prior 10 this reign of terror.