Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-06


people of tho North, should he be sue
cesslul in the election?
The vital question, indeed, is, whether
or not the white people of the entire
country are, after the 4th OF March next,
to be free or to be slave-whether or not
the military despoiism that pervades the
South is 10 be extcGded 10 the North
whether or not black, shoreless, and
iurbd sea Of despotic rule is to sngulf
the land, and sink in dark and bloody
night the very name Of freedom This
is the sole, all.pervading, all-absorbing.
excited, passionate thought Of white men
wherever in the nation shines the sun Of
u bebefcent God. The people, one and
all, want to get clear of their chains, and
the worse bonds that are too clearly and
fearfully seen in the shadowy future.
They desire a result in the election that
shall make thus much sure, so that at the
ides of November they may cry out:
" Behold the tyrant PROSTATE in the dust,
and Rome again is Free
Candidates at New York must not be
selected or ignored on account Of the
past. The past must be forgotten. There
aust be an oblivion Of it. The simple
question should be, who can now, npon
great vital issues, get most votes2 Who
and what shall best eonduce to success 2
There must now be among those who are
or should be friends by the
"Brunt of equal blows,
Joint efforts. common ends"
union, harmony, concession; everything
for the cause, nothing for men.
Candidates must not be preferred or
ignored for any one thing in particular.
Not in one good thing alone, but in
many, lies greatest excellence. IL there
be one who, upon the carefulest inquiry
and consideration, can appear best to
unite the elements of success, and thus
Gil the measure Of his country's glory,
let him be selected at once, and all the
people will rejoice in their heart Of
hearts.
We are thus earnest as TO the selection
of man in whom are combined the ele.
ments that can assurelly secure success,
because the issue of freeing ten millions
of whites of the South from the thrall Of
hated negro supremacy is transcendantly
the greatest that can by any possibility
engage or excite the minds of true and
just men. They are, or are to be, by
Congressional act, under the yoke of the
negro. Not only are they to be made to
crouch to blacks, but the latter, by acting
ns unit in ten States of the South, to
soy nothing of the border ones, where
negroes are so numerous, may possibly,
as things are, come into the halls of
Congress, or into the electoral college,
and acting in unison with the class States
of New England, and three or four 9th
ers, control the politics of the country.
Once in power in all parts and places of
executive trust, what shall prevent their
domination in the North in all respects
that may suit their imaginations or pas
sons2 The great evil of their suprema-
cy being once upon us, multitude OF
others, as general negro suffrage. with
prescription of whites at the North,
might follow II is in view OF the woes
that are menaced to the Border States,
and that yet may befal the North, that
we feel that Southern delegates should
act as freely in the Convention as any
others. If there are those in the Con-
vention from the North, who, looking
into the future, have such grave appre-
tensions as to themselves as to make it
with them first and last thought, to put
the issue OF white freedom in the South
high above all other merely material
ones, then they should certainly be aided
in their great and just endeavor with all
the power that the South can exert by its
voice and its votes.
We do not subscribe for moment to
the idea that Southern delegates should
not act like any others. To do other
wise is to destroy their power for that
usefulness, which, to pretermit, may pre-
cipitate sad fatalities in public affairs for
all coming time. Northern Democratic
delegates do not even suggest anywhere
or in any manner that Southern ones
representing a grand constituency in
deed, tremendous element of power and
pride to any party-EIGHT OR TEN MIL
LIoYs-or the almost entire white race of
the now prescribed States of the South,
shall not be their peers. If delegates OF
the South are now intense sufferers from
Jacobin wreug, and outrage, and cruelty,
their counses are needed in respect to
what menaces in the future all the people
who are now so keenly apprehensive as
to their lives and property, with all and
singular Of other rights and privileges
belonging to American citizenship. An
imperiled people demand that the South
ern delegates shall do their duty to the
whole land by taking such part in public
affairs as it is in their power to assume.
Key to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Minds.
We reproduce the following with an
appendix, lest our readers might become
forgetful Of the old Elementary SPELL
ing book-to say uothi:g Of Dilworth:
la view 81 the probability that the
Rockville Wing, which in the natural
course of events appears this morning,
will contain divers and sundry words not
ineligible to ears polite; and as 1t is
possible that some young and inexpe-
rienced persons may thereby be placed
at loss to understand the meaning of
our Reverend Governor, the editor, we
have, therefore, at great expense, and for
the benefit of such persons, in order that
they may read the Whig understand
ingly, prepared the following:
GLOSSARY OF BRowSLOwIsM.
Copperhead-Auy man who does not
take the Whg.
Democrat-A heather.
Blasphemy-Sweariug at Gov. Brown
low.
Hell-The summer residence of the
editor Of the Whig.
Decency-This word is now obsolete
and the Wing has forgotten its meaning.
Newspaper - A smut machine for
throwing filth upon political opponents.
News-Something never found in the
Vhig.
Pairioiism-Joining the League to get
an Office or 10 secure n claim.
Rebel-One who does not vote Tor
Brownlow.
Loyal Mana negro.
Liar-Oue who doubts the truth Of an
editorial assertion Of the Whig.
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