Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-11

Result OF the District Convention
The Convention at Brownsville, yester
day. nominated John W. Leftwioh foI
Congress, and w. W. Vaughn for elecsor
Their names are accordingly at our mast
head, and we shall support both gentle
men with the utmost cordially. We
were not without our individual prefer
ences, and like others, we had our own
peculiar views. and might have. modified
some OF the resolutions more to our
mind. But we are satisfied, as We should
be, when, under the stringent twothird
rule, the majority has fairly spoken.
OF DIR. Leftwich, who has already
served us honorably in Congress, It is un'
necessary that we should speak, since he
in as we'll known and highly esteemed
throughout the district by all our readers
as BY ourselves. Col. Vaughn is young
man of talents and fne promise, who is
as highly esteemed and Endorsed by those
who knew him best as could be desired
He is popular in Haywood county
beyond almost any other man, having
come near beating down its great Radi'
cal majority at the previous election for
representative TO the Legislature. No
men could have been selected who would
be more heartily supported by all Con-
servativeS Aud both can qualify, II
elected, for which the chances are GER
tainly very good. And now let the can
vsss 90 vigorously on.
The following resolution oil Col Gal
laway was adopted;
Resolred, That IL the freedmen of this
State unite with the Democracy, and by
their votes secure the enfranchisement OF
the white men that are now disfran'
chised, common justice and common
gratitude demand that we should not dis
turb them in any of the rights they may
now possess.
As to this, we wish to stand squarely
on the record. We are bound by the
national platform. We do not depart
from any principle it contains, or which
has been heretofore enunciated by us on
the subject of suffrage. We are in favor
of giving to the freedmen all the rights
to life, liberty and property which white
men possess, provided, as the resolution
declares, they shall do common JUS
tice" to us. But we would not be under.
stood as conserving to give them any
rights" they do not already possess.
They must not understand that we yield
negro supremacy, and the control OF
governmental affairs to them. But what
ever rights they may legally possess we
shall never attempt, or be willing
to disturb, if they act with us
as friends against our common en-
emy-.be carpet-bag adventurers, who
are here only to wrong us oil, and steal
our money and rights as well as theirs.
All the rights Of the people of all colors
Except the right to life, liberty and
property, which blacks as well as whites
now possess), are conventional, and
subject to the government, constitution
and laws of the land, as interpreted by
the judicial officers Of the country. We
shall certainly never violate any such
rights, or interfere with their exercise
on the part of those who unite
with us as friends to deprive OF
their fat offices men now having control
of the State, a large part of whom we're
driven out of their own country as unit
associates for any honest people. The
black men will do well to remember that
to make friends of the great body of the
Southern white people will do them in
fnitely more good, than they can ever
gain by obeying the orders, and being
slaves to men who lie to them every time
they tell them they care anything al all
for them, except when they can make
something by it for themselves.