Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-23

dimcuitys Dy inhuRhunS 'ho "'kto0r '
violence against Democrats and thos
they call the Ku-KIux. At Frapklil
aud elsewhere there has already bee'
open organization for murderous pur
poses. No exception is taken to this
only to threats Of Democrats tina
they will defend their property, thei
families and their lives, should tina
be necessary Violence on the par
Of negroes IL encouraged by thei
white leaders, who take all means to In
flame their passions, until they begin t.
cry, as they did at the Radical meeting
night before last, shoot them" give
them the torch" "give them hell" The
cowardly scoundrels who lead them ant
incite them TO violence have nc
notion Of being in the fight them
selves. They think il they can gel
up q fight, and get few negroes
killed of, it will help the Radical party
at the North and elect Grant President
We warn our friends that this is their
game. Let there be the utmost
caution to counterfeit it. We want
peace, order, justice, and the good Of all
nothing else We mean to have moth
ing else, so far as it is possible to pre-
serve the peace against the Vaccinations
Of these carpetbag miscreants, who in
fest our society with their abominable
presence. The wish, the will, and the
united and determined efforts of all Dem
ocrats will be faithfully given to preserve
the peace and give their rights to all.
But we are convinced that is not what
the Radical leaders in our midst now in
tend. They intend violence for party
purposes, and they are organizing and
preparing for il already
We warn our peaceable black ,popula-
ton to be on their guard. Will they let
white carpet-baggers put them forward
into trouble where they dare not 60 them
selves2 Will they allow Barbour Lewis,
Smith and Mitchell to put them in the
front and get them killed Of, while they
themselves hide and skulk2 That is
what they want to do--to get up row
and get good round number of blacks
killed of, so as to make the North ring
with stories of outrages by the rebels.
Will black men be made cats paws by
these men for such diabolical purposes
as these2 We warn them to beware of
all violence, which can never do them any
good. Democrats are doing them no
harm. They are doing them more good
than the carpet-baggers, all the time.
And there is not Democrat in the State
that wants to iDjurs them in any way.
The men we hate are the men who seek
to get them into difficulty with us.
If the whites want none, why should the
blacks any more? And Wilt Pay to get
into trouble to please their few lead
ers who intend to have all the
spoils Of victory anyhow Let black men
remember that in such trouble there
would be no discrimination, and the most
peaceful and innocent of their number
would be likely to be hunted down and
destroyed as well as the rest Let not
the blacks listen TO these men, who seek TO
get them INTO trouble only that they
may help their party and benefit them
selves. Let the blacks make them lead
in it, if they will bring on trouble. Make
Barbour Lewis and Hough and Mitchell |
and Smith 90 in front when the fight
comes on. They have as good right to
be killed as their black followers, whom
they want killed off to make party CAPT.
tai. Look out for that. The Nashville |
Banner, on this subject, says:
Daily we see indications OF a DISPOSE.
tioH on the part of the Radicals to pre-
cipitate war of races. Disappointed |
in their expectation of universal control |
of the negro vote, by the elections in |
some counties of this State last March,
and more recently in the State of Mis-
sissippi, they yet are exerting their ut
most to urge the freedmen to aggressions |
upon the whites in the rural districts.
They tell them that cur indiscreet Gov
ernor will call ont the militia, and that
the negroes viii be suitable persons for
enlistment therein, because of their fa-
miliarities Of the "hog paths, the glades
and bushes" where it is supposed that
the ghostly Ku Klux Klans do haunt.
Right ingeniously the white SCALA
wags and bummers propose to put
forward the negroes to commit ag-
gressions and handy epithets that
they may, by exciting the disfran-
chised whites to desperation, insugurate
a bloody war of races, in which it is ex-
pected that the colored troops will fight |
nobly" while they are safely ensconSed
in bomb-proof positions. With the blood
of the misguided freedmen, not their own,
they expect to offer sacrifices on the altar
of Radicalism, which shall propitiste the
indignant masses Of the North, now sit
ting 10 Judgment upon their political |
sins and criminal usurpaiions of power.
The dishonesty of the professions of |
the Radicals and their corrupt practices,
now so patent, are beginning to excite
general reaction among the freedmen in
favor Of a return 10 atfriendly and con.
fidential relationship, which it has been |
the delight Of the Radicals TO interrupt !
Coursgeously and steadily will the
conservative reaction proceed, aud we |
cannot forego the impulse TO urge the |
freedmen to calmly look around them,
and study their interests. They know
we'll the honorable impulses Of the great
mass Of the former Shareholders They |