Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-12

srides OF her rival1. France and Eng.
land sympathized with the South in a
political sense, and would have rendered
ostensiblo aid had IL not been that the
masses were opposed to our lat that time J
peculiar institution" because, in dis
solution Of the Union, they reduced, tenn
porarily, republican prestige, and estab-
lished, in the minds Of their subjects, the
impression that mans capacity for
self government" was self-evident fal.
acy, while they clouded the political ad-
vancement Of their more eastern rivals.
Russia sold the United States Alaska to
assist in checking the movements of her
western neighbors on this continent. Let
our Southern States accept the teachings
of this policy-find what are the proper
steps TO take to reach that enactment Of
the balance OF State power; il it is
cereals, or cotton; manufacturing or
shipping; mechanism or what not--find
the balance through specially, and work
for il. Let your corporations act simi-
larly-seek the balance Of interest by
discovering what is your strength, and
where is your waste. All Of which is the
essence Of political economy.
|
Of Servia, has created some excitement
in Europe, as it is another knot in the
Eastern imbroglio, it may interest your
readers to know something Of this little
| principality. Servia has an area oftwelve
thousand square miles, population pos
sibly half million The Servians be-
long to the Sclavonic stock in the thir-
teenth and fourteenth centuries. .Servia
formed an independent kingdom,
which was conquered by the Turks
in the middle of the fifteenth century.
The principal cities are Semendria, on
the Danube. with a population Of II, 900;
Belgrade, 1000 inhabitants. Since her
liberty Servia, as all free countries,
seems to yield to the necessities Of an.
archy, and the assassin knife is red with
the blood of personal or political foes.
have this moment seen the letter OF
your influential colored fellow-citizen,
Mr.. John f. Harris, published in the
Avalanche. The marked character OF
Harris as O man of nerve and intelli-
gence will have telling effect upon your
colored citizens, to whom let your CORE.
spondent address few words, many OF
whom / have known from childhood. /
| have spent many seasons in the North,
have mixed with the Northern people,
and believe know their sentiments; and
to my old colored friends, Tom Brad
shaw, Nelson Mynatt, Bill DeMorse,
| Parson Brown, and hundreds of others
who know me, / can refer your colored
citizens to the truth of my statements.
/ Col Harry Ross, one Of the prominent
politicians of this section, said to me.
81 don't see how you Southern people
can stand Cnffy. Why you are ss fami.
liar with him as an equal. Why could
not shake hands with negro" A colored
man in Detroit told me: "Why, sir, we
are so obnoxious to the low whites that,
were things settled, l should move South
Why, sir, if twenty-five colored men
were to land here from the South, the
laborers would mob them" The negro
has no friends in the North. While they
sympathized with him in his condition Of
slavery, they now detest him, fearing bis
freedom is an innovation on their social
system. The colored citizen of Mem.
phis will find out in time, if he has not
already, that the white adveniurer who
is cheek by jowl with him now is the
offal of the North, and uses him for his
own purposes, and not one of them would
be seen in company with the men that
they now honey for political purposes.
Ask Bob Church to say honestly, if he
should pass the St Nicholas Hotel, in
New York, who would grasp his hand
the most cordially, the Southern white
man or the sneaking carpet-bagger In
this particular, Ike Temple and family,
or any colored citizen of Memphis,
knows this to be fact Who did the
colored citizens of Memphis 90 to for
protection during their fear of harm
while that riot was in progress? Their
old Southern friends. / know my house
had its quota of reliable colored people,
that had known from boyhood to be
faithful and honest, and whom | and
others would have protected at the risk
of our lives. The black and white races
South have been reared in sympathy,
and if there were abuses the war has
certainly corrected them. They under
stand each other, and can, and will live
in harmony--to accomplish which end,
let them unite and drive out the incend-
iaries, that, with a carpetbsg in one
hand and torch in the other, are at
tempting the Generalization of the col
ored and the destruction of the white
race. In conclusion, let me say to your
colored citizsns that they are trouble
some element to the Radical party, and,
in case of their success, coercive mea-
sures OF some character will be used to
drive them from social rivalry, while
their social condition in the South, at
this moment, is one thousand per cent.
higher than it ever will be among their
canting, hypocritical, treacherous, sup
posed allies from the North, who in a
majority of cases-so say the people
here-are the scum of the North. If
Southern man would come North and
assume the one hundredih part of the
imprudent pretensions of these scala
wsgs. they would duck, tar and feather.
or ride him on rail, much less aubmit
to his elevation to Office. Aud how
the intelligent colored citizens of the
South can allow these scoundrels to i'm
pose upon them and how the Southern
people will submit to the abuses, is
beyond the ken of every gentleman in
this region. BEPPo.
An Armed Negro Camp in Paris, Ky.