Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-27
WHITE Us. THE BLACK
- PARTY

HAhI1s
In an editorial of Sundays edition,
the APPEAL addressed the white men
of Memphis, and warned them that
the issue so long looked for had at last
been made up, and the negroes been
massed as a party against them. We
gave some reasons upon which we
based this warning, reasons that
with a majority of those to whom
they were addressed were accepted as
conclusive. We are neither alone nor
singular in this position. Very many
leading men endorse it, and very
many of the leading papers of the
State. For instance, the Nashville
Onion and american in an editorial
entitled "a White Mans and a
Black Mans Party" says: "Thesplit
I" in the Radical party possesses far
" more significance than the mere
:" question as to whether STOKES or
!" SENTER shall be Governor. While
" the Democrats opposed a candidate
" to the one selected by the Radicals,
" for Governor, the leaders of that
" party held the rank and file together
" by their rallying party cries. But
I" now when it has become evident
" that the Democrats viii have no
" candidate, the Radicals have COM
" menced disintegrating andresolving
" themselves into two parties marked
" by a line more distinct than has
:" ever been drawn in Tennessee. This
:" split threatens to build up in this
/" State a white mans party and a
/" black mans party"
J. NJ. ToMENY and W. w.
MURRAY, Republicans, of this
city, in a communication to the
Nashville Press and Times giving the
vote taken on the outward bound
train from that city on the 21st inst.
says that every colored man among
the passengers voted for STOKES, and
that the colored men of this division
of the State appeart to be unanimously
for him. This tallies exactly with
the reputed result of the ~disgraceful
Convention Of last week, where the
negroes generally voted, yelled and
shouted for STOKES, who, it is said, in
his speech at Nashville, on the 21st,
stated that he would go into the can
vass with certainty that the forty
thousand negro voters in the State
would vote for him. We regard this
as conclusive proof of an almost
studied opposition to the white
race by the negroes, who have
from the first of their enfran-
ehisement steadily acted with and
voted for the most extreme men of the
Radical party. They accept STOKES
as peculiarly their champion in the
Gubernatorial race, as those of them
who vote in Shelby county ac-
eept HUNTER as their champion
and candidate. OF this latter fact
there can be no doubt upon
the minds Of those of our citi-
zens who, within the past four weeks,
have witnessed the gatherings and
professions of negroes who have
made night hideous by freq&fat imi-
tations of the recent Radical conven-
ton at Nashville. These men, Hun
TER and STOKES, are accepted by the
negroes, as we believe, because they
have champiOned their cause asa race
because they have exceeded other
Radicals in their avOwals of the equal
ity with the white race to which they
all aspire, and which they regard as
the sum total of all their hopes, aspi-
rations and ambitions. In this they
are actuated not so much by political
as race ties. Quoting from the Union
and american that paper says: 1.-THE
g negroes, with a unanimity which
e" has never characterized any nation
g" of the white race-German, Irish or
" any other nationality-in our politi-
- cal contests, are reported to have
. arrayed themselves for the one Rad
" ical candidate, and the negres who
/" will vote for the other Radical can
+" didate viii be fewer than those who
" voted the Democratic ticket in for
" mel elections. The inevitable result
"of this will be to build up in the
" Radical party a white mans and a
black mans party. 1t will perhaps
" be unfortunate for both our politics
" and the negro race that this result
+" shall be brought about. But he must
be blind indeed who does not see
the split in the Radical party is |
. the entering wedge to the formation
- of such parties"