Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-17

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State since the election, has discovered
the necessity of change of name. Inc
war so fortunately created in the ranks OF
that party over the division OF spolls
resulted in its complete overthrow ana
the elevation Of the opposition Demoe-
racy. 1t was, perhaps, the bitterest ieud
that ever sprung up between men who
were in the same life-boat and resolved
ON the accomplishment of one single
object. That object was for this special
CLIQUE of Radicals to have and hold all
offices belonging to the people OF the State
regardless of their wishes or interference
The soheue was most successfully car
r;sd ont for four years, being msnlpu-
lated by the bold agitators, BrownloW,
sen.er, Stokes, Maynard, and host OF
smaller lights of the party. Personal
iealousies and hatreds then ensued, ano'
like the armed men Of Csdmus, they
turued their weapons on each other, with
which they hacked and cut until the he
publican party in the State lay hors Dc
combat without life sufficient for the fu-
ture to oppose it's enemies. Seeing
the straitened condition of things, these
woun led and defeated men we're not
long in arranging plans for respectable
death. which must inevitably come when
the intelligence Of the country is per-
mitted TO WELD the sceptre Of stste. 80
a shroud, iugeniously woven with the ad'
mixture of little Democratic filling, 10
provided, and in this winding-sheet, called
che Liberal party, the demise of the Rad
ical party will soon take place, never
again to present its villainous, brazsn
front to the people of Tennessee. This
new organization is now the home
for the homeless Radicals shelter
and FIRE provided by few SYM
pathetic Democrats, who can be
seen now to take the reptile in their
bosoms to shield it from the scorching
heat of summer and the chilling blast OF
winter Christ said to his disciples,
that in my fathers house there are
many mansions" So we say that in the
rudely constructed shanty Of the Liberal
party there are Mansions suitable for the
niger Barber Lewis, the Avalanche, the
Erening Post, the Nashville Banner,
and any other outside rubo;sh that can
be thought Of. But there Is not 9 single
room in the entire building wherein q
white man can sit down without being
most disgustingly defiled. Yet, we are
invited to enter lhia house, when to do
so il sure diahonor and eternal dis
grace.
We are no philanihropists, in the mean
ing and sense Of Liberal, whose ideas
ofequality and justice won't allow him to
make q distinction between an African
and white man. If these soft-hesrted
gentlemen we're looking on the varieties
and beauties of the natural world with
one of these, ii would be decidedly wrong
to look with an eye Of favor on the
nobler animals, and treat with contempt
such Of the ignoble as the skunk. All iu
this school Of politics must be treated alike
every thing being created by the hand Of
one great benefacior. But when natures
God has made q distinction, then it il
not wrong for mortals to observe snt
respect such difference.
IL it had been intended that we al
should have an equal standing on thu
same great political and natural plat
form, then the wisdom Of the Grea
Being would have created us alike. Bu
some are made superior to others-th,
negro and the monkey being the las
link in the human existence, jast as th
lowest order Of animals are last in tn
chain Of the non-intelligent animal crea
ton. If God himself has not fitted tn
negro for self-government, then VIII,
should we intrust him with pow
ers too delicate for his comprs
tension. But because we take
common sense view Of the future 70
the country, our opponents charge j
With being Bourbons, who never forge
anything. Well, that is true; and "
have never forgotten that negro is a
African, With all the nature, feelings an
passions Of his ancestry who begot hil
in ignorance, which he can never get ri
of, for The reason that God did not endo
him with capacity sufficient to do so. III
Republican party 10 this State h'
failed in the election Of Stokes and
partisan Legislature, and are no
reforming, under the name of Libers
for the coming contest for members
the constitutional Convention. Th
party North, knowing full well that Il
masses Of the Southern people wou
never vote the Republican ticket aft
Jhe war, then thought Of enfraDcLisir