Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-30

| dE1uuu bureau SCHOOLS long enough,
While we are thus judiciously meeting the
| resolute earnestness for the teachings whiC
are IN books. the opportunity is afforded as
coax them TO llsten to and understand a Il
otner things which are not in books, and whiC
with our reSolute earnestness we desire them
know.
| We can then by these means, and these ouI
succeed in driving out from them all the trasl
| and tomto6lery and treason, tn at the lovely an
accomplished schoolmarms, with a natural tasi
| for dollars and a cultivated smell for scent
have been for five years getting through thei
| Wool. while preparing them for their Zraduatio
| and diploma, based emit ely upon their bein
| able to repeat by rote the classical ode:
Mary had little lamb.
And Mays white you know,
And if / get chance to steal,
That lamb is sure to CO."
think it is our duty and ought to be on
pleasure individually and collectively, to an
nounce that policy played out" which allow
great eowardly gangs of fools and knaves t.
shout themselves hOarse in bowling "nigge
equality" at any honest and earnest man. tn,
iatehet of whose shoes. perchance, they are no
worthy to loose, whom feeble health and help
less family or any cther necessity. he being III,
judge, may induce to seek a maintenance By
educating and eleyating the negro to a position
in which no can do himself and ourselves ths
most practical good, while his neighbors in eve
~ other calling in life are commanded and ad.
mired in a manner commemorate with theil
skill in fleeing, from him that hath not, ever
that little that he hath"
The doctor can step into his shanty, feel hi
pulse with one hand while Poekering his fee il
advance, kill or cure, with the other. nod his
head wisely. or shake it Ominously few times
leave few drops of latin named nothings TO be
alternated with occasional hieroglyphie coated
pills. walk com lacently and earelessly into the
fresh air and wisely announce it as the profess
siOHaL opinion Of a regular graduate. that though
the niger race is certainly dying out, his green
backs are still as healthy as ever.
See that brilliant line of the young lights Of
al l., Gel. L
ing and thirsting after fame and its reward. and
wrapped in the spOtless mantle oflaW's majesty,
they file professionally into the nauseOus cells
of our common jails. filled with the most beastly
murderers and the pettiest eOrn-stealing thieves
of the negro race, and hear them talk with tears
in their mouths to the poor oppressed colored
prisoner Of how deeply; oh how deeply. they
feel for the injustice that is being done him. and
without u fear Of soiling the ermine oftheir
spOtless mantle. they run their arms up to the
shoulder into the dirty pockets of the lousy
negro, trying to find and finger the immaculate
greenbaek that even niger equality" can't
pollute.
The tradesman never smiles more winningIy
than when he appeals to Mr.. Cufee and his Di-
nah as they pass. politely invites them back 10
his spiritual sanctuary. stupetes their simpliei-
ty with busthead whisky. swindles their ere
dulity with shOddy everythingS-plates over
the sin of downright robbery with little pinch
beck 10 satisfy his own conscience, so-called and
finally forces them out into the street with a
stOmaehs filled with worthless and hurtful
trash and mary red' in their pockets.
The new light latter day saint of political
can reach out his filthy hand foul
with the itch for spoiIs and with the siobber for
Office exuGing through his false teeth. and sort
of senatorial smile Pickering across his silly
face. piteOusly appeal to the intelligence, and
gratitude, and broth erly love of the most re-
SD sctable coLored man and brother, Qate nigger.)
for his valuable help to get some poiluting
office for the attainment OF which he has just
subscribed his despised name to the iniqui Gus
'tesG oath" which must, and ought, ard will
thank God, damn him to an everlasting and ig-
infamy, to which niger equality"
would be paradise.
Every trade, every profession. every loafer.
every BLACKBOARD can get down in the dirt by
the side of the negroes and gamble with them,
with loaded dice and marked cards and a cOun-
terfeit currency Of friendship for their money
and their morals and their utility; and rising
up without any social uneleanness on his sur
face, threateningly boot at with ribaldry and
hit at with revenge, any honester and kinder
hearted man. who dares to call out to and urge
the plucked negroes to get up aud stop the
plundering game by which they are being beg
CARED mentally, morally and financially.
/ assert to-day that the game as now played
with the negro is a swindle. and that these
for the negro was begun. the Radical Star OF
the West" has been fred into, the Eagle Bird
has been driV n to his surrounded Sumter, the
Senter of the line is advancing, heavily rein
IL
we have listed for the war. and. by the Eter-
nal. our negro must and shall be preserved"
Every one must be a volunteer. You take
some. III take my share. let the teachers take
few, and let the preachers tabe them all.
Let US make these divine beings come down
out OF their gothic topped, calico Widowed,
green carpeted sanctuaries, where they now
twice q week, accompanied by the subdued
sOOthings of their mellow organs and the grave
deeOrum of the polite basket carriers. pour
forth atew pleasing platltudes which their score
or two of piOus listeners have heard a hundred
times and felt far more fully perhaps than them
selves, and going forth among the negroes, in
their imme date presence tear from the cross of
an inkulted Savior the tattlers of a political
piety' which have recently been hung upon 1t
by q rambling horde of tanatical hypOcritical
vagabonds, with forged passports from the Al
mi ghty, wearing the yestmentS of divinity like
a masquerading mantle, and with their heads
anOinted only with the precious ointment which
runs down their boards to the bottom Of their
pockets
My reverend friends, are not the souls Of these
neglected sinners worth as much now IN the
sight of your God, as when their bodies were
worth thousand dOllars2
Don't tell me they won't listen tn you, for
negroes are VIGOROUSLY and painfully known
to listen to all things from all men" If they
have heard and believed not, go back. knock at
and go into their hearts and learn whether the
fault has been yours personally. or whether
your teachings have not been the truth.
Have you ever heard that He who said,
called to you Ito stop that knocking, you
can't get IMP"
Were I minister of the Most High, profess
sing plenipOtent authority to treat with the
would publicly admit by word or act that this
One-half Of a the population around ms, per-
discarded the teachings, by precspt
and example. of my mind and heart, and habit.
and preferred to heer the message OF mercy
from my God, from the ignorant tongue of
Whispering Jim and Old Brack. two most illit-
crate specimens of a mental race. I'd tear up
my heavenly credentials and fling them in the
negrO's face with the terrible anathema, GU
have no sOnl."
Your own aspirations as Christian men
should hl you with consciousness
that even these no abjeet portions
of society are visited with come dreams of a
better condition for which they are designed.
See to it that no human being shall perish,
but through his own fault; ask yourselves and
those who are guilty. whether OF, not the great
name of the Gospel, for the preaching of which
you claim good pay here and the promise of
better hereafter, is not prOfaned by those who.
in public crowded missionary meetings. jealous
ly urge that you pay literally into the treasury
of the Lord, because every cent Of your money
is 10 be bOastingly bestowed upon such mission
aries as are instructed and resolved to preach
out the worth Of 1t all In saving the souls only
of those of your own beloved great Anglo Saxon
race. and thus publicly proclaim that your Cos
pei has ceased to be the glad tidings of saliva
ton to every creature without regard to race
or color.
Preachers, did you ever talk with God about
these things in that closet in which He invites
you to meet Him. Surely these people. some
of whom are possessed with intelligence superior
to some of our own color, have had the Divine
gift bestowed upon them for higher purposes
than mere bodily labor. than to make hewers of
wood and drawers of water. plowmen and SER
wants for US. and then pc! ish into nOthing-the
only nothing creation holds.
Every being so gifted Is intended to acquaint
himself with God and his works. and to perform
wisely and earnestly the duties of his life.
temporal and spiritual.
Accordingly, when we see multitude of men
beginning to thirst for knowledge. for intel
lectual action, for something more than animal
lite, we see the great design of nature about to
be accomplished, and society having received
this impulse, ought never to rest till it shall
have taken such a form as will place within
every mans reach the means of intellectual
culture
This is the revolution to which we are now
tending, and without it all outward political
changes are mere child's play, leaving the great
work Of society undone.
In your opinions look not always back,
Your wake IS nothing; mind the coming track,
Leave what you've done for what you have
to do,
Don't be consistent" but be simply tue"
Ladies and gentlemenl most sincerely thank
those OF you who have considerably given such
complimentary attention to my first public ad-
dress since my bOyhO0d, especially as | know it
mas proven ana manner greatly
heavier than most Of you had reason to expect,
or really desired to hear from me.
| as sincerely ask that you will pardon me for
having allowed my besetting sin of too much
talk to have tempted me into the too tedious
elaboration of what think about" manufac-
tories. inning alton and negro labor. and by it
so exaust my strength, your patience and the
courtesy of our directory, as to compel me to
leave untold ether thoughts. in the telling of
which had hoped to have proved more enter
tanning and satisfactory. As it is, | must
now necessarily switch of my little extra train,
still loaded with those pleasant thoughts with
regard to the cultivation of our lands and the
cultivation of ourselves, and the grand
panoramic picture of perfect prosperity
think TO be in store for us as a people, and give
the track to the regular train Of events which
cur schedule announces to be due.
For the benefit of those of you, male and
female. who see are demOraliZed and think
ing cuss words, because yOu have not heard a
funny speech, L will announce. that my next
will be the funny speech.