Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-22
THE NEGRO.
What He is at the South According
TO Parker PiIIsbury.
The SOapless, COmbless, Whisky
Drinking Negro.
An Old AbOIitiOnist has his Eyes
Opened.

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urday we extract the fnliOwing:
Parker Pillsbury is penitent. He
! has been down South, and for the first
/ time in his life he has seen the negro
in his native lair. And he does not
like him. During the earlier portions
/ of this ancient abOlitionist's career,
although often earnestly urged to visit
! the Southern States, and affectiOnately
assured that upon arriving there he
would be furnished with q free ride
and arrayed in an elegantly fitting
suit OF clothing composed ingeniOusly
of the product Of North CarOiina pine
and the feathers of domestic fowls, he
unhappily declined to avail himself of
| these invitations and remained in the
North, where he evolved out of the
depths of his own inner consciousness
an ideal negro, set him up on a pedes-
tai in the sanctum of the AHti-.SGrerg
Standard, and worshipped him.
But now, having at last betaken
himself to the South, he has seen his
idol as he really is, and in some letters
10 the RerOtutfoa he gives expression
10 his disgust and amazement. He
found nOthing as he had expected TO
see it. Even the liquor ct the South
i had-at least the festive bowl which
Mr., Parker Pulsbury's cOlOred friends
in Charleston commended 10 his fe-
vprish lips vas filIed with hell-brOth.
"I'he whisky here is aiahOlical," eX-
claims poor 2. p, ''and yet they fthe
cOlOred peOple) appear to love it mGre
than anything else, women as we'll as
men," We certainly would never
haVR thought of selecting Mr.. Par
ker PillsbHTy aS faster; but he speaks
so authOTitatiyely concerning the
quality of the negro whisky in South
Carolina that we no longer doubt his
capability. If the whisky there Is
worse than the IFOrId Commissioner
found it 10 be in New York, we pity
poor p, T., and pray for his speedy
return ere lac finds snakes in his boots
As for the negroes, they h;gst be aban-
dOned 10 their fate. "They drink Il
red hot from the barrel, clean and
pure" continues, sf;ll harping on
the whisky, "and l have seen mQth-
ers pour it thus down the thrOats of
their six months old babes"
But this was not the greatest shock
experienced by Mr.. Parker PillsbuFy.
Not only did he find the negro idol |
whom be had worshipped a drunken
sOt, but he saw that even that won /
derful psnaeea for ali human ills, the !
ballot, was useless, and worse than /
useless, to him. Ii he had his way |
Just now, while suffering from the |
diabOlical whisky of tile negro quar- |
tPrs in Charleston, he would recon- |
struct tSe reconstructed South once |
more, and shut out tie man and the /
brother from the ballOt-bOA - He |
surely mnst have a low estimate of
the solemn responsibilities of govern |
ment," he eXclaims, t who would |
force the ballot on thousands and thou |
sands to be seen all over the South. /
And forced il was Gl many men, |
wherever the slaves have voted. |
They knew no more and |
cared no more for what they did in |
voting than if they were aS intantile |
in wears as they are in political eXpe- |
rience." As rJF the social condition |
OF these wards oil tue nati3p," these |
" national freedmen " for whose sake |
Mr.. Charles Sumner demands that the |
country shall be kept In turmoil g few
years longer, nothing can be more |
fearful than the picture drawn by this |
astounded abolitionist.
Marriage does not exist among them; |
!" very teS children are born;" "in-
ianticide Is common ~ inthcir wretch |
ed homes "nO family meal seems Frer !
% be provided" +" each member of the |
family doing his own cooking and |
eating Yhatuhe can get; kaiyes and
forks aff U RoYn among them; theiF |
huts have floors, no windows, no |
decent table iaiF, or bed. ! saw |
infants and va young children naken /
from morning tll night" says the /
penitcnt Pillsbury, and boys Of at least |
a dozen years with only Il single gar |
meat, sDd that but a scanty apology. |
Many WOmeG, young anu old, had lit |
tie on above the waist, end nothing |
below the knees''-and then Mr., Tar
ker PiiEbury goes into details where
we cannot fOii0E' him, lest we should |
turn the stomach 0I Is eW York this |
morning at its breakiast-tsbie.
Is this a scene from life in DahOmy |
or among the Digger Indians that
AIr. PUlsbury is describing; or are
these the nlsn, and the wives and chill
dren Ofthe men, for wh8Ei the land has
been soaked in blood and the naJiun !,
impoverishedY 1.-THE ballot may be
the one thing needed there" adds
but, II seems to me, soap
sand, fine-toOth combs, pots, Kettles,
chairs, tables, knives, forks, spoons,
decent food, cooking, and clothing,
glass windows, and loOking-glaSSes
abOuld at least 90 side by side, If
they may not precede the rights OF
suffrage and sOVogeignty.N Oh, Par
ker! on, Pillsburyf Way we're not
you aud al the other fanatical f9ois
in the country warned in time, and
why were you and they deaf to the
voice 0f common sense and prudence
until the mischief you now deplore
was done beyond renedy9
Prom the Washington correspond
ent of the AcW York citizen and
Round Itlble, ge take this in reference /
to the dirty libel OF Mrs. Stoyel so |
much has been said of hate respecting /
the ByrOu-StOWeS scandal, that / am 1
afraid am lreading upon unpleasant