Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-10


street Thought after swallowing dow
negro suffrage that it mattered it'll
about the minor points--so he went IT,
entire Radical platform. The Aca
lanche has swallowed the most objection
able feature of the Radical creed. w
would now recommend that it 90 entirel,
over to the ranks Of the Republican part,
asd let the Democracy have peace.
uerpv tn JUSTICES" Scathini
Letter.
EpIroRs LEDGER: / see from you
issue of May 9Th that the indignation o
"Justice" has, after one weeks rest
recovered, and he has enlisted to take
dirt off Stakeholder without soap
where's his patent p and giving him ar
opportunity to test his d. G., Justices
courage" etc.
As Stakeholder is not Niger
man." and don't ride on the street cars
and remain seated while ladies stand up,
and "Justice" is present, be must beg
to decline this profusely liberal offer.
"Justics" has discovered that he "has
the sympathy of the public" (hit him
again, he's got no friends and the co.
operation of an Avalanche local; and
no doubt secretly ranking at the point
made against him, he rushes into the
field" headquarters In the saddle =
and cavalieriy charges down upon me
with q halloo apparently designed TO
scare me off. "Justice" The should have
signed himself Modesty" has no
reputation for courage to establish, "
therefore /, Stakeholder" am "purp."
Logic Don't you see the point, gen.
tlemen2
To be plain, Justice wishes to
frighten and suppress the only advocate
who has ever lifted voice in behalf of
a corporation so much abused and viii
fed. But can say to Justice that,
after he has lost prestige in the manner
I have indicated, it will be necessary for
him to get o certificate of chdrGchter, a
la Bridget, from bis numerous friends
before he can scare Stakeholder" or any
one else, who has read his ("Justice's")
self-stultifying first article. In that in
stance be cannot appear creditably.
It seems that the Memphis City Rail-
road Company is to be held responsible
for all the miseries of reconstruction.
They alone of oil the corporations of the
country are to resist the Radical laws,
while the 'pinks of geEtility refuse to
soil their hands with negro muss, The
company must break the laws until they
are fined out of existence, and their EN-
ployes. must break negroes heads until
thew break stone in the chsin-gsng for
the benefit OF Justice" who never lends
any one bis powerful assistance, except
his intimate friends, Really, the propo-
sition is too absurd for further consider
alton. 1t is an insult to the good sense
of the public.
No employe Of the railroad has ever
yet been discharged for putting off q
negro, but after test case had shown
the managers that there Was no way OF
getting around the Law, the drivers were
instructed not to put them Oft and thus
subject the company 10 tine. This
seems to be pre-sminently the day and
age of phines and phinery. Instead of
each individual, by little personal in
dependence of action, contributing his
mite towards relieving the community of
the thousand evils that ftiict it, indigna,
ton takes the shape OF complaint, and
the newspaper becomes the tardy and
unnatural vent for the bottled emotions
of the hsmsn breast, :,
Justice enunciates principle
which l have sometime heard obtains
among certain classes here-a safe and
convenient principle-that gentleman
must not engage in e nes,a lsss.
On hsaFins this cari6hs commentary
on our woes, one Is almost tempted to
exclaim with uncle Toby, "d--n such
gentility." His definition of the word
gentleman must be somewhat 10 the style
of the Boston snoh, va gentleman--ah,
10 man Who meyer fghts---ah, too ex-
cessiyely yulgah--now, weakly"
"Justice CLAIMS Q right TO criticise
the railroads. right never denied him or
anyone else; but be forgets that when a
man makes public charges, zoe, too, have
a right to reply. Justice" probably
thinks we should lie equally as quiet
under his kicks IS under former obes
he apparently eypeeisd sonstbing OF the
sort, and We ought to be anpihilated for
disappointing biw.
For weeks aud months gratultous
abuse o. the railroad appeared In some
papers side by side with glowing de-
scrip,ions Of the can can and puffs oil
Psschsll litteries.
The local editors always Brsterd 70
speak In behalf of their big brother
the public. They become practiclng at
torneys in the court Of passion end preju
dice, ead got the part Of peliifoggers u
stirring up strife, that some sort OF mag
ined benefit may flow from it. They fee
the public pulse gently, and when, like
jack-leg lawyer, they ascertain that th'
Judge is bribed and the jury packed il
their behalf they make q most tremen.
dous display ef'eloaaspss snd oDtain al
the credit for the verdict Having, O.
they think, chaWed and swallowed th'
railroad, they are now satisfied to plaJ
awhile the part of contented bull-frol
Gu & pond bank, performing the oct Q
deglutitiou on blue-bottled ny, andevinc
ing only by an occasional croak that thei
digestion is unimpaired.
The managers of the Memphis Cit.
Railway, as have said before, do thl
best they can. They do not pretend 4
infallibility, nor to that rare gebius vhicl
hits OF once on the best methods withou
any preliminary experience. They hsv
learned much, aud are not arrogan
enough to presume they cannot lear
more. They are friends and neighbor
of the white people, aud enemies Of none
they do not run their road as politica
| machine, nor do they claim entire i'm