Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-19
LOT THE POOH NEGRO!


Care Of Him and Promote His
Happiness.
Eight or nine years ago there sprang
up set of philosophers who undertook
to establish system Of government in
the land that would give the amplest free
dom to all classes and lft the lowest serf
from state Of wretchedness to the high
est pinnacle of JOY and enlightenment
These philosophers were called Black
Republicans on account Of their love fer
the negro and the deep sympathy they
felt for everything dark in nature, morals
and political economy. Their first grand
idea was to remove the colored popula-
ton from plantations, in order that the
cultivation of the soil in the South
might be stopped, and that the immense
amounts of gold which King Cotton
brought into this country from Europe
might be diverted to India and China for
the benefit .of copper colored and
semi-barbaric races. This idea they
carried out fully, leaving what was
formerly "land flowing with milk and
honey" wide, wild waste, and bringing
into existence in place of gold and silver
paper currency whereby bankers and
brokers are enriched and hard-working
toilers impoverished. Such state of
perfect freedom and universal bliss would
be lacking crown Of glory were the ne
groes, after deprivation Of homes and
plenty to eat and drink, left unattended
and unrewarded for their bravery on
many hard-fought field. Therefore
these wide-awake philosophers instituted
a grand asylum called the FreedmeHs
Bureau, where all the old darkies and
pickaninnies were fed at the public ex-
pense and taught those arts of idleness
through which liberated people rise to
grandeur and greatness. The conse-
quence was the negro became an
expert in all the vices peculiar to civili-
cation, and turned his attention to learn
ing trick-o' -the-loop, fve-card monte, faro,
chicken stealing, pocket-picking, cotton
filching, house breaking. drinking and
rowdyipg. He advanced so rapidly as
to ind himself in company with thou
sands of his race on the top ladder of
freedom in jails and calabooses, where
his hymns and songs and odes fnd vent
through small apertures in barred win
dows, like the yells and stencil of wild
beasts through the gratipgs of cages in
menagerie. This delightful state of hap
piness the negro owes to his philanthropic
friends the Black Republicans, now
called Radicals. These kind-hearted
creatures promised the wife Of every
negro who fought for his freedom q
bounty and pension, SO that the great
work they had begun of spreading uni
versal happiness might be finished in
manner satisfactory to their notions OF
Equality before the law or before
anything else in the shape Of State craft.
Agencies we're established in cities TO
make out claims and present them to the
Pension Bureau for the money promised.
Now comes the difficulty. 1t never oc-
Cured to the sapent philosophers of the
Radical school that when the negro was
turned into warrior he took new
wife almost every week, and became
a splendid sort of Mormon. Hence
arises the row with the claim
agents of this city. They, taking
the laws passed by Radical statesmen
as their guide, were bound to respect the
oath of darby; and even if Frank
Tardy testified he saw black man mar
ried eighty times, what is there more
wonderful in it than the ruin wrought,
morally and politically, by bureaus and
carpei-baggers But perhaps there is
something else behind this bugaboo Of
fraud" 1t strikes us the Radicals are
growing tired of the negro; that he has
become burden on their shoulders: and
they want some excuse to bamboozle him
out of further pensions. They have found
the elephant" and he is becoming so
troublesome that they don't know what to
do with him. We shouldn't be bit sur
prised to hear New England preacher
next week propose the selling of the ne
s.oes back &c their former masters, II
order that the North may get its money
back. If any cue he's been diddled, it's
poor Ssmbo.
ALL kinds of Foreign and Domestic
Wines and Liquors at L. Podesta Il Co.'s,
a3g Front street. l25-l50
BENEFIT OF FRANC MAYo.-The peo-
pie of Memphis are the most liberal
hearted in the world; they appreciate
talent, and ever patronize it in hand
some and becoming way. Therefore it
is needless to say the New Memphis will
be crowded from pit to gallery With a
large and intelligent audience tonight |
Two capital comedies will be placed on |
the boards in grand style-frst the high |
comedy Of Don Cesar de Bean, and
next the petit comedy of the Bull in the |