Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-21
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have no protest also to make against a
black mans party. We wonder II
they expect TO gain popularity with
the darkies; or do they believe that
the party will be weakest In the North
which is most outspoken in obedience
to the instinct of racer It stands to
reason in our mind that the miscegen-
ating party will be weakest with the
bone and sinew and working pop
ulation of the North, and that
most certainly when the lines are
most sharply drawn. The leading
Northern Radicals are a set Of vinegar
faced Pharisees whose opinions are not
Ia. be changed, aud such as they have
ever controlled In that quarter they
will still control. If the whole South
should turn their way of thinking and
acting, and adopt their own nomen-
clatare, their provincialisms and
every one of their selfrighteous vices,
it would gain nothing, it would be
none the less denounced and crushed
so long as the puritan inquisitors are
in power. f1iey will hang us for a
tlamb'' just as quickly as they would
for the "whole sheep" The submit
ting, cringing, tender-toed, Dent,
third party policy has encouraged
them 20 do their worst, even more
than the boldest and most violent OPP
position would have done. The
whole question presented for South
ern discussion is one of expediency
and policy as to this matter. We do
not believe a cowardly concealment
of our sentiments will do any good
for US, in any aspect, North or South.
We rave tried that policy dd nassedm,
and to our shame, and profited moth
ing. 1T is our belief that in all our
political discussions we shall do best
to speak out our real convictions, I'M
awed by fear of consequences and
having no end but truth. The
advice OF the New York World
to beg and fend off and play
shy will only pay the worse the
more it is followed. Does any sane
man believe anything will be yielded
to entreaty which would not be as
surely secured if we should take the
Cromwells by the beard at once? 1t
is not necessary to change names to
admit facts. The chief evil of the suf-
frage laws is that they produce race
voting, and, under names or no
names, the /" white mans party" and
the "bIack mans party" 1t is as in
evitable as anything consequent on
the natural law Of %gregarious DISPOSE
ton of races. Mr.. Douglas said this
was a white mans country to be ruled
by white men. We have no hesitation
in believing it will stay so. We be-
lieve that the Radical loss in white
votes, will keep pace with their gain
in black votes. Let them have their
ground and welcome. They are fair
Iy entitled to march under the niger
banner they have won, and they are
welcome to all its advantages. The
Democratic party is as white as it is
good and Conservative. 1t is spotless
and pure as snow,
"Chaste as the icicle,
That's curded by the frost from purest
And hangs on DAMS Temple.''
It is earnest as the ~yearnings of
patriotism, and the ends it aims at
e" country's, Gods and truths" In
the language of the Philadelphia Age:
d" Under this banner all the sub
stantial victories of the Democratic
party since the war have been won.
That shout has aroused the true men
Of the organization, united them as
band of brothers and caused reflect
ing men in the opposition to pause
and ask the question, where is the
Radical organization drifting or the
dark and dangerous stream of negro
Fl A
equality? In answer to this inquiry,
white men are pointed to the cOndi-
ton of those States, in which the
vote is a controlling element.
There, anarchy and ruin stare the
people in the face. Ignorant negroes
sit in the Legislature and fill other
Offices OF responsibility. There, debt
is increasing and the material inter-
ests of the people whitening under the
ban of bad laws, Improperly admin
istered. There is not a Southern State
under negro rule, in which the debt is
not increased and the revenues
diminished. Further than this,
domination, supported by
Federal bayonets, has forced a
black man into the Senate of the
United States, while negro votes have
elevated to Congress men stepped to
the lips in infamy, and ready to sell
their influence for a price, like meat
Is sold in the shambles. In the South
and in the North, this negro policy of
the Radical party has produced the
most d~emOralizing effects upon public
affairs, and hence the change in the
as expressed through the bal
in all the States which voted
the present year.
This change was made effective by
position assumed by the Demo-
ratio party. The elevation of the
white mans banner gave the masses,
who are opposed to negro equality, a
point. The Democratic par
y, while according to the negro all
lis legal rights, stands on the solid
that this is a white mans gov
srnment, TO be administered, protect
d and perpetuated alone by white
men. This is the Democratic platform
ali parts Of the nation. The voters
Fil recognize no other. They will
ight under no colored flag. That has
)een declared, on all occasions, when
he voice Of the people has been
heard. Not State has veted which
lid not indOrse this idea, this plan Of
for the present andthe future"
/
THE fash papers Of the North have
1 department for propounding and
enigmas, riddles and mono
grams. Our neighbor of the Ledger,
wishing to give zest and variety TO his
has adopted the same plan. In
he Ledger Of the 18th inst. we find
he following puzzle:
5 As the APPKAE ays there arc two sides