Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-13

THE ANTI lavery Society has finally
adjourned and dissolved. The Fif-
tenth Amendment they regard as
the capstone of their work, as isshown
in their concluding resolutions. $50
cial prejudice, the anarchy and rule Of
assassins at the South, y is not quite
removed, but they think enough is
done to brag on, having accomplished
I" the crowning victory"
Resolved, /. That in the ratification of
the Fifteenth Amendment we see the full
fllment of the pledge which the anti
slavery movement made to the colored
population of the United States, to secure
10 them all the rights and privileges which
belong to them as men and Americans.
2. That while the social prejudice, the
anarchy and rule of assassins at the South,
the ignorance of landless poverty, Ii the
lack of organization which must for a
/ time weaken the black, will all contribute
to make the exercise of these rights
neither easy nor always right for years to
come, still since a voting class is Q
permanently wronged without its own
consent, we feel we may safely trust TO
the general influence of civilization and
Christianity.
3. That, thanking the Almighty God fer
the marvellous and unexpected q~uickness
with which it has pleased Him TO do this
great work; penitent for a guilty past;
grateful for a triumphant and undeseryed
present, we welcome a wronged equal to
our sides, promising him henceforth to
make every effort to secure to him a safe
exercise of all his rights and the present
opportunity for social enjoyment, relax
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no vestige is left in social, civil or religious
life of that hateful prejudice which has
poisoned and still so largely disgraces our
legislatures. And we now do therefore
disband the American Anti-Slavery So
ciety.
|. Thirty years ago they began to agi-
tate against the circumstances and
wishes of the best men of the north,
who predicted from their violent
schemes evils and mischiefs only to
all races. And they have even since
persisted in their purpose; they have
embroiled the country in difficulties
and war and drenched the land in
blood. More than a million liE, in
Guiding all out Of the armies, have
been sacrificed to the fell spirit of
malice, which, still existing, speaks
of the whole southern people as 'as-
sassins at the south" Aside from
the havoc of war, old men, women,
children and infants of both colOrs
fell before the destroyer by starvation,
exposure and disease by tens and hun
dreds of thousands! But this was all
in the name of equality, liberty and
philanthrophyJ 1t was the work of
peace societies, of fanatical pharasa-
ism, and Of a~bolitionism, which took
account of no consequences and would
rule or ruin though the heavens
should fall. And now they ex-
ult and glory over the dsmna-
ton they have wrought With power
to destroy what they could not build,
they have torn down the liberties of
their own race, and boast it as a mag
niicent achievement! Their machi-
nations eliminated in s~trifes, drove
anG exasperated the southern people
to madness, and brought on all the
calamities of a fratricidal war, which
cost more lives than twenty years to
come being taken into %account) will
equal the number of slaves of all ages
emancipated. And those slaves they
have made free, to beg, to steal, to
starve, and be exterminated by their
own vices, rather than elevated to true
liberty and happiness. 1t is all their
own achievement indeed, and they
well deserve the glory of it. They
lighted the torch which has consumed
the Republican temple, and reduced
forty millions of people under arbi-
trary rule to release four millions
from a milder sway. To them be all
the honor of a common ruin. We
will not derogate from it by the sug-.
gestion that emancipation was a mere
accident Of war. Like a band OFFS
sassins who defy the Law
or of pirates who knONc
their power to destroy the ship in
spite of thousands and the whole
crew, they knew their power, and
they used it. They have done with
abolition, but they will never cease to
destroy, or be anything but foes to
the peace and well being of the coun-
try. The southern people may learn
as patriots fidelity to their whole
native land in union as one ma
ton and people. But they can never
cease to abhor and hate the miscreants
who have so disgraced and injured
the American races.