Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-10
Social EqlaIity-A Correspondent
Numerically Handled,


ubiquitous characters the Especial Cor
Respondent ard "Our own Artist,0
to roam at large and Willy and car
feature everything Southern Neither
men nor women, manners nOr morals
escape their ~all-seeing eyes; q tamil
iarity with the peRetrdtf0 Of editorial
sanctums, hotels, and domestic retire
ment is eVinced which at once startle
and enlighten the reader, while he
gazes with a profound admiration,
sometimes not unmingled with awe
at the fertility o~finventiOns displayed
in the accompanying wOOd-euts,
| which are always extremely pro-
nouneed. We are fain to speculate a
| little upon this subject as we turn the
pages Of Every Saturday, the issue Of
| September %, ard scan the result Of
! Mr.. Ralph Keeler's 'sday on a Mis-
| sissiDpi steamboat
Gzi 6oRos your correspondent might
well ask by way of exOdium, and, il
a satisfactory response were awaited,
a blank sheet and an already rusty
pen would be laid aside for another
occasion; but the instinct which iBius-
tice so quickly warns into action, to-
gether with that protective sense, |
possessed so largely by humanity, in
duees q to forego all q~uestionings
and reasonings.
Mr.. Keeler's first page is graeed by
these words: SIT is thought by those
who like the negro least that the time
is not far OF when the whites viii
have to eat with the blacks in those
portions OF the South where the freed
men are in the majority" To this
paragraph we invite attention ; mean
while of course, it should be borne in
mind that this exceedingly ~veraeious
gentleman is on a Southern tour, and
is expected to portray faithfully seem
cry and character.
Now, may we ask, who ''those'' are
that 'hke the the negro least?'' Is il
the Yankee hOusekeeper in this heSth-
en- and inhdel land, who still turns in
horror and disgust from the miuistra-
tiOns Of the 'sinsittntiOnS sIs il one
of those adventurous spirits who has
forsaken his legitimate line of bush
ness, wedding the onion patch in old
Yarmouth, !" forthe ~preeari0us eultiva-
ton Of the Gotten and the cane? Or
mayhsp 8 hero of the singing school
and apple bee (grOWn bold from his
draughts at that PierTian spring, We
yeelept thedistrict acknowledgements
ing his way not westward, with the /;
star Of empire, but southwark with !
all his vast stores OF learning to re- j
claim from ignorance, superstition
and degredation-the man aad broth !
not found taking tea with the ]
minister and boarding around with I
the scholars what his vivid fancy had 1
eOBjUred up9 Or pray, can ft be
anOmolOus creature-Oeeasion- 5
ally known as the late slave I
lWner-Whieh our Northern friends a
been won't to depict so Z
variously, but with some unehanging c
characteristics, such as an actively d
Exercised power yer his former Q
so cruel and absolute, that one p
suppose the very souls of bodies Y
internally tortured, would cry out g
n protest; always too, as a eheWer Of o
Obacc0. q topper, 8 sWeaFer, 8 sWag- e.
'erer. Has he grown traftor0us and g.
eO1fdsntially into Nj. E
<eeler's ear t~heseeret, which has been b
,ept like WOmen's secrets, and Is at q
his time proclaimed both in Europe &C
nd America-that he soon expects to B
il down, and great heavens! eat with Is
From whichever of these Z
ources, the Especial correspondent
erives his Information, not being in Ol
tied to the feast, among, but not of 70
9, he merely filings in this delicious Fl
t-bit en- 1pGsSont, in the most nom @
nalsnt manner, and leaves it to be R
at the leisure Of those ell
to be interested. The co
old pr0phesy thus nO~n-fathered UI
i've by that irresponsible ssthose," te
with vile in~sinuatiOn, pa
} foul as it is false, opening In
ide the gates through which hoW bU
dummy and crime, and all eoneeiv- Of
DE iniqlties, has gone FORTH su
Reflections and inquiries naturally W
Use as to whom we OF the South are 10
the habit of sitting at table with, lie
Id we readily reply, not always co
it'll thesecharacterized byhigh birth, ais
breeding and mental culture. ar
1T whenever We thus meet, whether qu
steamboat cabin or private parlor, ini
immunitiss and privileges of 8 al
Cher class must remain intact. One res
t better informed, however. as TO ini
Z ways and dOings must needs ae- cor
pt Mr.. Keeler's dietum, and SINH TIM
4 declarations from other saDienf Ii
arces, and his admirers viii REQUIRE ser
" q short look ahead 60 find former |
passed away; Southern men Ms
d women cheek by joWl; with the fug
awHy, greasy. semi-barbar0us AZ Ian
an, helping themselves from the inc
ne dishes. The black damsel Is to wa
play her d1sky cnarms, rendered imI
1hly vivid by the proximity side an(
Side with the white woman, viz nat
JUS wife and mother. Good Godl anC
es Mr.. Kseler really mean we are Eu,
come t0this2 We pray that de- fou
as utter As that which list
)med Hercuianeum and PomDaii his
srtake the Seath and her reviled tha
| afflicted children ere the problem be
social equality be aflrneativefv mel
vedi Deheaeyg pride, every in OF 9
lct revolts at such afHiiati0n, and SEW
stand aghast at the appalling sug- sup
lion. We shrink back shudaer- pail
u even at the peEtalss OF the new Thu
under which license and cor ton
ton, its Inevitable ~exp0nenta are and
rampant,a and mlseagenation to- ties
49, ~ ton
the next place wanted, If not ina eOuI
to knew kha mama of that Whe
located upon the Mississippi werl
Use Enthusiastic REPRESENTATIVES ling
only threng The wharf, and gaze @nn
strained vision at the oat-gofne tneil
mer frare speetaclel bat in the Uni
entity Of their zeal mount cotton Rvo
8 and ascend tops of hacks 70 dis hers