Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-16
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NEW YoRK, May 10, 1871.
Editors ApDs1l-This is anniversary
/ week for ex-aboHtonists, now styled
''Reform Leaguers," and for WO-
mans Rights and various other sOcie-
ties and ismites-Wendel Phillips,
Beecher, TiltOn, Sumner, Mrs. Liver
more, Mrs. Lucy Stone, Julia Ward
Howe, Mrs. Lucretia Mott, Mrs. Abby
Kelly Foster, Mrs. Celia L. V. A.
Tsppan, Mrs. Josephine A. Ellory,
Mrs. Ella M. Clymer and Miss Glyn,
with the "colored' reverends, n. II.
| Garnett, -- Sergeant, G. w. Dem
nison and others. The city papers, in
reporting proceedings, make no men
ton of color, I suppose because black
being the absence Of color rather than
one, or a combination of cOlOrs, the
effect might be to make the assem-
/ bIages look a little more speckled than
/ is desirable. One Of the speakers
MRS. Howe, if I have not forgotten,
where all being of one mind it is not
very important to distinguish) de-
cIared boldly for social recognition of
the negro in all places and on all Occa-
siOus, She declared that when negro
suffrage was in issue as a question to
be decided, the ayOWals made by alb
OlitiOuists and friends of negro en-
I franchisemeut that they did not
/ expect or cOuntenaRce the idea of
social equality and were not in favor
of il were call false, and y0u know
it." She said prOtestatiOus Of that
sort were mere strategy and for effect,
/ to prevent the possible loss Of votes by
! a candid acknowledgment OF their
/ purposes: and she, with others, insist
ed that political recognition was but
one right now secured, which must be
/ followed by another and equal right
| that Of standing on a level with the
white race in all circumstances. She
| insisted on his being man and brother,
and sister too. The very reverend
Mr.. Garnett, Of the exact color
of Iampblack, said he was pleased
/ with the political equality Of mis- race.
/ But we must confess that still ne was
anything but satisfied. The majority
of the white people still snUbbed his
/ race, for no fault but black skin, at
/ hotels, on railroads and steamboats,,
| at the palace and homestead and fire.
/ side. The battle of reform was only
! half wen until social equality was the
/ indisUutable result. His views were
I 49, q Tnda-anH
! speakers. and exposed the evident
! sense Of the Reform League.
! IdOubt whether to look in on these
/ physical and intellectual AmazOns OF
/ the semi-masCuline gender would be
! altogether agreeable to the more re-
! fined southern ladies. Not that the
| actors are not cultivated enough, or
/ lack anything Of feminine accom-
! DIishmeut in manner, or for the most
/ part use any but the most charitable,
/ kind and amiable lCOTds. But the
! mingling up with blacks and weaker
/ men; loud prOtestatiOns that they are
/ not mistresses of their own property
/ that the money Of the family is even
! more their own than their husbands,
! and that under the law they control
! neither their own purse, nor ''theiT
own babies, " as Miss Lucy Stone has
! it, would be somewhat calculated, as
/ it strikes me, to dampen the ardOr OF
/ q more refined southern matrOn or
| belle. Mrs. LUcretia Mott is kind
/ hearted, venerable Quakeress of sew
enty, and was heartily for all the low
ing, moral instTumentalities against
force. But while many like her talked
urrt1 4
ferOCiOus sentiments.
Wendell Phillips towers among
them like an intellectual giant,
much out Of place. He is a misan-
/ thrOpe, and has been many times
/ sOured in his life of near seventy
| wears. This has made him less Of q
/ philosopher than nature intended and
/ not quite enough Of a stole. As man
| Of great power, both of thought and
| expression, I might place him by the
! trio Of peerless American stars, or by
/ the sideOf a Douglass, q Breckenridge
/ or Bell, il I was not compelled eV-
| erv moment to remember that they
! were always careful never to utter or
/ TO base an argument upon anything
] but well ascertained facts. Phillips,
on the contrary, wills according
/ to his spleen, and welcomes and
/ herslds forth with all his might
/ every base SANDER with which an IN
/ scrupuIOus Radical press is made e
/ TEEN. Even Greedy is too liberal
I candid and magnanimOUs for him anC
| his fellOW-refOruers Of two sexes ano
cOlOrs. And frequent are the satirica
filings which they make at the phiIOs
Opher of the white hat. Think Of the
demand Of Phillips that General Gran
should at once 90 through the whole
/ south with "the drawn SWORD" }" and
by passing every man of humble sta
| tiOn, seize men sat the top p'everyW here
some governor, or general, or man o
wealth; "OTreSt him at midnight, t-1
him before daylight and erec1tte him Be
/ fore sunrise" This process he believed
would strike such instant terrol
! throughout the South, and 50 prove the
/ government terribly in earnest, tina
Ku- -Kluxism would no more be hearC
of, and little blood need be shed. Hi
/ thirst for blood is ike that of th'
tiger which is not careful to inquire
/ as to the guilt or innocence Otits vic
Tins: and 1 am compelled to think
though somewhat the rival Of Cicero
/ be belongs essentially to the ca
species, and would assOon run from
! personal danger as lap blood in safety
/ He knows that there is not in th'
/ South such a conspicuous mark to b
found as he desires to strike, in Ordel
to make it stand chill and aghas
with horror. But, regardless Of gull
n or innocence, he is more cruel in hi
heart than Nero, who spared such a
Obeyed his laws. He asks nothing
but to produce an effect which woul'
rend the South like the shock Of al
/ earthquake. He cares not for any jus
. tiication, in fact. So long as men c
his stamp have large influence, tn
peace Of the country will continue t
be threatened and / would say this
with all proper emphasis, because
/ find his views endorsed by so man,
in this quarter, who, like himself, ar
L representative minds from yaTiOu
sections Of the Northern States now i
convention in this city. I.
E@nEn@ MGR