Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-05
MISSISSIPPI.
Grand Radical PoW.WOW at HernandO-
The Nations Wards in Council.
The Blind Leading the Blind-IgnOrance
Talks to Stupidity-Grant's
Aids have their Say.
Lon an occaslonal correspordent.

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Aids have their Say.
From an Occasional Correspondent
HERNANDo, Miss, October 1.-The
I Radical canvass was fully inaugurated
in DeSoto on yesterday. About hun
dred negroes, three or four white Radi-
Gals and probably a dozen Democrats
! constituted the audience. The negroes
occupied the main auditorium Of the
= new courthouse, and, without well fill
! ! ing it, gave it the general appearance Of
1 the ten Of spades. A white speck on
, piece Of ebony would fairly represent
the white Republicans in attendance.
At Senatobia, yesterday, the audience
for the same speakers was only different
from the one here in sparseness Of mem
! bers and intensity Of blackness.
A. r. Howe, candidate for Congress,
rice George Z. Harris, now in dim
eclipse, makes the opening speech. He
is q young man with auburn locks and
sanguinary cOuntenance. Owing to the
fashions probably, that is, the intense
tightness of his pantaloOns, some ap-
prehension is naturally felt for the
ability of his legs to successfully carry
his Congressional head and body
through the canvass. Legs have been
known to refuse to carry legislative cor
pOrosity, even st Washington. Mr..
Howe has the warning Of brilliant fail
ures before him, and therefore we shall
not volunteer any advice on the subject.
In point of ability and OratOrical quail
ties, Howe is no improvement on Har-
ris, the present member. His social status
among his immediate neighbOrs is ex-
emplaTy and uneXceptiOnable, and his
| for iFN~n flfr
dealing, so far, has never been i'm
peached. He can write a frank with
considerable ease and rapidity, and viii
therefore make as good and efficient a
garden-seed distributing member as any
that generally y falls to the lot and present
fortunes Of
MISSISSIPPI,
By strict attention to that part Of gov
eminent, be may occasionally be heard
Of hereafter, should he be so fortunate
as 70 secure his election. Thus far he is
without opposition, and will so continue
1 through the canvass, unless General
J. r. Chalmers, our district ElectOT, can
be induced to assume the double task OF
making the race against him. General
| Chalmers's candidacy would intensity
| the Liberal vote and somewhat increase |
the strength Of Greeley and Brown in
/ this district. There can be no cOmpari- |
son as TO the relative abilities Of the
two men, and had We anything like an
intelligent opposition to contend with |
| Chalmers would undoubtedly he Sc
/ lected. But, unfortunately, capacity in
Congress is a thing Of the past, relic of
| that barbarism which attended the ex-
istence OF slavery.
Colonel Howe's speech consisted |
,f
Radical party had done in establishing
FREE SCHOOLS
for Mississippi, at the expense Of the |
people, maintaining that their cOntinU- |
ance entirely depended on the perpetua- |
ton Of Radical rule. His arguments, in |
support Of his position, were untenable, |
unfair and specious. There is a huge
mistake in the prevalent idea Of uni |
versal education in the South. Weak |
ness is power to an inferior race. Ii is |
natural for the feeble and dependent 10 |
look up to, to love and obey their supe-
riOrs, and quite as natural for the strong
and wise TO protect and care for the |
feeble, ignorant and dependent. Regu- |
| lar labor cures vagrancy, and teaches |
the useful arts Of life. The doctrine Of
Howe, and All his sort, is, that if negroes
are sent to common schools, academies, |
colleges and universities, and educated |
| in all respects like the whites, when they |
grow up no difference viii exist between |
the races, except in physical appearance. |
Acting upon this false and cruel notion, |
the Radicals come forward and boldly !
proclaim: We have set
THE NEGROES
| free, forced their former masters to feed |
and clOthe them-in many instances for |
nothing--tO send them to the common |
schools, colleges and universities, give
them all political rights Of free citizen |
ship, and now If they cannot get along |
in the field Of free competition, tits their |
fault, not ours. All these wOuld-be phi |
lanthrOpists and Radical rOpers-in Of
the negro vote forget, OF pretend not to
know, that literary education-if such
thing were pOssible-wOuld entirely
unfit a full-blooded negro for field-work
or anything else Of which he is capable,
and thus deprive him Of all means of
support, except theft and robbery. The
experiment Of educating negroes has
been assiduOusly carried on for four
thousand years. The Egyptians, in an
cient times the most civilized Of the
white race, have ever been in contact
with them; and the Arabs, whose civil
ization also dates from time immemO-
rial, cross in the narrow straits Of
RAB-EL-MANDEL,
have so cOmmingled and crossed blood
with them that there are now no really
full-blooded, thoroughly black negroes
except on the extreme western coast and
| In the partially explored regions about
the head Of the Nile. In all instances II
is found that the brown Mohammedan
negroes, crossed with Arabic blood, are
superior 10 the typical, thoroughbred,
pure black negroes. But the infusion Of
white blood has been so small that they
have acquired none Of the modes OF arts
OF civilized life. They have no houses,
no farms, no plOws, no wagons. no laws,
no churches, no public highways, no sep
arate properties, little or no clOthing-in
fact, none Of the institutions that belong
70 civilized life, and which distinguish
civilized men from barbarians. They
herd together from necessity, for no Afd-
cans life would be safe who attempted
TO live secluded. Their so-called cities
COLLECTIONS Of huts inferior to the resi-
dences Of the beaver-afford the most
conclusive evidence that they are, after
FOUR THOUSAND YEARS
Of association with civilized mankind,
very little superior TO other gregarious
animals that infest the wilds Of Africa.
Yet their patronizing friends propose 70
teach this race equally with the whites,
even at the expense Of the last dollar Of
the whites. such stuff Is merely = clap
tran. nonsense, and was invented merely
70 please the fancy Of the negro. The
whites do not oppose the policy Of trying
70 give the negroes the benefits OF 8
common school education, If possible,
and have So far Submitted 20 enormous
and oppressive taxation for that purpose,
and ii seems but fair that they should
have the credit Of doing what the Radi-
Gals so pompOusly assume as their own
especial merit.
M. Howe concluded his speech by
lauding General Grants military
achievements and financial policy. lie,
like all the Others, read frm Greeley's
record, which has about IS much TO do
with the issues Of the present canvass as
sthe Dutch in Holland have with the
lager-beer Of
THE QUEEN OF sHEBA.
Hon. james Hill, OF Marshall, Grant
Elector for this district, followed Howe,
and really made a fairer and better
speech than did his predecessor. Price,
OF Grenada, and Hon. George +. Harris |
wound up the show by reading from
Grseley's record. II Horace Greeley
had been 50 fortunate as never 10 have |
made a record, the Radical stumpers
hereabOuts would be in similar con-
ditiOn Of the boy that the calf run over
they would have nothing 10 say. No
Conservative or Democrat cares any
thing about the past sayings Of Greeley
or anybody else His late speeches, |
both IN the East and West, establish the |
fact beyond a doubt that the Sage Of
Chappaqua il right now, which is as far
as we care 70 look into the matter. II.