Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-10

the troubled waters. Let the heart
Of responding patriots take courage
in the hope that the country and it
institutions can yet be preserved.
THE NATIONAL NEGRO CONVENTION
The cOlOred people they have al
transferable aversion to the wore
"negro''-propOse to hold 3 eOnven.
ton, not black and tan, but tanned il
black-in New Orleans. All the
States are to be represented and the
interests Of the race, social and politi
cal, will be thoroughly discussed
They assert the purpose to force the
Grant party to place a Fred Douglass,
as a candidate for the vice presidency,
on the Radical ticket; and why notg
The negroes Of the country, in pro-
portion to their voting strength, have
given offices to more white Radicals
than any equal number of voters in
all the States. They have voted
with the compactness Of movement
that made a Macedonian phalanx in
vincible. Their impenetrable preju-
dices were locked shields So closely
interlaced that no external force OF
reason could break the solid array,
In the South they have selected uni
fOrmly a class Of men to fill offices
who have disguised common decency
by shameless robberies, and such is
the ~senselsss stupidity of these voters,
in most places, that they have not
yet learzedfhat their own woes and
poverty. are exactly measured by the
enormity of public burdens imposed
upon taxpayers. These facts stand
confessed in the report OF the kuklux
committee and Greeley, surely the
last to betrsy the negro, was first to
assert these ~uupalatable truths. So
universal is this apprehension that the
blacks Of the country should conduct
their proposed national convention
with Infinite caution. They have
failed thus far to illustrate, in political
conduct, any marvellous degree of fit
ness for investiture with rights Of eiti-
zsnship, and while the North may
assent to the reign Of savsgery in
Crittsnden and Chicot counties, and
on the lOwlands everywhere along riv-
ers Of the South, where Central Africa
is reproduced, it by nc means follows
that u fellow citizens beyond the
Ohio are not somewhat selfish. They
sold the south the negro under the
operation Of gradual prospective
emancipation codes, and no sooner
was gold subrtitUted for Africans than
became, in Northern eyes,
moral curse. Despite this fact, and
however intense the detestation
Of ex-slsvehOlders prevalent in
the North, it fails to beget
such a degree Of affection for
negro that the North is willing to
sacrifice even its pTejudices Of race in
order to crafty those Of Africans. 1t
3 well enough in South Carolina, Ar
kansas and Mississippi to cOncede to
latutOred blacks absolute supremacy. |
they may create as many little bells
they like in remote districts Of the
but whenever it is sought to
1--WE a negro the place Of Smiler Col
ak the North will revolt against the
moral mastery welded everywhere
or six years past by the negro.
me negro has done enough for the
Ountry. he has enabled thieves to
.ankrupt counties, cities and States.
lie has persisted in stupid adhesion
D cRrpetbaggers. He has seLt fools
nd knsves to both houses OF con-
ress. He has thus advertised his in
in the highest places in the
OveTnment. 1t occurs 10 US that the
egro should 'roOst lower" He has
cen too conspicuous. Even the North
perfUmed with villainOUs OdOrs that
lviron Stokes and Warmoth and
.sed and Clayton and Bullock and
rownloW and Of that little fellows,
hose name we forget, sent from
,aine to represent Mississippi in :
senate Of the United States. 1
iOrs that invest these representa- 1
YES Of negro voters may not be de- c
vative, but + not the less disgust !
z. In fact, negroes should be some I
hat modest. They can expel wealth :
ID learning and decency from South 4
,rolina, and plumber the treasury of L
Duisians, and load Southern y
ates with debt; but, as their true 1
end, we would advise them to a
and aloof from this pro- q
,sed interference with feder- D
elections. In these their action t
eets the North, and while the North Il
YES the negro intensely, it loves v
ore the North. Summers civil Y
hts amendment has excited deeper =
throughout the North than q
the South. Q
After every violent revolution there =
mes a reaction propOrtiOnate in "
to that OF the revolution it "
/. Negrophily has a It's course, ~
4 negrophobia becomes a north \
/ disease. The kuklux commit oI
|, organized to WhiteWssh, has only IL
led intensity to the blackness OF ~
yro governments. Hotel and 81
DOL keepers, and fashionable church
.nagers would have no godly blacks
Chicot or from rice fields Of RI
lth Carolina in their beds, sleeping tic
ches, OF gilded pewsg The pride ~
race is IS deepseated North as SCI
til, Sumner huTTies the reaction di:
/ The proposed convention at New cei
cans viii only accelerate its veloc- 10,
and violence. Northern DeRspa- Is
5 openly spurn Summers PROPOSE tn
! to compel. as a Phiiadelpbia pa thi
asserts, miacegination Of Anglo. laI
on and H0ftentot As q tr1e Pr
M Of the negro We must advise Ia