Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-16
COLORED POLITICS.
The Gathering at New Orleans Pro-
nounees for Grant-A Resolution
asking for Patronage adopted.
A Loud ClamOr for the Head OF the
Table and ''the Best Bed in
the House,
The Negroes Pronounce Political Fu-
neral Grafton over all who have
Betrayed them.

/ NEW ORLEANS, April 15.-In the Ma
tional Colored Convention, Governor
Ranseir, of South Carolina, submitted
the following report of the Committee
on Platform and Resolutions, which was
unanimously adopted:
Regretting the necessity which has
made necessary a cOlored convention,
and deeply sensible of the responsible
ties which have been entrusted to our
consideration, we hereby acknowledge
our gratitude for the past triumphs in
behalf of equal rights, and respectfully
submit our peculiar grievances to the
immediate attention of the American
people, in the following platform and
resolutions:
First-We thank God, the friends of
universal liberty in this and other lands,
the bravest of colored soldiers and the
loyalty of the colored people for our
emancipation, our citizenship and our
acknowledgements.
Second-Owing our political emanci-
patton In this country TO Republican
legislation, to which all other parties
and shades of opinion were unjustly
and bitterly opposed, We would be blind
to our prospects and false to our best in
terests, did we identify ourselves with
any other organization; and as all
roads out of the Republican party lead
into the Democratic camp, we pledge
our answering devotion to support the
nominees of the Philadelphia Conyen-
ton.
Third-We sincerely and gratefully
endorse the administration of President
U. S. Grant in maintaining our liber-
ties, in protecting us in our privileges,
in Furnishing our enemies in the dawn
of the recognition of the claims of men
without regard to color, by appointing
US to important official positions at
home and abroad; in assurance that he
has given to defend our righs, and that
while we, in our gratefulness, acknowl
edge and appreciate his efforts in behalf
of equal rights, we are not unmindful
of his glory as a soldier and his exalted
virtues as statesman.
FOurth-Or thanks are due, and
hereby rendered, to President Grant for
overriding the precedents and preju-
dices-in better recognition of the ser
vices of men without regard to color
in some parts of the country, and We
earnestly pray that the colOred Republi-
cans of States where there are no Fede-
raj positions given to colored men may
lO lOASSI DC tuS NlAdb lA1ty VIII
be stimulated by some recognition of
Federal patronage.
Fifth-It would be an ingratitude
ioathed by men and abhorred by God did
we not acknowledge our overwhelming
indebtedness for the services of the Hon.
Charles Sumner, who stood for a long
time in the Senate of the United States
the Gibraltar of our cause and the north
star of our hopes; who forfeited caste in
the estimation of large portion of his
eountrymen by an unswerving devotion
to equal rights; who has been maligned
for fidelity to principles; who has been
stricken down by the assassin for advo-
eating liberty throughout all the land,
and unto all the inhabitants thereOf,and
in whose great body, rising, as it were,
almost out of the grave, TO marshal the
hosts of impartial Justice, with his
mighty ideas going to the furthest part
of the land, and finding an echo in the
triumph of liberty over slavery, We have
the assurances of the good, great and
beloved patriot that he viii be as faithful
TO the Republican party in the future as
he has been unfaltering in the past.
Sixth-That while men protesting
strong Radical sentiments and We're
elected to Congress by an Overwhelm-
ing majority of eOlored votes, were found
voting against the supplementary Civil
rights bill in the Senate of the United
States; We honor that manly exhibi-
ton Of devotion to the principles of the
Republican party which influenced the
Hon. Schuyler COlfax, Niee-President
of the United States, to honor the cause
of justice by recording his casting vote
as President of the Senate, in favor of
equality before the law as indicated in
the supplementary civil rights bill as it
passed the Senate by the virtue of the
aforesaid casting vote.
Seventh-HaYing been by solemn
legislation of the American Congress /
raised to the dignity of citizenship, we
appeal to the lawabiding people of the
States respectfully, to those who in the
days Of the fugitive slave law resorted I
TO statutes, however offensive, 10 pro-
tect and defend US iu the enjoyment of
our just rights and privileges upon all 1
which are eOmmon car
riers, and at all resorts of public amuse- |
ments where tastes are cultivated and I
manhood is quickened, and In al places
of public character or corporate asso- !
Citations which owe their existence TO /
the legislation of a nation or States /
against q spirit Of slayeey which at
tempts to degrade our standard Of in /
telligenee and virtue By forcing 1
our refined ladies and gentlemen /
into smoking ears amidst vul- I
garity which humiliates our
pride by denying US fiTst-elass aeoommo- 1
dations on steamboats,, and compelling /
us to eat and sleep with the servants for I
which We are charged the same as those !
who have the best accommodations, and /
which closes the door of hotels against
famishing colored persons, however
wealthy, Intelligent or respectable they
may be, while all other public places
and eonveyances welcome and entertain |
all white persons, whatever may be
their character, who may apply. |
Now, In view Of the disgraceful 4