Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-18
HORACE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sen
TEUENES-HE WANTS THE NEGRs
DIFFERENTIATED.

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Horace Maynard is the nominee OF
die Radicals for Congress for the State
n Large. he will soon be in West Ten
uessee soliciting the votes of the celOred
people. We know it is like casting
pearls before swine to attempt to discuss
%poiitics with the negro. But in this ar
icie We have this much to say: if the
| cOlored man, in view of the atrocious
-entiments which Horace Maynard has
uttered against the negro race, can per
form the degradation of voting for him,
then indeed is the colored man joined to
his idol, and good men will excuse HE
idolatry at the expense Of his ignorance
Maynard is now appealing to the white
voters of East Tennessee, and in a few
lays he will be in u midst asking the
support Of the colored voter. There is
not a decent humane, white or black,
man in the State that will vote fr
Maynard after they read the brutal
and inhuman sentiments uttered by
him, in Memphis, a few years
since. On the twenty-second of Feb
ruary, 1854, a convention of uncondi-
tiOnaI Union men Of West Tennessee
was held in Memphis to in lugurate a
movement for the reorgani alton of the
State of Tennessee. Thb convention
was largely attended. Speakers from
various parts of the State were present.
Prominent among the number was
Horace Maynard. He was the big gun
of the occasion. The proceedings of the
meeting were published in pamphlet
form, and we make a few extracts from
the speech Of Horace Maynard. In
speaking of the negro he said:
Whatever we may think of s~lavery-though
1 may have advocated It ever so strongly, and
YOU have opposed il with equal stubbOrnness,
As an American institution, it is among the
things that were. [Cheers.] The shadow has |
passed, and nothing but a small portion OF
The penumbTR remains. But, fellow-citizens. |
& is proper andjUst TO render unto Caesar the |
thing which are Caesars and give those the |
credit OF the great change 70 whom the credit
belongs. II does not belong to the friends OF i
the Union. The emancipated, disenthralled |
slave owes no measure Of gratitude to US. 1
Ne We're opposed TO his liberation, we strOYe /
against it, we begged, we besought the people |
against it, we pointed it as one of the re- |
suits of war, and we tried with our might TO
rhey Che rebels are the men that inaugu-
rated emancipation and are entitled to the |
tll credit, Give Il % them, press, fun meas
IRE, running over. Loud applause and laugh
teri
Your Governors were Shareholders your
Judges were shareholders, your member Of l
Congress, and most Of the member Of your /
legislature. II was a high, proud and lofty \
Institution. But agitate the question, in any |
shape or form, and you tumble dowm the
structure. Especially II you allow men to
make war upon the government in its name. 4
his is the end ofyOuT property and therefore
I besought, plead and implored the people OF
Tennessee to let the question pass, and not TO
introduce it into political affairs.
Now, What Is ultimately to become OF the
race Of emancipated Africans set free, as he /
Inevitable result of the conflict Experience
ilas shown that no race which has ever come
sas permanently proSpered. In Florida, II
Louisiana in Texas, the Latin race has gradu- I
lily retired before the advance Of Tour c~ivillza-
ion. Take, Tor instance, the Indian race. 4
which so much pains has been taken 70 pre-
serve from doom. EloQuence, poetry and song,
imanity, philanthropy and religion and
Them from that destruction which seems TO
pa so swiftly Overtaking them. Every new
station seems to draw them in, and make
mem di-appeaT stll further from the notice
OF the world. In this terrible struggle We
might nppose that the Indian would not be
Interested or affected. We see that in North
Carolina he /, paid thirty dollars for the scalpl
~ the pursued and smitten conscFipt, and in
lrfn ls fallen upon by OuT troops and driven
from lho hunting grounds and homes
u his fathers. How is IL IN the West with thcI
,hoctawS, ChickasaWs, C~herokees, Comanches
and some other uibes9 They have been
vmpteu TO take part in the rebellion, and the
usual ard inevitable fate has befallen
hem. What has been the result to
the Indian race viii Just as surely be
race. They will gradually disappear from
among us unit our grandchildren three-quar-
are as we now find the Indian. tCheers
destiny Of the negro race in this
aid, in the course of n few years this race
gil be remembered as only a part of the his
5Ory Of our country
Twill, therefore, in conclusion, present as
he summation of all / have offered on this
occasion, and as the two great and prominent
'0ur memory, a regenerated south, and the ]
.'uthanasiaof the black race in America.
In all our reading we have never found !
such cruel, unrighteous and ferocious
as the above. AS we have ]
heretofore said, in denouncing these !
brutal words, the realms of literature in /
ii ages and chimes viii be searched in
7ain for anything like a parallel to the
Itrocious sentiments entertained and !
by Horace Maynard in the above
The sentiments are cruel. cold.
and shocking to humanity. :
Webster defines "Euthanasy" to mean !
AN easy death; a mode of dying to be :
So it seems that MAYNARD. /
Tho is o appealing to the negro for
is vote, on the twenty-second
+ February, 1864, was for "a re-
enerated South and an easy death :
/, the negro" Instead of voting for .
Iaynard, the negroes and every
lend to humanity should boot the
lonster from civilization; for a man
no can pray for the death of any of
DDS creatures, should live only among I
wages. Maynard is now telling the b
egro he must vote for him as a matter 5
gratitude, but it viii be seen from the Y
,ove extract that in February, 1864, .
told the samenegro that " WEI