Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-04
AKEGRO POLICE.


If the people of Memphis would pre-
vent the INCAPABLE shsme Of seeing ne
gro policemen strutting upon their beats,
they must give q cordial and earnest sup
mort to John johnson. Rsdicalism, during
all its Infamous career in Memphis, never
dared to insult our people with a negro
poles. But it seems this atsocious crime
is reserved to John League. In his letter
TO his friend, Barbour Lewis, he promises
to make no distinction between races In
/ selecting municipal officers. The mon
strous proposition 20 place negroes upon
the police should arouse our energies and
influence our zeal and determination.
This last yoke sought to be imposed upon
us is one TO which submission is impossi-
bic, because no pstienoe or fortitude
could make It tolerzble. Under the
pressure of suffering, men often
exhibit a decay Of their resolution.
The boldest spirits are not always proof
against the Generalization Of physical
distress. Even the tiger may be tanned
By stsrvstion. In the lste Wal we saw
how many there were who tainted In
spirit, and were clsmoroUs for surrender
10 order to escape the inconvenience at
tsndiDg the defense Of their liberties.
These persons lost US the victory. But
there will be no such seducement to sub
mission, in the African domination to
which the Radicals are resolved to sub
jsct the people Of Memphis. Only the
most invincible forsisude, and in
q far greater degree than was re-
CURED TO endure the hardness of
the late hostiEties, would enable
tbs people Of Memphis TO besr the eye
sore, the ever-orushing torture Of Losgus's
negro recorder and negro police. While
there is sven q remote possibility of such
q calamity, the most m-ean-spirited and
lethsrgic white man in Memphis cannot
fail to 90 his duty to-day. There must be
9 compact and determined opposition to
the man vino acknowledges himself csps-
bic Of such an insUlt to the people Of Mem
phis. The educated and intelligent citI-
Of this city recognize the permanent
authority of the DEGREES of the Creator /
that the several races of mankind, what
their origin, or their possible eonneo-
ton with q common ancestry, have
been created with differences that {
were designed to be respected, '
No influences of climate or food, or mode i
of lite, and none Of the powers of nature
n their regular operations, have ever
or can ever turn, a white man into
IN African, or have ever turned or can
,ver turn an African into q white man. :
It follows that ct some period and in some
way which we stop not 70 conjecture the :
and h white man were made dis :
met races, with the necessity Of remain !
ng 50; and this necessity was fortified by :
instinct OF repugnsnce and losthing at ;
be very suggestion of Identification. Z
'rsnt that the negro is indeed superior to a
lswis or League; yet they ought never a
heless to remain distinct. In the interest !;
f both races, nature demands that the a
ne size has drawn between them be OBJ !,
and respected. The attempt to \
OmpOund the two races, like the attempt ;,
identify oil and water, depends
II ven the slightest apparent
1ocess, on The presence OF COM
Withdraw this, and the Is
tomptness of the separation shows that u
sture's law was never for even a 81
ioment suspended or impaired. The an Ie
OF races Is beyond the control of re
League. There never will be peace A
ltil the laws of nature are acknoW- n
dyed. Hence, the white people Of Men, le
rs have no choice but to stand up for Ia
cir race against all violences and COM
llsioDs. Let Us nos then loose 8 single
OF Of ground through insetion. The st'
OPPOSITION of League is monstrous, odi- pc
Is, ruinous and intolerable. He who w
ties for John League to-day votes for a at
n Of faces, for the strife and military no
le which q negro police would pro- OF
He who fails 10 vote shows by TIT
acts that be is willing to see q negro -
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