Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-21
The Negroes and the Carpetbaggers-
The Evils they PIpetuate-
Horrible Condition Of
S0eiety.
Fron our speclal corrssponaent.l


asserting and accomplishing their owl
dissoluucR. The dispatch was rudel,
criticised and harshly spoken o
be the men themselves who, yesterday
at Meridian went through the absurC
forms Of hGsi-kari. AgsntIeman a Of tn,
convention spoke OF the necessity fol
branding each member Of the dismem
bered organization, but they had worI
I the yoke 50 long, there were such IN
mistakable traces Of the collar and yok,
that when the rings in their noses wer,
removed, and each bull-headed bOvin.
or &sinine, or brilliant Democrat rushed
Z forth untrsmeled, unrestrained, and {
free-thinker for the first time in th,
worlds history, there were never sucl
heartfelt demonstrations Of Joy. To thesC
( results leaders ef opiniOn-thOse whC
have monopolized the business of plat
form-building-were bitterly opposed
Il IS no longer their business to do the
/ thinking for the multitude and the
true pc pie of the State; that stratum
of population rarely heard or felt in
I Mississippi politics, now comes to the
surface. It follows that there are ex.
Democratic leaders who viii vote fol
/ Ames. They hate Alcorn, and then,
I too, Rsdicalism is omnipotent for the
nonce In the State, and there was never
] q e77,rotI,a- l-Color bid ,.or,gfr,,oE, % 4
than this now suspended between the
! Democratic cOnvoeation at Meridian
and that Of Republicsnism at Jackson.
Over its plsnks emigrants from one tc
another paradise OF politicians and the
old rabble Of party leaders may pass to
and fro, and intermingle prOmiscuously.
I 1t was blissful day for Mississippians
: when this rupture OF ties Of prejudice
. was effected. Thera will be greater free
dom Of thinking, and whole classes OF
I people will not be driven along blindly
I in the same old grooves of thought and
action. 1 was telling gentlemen this
morning that the great blunder Of the
south last fail consisted in the fact that,
after we learned from October northern
state elections that the north would not
! vote for Greeley in November, that the
I whole south should have voted for Grant.
I Strangely enough there was no dissent,
J and no one seemed to imagine that l
was either a fool or "knave" because
differed in reference to q question OF
/ partisanship from my fellows. There
I Is, in fact, q decided liberalization oil
opinions and progressive extinction OF
absurd prejudices happily promoted
I by this final extinction OF the Democrat
ic party in Mississippi. 1t has done q
snare Of good perhaps in its time; but
Infinitely more Of evil, and few tears
viii bedew its grave. 1t has been the
counterpart Of abOlitionism and then OF
Radicals inihaving just force enough to
make its antipOde OmnipOtent and then
to eXasperate its Stevens and Morton
and Butler, and none will regret its
death save the leaders of Radicalism.
These men will never admit that De-
mOcrscy is dead, and we will hear it
everywhere within the week, from
every mOuthpiece Of Radicalism, that
there never was such foul fraud sought
TO be perpetrsted as that involved
in the alleged death of Democ-
raey at Meridian. The leaders of the
two hostile parties eO-operated through
their lives and concur in death.
THE CARPETBAGGER-
find that the negroes have a very
intelligent apprehension Of the worth OF
carpetbaggers. If Democracy died a
month ago there would have been, even
now, perfect organization of blacks
and whites opposed TO earpetbag gov
ernment. Ham Carter was Of this sort:
but / am told that Democracy died so
slowly that Ham went over bag and
baggage TO Ames. He is a devout ad-
mirer Of AlcOrn, and the opinion OBJ
taiBs that he will constitute a potent
agent Of the Alcorn party in the coming
struggle. The Democratic leaders, in
many instances, may support Ames,
and this gives additional popular
strength to Alcorn. There are twenty
OF thirty known party leaders who could
elect Alcorn by voting and speaking for
Ames. Such facts, if facts, are not fat
tering to popular intelligence, but elo-
quent Of the force of popular prejsdices.
l only know that many negroes are
thoroughly weary of the mastery Of ear
petbaggeFs, and that AlcOrn's strength,
even here among colOred people, is much
greater than was anticipated. He aud
his eloquent cOlOred adherents should
visit this Central Africa.
CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY.
Crops Of corn and cotton in the prai-
ries are utter failures, The people are
most unfortunate. They are in debt.
Impoverished, enslsved, and taxed as
are no other agricultural population on
the globe. Memphis grOans beneath
burdens imposed by multiplied gov
ernments heaped up on one another,
but the State and county alone, to say
nothing of the town and federal taxa
ton, exact five per cent. Add the cost
Of towns and tariffs, and the people pay
six or seven per cent. Of their whole
wealth annually TO Ofiice-holders. Pen
ury stanes them in the face. and toll is
50 profitless that multitUdes are idle.
There are two or three hundred negro
men in this village who have done moth
ing for months. They live by depreda-
tiOns upon pig-styes and hen-roOsts, and
by burglaries. Where property is thus
insecure and thus taxed il is rapidly
made valueless, and a people become
hopeless idlers. The jail Of the
village Is ever OvercrOwded with
criminals. In fact, negroes commit all
sorts of petty crimes that they may be
imprisoned and fed at public cost. A
chain-gang is now sauntering about the
streets, its members never earning their
bread. The people know not what dis
position to make of these countless
criminals. Every negro county can
furnish from one TO two hundred fit sub
jects for the penitentisry. But the peni-
tentary Is already OvercrOwded here, as
ia Tennessee, aud the new question
arises, as these States and counties grow
poorer, and vice and crime more IN
blushing, what disposition can be made
Of thieves and vagrants? Why may
not ali these States enter into a partner
ship and transfer all sorts Of culprits to
builders Of a great canal, connecting
the Mississippi with the Atlantic?
THE MAILS AND CORINTHIAN LAzI-
NESS.
President Murdock, the successful
manager Of the greatest southern rail-
way line, extending from the lakes to
the gulf, would do the press great ser
vice il be compel 3 share Of attention 10
the transfer Of mails from one to another
railway. The APPEAL loses certainly
five thousand dollars per snnum because
papers nom Memphis are often two, and
even i've days old when they reach Ma
con or Meridian. Is there no remedy?
Ask POstmasfer-G General DelOach. i
left Memphis with half dozen copies of
toe APPEAL at hRlf-past four O'Clock
yesterday morning. Here l cOHld sell
copy OF yesterdays APPEAL for half a
dollar. No APPEAL has been here, save
those i brought, for four days. We are
not personally interested In the transfer
of freights at COrinth from the Memphis
and Charleston TO the Mobile and Ohio
road, but would be very grateful to the
postmasteT-general, to Major Ross, 20
President Murdock, or TO the mail-agent
at COrinth. if the APPEAL be suffered
TO pass down the Mobile and Ohio road
on the day Of its publication. The
Memphis morniDg-train reaches Cor
inth at half-past nine O'Clock with the
APPEAL, and the Mobile and Ohio
train comes south fion Corinth at half
past two O'Clock in the afternoon. Can't
a Corinth postmaster, or mail agent,
transfer the APPEAL-psekages in four