Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-19
NEGRO KUKLUX

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There are secret associations Of black,
everywhere. They dress and are drilled
as soldiers. Every negro is armed cap.
d-pte. In every cabin there are guns
aud pistols and knives. They are solid.
ly, eompaetly organized in outright
declared partisan hostility to whites
In politics their single guiding principle
of action is opposition 10 the white race
The alarm at Grenada this afternoon
grew out Of this simple fact, which
the people perfectly comprehend
And this is the beginning, mark you, OF
political campaign-the significant
preface, the trifiing prelude. If fAlcorn
come forth, as he must, or he is forever
uRdone, deeds of violence viii be num-
berless, and greater degree of excite
ment viii characterize the contest than
has been known for years.
WHAT IS SAID OF THIS PEOPLE.
These are a queer peOple-so says al
educated Englishman. They thiRb
themselves, he declares, the most intel
ligent, bravest, truest that dwell on
Gods footstOol. They follow their lead
ers, who make them believe all this,
bindly. 1t is not safe to differ from one
of them on a political question. They
Sre disposed to resent an honest expires
sion of opinion, IL different from their
own, as an insult TO their intelligence. II
is very funny to people accustomed to
freedom of thought, expression and OF
conscience; but this is way they have,
and people from abroad soon discover K.
Il is right and proper enough il they
ike il, and strangers are only prepared
for it. Each neighbOrhOod has its lead
er, and so of each county and district,
and il these autOcrats pronounce against
Alcorn or Ames, reason and interest and
common sense viii interpose objections
in vain. l am very well satisfied, con-
tinaed my iuterlocutor, that "quite half
of these noisy young fellows whom tray
elers encounter with jaunty, Hopping
bats, each with a dip like the mariners
compass, and villainous sinking eli
gar cooked up at the same angle-all of
this class Of hard-sweariug creators of
public opinion, will 20 for Ames or q
straight Democratic ticketn
DEMOCRACY DEFUNCT.
I hear people say that if party leaders
nominate s stra ght Democratic ticket
popular interest will fail 20 draw voters
10 the polls. Successive failures of
Democracy here and in federal contests
have imbued people with the conviction
that the Democratic party is only useful
in peTpetuating the reign of fRsdiealism
In very truth the older people whom !
encounter have lost both partisan and
self-confidence. Their spirits are broken.
They are disposed to regard each evil
that threatens them as inevitable, and
bow their necks meekly TO the negro
yoke. Such shameful paralysis has
seized maBy aged Mississippisns, and
the Younger are so vietimfzed by preiu-
diees and so resolved to do what Is IN
wise, because wise policy does Dot COM
port with lofty, exaggerated sense of
honor, that auy desirable solution Of
pending questions cannot be anticipated.
Ames and Ben. Butler viii seize and
plunder the State. There is no present
help for It. The only recourse the pso
pie have is IN Aleorn and the politicians
l tell you the unvarnished truth-the
white party leaders prefer Ames and
Butler and the payment Of the repudi-
ated debt, to Alcorn. The people do not;
bat the people never thought or scted
for themselves, and need not be expect-
ed, at this late hour, TO precipitste such a
moral reformation as this requiring them
to prefer the practical, substantial inter
ests of the State 70 those of psrty-lead-
ers. 1t thus happens that II Alcorn de-
vie plans of defeating Anles and But
Ter, the leaders OF Democracy to convene
next month at Meridian viii surely con-
eoct a echeme for the accomplishment
of Buffers plans, involving the pay
meDt Of the old repudiated debt, and
transfer TO himself the supreme mastery
of the negro race in America. If Grant
becomes emperor, Butler win play the
nope and crown him, and afterwsrd, as
grand vizier, head the black janDissa-
Fies who will uphold the throne Of cur
coming grand Turk.
TIE ONLY RECOURSE
left this people consists, i am grieved 10
say, in the election, ss Alcorn proposes,
by the whites and negroes, Of an una
dulterated negro ticket. Let Il be back
IS Epebus from stem to stern. from oipho
to omega, blacker than the neither ex-
tremity Of midnight, and Anes viii go
down In darkness so prOfond that Butler
VIII cock his eye in vain 70 discover the