Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20


GRAND JUNCTION, August l9.-At
Holly Springs yesterday and to-day
propositions embodied in the APPEALS
letter Of Saturday, suggesting the nomi-
nation of an unmixed negro ticket
against the es-Butler-P Powers carpet
bag combination, were themes ofuniver-
sal discussion. The stupidest negro sees
that he is the veriest tool of cunning
knaves who use the simple colored peo-
pie to plunder and impoverish a country
which negroes toll to enrich. In fact,
the negroes, in sllying themselves with
the robbers of the south con-
spire against themselves TO rob
themselves. Negroes can only prosper
as the country prospers, and the carpet
bsggers have robbed the country Of its
substance, and robed whites and
blacks in rags. If the negroes
would satisfy the world that they de-
serve to be free and are capable of self
government, and worthy of the boon of
suffrage, never was there such an oppor-
tunity offered. Their candidates, of
their own selection, must be of their
own race, and the white people of the
State only ask that the best and wisest
negroes be designated by the negroes for
every federal and State office. The whites
viii vote solidly for the negro nominees
Of the negroes.
THE NEGRO DECLARATION OF INDEPEN-
DENCE.
The question is, when and where win a
convention be held to designate the col
OTed candidates Of the colored peo-
pie of Mississippi? The action
OF that convention will be the
first negro declaration Of independence.
Their yoke since 1865 has been the foul,
greasy hsndle Of an old reeking carpet
bag. Whenever it is east aside, the ne
gro, for the first time, viii taste the
sweets and confess the consciousness of
perfect freedom.
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS AND FACTS.
OF noTtherR counties of Missis-
sippi, Marshall and DeSoto are the most
prosperous and progressive. The rela-
tons between whites and colored people
are Of the kindliest character; and while
Marshall county produces not more than
twenty-five thousand bales of cotton,
yet the people are absolutely improving
their farms, and Identifying homes,
and rebuilding fences. This state
Of progressiveness obtains in DeSoto,
and in several wide districts of the coun-
try tributary 10 the trade Of Memphis.
The annual production Of cotton
of Marshall county is quite half as great
as anterior to the war. while in the for
mer slave-hOldiDg counties of eastern
Mississippi the production is not one
third that OF years preceding the revo-
luton. In Marshall, as in DeSoto,
county, / see new fences here and there,
houses renovated and painted, trees that
fell in the fields have been absolutely
removed, and bitches are made and little
streams straightened. Painfully appa--
rent are the effects Of bad government
in wide districts. The people are not
well dressed. They wear mean hats
away down in the southern counties,
and with unkempt hair and dirty home
" KaLDeI
about railway stations, and with lack
luster, spirItless faces, without wonder
or signs Of pleasure, gaze upon dusty
travellers and burrying locomotive.
They are as hopeless a race, in
their very appearance, as were ever
oppressed by tyrants or plundered by
thieves. It is difficult to arouse such q
people from the lethargy that would
consign them to political slavery
Here Ames and Butler viii encounter
no obstructiOns to their schemes, and
the carpetbaggers reign over whites
and blacks with a rod of iron. In coun-
ties north Of Jackson there is a show of
manly vigor, and when il is suggested
that the only hope for the country con-
Eists in the expulsion of foreign thieves
that plunder alike counties, towns and |
the State, and that the whole tribe OF |
vampires will fly the very moment
negroes are invested with offices, these |
people confess keen interest in accom- |
plishing a result so desirable. The |
gray-haired men even here say, "there |
Is no hope; the country is ruined; we
only desire to gather enough from the |
wreck TO live" But IL the possibility |
Of eXpelling the professional place /
holding robbers be presented by intelli- /
people may be induced to go TO the
polls.
A REGULARITY
OF these people consists either in their |
timidity or habitual dependence upon |
their party leaders. They do not, it |
seems, think for themselves, and when |
the subject Of revolt against the coming |
Ames- -Butler-POweTs despOtism is dis |
cussed, they constantly ask. "What |
does 4, B, or c, think of it?" these
gentlemen being the stump-speakers of
the county or district. They have stump
speakers living down here, even, yet /
What may be done by these people de-
pends mainly upon these stump-speak-
ers. II AmeS deal his cards dextrOusly /
and use the railroads and the power
they weld, he will find an unobstructed
highway 70 absolute, despotic power in
Mississippi, and enter the next national /
Radical convention with fire million
negroes at his back, 10 stand by Butler
and Grant for the third term, or the eIl-
pire, or, failing in this, to make Butler
Grants successor.
THE PRESS.
The newspaper press Of Mississippi is |
becoming thoroughly Independent. 1t is |
no longer the exponent Of the views Of
aspl-3ntS Tor 0ince, ana no longer suoor- |
dinated to the purposes Of the leading
stump-speaker Of the neighb0rnood. In |
this consists the only hope for the final
redemption of this people. The in
fiuence Of the press Is daily growing |
greater. The Sentinel has four hundred /
subscribers in Grenada, with only three |
thousand inhabitants, and nearly half
negroes. The circulation Of the two
papers in Holly Springs is absolutely
wonderful, in view Of the density OF
population Of Marshall and adjacent |
counties And while he power Of the
press is thus constantly extended, the
people cannot be finally enslaved.
Waco, Texas, was visited by a very
destructive rain Storm. A special TO the
Galveston Commercial says: Jones
4 Grand, liyery-stable men, had two