Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-15
sEMPHTS APPEAL
SUNDAY MORNING. NOV. Is, 1874,

SUNDAY MORNING, NOV. Is, 1874.
KIND WORDs FGR THE oOLORED
mAN-THERACE PKOBLEM-IEs so.
LUTON.
Now that Radicalism is defeated in
all parts of the Union, and now that the
csrpetbaggers have been ingloriously
driven from power, the whites and col
Ored people of the south should become
friends. Their interests are identified;
their destiny is the same, and they
should work harmoniously in efforts to
promote their material interests. The
men whom the cOlored people have so
blindly followed have been deprived OF
pswer, and time viii demonstrate
in the end that the rights Of the negroes
will be more secure under Democratic
than a Republican administration. Ger
tain it is, the cOlored man will ever hnd
in the APPEAL 8 sincere friend. 1t is
our nature to sympsthise with the weak
and oppressed, and whenever the color
ed man feels that he has been wronged
he can have the use Of these columns.
Let him appeal to his old master or the
old substantial citizens of the country
and he will find more sympathy, more
relief than he ever derived from the
worthless vagabonds TO whom he has IN |
fortunately given in his confidence. The
negro is not to be blamed for his devo- |
ton to the csrpetbagger and the Repub-
lean rarity. He has been deluded into |
the belief that he was freed by the Rad
feais, and actuated by q commendable /
sense Of gratitude, he has chung to the |
nsrty that he credits with his liberation.
tt was natural thst an ignorant and
credulous race should be easily deceived,
and therefore rally at every election
srOund the Radical standard. But, as
the Richmond Wing says: "a change
d as come al last. The preponderance Of
popular power in the politics of the
country is now on the side of the party /
which, from first to last, has held out
70 the colored man no hope of social
equality, dszzled his eyes with no
false visions that can never be
made real IS long as the laws Of God |
are superior to the laws of man, prom
ised him nothing not within the range
Of reason, right, justice and the general
good Of both races" The Radical PARTY |
has been beaten by the men who have
heretofore been looked upon by the col
ored race as inimicaI TO their interests,
10 their advancement, to their progress
Is s people. But the black man need
not fear for his rights. He need no
fear for his liberties. He need not fear
for any Of his privileges as q free citizen
OF a free country. The party that has
just achieved the great victory has not
been the party with which he has CO.
operated before. But in this triumph
the colored man has had some little
share. And the day is not distant, we
hope, when negro suffrage at the south,
instead Of being the deadly blight upon
or land, will serve to give
To the Democrats q superadded
power which was never contemplated
as even possible in the far future
when the c0lOred man was clothed
with the elective franchise. The politi-
cal revolution should have no terror for
The inferior race. The great party that ]
is coming into power at the expiration !
1f the present administration has its !
very foundation upon principles that t
preclude prescription. 1t is essentially {
a national, not sectional party; it is |
he party q the people, all the people; l
1t promises equal laws for both races, /
and it viii carry out the promise. The 1
colOred man need not expect any such !
curse, in the guise Of a blessing and a 1
boon according 70 his understanding, as {
the civil rights bill, OF anything Of
kindred character; but he will have all {
the rights and all the freedom he now
enjoys at the hands Of the Dem {
ocratic party. And the laws Of !
The country viii be made and ad- {
ninistered for his good as identified i
with the good Of the white man. With J
his assurance on the part Of the Demo- {
cratic party, let the black man enter into
an honorable competition with the
whites in an effort TO promote the pros /
Derity Of the south, and thus advance c
heir material interests. The colored {
1eOple have no organ by which to make I
Known their wants. The APPEAL from {
ime to time viii publish such matter j
Is viii stimulate the colored people, and c
make them familiar with the progress e
4 their race in other States. We COM b
nence this pleasing task this morning il
" publishing the following figures and D
acts showing the amount of property b
,wned by the negroes Of Georgia. The Il
is a list Of the counties in il
ieorgia in which the negroes own over o
ne hundred Thousand dollars worth of Il
Toperty, and the amount they own in a
he principal cities Of these counties: Ct