Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-25
SATURDAY, JULY %, 1874.


selves on n strict color line. Many Of
our best and wisest men have sought
to avoid this alternative ever since
the redemption of the State in go
These men, while percelving that it
was absolutely necessary TO the public
veal that the white race should have
the absolute control of cur home af-
fairs, sought to restore the friendly
relations between the races. In this
effort they have been buffied thus far.
They have built school-houses and
churches for the blacks-have
sought in every way to show them
that their interests were identified
with those of their former owners
have tried to set their feet in paths
that if followed would lead them out
of the Wilderness of poverty and bar
barism-but their work has been
fruitless. The Radical party of the
North, aided aud abetted constantly
by few hired retainers in our midst,
have fought them step by step, and
now after ten years wasted in concili-
alton, the blacks are more thoroughly
estranged from rs than at any previ-
GUS period since the surrender. The
address of the Union Republican
committee of Congress, just issued
reads out of the party all such men
as BrOwnlow, and insists upon an adj
herence to the test question of the
hour-the Civil Rights Billion the
part of every radical in the land,
north or south. That address asks
the people to send to Congress no
Changers, Liberals, Independents or
Conservatives. but only those who
without hinching will vote for this
bill, and follow the party in every ex
tremity.
Here in Tennessee the party
marches into the field in every divi-
sion and county Of the State, with
banner bearing the solitary legend of
Civil Rights" This means mixed |
schools, dense ignorance in the jury |
box, and ceaseless conflict arising out |
Vi AtLhIdA hlAACACICCb VI IaCC tuAb ]
cannot be overcome by statutes. The
Wing and Tribune has never sought !
to establish the color line. 1t has not |
even advocated the nomination of !
candidates for county1ofElces, but we
see no alternative but to fight our en-
envy on his chosen ground. We are a
near neighbor 10 counties in which
there are overwhelming negro major
itics. In these counties the blacks
are defiant, aggressive, aud have Sc
cured full recognition of their pow
er Representatives of the race arc
candidates for many of the best Off
ces, and the effect of this thing is to
be felt and seen here in Madison.
Heretofore we have respected the
wishes of the majority of our coun-
ty candidates, and said but little
in regard to q convention for the pur-
pose of considering their claims. We
family hoped that the Radicals in our
midst would not make this necessary,
but that it is necessary now is the
fixed belief of great majority of the
white voters of She city aud county.
1t is true that many Of the candidates,
and among them men of high eharac-
ter aud ordinarily of sound jndg
ment, take q different view of the
matter. They cay that we ought not
to interfere in..this contest until Rad
ical ticket appears in the field. This
will not happen until the day of the |
election, simply because the candi-
dates 10 not intend to be put upon
the rack to answer questions in regard |
to mixed schools and the civil rights |
bill. When talking TO white men
they say they are opposed to the bill,
and while talking to the blacks they |
advocate il. Seero-y, therefore, is |
indispensable to their present comfort !
and to their ultimate success, Many |
of our candidates also think that If
the race had been run out as now
made up, there would have been no
tfouble in electing our friends to ev-
cry office These men are not the
best Judges IN " matter of this kind.
The average candidate in little |
while learns to believe that everybody |
is for him simply because pOeR do not !
come out openly and tell hifs shat
they are not. The calm, deliberate
opinion of the people is of far more
value, and this opinion calls for a
convention. The result of the pri-
maries of Saturday last and the effect
that they ought to have in the Con-
vention is something that we do not
care 10 discuss. While we look upon |
the Convention of Monday as being !
free TO designate its candidates, no
matter where it may go to find thsn1;-i
we do not hesitate ia A>.5--tirut the re-
suit of those primaries will have
great weight in influencing its action.
The Radicals are on.their color;hne,
and We must stand on ours. In this
county in 1S72the vote between Free
man and Brown stood thus: Brown
2lO6, Freeman 1909, showing major
ity of 597 votes for the former. Since
then O. portion of our vote has been
transferred 10 Grockett, but this pro-
baby viii not affect the result. We
think that large Democratic vote
did not come cut in the election of
~, but it is very plain from the
Z above figures that it is not safe to per-
NIT even two white candidates to run
for any county officeiu Madison. We
will be compelled to give up several
men in whose success we were deeply
interested, men who are in every way
worthy of public trust, but we intend
to vote for the ticket that may. be
designated on Monday next. The |
good OF the people demands this at |
our hands, and when danger is
thought to be imminent, the wishes
aud opinions of the few must bend to
those OF the many. We respect the
feelings and rights of minorities, but
in this case the public good must be
the paramount consideration.
The JUDICIAL ELECEoN,-In his
. speech to the negroes at the Fair
Grounds last Saturday, Conte, a ne
gro who came from Brownsville with /
B. P. Boyd, urged the negroes of
Madison county to support Boyd for
Chancellor, giving, among others, the |
following reasons why his eolored |