Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-17
THE EVERLASTING NIGGER.
How he Msy be Got RId Of as Man or
ABimSi-A SuggestiOR from
OBiO.
Give Him AII the civil Rights He Is
Entitled 10, then Leave Him TO
sis Awful Pate.

| EDITORS APPEAL-I do not-as you
well kuow-want dHy once under q cir
| cumstsnces; but dO-as l believe you 6lso
/ do-wRnt 70 see our section Of county pros
| erous and happy. May I, therefore, ask toe
1 favor Of The publication il the APPEAL, with
| editorial comments. OF the enclosed ecitOrl Il
| cut from the Cincinnati Commercial, OF the
| fifteenth instant, which suggests, as sincere
| ly believe, the proper solution 10 all our lrOu-
/ bles. Let us all freely and charitably discuss
/ TINS great political problem, Tor on It's wise
| settlement rests all our social, financial and
spectf1lly, wM. r. MOORE.
natl Commercial, above alluded to:
| HOW TO GET THE NEGRO OUT OF Poll
| ITICS.
| The broad fact that the constitution OF the
| United States is no longer 10 be interpreted
| by either courts or ssa esmen on the side O1
/ slavery or inequality OF lights, and that ali
State legislation, TO be in harmony win the
| supreme law of the land, as the constitution
| requires, must not discriminate against any
/ class OF the people because OF race, color or
previous condition, is but par ialiy realized.
! While the amendments 10 the constitution
are scquiesced in, and no party or politician
proposes to disturb them, their logical anu
legal con- NeQuences are resisted by those who
have not conquered pre- udiCes begOttOn OF the
slave system; and there are unremitting
efforts 10 narrow the meaning OF the amend
mvnts and preserve Determinations that
rior to another.
II was plain enough to those who gave the
subj eel any study that emancipation implied
enfranchisement ana ultimately complete in
dOrsement Of political and civil rights. As
long as the nezro was held TO be property in
the slave states he could only be ranked with
the brute creation. That was inevitable. 1t
grew out OF tbs very nature OF the slave con-
dltiOn. He could be no more in the civil sys-
TEN than the horse or the GA The moment
he rose above that condition, the moment he
gained any legal status either to hold prop
eriy or exercise any function of citizenship,
his CHAINS fell of, and he stood up man, To
be treated moi X a cnAttpl- bmt a human
being under the law.
Emancipation, We repeat, carried with II ev-
cry right and privilege Of citizenship, and
congress could no more have escaped the con-
sequences Of that war measure than it could
escape the control Of the law OF gravity. The
amendments 10 the constitution and the ZAP
prOprIate legislation" for the enforcement
were results which every advocate OF emRnci-
patton should have looked squsreiy in the
lace Resistance 10 these re- tilts no m stter
whether IL came from the south OF the north,
must, from the very nature OF things, prove
Intellectual. II has proved 80 in the past; II
will prove 80 In the future.
There is but one way Of escape, The people
OF the United States may go uack upon al
these measures and wipe out the amendments
10 the constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof; but they can not stop there, II
IL be the purpose 70 deprive the negroes OF
any or all political and civil rights. They
must restore the constitution as ~ was and
make IL possible TO re-enslave the blacks.
direction which national legislation has tax
en- since the abolition Of slavery, and secure
10 N the people entitled to citizenship what
ever rights or iLlmunifieS any class OF them
enjoys under the laws.
We know of no considerable number Of
people VINO would, II they had the political
power, restore the dark age OF slavery. We
question whether, were il left 10 the whites OF
the south themselves, they would re-eslsb bilsh
8n institution that unquestionahly restricted
the material development of that section OF
he republic, and imbruted the minds OF all
Glasses Of people. The unhappy influences OF
the system which Jefferson iOressw and pre-
fnns.Fr aFafk
torn out 10y violence, and they viii not cease
tn ir operation during the present eneratlon.
II bel g then generally admitted that there
does not exist any purpose or desire 10 speak
u FOR the re-establishment Of slavery, there
is but one solution of the negro question that
will have the effect OF putting the negro him
self out Of politics a disturbing element,
and that IS the generous and iull recognitlon
OF his rights citizen, including all the
social rights that are not LETT for each indi-
vidual ia he community to regulate for him
self In other words, whatever rights, prlNl-
feges or immuBities are derived from politl-
csl organization or proceed nom legislation,
whether they are civil OF social, must belong
as uudi lputsbly TO the black as 10 the white
man before we can hope ior cessation OF the
agitation OF the question Of the enjoy inent OF
~ hts bv the peolle o. the United stats.
We repeat that there are only Que OF Two
courses TO pursue-either 10 wipe out me
amendments and re-estaDiis q system that
Will crush the uegro out OF legal existence as
a human being, or make him absolutely the
equal Of any other eitiz n, and then leave
him 10 work out the problem OF MS existence
as an individual and q race upon the same
terms and conditions that attach 10 all other
citiEens OF the re ublic.
Il is time TO look ST this matter Squarely. To
fancy that We can iegislste 50 that any portion
OF the people sh al be half citizens aad bali
something else, enjoying one class OF nights
and denied another Class, and do II Without
creating a disturbance, or sowing the seeds OF
discord and civil trouble, Is folly OF which 8
pc pie qua fled 70 make and maintain free
government should bold themselves ineapa-
ble.
The immediate solution Of race difficulties
in the United States, therefore, depends upon
the readiBess OF the people 10 accept the con-
sequences OF their own Ecis, and abide by that
principle Of democracy which levels all polit-
ical and civil distinctions, wipes out all lines
Of race distinction, aud puts all citizens on a
common footing before the law. When this
Is done aud acquiesced in, we shall hear no
more Of the negro IN politics than we hear of
the IrlshTran, 4 German, me English man,
or any other nationality.