Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-07
ABOUT THOSE ARMS.
The False Ainrm-The Drilled and Drill
ing Negroes Of Chelsea CoIOrsd
CorFssPonaents 20 the
Reseue.

EDITORS sAPPEAL-Undeft the caption,
"StartliLg News" the Ledger Of Friday
evening reported the following: "IIast
night one hundred and fifty armed ne
groes drilled In Chelsea, outside the cor
poration line, from eleven O'Clock until
nearly three In the morning. etc.
Again IL says: "Halfdruuken and ipso-
lent negroes have been making threats
that they would rule and sack Memphis
because the president'of the Pole. Bear
ers' association was indicted for extort-
ing money! For some time the I,eofoer
mas seemed bent on instigatfnR rIot and
D.oodshed. Every issue Of This detesfa.
oie ana ioethsome sheet Is filed with
seditlous and riotous declarations. sun
pose, as II says, that drunken negroes
nave made threats. What OF the threat
oi drunken man? Would a journal
tnAe encourages order, peace and quiet
lue seize this as pretext TO conIriye.
Invent, suggest and incite riots, and
tneIeoy STIR the people up malieiously TO
cohtriVe the ruin and destruction of the
peace, safety and order of governments
VI suppose Swan has been indicted.
nave not other colOTed men been indict-
81 su Anu nave we not universally ablded
.le investigations of the courts and rem
ee1eu se ourselves amenable to the man
uaDes hereoi? Notwithstanding the
pIeyuulce OF the courts against US, we
lase Ia. submitted 20 their verdiets with a
pAlence unparalleled by any people on
the face Of the globe. No one abbors
f1ot more than the colored ueonIa No
one does more to avoid a riot than fbe
colored people. No one suffers moro
from the acts Of riot than thew. And
no one Is less accountable for the insfi-
CATION OF riot than they. But whence
the Ledger'S information? Certainly
we, who are identified with the coIored
people and have an opportunity to know
their doings would be apprized of theae
gigantic preparations for war and piIlage |
spoken OF by the Ledger. 1t is Certainly
news to us. We respectfully refer 10 sec.
tion 400 OF the statutes of Tennessee. !
and inquire OF the grand Iury whether |
the editor of the Ledger is guilty of Sc
ui'iou. CIvIs.
THOSE BASE FABRIcATIoNs.
EDITORS APPEAL-Siuee the MASSAGE
Of the civil rights bill in the senate. lie |
Register, and that other little sheet the |
Ledger, have been trying TO show their
Ill will TO the colored people by writing |
all kinds of mean, low and eontempti |
BILE slang against them. This does not
speak very much In favor Of their boast /
ed superiority. Friday these diminutive |
sheets reached the climax of their mean
ness by saying that the colored people |
were making threats against the whites,
and that armed bodies OF men met every
night for the purpose of drilling. These
are falsehOods Of the deepest dye. and
none know it better than these same
men who write such ineendiary arti-
cles. But by writing such they hope TO
arouse the baser passions Of the Ignorant
whites and credulOus colored people
against each other, and if such stories
are not stamped as falsehOOds we do not
know how they may end. They have
said, II such and such a thing should
happen there would be riot before
night. This shows how much they
have the welfare of the city at heart.
We have hardly recovered from the
epidemics which afflicted our city last
year, and now, for change, these men
recommend a riot. They seem to forget
hat should their advice be taken the
,Olored people would not be the only
and it would be years before
Memphis could get over its effect. An
consequence OF these different stories
icing published in the Register and
ledger, a rumOr was spread among the
'olored people that the Clay Street
chOol was to De set on FIRE, and quite a
number Of children returned to their
ZONES after going to school on Friday
The principal and teachers
ritd to allay their fears, but did net sac-
eed in doing 80 with al OF them. The
curse Of these sheets is not appreciated
y decent Democrats. There is such a
hing as going too far. l was taIkias a
lay or two ago with G Democrat, one
VINO hela very prominent position in /
be Confederate army, and he said he
lad become disgusted with reading the
Register lately, because the whole thing
rom beginning to end consisted in the
buse OF the negro. I am certain the
olOred people have made no threats.
nd there will be no riot unless those !
title sheets make 1ue.
\ COLORED CITIZEN. I
THE DRILLING.
EDITORS APPEAL-The night the ne
roes are charged with drilling in Cnel-
ca last Thursday night, a protracted
leeting was being held in one of the
hurches there, which was continued
ntil two o'clock in the morning. A
Irge number were there-many of the
len outside of the church and some of
lem some distance frnp1 IL Some Tar- |