Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-20
WHITE LEAGuEs AND LOYAL
LEaGUgS.

1t is impotence extraordinary Tor the
devil 70 rebuke sin, for Beecher to
breach against adultery, and for the to
ner to lecture on temperance; but for q
Ioval Ieatuer to hold up his hands in
holy horror at the idea Of organizing
white leagues is the sublimity Of impu-
dsnee. We believe there Is no s0ch a
thing in the south as a white league,
save such league as the whites have
3rgauized at the ballot-box for the pur-
nose Of preventing the election Of carpet
Gag knaves. For eight years the Radi-
calls have kept up their party organize
lion through the nstrdmentality Of lOy-
! Al leagues. The negroes were induced
70 visit these infamous organizations,
where horrid oaths were administered
swearing them to vote against Demo-
crafts and for Radicals, and, nOtwith-
standing these admitted and undenis-
/ bic facts, the negroes and the Radicals
are bowling about the white leagues.
It Is through the loyal leagues that
the negro are manipulated. Thus he
Wss taught his lesson Of hatred 10 the
Democrats and 10 his white employer
Tt was in the loyal leagues that the car
petbaggers were enabled to band the
blacks against the whites. Time and
again the white people have sought TO
break up the policy by which the col
ored people were banded against
the whites IN sworn secret leagues. But
in these vile dens the ignorant and cred
uIous negroes were told that the whites
would re-enslsve them; thEt there was
no hope for a continuance Of their lib
erty, except by standing together as q
race and following the carpetbaggers.
1t is the hope aud wish OF every man
who had an honest desire 10 see this |
country prosperous and happy, that
when an election day came, the white |
voters and black voters would not go to |
the polls divided as they have been; and |
that all the blacks, with few white
office-seekers, should not be on one side, |
and ali the white men representing the |
property, intelligence and beet hopes OF
the community on the other. But after |
accomplishing the ruin Of the South by /
a black confederation as hostile to the |
white people as it has proved To be de-
structiye Of the best interests Of the |
whole country, the Radicals are now
dling the air with cries against white |
leagues. 1t is all right for black leagues
to meet in dark lodges with bOlted |
doors, with not a ray to enlighten them,
except what comes from the ghas'ly |
whiteness of some csTpetbaggeT's face. |
But it is not to be permitted that the |
men who have been robbed by ubiquitous
taxation, misrepresented by ignorance
and corruption, disgraeed by gov
ernments unequalled for profligacy
aud incompetency, to unite in
Intelligent concert to lift up
their downtrodden people. In 1872 the
people Of this and other southern States,
crushed by the intolerable governments
which existed over them, and anxious
10 give to the nation the most unequiv-
Ocal proof Of their scq1iescence in all
that had been done for the cOIored race,
and their determination to respect their
rights, accepted IS their leader the man
who had ever been in advance OF every
other man in the Union, in friendship,
effort, and understanding, as an sd-
voczte Of the African race. The
lifelong enemy Of the SOUTH
ern people, Horace Greeley, was
that leader. And how was he &C
cepted by the two races at the south?
The blsck men, for whom he struggled
for thirty years, whose elevation from
bondage had been the animating theme
Of his early manhood, and the darling
object Of his advanced years, true TO the
teachings Of ingratituds, and with
base infidelity to long tried friendship
and devotion, for which there is no par
allel, universally refused MIN in return
for all he had done for them, the poor
reward Of their votes. The white men
whom be never defended, but whom
he often denounced with his burning
still in their recollection,
with desire only for peace and recon-
the overthrow Of corrupt gov
emments and the happiness OF all, white
and black, gave to him their support.
This WIS peace-offering as sincere as it
was seiEsacrifcing; but it was rejected,
contemptuously rejected by the colored
people. And after so many Intellectual
efforts TO unite with these people for the
common good OF all, and to induce them
to look TO the interests Of the country
and cast away the leaders who were de- y
,eiving them and running US both We are
10 be told il we act alone, after their re-
'usal to cooperate with US, we thereby
become white leaguers and enemies to
he interests of the country. There is
10 such an organization in the south as y
white league. But even IF there n
we're, what right has the Radicals to -
or to condemn, when in every
i'y, viIltge and crossroads in the south,
nd even on many plantations, loyal
aagues are in full blast. The whites, 7
orth and south, are leagued together,
ot BY such Oaths'ss are administered to
be negroes, but by a common interest J
nd mutual pledge in their cOnven-
ions to do sll they can at the ballOt-Dox
D save their liberties and their property r
ON the Vaccinations Of their enemies,
be loyal leaguers.