Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-24

m ade, ten per cent. per annum Of the
whole wealth of Shreveport, and thac
the people had borne it till they were
ripe for any measure, however violent,
that would relieve them Of the presence
of their execraole masters" "It won't
be endured very long," said the old
man, nand the sooner the end comes the
better. / want to live to see IL, too.
have six children; three OF them daugh-
ters. All / nave is here. / can sell
nothing and have no means of escape.
/ love my old home. My father and
mother lived and died here, and here
was born with my children but a
whitening curse has settled down upon
the country, and broods over Shreve-
port as if the city were doomed" The
horrible buzzard swept by and cast its
shadow on the very spot on which we
were standing1. 81 wish could get
away; but nothing can be sold when l
cannot pay the taxes wrenched from
me to be distributed among thieves or
doled out among negroes kept here to
keep thieves in office"
TERRoRs OF SnsRULE.
There is a magnificent cottOn-pro.
ducing country about Shreveport, and
wonderful must have been the Iapaeity
of negroes who could devise = system Of
knavery in office capable of paraiyZing
the energies Of such q city, and OF de-
stroying lthe.salable value Of property.
All this has been done, and so intolera-
BILE are local and State governments, and
SO all-pervading and inquisitorial are
systems of taxations, like that cODcOet-
ed by cunning carpetbagger in the leg
islature of Tennessee, that the people
are driven to desperation. would not
be a croaker or needlessly anticipate
great calamities, but the issue was made
up by the civil rights bill, and this
feather was not needed to break the
back of patience or Of patriotism IN
Shreveport. A collision must occur,
sooner or later, and when it supervenes
one race or the other will be the prey of
that hideous bird looking down SO hum
grily upon the doomed city beside this
sluggish, weary river Of death. The old
man with whom was talking said he
was waiting for the end, and hoped 1t
would come while he lived. He was un-
willing to leave his children the herit-
age Of savage mastery and OF negro su'
premaey. The civil rights bill cuts the
tordisn knot. One race or the other
must abandon the country. / read this
solution Of the problem when dreaming
to-day, at hot noontide, that dreadful
calamity was brooding over this once
choicest abiding-place Of wealth and OF
refined civilization. The dusky carbon
bird slowly disappeared. It's course was
perhaps prophetic. 1t swept down the
Red river of death toward New Orleans.
MEMPHIS AND SHREVEPORT.
II is difficult to excite interest just
now in other than partisan or political
questions. Since the road was opened
20 st. Louis, trade and travel to a great
degree have forgotten the route through
Shreveport and Vicksburg. Here, am
told, the people must first be relieved Of
the domination Of devils, rObed with
authority by blacks, before they can aid
in the construction of the road to Mem
phis. They know that their shortest
route to the east, and from the east to
Shreveport, lies over the Memphis and
Charleston and Memphis and Little
Rock roads, and Shreveport at this
hour, if free from KellOgg's negro mas
terry, would invest half a million dollars
in the direct road through Camden and
Pine Bluff to Memphis; but we must
await the issue of the conflict precipita-
ted by the civil rights bill. We need
not be impatient. The end comes.