Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23

The New DEPARTURE Ed.
shaw, the Memphis wharfmaster, and
his associates from Nashville and
Knoxville met in Convention lately,
and instead of calmly discussing
questions of practical Importance to
the colored race, wasted their time
III talking about mixed schools and
the breaking down of all social dis
tinctions, it was charitably supposed
by many that they were misrepresent-
ing the blacks. Recent Developments,
however, conclusively show that they
we're not in advance of the prevailing
sentiment among their fellows. Ed.
Shaw returned to Memphis, issued
a call for a ratification meeting, adj
dressed the meeting when assembled,
defending his course in the Nashville
Convention, was applauded to the
echo, and was finally endorsed unani-
mously. The Nashville Bulletin hav-
ing entered a very mild protest a.
gainst the action of its colored friends,
has been pronounced unworthy of
confidence, and on Saturday last the
National True-Republican," edited
and published by colored men ap-
peared in Nashville, and claims to be
the organ of the Republican party of
Tennessee. This new paper denounces
Che Bulletin, denounces those who
oppose ''the' mixed schools" scheme,
and conscious of the strength of the
colored element in the Republican
party in this State gives us the fol-
lowing statement of the case as it
now stands between the blacks and
their white auxiharies.
1.-The Nashville BulletiR speaks of
the Republican party! Who is the
Republican party of Tennessee! The
very negroes and their associates of
whom he speaks so sneeringly, not
only in Tennessee but in the entire
South"
The split between the two wings
OF the Republican party in Tennessee
is beyond all repair. Neither prin-
eiplc, nor the cohesive attraction of
the public plumber can ever unite
them again. AS we have said before,
the blacks seem incapable of think
ing or talking about anything when
they meet in council except the whites.
This is the chronic curse and weak
ness of the race. You cannot pass by
a kitchen window that you do not
overhear something about ode white
folks" II is the same thing in the
cotton patch, and even when well
dressed men like Ed. Shaw of Mem
phis, and George Washington LeVere
of Knoxville meet in grave council,
it is the same eternally iterated cry
of ode white folks, de white folks!"
No confession of inferiority could
possibly be more complete than this,
but we could admire the aspirations
of our colored friends if they sought
to rival the whites in proper fields of
endeavor. But this is not their aim
it seems. They do not ask themselves
how they can amass wealth, how they
can best climb the worldly ladder, but
the trouble with them is a signing af-
ter closer intimacy with the whites,
and deep weariuess and discomfort
on account of the barriers that ma
ture has placed between the races.
But we do not care to do more in
this article than TO call the attention
of all white Republicans to the fol-
lowing extracts from speeches made
at the Nashville Convention. We
quote from the official proceedings as
published in the BuletiH which I'M
til Saturday last was the accredited
Republican organ of the State.
''H. Y. Rankin discussed at length
the Imprisonment of Galloway in the