Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-02
CIVIL RIGHTS.
A short Catechism for the People.

| A short Catechtsm Tor Inc FeOpIe.
To the Editor of the Ledger:
Question. What bankers, insurance
agents, wholesale and retail grocery, as
well as dry goods men, employ negroes
as porters when they could hire white
men for the same salary to do the same
work in as satisfactory manner2
Answer. Southern men.
O. Who allows these colored employees
to 20 to picnics and any other festival
during daytime and never dock their
wages?
A. Southern men.
0. Who has contributed to the entire
support of the negro schools and built
negro churches, foolishly believing that
the negro would prove by his actions
that be had been benefited thereby
A. Southern men.
o. Who believed that by assisting the
negro to use to the dignity of manhood
that he hal some gratitude in his ma
ture and would not turn continually and
forever, like the serpent warmed to life
by the farmer, as told in Esop's fables,
to strike the generous friend who had
always assisted him with material aid
and not with mere chin music and upper
formed promises as did the Radical
psrty2
A. Southern men.
Q. Who always belie:ed that the ne
gro would some time find out that the
people most interested in his welfare
were those among whom he had been
born and raised, and expected to live and
die, and not from those of sweet Yankee
land, who used him only as the monkey
did the cats paw, to pull their chestnuts
out of the fire?
A. Southern men.
0 Who has permitted the negro to
assemble in midnight conclave in secret
polit cal organizations, which had secret
fsigns, grips and passwords without even
entering prot st against this outrage of
law, decency and order, thinking that
the negro would soon tire of such child
ish amuseneuts, but who have unfortu-
nately found that it was power in their
midst, that bids fair to ruthlessly take
possession of life, liberty and property
at the will Of any debased leader?
A. Southern men.
Q. Who seems determined to rely on
the aforesaid faithful negro and trust
him even unto the end when the negro
shall rule as he does in South Carolina,
and it will become a badge of disgrace
to have white skim
A. Southern men.
| Q. Who always despised the white
Radical in this country, sneered at his
underhaDded, dirty, contemplate trick
/ cries and frauds, doubted and despised
his boasted power, but always found to
, their great surprise the day after any and
every election that the smooth gued
? hypocrite had once again, contrary to
s every prediction, carried the negro vote
/ solid for his party2.
2 A Southern men.
O. Who foolishly believed that the
negro would at sometime be able to dis
tinguish between medm and teum, would
recognize the difference between liberty
: and license, would cease looking for his
E forty acres and mule to be donated by
| LAN Spfpt AA4Dus anu ~ W WDEh Win the
!. determination to build up his fortunes by
hard labor and self-independence TO his
e own credit and to the general advance
e ment Of his own section Of country2
). A. Southern men.
n. Q Who, notwithstanding they have
seen deceived so often in the negro, not.
&c understanding at every election at which
'r be has voted they have felt their hopes
Of IN him turn to ashes on their lips ike
o. the tabled apples Of Sodom, still deter.
+: mine, nevertheless, to trust him once
u more, only once more, and never, never.
le ending once more, Silly imagininp
Is that this time-Oh, certainly this time
"a he will take sldesin favor Of those auonf
whom his every interest is staked. ami
e. join heartily in the Bartlett movement
% in opposition to the party that hac
u merely taught him signs, and grips. anc
:. passwords, as an organ grinder teaebe,
- his monkey tricks that he may max,
D money out Of himf
# A. Southern men.
r O Who saw the negroes armed will
regulation muskets, aad bayonets fixed
march through our principal streets Of
u a negro holiday with the regular tram
y Of we'll drilled soldiers without feeling i
II. his heart that it was the FIRST token of
W war Of races, and that their tramp wa
the rumbling Of thunder that foretold
disastrous storm2
AZ a. Southern men.
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