Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-05
THE NEGROES ULTIMATUM.
Emphatic Responses from the state
Press.

Brownsville States.
If these people had not lost all sense
or reason they would not desire any.
thing of the sort, and would take the
advice of their diabolical old friend, w
G. Brownlow, and be eentented with
their present condition in Tennessee
But whether they take his advice or not,
one thing they may rest assured of, is,
that the white people of this State do
not intend to permit any such nonsense
as these colored politicians seem to hope
for in the future. The people of the
State are disguised with the evidences
of negro supremacy In South Carolina
their wholesale stealing In that, and
other Southern States-to allow for a
moment any further advance in that
direction. The whole nation is sick of
the eternal niger, and they will get no
help from any quarter, East or West,
North or South, IN Congress, or out of
it. The negro as a political side show
don't draw worth a cent. In fact, he
is dead cock in the pit."
Memphis Avalanche.
1t may be urged that there is no
legal basis of opposition to thedemand
made al Nashville by these colored DO
litical zealots-that this opposition is
grounded In mere prejudice. If mere
prejudice, 1t is an old and strong one,
certain to nullify the effects of the pro-
posed change until the present and
next generation of colored children be-
come men and women. The colored
people need education now, not thirty
years hence. 1t may be argued that If
the white children should be with
drawn from the public schools more
money viii be left for the blacks. To
this it may be answered that the color
ed people are largely in the minority
in Tennessee; that nearly all the
money paid in taxes to support these
schools comes from the whites, and
that if the political workings of the
system render it odious to the major
ity, the repeal of the law will become
question of only short time. PREF
udice must not complain if it also in
spires prejudice.
Chattanooga Times.
There never was a more foolish, i'm
pudent, or insulting proposition dis
cussed than this question of mixed mar
riages; nor could this colored conven-
ton have managed to do worse thing
for themselves and those they repre-
scented, than to introduce it and talk
about it. The State law on that SUBJ
ject is merelya police regulation, in the
interest of health, good morals and de-
cency. Any attempt to break it down
In the Supreme Court of the United
States will fail There would be as
much reason In attacking the law pro-
hibiting marriage of parties within GER
tain degree consanguinity.
Knoxville Press and Herald.
The arguments on the subject are
worn threadbare. The colored citizen
viii close his ears to all reasons urged
against this close commingling of the
races, and answers all arguments with
the response-prejudice, only preju-
dice. The issue is joined, and the Re
publican press of the State can no
longer keep silence. Their duty to
the whites, and to the blacks as well,
requires that sides'be taken and colors
unfurled.
Nashville Banner.
Politically, the effect of this colored
pronunciamento viii be to popularize
the vagaries Of the "white-man's-g gov
eminent" theorists.