Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-17

We publish iu another column COM
municauon from Mr.. VIM. r. Moore,
ous OF our prominent and most public
spirited merchants, enclosing an edito-
rial from the Cincinnati Com Dlercial, to
which he asks our attention. We read
this srticle attentively, aud, while ad-
miring the spirit thst prompts it, as born
OF that fair play to which all Americans,
whether OF the north or the south, yield
willing allegiance, must candidly assert
our dissent from the conclusion that il
inevitably leads to. We never can give
our consent TO Whist has come 70 be
known as civil rights. In the northern
and western States, where Be-
groes sre lew in number, and
by sheer dint Of an over
wbelming race majority are COM
PEELED to confine themselves to subOrdi-
nate places, It may do for editions and
politicians to clsmor and conCede, on
paper O. in speeches, what they know
they never will be called upon pract-
cauy TO grant; but here in the south,
where the negro forms no inconsid7ra-
BILE par. Of the population, we think it
necessary, 10 prevent the possible de-
noralizgdOu Of eur race, and
u save ourselves from a
o. Ereaser " population infinitely
worse than that Of Mexico, to forbid
any intercourse between whites and
blacks other than that which now has
practical operation. So far as we know
the negro has every right that white
men have fore the law public schools
inc.u ed, ana all trades and avOcations
are open to him. More than that ne
does not need. as for putting him on
q level with US ct hotels, on steamboats,
and Ia railroad cars, thSt is out Of the
qu=stion-tbat is to say, we will never
give s. willing consent 10 it. We will
educate them, encourage them IN ali
useful enpl1yments, and protect them
IN every nztural and acquired right;
blt we vii not seat them beside our
child s1 ia the same schools, nor
under any cIrcums Sncss recognize
them Is socially cur equals. They
have separate churches, which
they enjoy. into which, not even Tor biz
souls ID. vaunn would our correspond
eut De forced 70 enter every SuDday-
one hou- Of wrestling with the spirit
.sucb as So have witI. e-sed s5 al outside
lOJker-8n, dud8g the past summer, be-
lag more, We venture % say, tna0
enough fsr Dim, aud m0Ee than enough
10 satisfy even The eJi-0r OF the CON-
merciql, with his experience in Iceland
in view. Why, then should we seud
our white children 70 negro schools for
five hours each day? But seriously We
think the better plan the southern plan:
Recognize the negro as citizen, with
all the rights Of citizenship give him
free schools, sud let him work out his |
salvation in his own way; recognize, |
also, the rights OF the hotel proprietor,
the steamboat owner and the railroad
manager, and let them work out their
salvation IN their own way. Don't at
tempt any abridgement Of the white
mans rights for the sake Of psmperlng
and pettiug negro voters. Recognize
the fact that This ought to be free
county, and let Us get back as soon as
possible to the ideas that prevailed be-
fore the wsT, when the government was
La0,gH but not Jet- and there was never
Al attempt at class legislatiOni when
men were free 10 [" run" hotels, steam-
boats, railroads and thesters without
aey fear OF legislation by the Federal
con gress that would ruin them, and
when public schools were opened to
poor cud rich alike, without any dreaded
Of legislation that would
e e.ther compel the association Of the su'
periur with an inferior race, or deny TO
both alike the education necessary to
their well doing.