Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-17
IEMPHTS APPEAL
rHEBATTLE IN MISSISSIPPI

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stake. II il reslly not in the power q
those VINO have never been among then
t8uudeIstaud their true condition. Wit
Federal uayonets at their threats
listed 10y = President who know
no constitutional restrictions, adj
hunted down by q national congress
bounded on by such wolves SIS Morton
Of Indiana, aud hundred others lik'
him, the white people Of the Stat
have been compelled to submit 4
toe insults. and TobbeFies, and murders
AMI misIuls Of carpe-bsg thieves, add
bgrusrous ignorant Africans until
they have been forced into 3 con-
test that kuoTs but two alter
natives triumph or ruin. A
this moment they are ruled by ch il
magistrate who is alien to them in al
things: who elected himself by bay
unets, and declared IN the senate cham.
Der Of The United States that the white
people Of Mississippi had no rights thai
he felt bound to respect; that they hated
him and he hated them, and that be
was indebted to the circumstances Of
war and the colOred people for being
governor, and not to them. The lieu
tensnt-goveTnOr is an ignorant negro
vino has VIGOROUSLY taken brides to turn
criminals out Of the penitsntiary. The
State superintendent Of public education
is under indictment for the most 10.
famous crimes, and cannot be brought
TO punishment because he is shielded by
the very persons who have solemnly
sworn to protect the people from such
outrages. County tressUreIs have spec.
ulsted in school warrants, with the peO-
pies money, and otherwise plcrdered
the public treasury Of vast sums, Decom-
ing rich in a few years. For instance,
we see it stated, upon the best authority,
that one Algerd, the treasurer Of Kinds
county, has robbed the people Of that
county Of two hundred thousand dollars
in four or five yesrs. Radical sheriffs
have opened their own safes and taken
out hundreds Of thousands Of dollars,
pretending they were robbed, and then
asked and obtained bill of relief from
the State legislature, thus compelling the
people to lose the money that Radical
thieves might grow rich. The legisis-
tuTe is composed, in the main, Of men
who went into the State for plumber,
fleeing from the consequences Of their
own crimes in the north, and ignorant
negroes, and both placed in power by
negroes, whose sole object seems to
be 70 ruin the white people and drive
them from the Stste. With such an
accumulation of wrongs and injuries,
the wonder is that they have not risen
up in the might of despair and struck
for life and liberty, even though they
should be entombed beneath the de-
scending avalanche of Federal despot-
ism and power. Such marvel of pa
thence, under burning injuries and
provocatiOns, has never been seen
Ia the history OF the world. But
this is not all of which they have
to complain. a great deal has been
said about the gentleness and amiabil-
i.y Of the negro character, ont recent
developments IN Mississippi and Georgia
clearly prove that there is not a negro
man, perhaps, in the whole south who
Goes not belong to . secret org aniz stioD,
where he is taught TO hate the whites, and
devise every scheme of which be is capa-
be ID ruiz them. They are first taught
II get in debt to their white neighbOIs
aad employers, and never pay them il
they can help it, and to avoid doing SO,
they are to swear for each other what
ever is necessary to reach the end; and
they are to get on all the jdries they can,
aud never decide in favor OF a white
man, il he is opposed by negro. An
other If then plans is to crowd the jaiis
and penitent aries until the whites are
ruined in feeding them. They go
to either place with ebeerfulness;
if 20 the jail, they say: " You
got TO feed Us, and we'll soon break you
up" il to the Penitentisry, "We'll soon
b. psrIoned out 10y de governor, an if he
don't, VEN soon be 30 thick daT you'll be
mighty glad to get shet on Us; for you
won't haye no place TO put Us, and you
can't feed us.n Another of their plans
istoraise taxes until the lands are cOnfis-
Gated to the State, and then divide them
among themselves. Did not Senator
Caldwell tell the people OF Mississippi as
much last winter when he said, 1.-THE
time will come when you cannot pay
your ia 4es, and the State will own your
llnds, and then justice will be done 10
the colored people. They cleared the
lands and ought to own them, and We
viii tax them until the white people
will be glad to leave them and give
them up to Us" And true to their pur-
pose, taxes have increased under
negro aud Radical rule from two
TO three thousand per cent. Every
club aud society is military
organization, where they are t'aiuei and
armed for bloody purposes, and taught
to hate the whites as their mortal enc
mics, sud soon expect TO subdue them
by force OF arms, and take all they have
As proof OF what is here stated, the fol-
lowing, taken from the records Of ore OF
their societies in TUnica county, is PIE.
scented: Duties of the President Of the
Tunica County Debating aud Benevo-
lent society"
10 shall be the duty OF the president Of this
society % care for the interests OF his race
and for this purpose shall organize the men,
De!s OF this society into military com panies,
procure arms and equipments, ETC., and have
them ready 10 take The field at any time in
lwenty-iour hours notice.
And such are they sill; and nightly
the sound Of their war.drUms Is heard
from the TenuessCe line to toe gulf, and
nightly sr5 they icing trained for the
work Of death. Hsndbills said to be
written and published by Fred Douglass,
a. Washington, are circulated among
them, urging them to kill four white
me- for every negro slsin, no matter
how; and TO burn dwellings, gin-houses,
cribs and stables, and, in this way, force
the white people from the State. Aud
their speakers do not hesitate to say
that, II they cannot succeed in this con-
test NV votes T1up4ar and he fl~av will