The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03
MeroIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
HEw ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3. 1875.
Significant Movement of colored Societies.
Isavannah News.]


[savannah News.I
The presidents of the various colored so
cieties of Memphis have organized a society
called the Knights Brotherhood and Monu-
mental Association, the ohjecus of which are
set forth in q lengthy address to the colored
people. These are to discard all old pollt-
ical ties and cultivate and maintain perma-
nent peace with the white people of the
South, in accordance with the dying words
of Thomas Swan, late President of the
Polebearers. In their preamble and reso-
lntiops they say:
ave are fully aroused to the conscious
mesa that VI @ have been for years the dupes
of crafty, de signing and unprincipled men,
whose object was their own personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, irrespective OF means or
results to our injury. They have shorn us
OF our pecuniary Accommodations, the result
of weary years of toll even pennies ac-
cumulated by our youths and little fiedge-
lings. All this we could bear, but they
have left us despised by our only true
friends, through their knayish representa-
tions and unmitigated falsehoods. Our ex-
perience in this direction, for which we
have amply paid, invites change on our
part. Therefore, inviting the sheiterlng
egis of Almighty God, in whose good
ness, mercy and wisdom we trust for our
future guidance we resolve, eeas, en-
ing the honest and truthful advice of our
late friend Thomas Swan, we now and for
ever shake off. those unwarranted fears
that have been created in aud preyed as
bugbear9 upon the minds of our simple
people. We are at last Convinced they
were fietinus of incendiaries, who have
sacrificed and led us into our present
trouble, and we now pledge ourselves, as
representatives of our societies. henceforth
to sever all affinity and past relations with
all men W. ose only value resulted IN plum.
der and strife. We regret the blindness Of
o1; kal hn k nd
ings of our true'friends, and in our efforts to
improve in the future we pledge our faith
mutually to each other and to all whom 1t
may concern, that hereafter we will sustain
no man for Office unless he be thoroughly
identified with the people of the soil, and
in full, truthful accord with our earnest
desire to cultivate peace. harmony and in
dustry among the races"
The negro societies of Memphis in thus
resolving to be no longer the dupes of
scoundrels, hypocrites and thieves, are
only initiating the more Intelligent and re-
rapidly dissolving their allegiance to the
carpet bagger. We claim the credit for
our Georgia colored people 1--WE mean the
better class of them) of being the first OF
their race in the South to discover the
knavery and duplicity of the carpet-bag-
The recent election in this State demon
strated the fact that very large proper
tion of the colored voters are no longer
willing to be led to the polls in herds, like
sheep, to cast their votes for worthless
unprincipled adventurers, who seek the
offices of the country for the purposes o
plunder. The eyes of the Georgia negroes
are being opened to the true character O
the scoundrels who have SO long practicee
on their credulity, alternating them from
their best friends, gaining their confidenc'
by false professions of friendship, only tt
hat
snce has taught the sensible colored peo
ple of Georgia that their interests anC
those of the white people with whom thei
lot has been cast, are mutuai--that bott
races are alike interested in maintaining
peace, order and honest government, with
out which neither can prosper, and they
are beginning to discover that these ar,
not to ne expected from the rule of knavlsl
carpet -baggers and scalawags. Unde
these convictions, and relying on the fai
performances of their old friends rathe
chan false professions and lying promise
of the carpet baggers, the sensible negroe
are beginning to divest themselves of th
distrust and prejudice which had been s.
industriously instiled to their minds, ant
to apply their plain common sense as wei
affairs of life. They are sick and tired o
carpet bag drill, by which they are KEEP
constantly in strife and turmoil, and ar
settling down in the opinion that neithe
carpet-bag nor negro rule is indispensabl
for the security of their rights and genera
welfare-that it is the interest of their owl
race as we'll of the whites to maintain re
lations of mutual confidence and good will
and that q government that ls good enougl
the white man is good enough for them.
When the great body of the negroes a
the South have arrived at this sensibl
conclusion, the mission of the pestilen
carpet bagger will have ended, peace an.
harmony will prevail throughout the land
and the enfranchised negro will hav
solved the problem Of his new estate b.
placing his race in the only relation to til
white race on this continent that viii IN
sure his futare security, prosperity an
hannineRs