Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-13
EHpHEN APPEAL
.raF yurEuaES's BANK.

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The viIlsluiCs IN connection with this
deflpct concern has done much toward
weaving the c0lored people from the
idols they formerly worshiped with
blind admiration. Friedrich Douglass,
in recent speech, referred to the failure
OF .he Frecdmeu's saving bank in Wash
ing.on. " We put our millions there
ne said. " but where are they now? The
m-l who went into the bank few years
ago POOR men aTenow Gomiciled in beau.
tifi houses and drive their fEe turnouts.
1t makes me feel badly 70 think how We
have been robhed." We should think 1t
would. Tie New York Herald peril
DgatIy remarks that this is q feeling In
which the country viii share. The fall
u-s OF the Freedmeu's savings bank was
most GisgracefuI in every way. 1t was
deliberate, c0ld-blooded, shameful rot
beryCfa dependent, poor and ,struggliDg
race robbery under the guise OF NOR
alifv and religion. Give us the names
Of these robbers! Mr.. Douglass must
know them, because he speaks Of their
houses and coaches. Let him give us
their names, that they may be nailed up
by the ears in fostering infamy! In his
speech denouncing the sWindlers Of the
Freednen'5bank, Fred Douglass further
said:
Mr.. President, IL the north and south
had not quarreiled, we would not have
been here to-day. II the blue-eyed
Saxon bad not fallen out with his south
ern brother we would never have been
set free. When the north and the south
qUarreled, we sided with the victorious
party, hence our triumph. II war
among the whites. brought freedom to
the blacks, Whist will peace among the
whites bring to the blacks? Let Us look
this question square in the lace. we
have been Injured more than We have
been helped 10y men who have pro-
fessed 10 be cur friends. They are law
yers without clients; miDisters-broKen
down miuisteTs-WlthOut chufchesi
wandering teachers without schools
We propose to cut loose from all invidi-
Gus class institutions and to part COM
pauy with sH these wandering mendi-
Giants who have followed US simply for
paltry gain. And We now bid an stfec-
Tomato farewell 10 all these pluuderers,
and I'm the future il we need a Moses we
will find him in our own Tribes.
These utterauces are full Of signifi-
canoe. The scales are falling from the
eyes Of colored men, not only in the
south, but throughout the whole coun-
try. They are beginning TO see things
as they are, and not as they have been
represented. They are beginning to cry,
''Save US. from our friends" and with
the very best possible reason, for.certsin-
~ no class has ever been so scandalOUs-
~ treated by those who protested TO he
their friends. The fact of the matter is,
the negro, since the war, has been used
not simply by scalawag politicians to
further the interests Of the Republican
party, but by g set of sanCimonious har-
pies, who, under the garb CT philanthrO-
ply, have been hRvinga good thing oft,
in pretending to uphold the interests Of
the imam and brothsr." These hypOcriies
have, in fact, been enrichiDg themselves
while protesting to labor Tor the Interests
Of the nations wards. AS remarked,
the more intelligent Of the colored peO-
pie have penetrated their schemes, and
some Of them, here and elsewhere, are
makiDg.asbrave effort to free themselves
from these parasites. Let them do so,
but, in doing so, letathem set up for
themselves, and vote not blindly, but
for the great Interests Of both races. We
publish elsewhere in tbs APPEAL an in
teresting letter on this subject from a
prominent citizen Of Memphis, to which
the attention Of the reader is called.