Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-16

/ and accounts for those immense MAORI
| ties IN the recent elections in the States
| Of Alabama and Mississippi. And this
| for the most manifest reasons, that their
/ eyes are now being confronted with the
/ fact that these civil and political rights,
! guaranteed by the thirteenth, Jour-
| Ieenth and fifteenth amendments, are
| much better respected in those
| st stes where the Conservative or
d smocratic party is in the ascend d.
aucy, than those where the RepuO-
| lican party holds power. la proof OF
this We point Jnspieuously to the State
! Of Virginia, where the two races are
moving on more harmOniOusly than the
most devoted friends Of the coiored race
could have anticipated ten years ago.
We have no hesitation in saying thai
the rights OF the cOlored people, includ-
ing their right 10 vote, are ss we'll pro-
tected ia Virginia today as they are in
Massachusetts,. And the provision made
by the SLete for our education, while 1t
is not all that we would desire, yet,
taking into consideration that nearly
one-hRlf Of her property was Lost by the
war, aud debt OF more than thirty
million dollars resting on her, it is all
we have right TO expect. But Virginia
is no exception to this benign action on
the colored people, where the whites
have gotten possession Of the State gov.
erDment. Witness Arkansas, which,
a fsw years since, under carpetbag gov
ernments, was q theater OF strife and
blOodsned. Now, under Conservative
rule, all Is peace and quiet. How gladly
would the iGteliigent, laW-abiding COL
ored men of South Carolina and Louisi-
ana exchange their government and
rulers for such as those in Virginia
and other States named. II these
be facts, and no one can truth
fully deny them, why the officious zeal
and energy now employed by MessIs.
Morton, Chandler and Dix in cur be-
half? We neither ask nor desire such
protection as they are now preparing to
extend us, and TO the more intelligent
cOlOred people the question is constantly
put, why all this zeal in behalf OF our
rights just before every Presidential
election? The coincidence is very StTik
ing and suggestive. l might point to
evidence in abundance to refute the idea
that the Radicals or Republicans in our
midst are really our special friends. Ger
tainly in seeking to excite the race
prejadices they are not wise or discreet
~ L
mistrust the unseIfish interest professed
for OuT race by those who manifest it
alone about election times, when they
are aspirants for some positions of honor
or emolument. Were il not for the fear
of extending this communication be-
yOud all reasonable limits / would cite
IN erte1asO the operations of the Freed
mails bank, prOfessedly established in
the interests and for the benefit of ouc
race. Ii was actually but an instrument
by which we could be the more effectu,
ally robbed and plundered of our hard
earnings. The report of Hon. B. B.
Douglass, of this State, in the last con-
gress, in relation to The Freedman's
bank, if it could be read by every col.
Ored man in the land, would excite an
indignation against the party that per-
mitted this wholesale theft Of the tens of
thousands OF dollars that the poor freed
men had deposited with view to the
purchase of homes that no language of
mine Can Depict. But must here close,
trusting that the Great Master, who
over rules everything to his own honor
and glory, may make plain to US the
pathway Of duty.