Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-20


ficstion OF sueh a result would be tha
political aud civil power should beloB
exclusively to the white race, or Upol
the other principle that that party tn
members If which OVID most of tn
property in the State should be allowt,
to govern, to the exclusion OF the nsj5r
ity, who are generally poor, and most o
whom have nothing to depend on for
subsistence but their labor l Spprehent
that an Investigation Of the Mlssissipp
evolution would show that the tri
umpoaut msjority acted upon both Q
these principles, and in many ways bold
| ly proIesSed them as its doctrines. HI
reviewed the treatment which the Re
publicRns received in the south before
the war, and declared that 1t Is qu' ;
tion whether il Is not the policy or th'
| Democratic party Of the south not only
to GeTeat the Republican party Of the
south, but to extiDguish it by social and
business o,tracism and PERSONAL VIC
| ience to the whites who favor that par
! ~, and only presenting to the coloreC
! man the sl ernative OF starvation q
support of tue Democratic party. He
! claimed that the bstter and larger class
of the Democrats were opposed to this
| soc al violence, but were controlled and
| intimidated by the smaller and violent
| element of their party. Toe colOred
| people are fercely denounced Tor their
| Ignorance and want Of moral training,
and their condition, which is, in
many respects, unhappy, is imputed
to them as q crime. It must be
admitted that slavery was bad train
ing school, not oDly Intellectually but
morslly. The cruel and inhuman laws
which made it penitentiary Offense to
teach colored child to read and write
have borne their fruits, which have, like
the apples of the Dead ssa, turned to
ashes upon the lips OF those who enacted
them. 1t is written that the sins of the
fathers are visited upon their children
unto the third and fourth generations,
and it is not in the providence Of God
that the inventors OF thuse laws should
entirely escape their consequences. l
would that the cup OF bitterness could
entirely pass from the white people Of
the south, but thst is not possible under
Divine economy. Tnose who practiced
African slavery for two hundred years
cannot hope 10 escape all the evil coLse-
quences resulting from it. II Is the
luerest folly longer to deny the atrocities
that hsve been committed upon colored
people in southern Statee. Evidence is
found in thousands OF depcsi ions taken
before investigating committees; in the
continual revelations of persons coming
from the south, and in the current state
ments Of hundreds Of newspapers, al
though there Is reason to believe that
not half, perhaps not 1.-THE OF the out
RACES ara ever brought to the attention
of the public. They have been hunted
like wild beasts, and the white sports
men went cunning for them. II that
many white men had been murdered by
the Indians, the whole. country would
have demanded vengeance, and large
portion would clsmor for the eXte rmIna-
ton Of the savage tribes. When some
twenty starving and desperate Modocs
murdered General Candy and three Of his
colleagues, the government never STOP
ped until the last man bad been
captured, tr Ell and hung. When the
Virginius, notoriously engaged in an
illegal and hostile expe 1iti0n against the
Spanish government, was captured by a
Spanish cruiser, and some fifty OF the
crew tried by cOurt-maItial and shot,
the government demanded immediate
reparation, and threatened Spain with
war in case it was not made. When
sOLte ElA 1OdIb HkO du AhC11Cah DDNb
was fired on and two men wounded, on
the coast of Corea, cur feet demanded
reparation, and when il was not granted,
battered down their forts and slaUgh-
tered nearly three hundred Of their sol.
dieTs. When the Mexican robbers make
a raid across the border into Texas, and
steal five or six hundred head of c2ttl9,
the depreciation is maguified tenfold;
the government OF the United States is
urged by N any to go to war with Mex
leo, and at least to place the army OF the
United States along the Rio Grande for
the protection Of the property OF the
people OF Texas; but when a hundred
negroes are murdered In cold hlood, it is
considered smsl; affair, and not even
jusifyipg an examination. One differ
erce is, perhaps, that cattle can be
sold snd negroes cannot. The
infamous lies about negro plots to
murder the white people have become
exceedingly stale and disgusting. Les.
summer the columns OF the southern as
socia.ed press for days groaned with the
stupid and clumsy story that the negroes
had conspiTed to murder the white men
and ugly white women OF Georgia. That
this Infamous lie was intended as pre-
text for the slaughter OF the negroes
there is but little doubt. If apprehen-
sious Of uprisines ever existed, they grew
out OF q conviction of the iut0lerable
wrongs inflicted on the colOred people,
and are another proof CT the truth of
that saying, Conscience doth make
clwards OF US sll.n Every year before
the war there we're stories Of plans
among the negroes to rise and murder
their masters and families, which, l be-
lieve, in every instSnce turned out to be
false, but We're often made the pretext
for the greatest cruelties. A conclusive
answer to all these foul caiumnies Is
found IN the fact that colored men only
are killed, and thst il white men are
killed they are few ia number ard the
cases are exceptionable. SenatOr Nor
ton declared that it YVES the duty OF the
Republican party to maintain the rights
of the colored men, and said that should
the Republican party OF the north be-
come Indifferent to the fate OF the colored
people Of the south and ignore the attrCc-
tiles committed on them, nothing can
prevent them from sinking into state
OF vassslsge, and their last condition
will be worse than the first, That the
Democratic party of the south are re-
COL ci ed 10 the civil and political equsl.
ity Of the colored eople is contradicted
by their every act, by their daily lite,
by their history in the past and their
aspirations in the future. And when
they get the physical power, regardless
OF constitutional provisions or congress
ional enactments, they will hurl them
from the platform of equality and 70.
duce them to a vassslage, but ole re-
moved from slavery. He referred to
the white-liDe policy, adopted By the
Democracy Of the south, and affirmed
thst it was established by the Democrat
ic party Immediately after the war and
never has been relaxed or abandoned
for a single moment. The white line
policy was a legitimate descendant of
the black code Of 1865, and the revelation
Of 1875 was but continuation Of the
fight against the principles o! recon-
sIuction and constitutional amend
ments. Whatever disguises may be
adopted, whatever protests may be made
in Washington, the inflex bic purposes
Of the white-line Democracy OF the
south is the destruction of the political
rights of the negroes. He went
on TO cite reports Of commit
tees cent on to investigate the outTages,
and said that Hon. George f. Hosr,
chairman OF the congressional investi-
eating committee, in his report made to
the house last winter, briefly Tecapitu-
lated the history OF murders and atroci-
tic IN Ionisisna and Dreaenta a aiOkan.