Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-13
aforementioned"

EDITORS APPEAL-We are astonished that
you have so far forgot yourselves to stray from
your therto conservative course in giving place
in yolr columns to the nonsenslcal ana headed
article ftom the Columbia Register. In your issue of
the seventh instant, headed 'Forcb ldings." OF
course you 40 Lot indorSe the sentiment conciu-
of the w of the aTticle neither do We expect
yet you are aware that the Radical press Will be
happy to get the opportunity TO publish such articles
coming from Inc south, and emanat1ng from south
eTn Den0efatS IL VIII greatly aid the m in display
Ing the "bloOdy shirt" You remember that Ben
Hill made Blaine what he is, in point OF reputation,
by noticing Is philippe, or Father his caumn OF
the SOUTH 1t would been far better have let
the champion maligner of the south IS unnotlced
tnan 10 nave given I'm pretex to vent his spleen.
II we want to defeat Grant for the Presidency In
1880 the best way to accomplish 1t is to let bin
pass oy unnOtlced. The Idea of the countrys being
again conVulsed by war, the terrOrS and
magnitude OF which Will far exceed the
as is said by the writer In the article
superlatlVe degree. VINO IS Grant. that this hot
headed nUmskull talks much and so alarmingly
piehension at the name of Grant? The people of
these United states have not lost all regard for pa
tutlons: In The first place. there is danger of the
Radicals electlng anybody Preside In 1880, much
less Grant and 10 the next place, should Grant be
elected, he Will be SO completely hedged in by the
great body OF American fIeemen that he Will be DOW
erless to carry INTO eiec any Of his ambitious de-
signs. hen ag In, the same writer, In the afore-
said article, thlkS uldt, IN the event of Grants
election not only would civil war ensue but that the
war wouid result In The total determination of the
negro. The fallacy Of this last prediction is mani
lest. The f0l0r6d man Will then, as now, IN the
event OF civil war; stand shoulder to shouder with
his white southern friend. The negro has not been
sjuDd not to have learned that his only true and
trusted fr1enu Is found alone in the white man
OF The SOUTH Our lection to this idea of this hot
heaoe1 numskuil Is that II will give the Radicals
an eS use 70 say mat me southern white man IS
enemy OF the negro; VIII le the truth Is, as you Ia
your valuable journal have often SAIL the white Deo
pie OF the south are the only friend OF the coIOred
man ana desire his prosperity. This same insane,
the negro nature. long subdued by slayt ~ etc
would exhibit Itself In the burning hOmesteads of
the white nan ana in OtneT horrOGs too fearful 10
cOntemplaLe!!' NOW. We know by eXperlence and
We know that there would be less ferocity In the
negro than any other race Of men on eorth The
late war proved 10 demonstration that the negio
was less terociouS and more constant kind than
any people in the whole history of mankind. While
every abe-bodied white man Ia the south during the
late was away from home our women, oh .idren
and property were under the care and protection OF
tue Negro aud We ale not aware of any demOnstra-
ton or htrocty by the ner bnt on the contrary we
fet that our wives and little ones and our pr0nerv
were concerned. We hope you Will reprint the whole
aitlcle again. and explain 10 northern fTIenus
that there Is not a shadow of foundation, in any
event. OF the antag0nsn between the races hat the
color ln7" policy hats been most thoroughly tried
and proved most signal failure, that we under
stand each other too. we'll. that war of races is
among the things OF th9 Imagination and has no re.
ality That GRANTS friends the north and else
where are cOunttfg without their hosts II they eX-
pect 10 get the aid or Influence of the colOred voter
Of tn south, We say our northern friends because
every sensible man OF the south under LANDS this
question. We hope TO see the old APPzAL-our pa
per, our adviser and defender-meet such silly and
mischi YoUS sentiments In the article before referred
to IN the manner In which they deserve
RIPLEY, MISS, December 8, 1878.