Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-26
THE NORTHERN HEART WON'T
EIHR.

Even the people of the north are denounc-
ing the brutal and unfeeling demagogues
who are sacrificing the confding and UNI
suspecting negro dupes for party purposes.
So soon as Smalls, Rainey and Lynch retired
from congress, it was evident that something
had to be done with the negro or he would
pass cut of politics. To prevent result so
fatal TO the Republican party, this emigIa-
ton scheme was concocted. Without caring
for the misery and suffering entailed on the
poor dupes, the negroes were induced to
commence the march TO Kansas. Then the
Radical politicians commenced the howl
about prosecutions and the wrongs Of the
poor creatures fleeing from the shotguns of
the southern whites. They called upon
toe war department for tents and
rations for the poor, prosecuted saints
flying from outrage and wrong. The negro
does not seem to understand that the rations
and tents which he expects represents the
labor of somebody who has paid taxes to
buy them with; nor does it enter into his
simple calculation that the people whose labor
is thus taxed may have some objection to that
method of enforcing the offices of charity
upon them. But, taking the Radical doc
trine at its literal acceptation. he imagines
that all he has to do is to announce that he
is a negro, and that he has arrived at St.
Louis in the course of journey, whence he
cares not, and whittier he knows not, and
that he is hungry; be fancies that the rations
are inexhaustible, that his right to draw
them is unquestionable." But this last effort
poses is a magnificent failure. A.
C. Buell., in the Washington Capital,
says that the Radicals, $50 far as the black
man is concerned, have simply duped him as
they have always been duping him. They
have played another of their tricks upon his
unsuspectlng nature. They have induced
him to leave the country to whose field of ex-
ertion he is suited by nature and by training,
and they have lett him resourceless in a
country where he can do nothing but beg,
steal aud starve. They have set him to beg
cling. And now they propose to fire the
northern heart anew with the carefully-ar-
ranged story of his carefully-prepared woes.
As | said, they have made no mistake about
the negJo. Where they have missed their
calculation is touching the northern heart.
The northern heart will not be fired. The
CIV for ratons falls upon the ears of tax
pIylnL masses who have too hard work to
yet rations for themselves. The people of
the north are more deeply interested in their
own destitution, their own poverty and their
own woes, than In the carefully prepared
sufFerings of Moses WINDOWS negro mas
queradiDg at st. Louis as child of Israel.
What the northern people want is not an i'm
portation of negro labor from the south, but
a revival of employment for their own idle
hands. They do not want congress to waste
the public time in debating the propriety of
issuing rations to vagrant negroes who have
been inveigled away from their homes
by the speeches of Window and
the promises of Rainey, Small and
Lynch; but they demand general meas
ures of relief, that will put them in way of |
earning rations for themselves. The New
England group will discover these great |
facts before long. There may be something |
like pity for the negro as a dupe, but 1t is |
more than overbalanced by the Indignation |
that will be visited upon those who use him
as the stool pigeon of their confidence game.
Meanwhile the New England group are lay
ing up wrath against the day of wrath; piling
Ossa upon Pelion; heapiDg Alma upon Vesu-
yius in fact, and the crash is not far off,
When it comes, and is over, the country will