Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-15

| tianiLy had Do strong hold that to this day
our sects are under the effects of the specu-
Iative controversies of which the Egyptian
brain Of that time was 50 prolific.
Immediately after the presidential cleo
ton the colored voters of the Tenth congress
sional district met here in Memphis and de-
manded their proportionate share of tine
! Federal patronage. This demand was just
and proper. As they furnished the votes
which elected Republican to Congress
from this district it was not unnatural or I'M
reasonable that they should claim their
share of the spoils. But the Federal ring
continued to monopolize the patronage OF
the government The result is the negroes
| of this county have set up for themselves,
and in the recent election they defeated the
Republican county ticket, which shows that
| they hold the balance of power, and in future
elections will exercise it in their own interest
and against the Federal ring, who have so
long used them for selfsh purposes. The
revolt against the rule of the few white Re-
| publicans in the South who absorb all the
| spoils of Office had its origin here
In Memphis, but it seems seeds
were sown which have brought forth
| a plentiful harvest of fruit in every section
of the Union, as the blacks everywhere have
| struck for freedom. In SO short a space of
time never has there been such complete
revolution of popular sentiment as has been
exhibited among the colored people in all
sections of the country. We could fill the
columns of the APPEAL every day with the
utterances of the blacks who have severed
themselves from the Republican party. In
another column we publish two articles from
leading colored men which may be taken as
a sample of the general discomfort that ami
mates the colored people. 1t will be seen
that Henry Carper in his letter takes a
philosophical view of the situation. He
suggests that his race declare their indie
pendence of all parties; that they should
not become the blind partisans OF either
Democrats or Republicans, but occupy an
armed neutrality and vote with the party
whose success will be more likely TO promote
the substantial interests Of the country,
which is promoting their own. This has l
been the policy of our foreign-born popula-
ton. They have generally voted with the /
Democrats because they defended civil and
religious liberty, and now since no one pro-
poses to disturb the'freedom OF the blacks,
will become an important factor in the poll
tics OF the country SO soon as they become
independent of all parties aud vote for high
or low tax, or any other question, in accord
ance with what they believe will benefit
themselves and the community. 1t will be
seen from the article taken from the New |
York Globe, the organ of the colored people
of the North, that the editor says ''every
movement, every action of late, has tended
to intensity this dissatisfaction" among the
colored people. 1t can be demonstrated by
figures that the colored vote elected Garfield
president and the Republican majority in
Congress; and their fidelity has been re-
warded by the basest ingratitude, for out of
the 100000 ofice-holders appointed by the
Republican party, but few negroes have been
selected. Here in the South the Republican
party is chiefly composed of blacks,
but the official statistics show that that party
regard the negro as a fit voter, but un-
ct for holding Office, when in every county in
the South, intelligent, educated, honest coll
pred men can be found as competent as the
whites who hold the Offices without furnish
eral rings have been able by deceit and loud
professions to suppress all discomfort among
he blacks. But they can no longer be de-
uded by trickery and humbuggery. Here in {
Memphis, for the purpoce of deceiving the
aegroes, Hawkins resorted to the old clsp-trsp,
md with clenched fist and grating teeth he
ellis them that he will wade knee-deep in I
Hood to maintain the right of the negro 10
'ote him and other white men in office. /;
sut he don't propose to shed drop of gore q
o secure the Offices for the blacks. He be- b
ieves in negro suffrage, but is not heavy on
egro ofice-holding. In all the Southern
tates the Federalrings are trying to drive the t
egroes into the old cattle pens in which | c
hey used to pound them with as much ease
5 the cowboys, with long spurs and crack b
1g whips, drive their fat herds into the | a
aughterhouses. The blacks have raised C
ne banner of independence and they can =.
OF afford to take any step backward. 1t is ;,
artain they will not do SO here in Shelby a
ounty. The treatment of the Low-tax Re- e.
ublicans in the State Convention and the %
smoval of Green Evans have produced r.
reach which can never be bridged over. il
he Low-tax Republicans cannot compro- al
Use themselves by dickering with their Z
They will do nothing to weaken te
ieir impregnable ground as an independent Il
rganization. They will never sacrifice their IS
rinciples and their manhood by the base | :. -
umiliation which requires them to lick the | o.
and that has smote them. The Low-tax as
republicans demonstrated in the late county CT
eelions that their organization is composed ~
men, not OF worms and reptiles-creatures a,
lat can get down into the dirt and wriggle | in
into the support of men who m
ave kicked, insulted and abused them for &c -
lie crime of occupying the very position "
hich has made Malone the leader OF the | p
'epublican party and the dispenser of Fed NJ
raj patronage in Virginia. -,