Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-26
r,eur,xe A. IMAGINARY ENEm

FIGHTING An IMAGINARY EMERY.
Longslreet, in his Georgia Scenes, gives
ludicrous description of the enraged bully
who was found in the bushes fighting
an imaginary enemy. He pounded, kicked
and cuffed the air; then he would CRATE his
teeth as if chewing off a finger; next he
would fall down and insert his thumbs In the
sand, as if searching for the eyes OF the adj
versary. When detected in these furious
demonstrations, he said he was experiment.
ing to see what he could do if ever attacked
BY the bully he feared. Ed Shaw is not
candidate for the Legislature, or any other
Office within the gift of the people. Yet the
boilers are kicking, cutting and pommeling
him for the sole purpose of showing what
they could do if he were really
a candidate. The minstrels have an
act in which dancer gets SO enthused that
ha continues to dance frantically until some
one kindly pulls him by the coat-tail and
tells him that the banjo player has gone up
in town, when he looks around and retreats
as If ashamed of having made fool of
himself. While the boilers are bowling at
Ed Shaw some kind friend ought to pull
them by the coat-tails and whisper into
their ears that he is not a candidate for the
Legislature. The two celored candidates
for the Legislature upon the Democratic
ticket cannot be reached by The shafts of
calumny and abuse. They are known to be
good citizens and men Of intelligence, and
they cannot be injured in the public estima-
tion because they are supported by men OBJ
noxious to the boilers. LoBgstreet, Mosby,
Malone and Chalmers were rebels, traitors,
bulldozers ard Bourbons SO long as they
were Democrats but so soon as they joined
-srro- zeyI,vIDIIGaus Uuey DvvaIrI0 r-s.Ivss,
idols and the leaders of the iRepub-
Iican party. While William F. Price
and 1. +. Norris acknowledged allegiance
to the Federal ring they were such models
of purity and perfection that one of them
was elected to the Legislature; but now that
they have become leaders of the colored
movement to cut loose from the overseers
and 10 think for themselves they are
denounced as traitors. In discussing this
inconsistency, the Chattanooga Democrat
says:
The Republicans and boilers are very much ex-
ercised over the fact that the Democrats Of Mem
phis should have united to elect negro to the
Legislature It's frightfully naughty of the Demo
Gratis Everybody VIII remember what hard
stories have been tciu about the way Democrats
have treated the negro and even the Northern
orgsns have yelled themselves hoarse for more
Now, when the Democrats nave agreed TO give the
negro something Language proves almost mex
negro will discover what q great many people al.
ready know-that the Radicals wiz love him just
30 long as he votes the Radical ticket, and when
he dares to vote for naughty Democrat he be-
comes a mean, dirty wretch, and unfit for any
thing he is a colored gentleman so long as he
meekly follows where his political masters lead,
but when he concludes 10 follow his own head
and exercise his rights freeman, he is quickly
transposed to seeking niger" The negro race
hasn't progressed very far N education yet but 1t
niheance as a political factor constitutes the |
main heft of his attracttFeness TO his Radical |
bosses
Ed Shaw is not candidate. He is pri- |
vste citizen, and no amount of abuse of him |
can drive white men from the support of |
Price and Norris. This was evidenced in /
the Ninth Civil District, on Tuesday night, /
when Col. Patterson requested every white /
man present who intended to support the /
colored candidates to rise to their feet, when 1
there was a Simultaneous uprising of every /
white man present. The colored voters will |
be equally as true In support of the ticket. /
The whites and blacks are united on COM
mon platform, and they intend to support |
the ticket without scratching single name.
In every section of the Union the colored l
people have commenced thinking for them
selves, and refuse longer to be.whipped into
the traces by the lash of the Federal office /
holders. Here, in Shelby county, they are
marching under the Democratic BAN
ner in support of good men plant
ed on 4 sound platform. The Demo |