Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-07

many, S30,00O.OOO less than Great Britain
and Ireland, S56,000.0OO less than France
and $4,000, 600 less than Russia for the
whole cast of their gigantic military and
naval establishments Of last v,ar-Ne4r Yogk
Herald.
When we talk Of gerrymandering South
Carolina the object is not to put Republicans
at disadvantage, but to keep feions and
blackguards out Of Congress. There is no
responsibility or secency worth naming in
South Carolina outside of the Democratic
party, and we have TO take every advantage
that The law allows in order to secure intel
ligent and honest representation.-CKarI
Ne,rs De1H.).
One of the most surprising facts demon
strated by the census is the aversion of the
colored brother toward Republican States
In no part of New England does he abound,
nor does he find a Mecca in either lows,
Kansas, Wisconsin, or Minnesota, any more
than in Vermont or New Hampshire. Its
curious to note that while Mahone's preserve.
Virginia, contains 12s257 colored males Of
voting age, West Virginia, right beside it,
contains only 1884.
There were no less than II .343. DOS voters
in the United States and Territories when the
census of 1882 was taken. There were more
than these-for these were whites, and there
were ], 4S7 ,S44 colored male adults. includ-
| ing negroes, Chinese, Japanese and indians.
| Probably OF these not less than 100000 were
negro voters. This would give us an army
| of IL, AS, 600 voters. And vet at the presi-
| Dental election of that year nearly 100000
Of these voters did not vote, but remained
| absent from the polls, the total number yot-
ing being only 9,1s5,99
! 1t is not easy TO comprehend the magnitude
| OF Robeson's affair. After the Puritan had
| cost the government 81 ,974,622, the Amphi-
trite 81 ,156, 1928, the Terror Sl,016,O7I, the
| Miantonomoh S1,310,773, that bad man sold
them without authority to private builders
| for an aggregate price of SI32, 439, and sc
tually had the audacity to pay those build
era for taking them TO pieces. For example,
he sold the Miantonomoh to John Roach for
S27, 9S4, and out OF the price he paid John
Roach S2S067 r.takiDg her to pieces. This
| is the process which he called undergoing
repairs" The Miantouomoh is vet reported
'repairing at Chester" and Secretary Chsnd-
Ter reported, May "a, 1882, that there had
been expended on her 81, 1851 81. As
that is less than had been expend-
ed on her before Robson ordered
her to be repaired" it must be exclusive OF
that sum, and she must really have cost
S2,246,964. She is now in good condition to
be again cold to John Roach for old junk, at
about the same old price (net of $3317.
=
ing pertinent criticism on independent par
ties in the South, and in it gets in good
hit at Lowe: Liberalism at the South
makes queer bed-fellows Even as in Vir-
ginia the Republicans depend upon Malone,
whom President Grant would have liked to
sh ot in 1876 for bull-dozing the negroes for
victory in their grand campaign for equal
rights and even as in Mississippi they ap-
prove the the leadership of the hero OF the
H. 4 II
lana, Acklen is their apostle; and even as ii
| Alabama the 'brawling duelist' and crazy
Greenback' Lowe, is their hope-so in North
| Carolina they have found Moses and a
Joshua in an ex-chief of the kuklux khan
| and is the bitterest secessiouist that the State
| produced during the war. Under the leader
ship OF johnson and Boyd, the grand old
party advances, casting to the breeze It's
| banners inscribed Protection TO Peanuts
and Free Rum Foreverr 1t is a touching
sight, and should convince the scoffers who
declare that the grand old party is not quite
| so devoted to principle as it used to be thai
they lie most foully in their teeth-nay, il
their tnroats, or we had almost said in theil
bootsw
Concerning the ability of the negroes in
general, in the South, to vote with even the
commonest degree OF intelligence, Mr.. Har
rison says: "As to any knowledge, intelli
| gence or judgment, such as should equip {
man, even in the lowest degree, for the exer
else of the right or power of suffrage, l can
not see that they know anything about it, Of
possess it any more than sheep do. If by q
| vote we mean, according TO the definition
| long ago enunciated by Horace Greeley
that by which we will, preference or opinion
| of person is expressed; if we mean any
| thing which is the voluntary and purposes
act of a man, with the object of announcing
a decision, choice of judgment which he ha'
formed or arrived at, then these negroes are
! not able to vote, and do not vote. They
have the right to vote under the law, bu
they have no real power or ability TO vote
They do not and cannot choose; they hav.
: no knowledge of what is involved on one
I side or the other. They have no materials
: Tor an opinion OF Judgment, nor any sbiliiy
/ to form preference or decision regarding
political matters. They know nothing o
the position, doctrines, history, traditions OIL
] aims of either party, and they have no idei
! or notion whatever of their respective meritl
| or principles"
/ Mr.. Hubbs, Republican representative
| from North Carolina, says: "The situation
in North Carolina is exactly what L pre-
dicted in talk with you some months ago
The Republicans and Liberal Democrats
have Joined hands, and have nominrted {
complete ticket, and if the election should
be held to-day, would, / believe, carry the
State by a majority of $4,000. The nomina
tions on the coalition ticket have been di
vided most evenly between the Republican:
and Liberal Democrats. The candidate fol
congressm an-at-large, Dockey, is Republi.
can, and George n. Folk, the candidate fol
| justice of the Supreme Court, is Democrat
| Confederate colonel of cavalry. His pre-
vious standing in the party is shown by the
hat ha he talan
Jarvis in nomination ct the time he was
nominated. He has been one of the coun-
| sellers of the party. Three of the six nom.
inees for judges of the Superior Court are
| Democrats, and two are straight Republi-
cans, and one, w. A. Guthrie, in the Fourth
| district, was a Hancock Republicans verv
able and independent man. F. H. Darby,
the candidate for Judge of the Superior
Court for the Third district, is a young man.
who is now city attorney Of Wilmington. He
resigned the Craftsmanship OF the Democratic
Committee in that county in order TO accept
this nomination. 1t is formidable ticket
The men on it are mostly from forty to fifty
years of age, men who have developed since
the war. And in that class lies the hope OF
the South. Eleven Democratic papers in
the State, out of about forty, support the new
movement. The Liberal Democratic con-
vention was not a mass-meeting. 1t was a
body OF $50 delegates, elected by county or
CARNATIONS. The party is fully organized.
The Republican convention was the largest
and most enthusiastic ever seen in the State.
Both parties have complete organizations,
and will cooperate at every point" Speak
ing of the Congressional delegation, Mr..
Hubs SAID: ''North Carolina will, in nv
opinion, surely have four Republican con-
gressmen in the next House, and perhaps
five, besides the candidate for congressman
at-large."