Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-26
THE NEGROES AND THEIR OVER.

THE NEGROES AND THEIR OVER
BEERS.
As yet the breach in the Republican part
| in this county has not been healed. TIL
| Low-tsx Republicans headed by Ed Sha,
still stand firm. But tits yet eight days to tn
election, time enough to bring about bar
mony and union on one ticket. The Fedora
ring has heretofore lashed into the trace
the refractory boilers, and the same method
will produce the same results. While VI
have no confidence in the threats of the col
ored people of Shelby to rebel at the furthe
rule of tleir white overseers, it is certainl,
true that tbs blacks elsewhere intend to fire,
themselves from their new masters who hav'
since their freedom fastened upon then
slavery a. humiliating and abject as tina
from which they were liberated. In every
part Of the country-North and South-al
proclaim that they are tired of voting fol-
their new owners without receiving theil
proportionate share of the Offices. This dis
content is manifesting itself throughout the
country. In New York they claim they
have voted the Republican ticket right along
and never have had representative on the
Republican ticket. In Ohio they are re-
voting against their white brethren, and in
Kansas Mr.. Fairfax is still running
for congresspan-at-lsrge as representa-
tive of the colored race, against the lead
ers of the white Republican party. This
same dissatisfaction is prevalent here in the
South, where the colored Republican vote
largely outnumbers the white Republican
vote, yet almost uniformly they are COM
manded to vote for white man, and are
given little or no recognition. They are
justly getting tired of it, and the other day,
in the Second district of North Carolina, set
an example likely to be followed throughout
the South. They bolted the nomination OF a
white candidate, for with preponderance of
the vote in the district they were not allowed
to name a coIored man Tor Congress- There
are certainly symptoms of real aw akening
of political independence among the colored
people of the United States, and these symp-
toms are not favorable to the continued sue
cess OF the old plan of using the negro votes
of the South in aid of the Republican party,
as the Tory landlords of Great Britain SO
long used the votes of their pocket boroughs.
In striking for independence the blacks are
right The Republican party has been un-
just to them. During the era of reconstruc-
lion the negroes were used to help the
and carpetbaggers to accumulate
fortunes, the scraps of the feast being thrown
10 the least respectable and representative of
he coIored men. Nothing was done to edu-
cate the negro to qualify him for the dis
,harge of the duties suddenly thrust upon
him, to enable him to hold his own in the
with his white neighbors and to
conquer their esteem and friendship. To
each him the advantage of thrift and fore
bought the Republicans gave him the
Freedman's Bank. When the era OF recon-
truction closed, and the South was lost as
ource of positive strength, the Republicans,
instead of allowing the negro to settle into
iyate amicable and natural relations with
he white man, encouraged race hatreds,
reached incendiary and agrarian doctrine
o the blacks, maligned the white population,
md melted race riots in which the Africans
must suffer severely-all this to help the
arty at the North. Even when economical
had been established at the
outh and that section was rejoicing in an
immense cotton crop, which meant for the
aborer employment and prosperity, the
republicans had to start an "exo-
u.s. which meant for thousands of |
redulous negroes the sacrifice of their |
tile property, the breaking up of their |
ONES Snd ultimate idleness and demoraliza-
Oh, If nothing worse. 1t is sad and shame
Il page in the history of the Republican
ariy. The coIored men lent the party their
,tes and gave it all its capital-and what
as their reward? One negro senator and
10 or three negro congressman who were
'ver admitted to social equality; appoint
ents for such men As Fred Douglass and
dilt" Turner, who could render service on
e stump and never were recognized as
uals; few clerkships or minor Offices,
ually bestowed ON the least reputable of
e party workers-that was all. When the
epQblican party has for years cracked the
gh vault of heaven with its bellowings that
was the Goblin of the colored man, and
,uld wade in blood rather than see his
yhts to absolute equality and full particle
tion in political life questioned in theory
in practice, it was only natural that the
lored man should look to that party for
at share of the responsibilities
d emoluments of public administra-
IN to which he was fully entitled.
iling to obtain such share, his natural
arse 10 to seek for better treatment in new :
'oeiations. As Democrats and well-wishers
the race, we shall view such move
mt with more than equanimity. The
ne impulse which throws the ignorant and ,,
honest into the arms of demagogues will .
I'd to array the intelligent, peace-lovinx
d Industrious of the colored men on the
e of good, economical and stable govern ,
mt. The negro who finds that by attend {
, to his own business and regarding his
lite neighbor as human being like him. :
|, with the same interests, living under +
, same conditions, he can accumulate
,perty in the enjoyment of which he will
protected, will have no sympathy with
'endiarism or the perpetuation of race
treds. The exceptionally intelligent and 2
iustrious colored men would not to-day !
'or robber regime, such as that which .
se cursed South Carolina under Moses,
y more than their white neighbors would. Q
Ames should return to Mississippi, the r
yroes would chase him out of the State,
1 ii let alone BY the Federal ofiee-holders n
i ofice-seekers, the whites and blacks of
South would soon be united in sympathy :
they are identified in interests. il