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

| iutimidate black men in this section. Ever,
| movement, every action OF late has tended Il
| intensity this dissatisfaction. We have nc
disposition to smother the angry mutter
ings OF the people, but we give voice tc
such that those concerned may take notice
and shape their actions to suit them
selves. We are not at all particular that
they suit as. 1t is purely a matter of give
and take. Let US reason together on thii
| matter. On Monday evening last the TWEEN.
ty-secoud District Republican Association
held its regular monthly meeting, at which
| Mr.. Samuel H. L. Wilson introduced a reso-
lutien which recited that
The colored Republicans of this city had been
ever faithful to the Republican party and had re-
| gates from the association to the Genital Com
! mtttee be instructed to find out from that body
what Il would do in the way of patronage for cot.
| twenty second and Twenty-third districts. Mr..
| enough until after election time when no one
was willing to do anything for them. In the Gus
pointments of coiored men, three Of
| which had been made by Republican collectors
said That in the First district HsTbormas ter
Burns, the Third, Emigration Commissioner
Tsintors. The Sixth Harbor Master simpsons S, the
Thirteenth. Court Clerk Blackie's. the Sixteenth
Court Clerk Cregan's, the Seventeenth, Commits
ond, there representation of colored Office
holders and in the Seventh, Commissioner Van
Colts, there were only three He thought that
the colored Republicans deserved better treat
ment.
Republican workers in the district who en-
Mr.. wfison-Yes they struck Aston and Morton
pretty well when they ran. and when our people
asked for s11 that they had expended in the dis
trict, they were met with grow1.
samuel B. Hamburger said the Republican party
had been ever faithful to the colored man. He
moved TO lay the matter on the table.
WilaOn-Tha rfvis fail
votes The Republican party have got no princi-
Isaac Fromme said If members only joined the
party for patronage they had better get out.
j., MI. MeKenna-That VIII bust up the whole bus
MI. Hamburger-This whole business is q dis
grace.
On q motion to adopt the resolution was tabled
We do net now nor have we ever made an
issue with the Republican party of this
State for the pickings of patronage, and with
the Ereaing Post, we think it a disgrace that
honest colored men should stoop to crave
places from the vile ward politicians who
are of opinion that the colored man was
manumitted by the Republican party from
pure philanthropy, love of human freedom,
when all we'll informed men know that he
manumitted to save the Union, which
otherwise would have suffered irreparable
defeat. The negro went in % the war for the
Union 100000 strong, and the blows he
struck not only saved the Union cause but
earned him his charter right to American
citizenship. Does he owe his manumission
to the philanthropy of the Republican
party? In his first inaugural address,
March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, speaking
with reference to the fugitive slave law, said:
All members of Congress swear their support to
gitive slave provisionl as much as any other. To
the proposition then. that slaves, whose come
within the terms Of this clause. shall be delivered
up their oaths ar unanimous. Now, If they
would make the effort in good temper, could they
not, with nesrly equal unanimity. frame and pass
a law by means of which to keep good that unani-
nous oath2
Which means, purely and simply, to pass
a law by which the letters of the slave would
be more efectually riveted. The manumis-
sion of the slave was necessary to the pre-
servation of the Union, and not until it was
shown by defeat after defeat of the Union
arms that it was impossible to crush the re-
bellion and save the institution of slavery
did Abraham Lincoln, who loved his coun-
try more than he ever loved us, send forth
his emancipation amation-three years
after the war had dragged its bloody length
along. What was the result of that procla-
nation? In a speech in Brooklyn, N. Y,
October Z, 1854, in support of the reelection
of Mr.. Lincoln TO the presidency, the Hon.
Carl Schurz said:
The emancipation proclamation 1 say, added
200 900 black soldiers to our armies.
This speaks volumes. What those 200, 900
troops did is natter of history. If in the be-
ginning of the war the Republican party was
not committed to the abolition of slavery,
but was forced 10 it as a matter of preserva-
ton of the Union, how much gratitude on
our part is due for the emancipation procla- |
nation? If we furnished 100000 troops,
who fought nobly, as history afirms, are we |
not entitled 10 the credit of having won our |
freedom? A Roman would concede his slave /
this. Then as to the right of suffrage-the /
black vote elected Grant twice, the fa;thless L
Hayes once, and largely contributed to tine i
election of Garfield and the present chief |,
this not fully cancelled the /
obligation incurred by the comforting upon US
If the suffrage? Ii not, for heavens sake, is :
here no end to the Shylock avarice of the
Republican party?
The thing that gals us is that every time
We crook our fingers the ignorant Republican /
Jarty leaders tell us, eIf- it had not been for
IS you would not be Free" and if ,re have
lot done enough for your people without
'eing threatened by them, you had better
cave the party-that's my candid opinion"
We don't propose to tolerate this insolence,
groundless, as we have shown il
0 be, and when asked, "What are you going
o do about it?" our reply will be in the shape
t ballot cast solidly against those who
ut the insolent question. We have lived
trough all SORTS OF polItlcs-Republlcan,
Democrat and hybrid-but il
Ias reserved for the ward politicians of New
FORK, the acknowledged bruisers of Ameri.
an politics, to insult our manhood with the
nswer for redress of grievances, "No! You
eople want too much. Now what are you
DING to do about it?"
What we object to is the systematic man.
er in which our manhood and our influence |
re ignored. We are tired of being treated
3 automatons, as machines within ma
hines-never consulted, never conceded
dice in disposing of ourselves, not allowed
express desire, not permitted to have an
pinien not emanating from the "Great-I-
ms"-we say we are tired of it, and pro-
ose TO put period to it. Ii we cannot do
in year we will do it in two, three, five
ears; we are prepared TO fight for it until
e gain it-until it is conceded we are more
ian simple machines.
A respectable number OF intelligent COL
red men, some of the ablest and most in
uential in the State, are in full accord with :
}. They are watching the approaching !!
ate nominations of the Democratic and
epublicsn parties with interest. They do I
oi feel in any way handicapped. They are !
ee TO speak and act their convictions.
hey are opposed to the nomination OF A.
Cornell for governor, and they will not
pport him. To secure full colored vote 2
e Republic ans of the State will be COM !
slled to change their tone of what are
m ming IN do ahout it9o We do NOT rro |