Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-01

Shelby county and throughout the South is
an invitation Issued by the colored people
to all political parties, and especially to the
Democracy, from whose councils they
have been debArred by the teachings Of the
Federal rings, to bring before them princi-
piles for their free and deliberate considers
tions 1t is an invitation which the Democrats
should be prompt to accept and respond
in the same liberal spirit in which it has
been rendered. But whatever may be the adj
vantage Of their declaration of Independence
to the white taxpayers of both parties, TO the
colored men wis have made il, it ls the in
PRODUCTION of new era Of little less i'm
portance to them than the removal OF
the shackles of that other slavery which
bound thom. The object of all slavery is
mental servitude, and the most degrading
of all slavery is mental slavery. In this
county ths blacks have announced their de-
termination to become free mentally az they
are physically, and for the future they in
tend to think and vote for themselves.
They have dethroned their prtjudices, en-
throned their reason. Every good citizen
will rejoice that the color line has
| been obliterzted in Shelby county. The
movement was inaugurated in: this city last
January, when the white taxpayers nomi-
mated and elected = colored man in the city
election, and the good work SO nobly begun
must be continued in electing legislative
ticket. All the elements 10 favor ofsustain-
ing the si1fy-and-six settlement will soon be
found united on q legislative ticket, and
since square fght is proposed on that issne,
all the elements of opposition must unite
and elect men to the Legislature pledged 10
vote for the repeal of q measure SO obnox-
ious 10 the people Of Tennessee. The future
prosperity OF Memphis is involved in this
contest, for if the Legislature, composed Of
boilers and Republican,, should triumph,
then woe to the people OF Mem
phis; for the party pledged to
the maintenance of the public credit
would turn Memphis over 10 the rapacity of
merciless creditors, and the property of the
taxpayer would be con6s:sted and the city
drooP and lauguish in decay. The success
Of the high-tsx public-credit ticket, to be
elected by a coslition, endangers the future
of Memphis. We must not be deluded with
the idea that il we are beaten there will be
any eye TO pity US. We will be left alone 10
wri'heunder the oppression of remorseless
creditors until we develop a new growth
upon the destruction and the decay Of the
present order Of thing, and we shall only
hear P9ans TO public faith and jubilatious
over the triumph of "honah," and undis-
guised Civilizations over the righteous doom
which has at last overtaken the incorrigibls,
the hateful and stiff-necked regulators. If
the people of Memphis would save ihem-
selves they must unite in opposition to the
Vaccinations Of the boilers aud Repu blicsns
The business men, tsxpayers, the friends OF
Memphis are like the glsdiators pushed into
the arena to fight with wild beasts, which
will surely devour them unless they fight
successfully. We eau arm ourselves with u
weapon which will insure success il we will
but provide ourselves with it. That weapon
is the balloi-box. Let Us nominate strong
ticket, composed of all the elements opposed
TO the sixty and-six fraud-opposed 10 that
sentimental and bypocritIcsl Observance for
public credit, which cares not for the sacri-
fee of the people or the destruction of the
city so the avarice of the creditor is ap-
peased