Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-05

rehashing the stale arguments used to
that social equality is a thing which can
not be compelled by law, or n com
bination which Douglass can organize for
that purpose. The Tribune says:
Assume, however, that Mr.. Douglass's
idea was carried out, and that he was
made Secretary of State, or of the Interior,
or was given charge of the Postal Depart
ment, or of the Treasury, wherein would
such an appointment establish equality
between the blacks and whites? The re-
lations between the two races would re-
main unchanged. Mr.. Douglass himself,
as we nave said, has once held a very lu-
crative Office. Did it do anything for
equality? Did it secure any colored man
in his rights? Not a negro in the United
States was affected by it.
In his Louisville speech Douglass de-
manded that his race should be repre-
scented in the Cabinet. This demand was
| the legitimate result of the teachings of
the Tribune so long as the blacks were
solid for the Republican party and dared
not exhibit the independence to hold a
meeting composed exclusively of their
race. In commenting on the de-
mand made by Douglass for representa-
ton in the Cabinet, the Tribune says:
There are other races in this country
besides the colored. If the latter, for
race reasons, is to be allowed a seat in the
Cabinet, why should-not the others also
put in their claims to advance their inter-
est by having a representative in one OF
| the departments? If the negroes are to
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Irish, and the Germans, and the Scandi-
navians, and the Italians, and the Bohe-
mians, and the Jews, and the Indians,
when they become citizens, and the Chi
nese? And when all the seats are par
celed out among the various races in our
composits nationality, what will there be
left for the natural-born Americans, who
presumably have some rights in the prem
ises? If it be Mr.. Douglass's idea to base
political preferment upon race questions,
then the offices belong to the natural born
American race and to no other.
The position now occupied by the
Tribune is another concession to the
wisdom of the Democratic party, which
has uniformly maintained that we are all
Americans and in selecting cur officials
men should net be rejected or selected on
dCCOuHI VI IdCcs hitloIaliiy vi TeilSlOn.
In discussing this subject the M~ontgom-
cry (Ala.l Adrertiser says: 1.-THE law
gives the negro equal political rights
with the whites and we have no desire to
see them abridged. 1t gives them the
same rights in the courts, which should
be maintained and enforced. Our own
State laws give them their full share of
education money and facilities and no
one objects to it. The railroads and the
steamboats, should provide equal, but
separate, accommodations for the two
races, and see that they enjoy them with
out let or hindrance. But there will be
no mixed schools, no mingling of the
races in hotels and places of amusements
nor will there be any approach to social
equality in our houses. Legal and po-
litical equality they are entitled to and
will enjoy, but any attempt by law or
otherwise to enforce anything more will
be futile and disastrous. The white race
in the South will maintain its social po-
sition without regard to the wishes or
advice of others, let the seque be
what they may, and we may add that in
this they will have the entire approval of
the best people of the North. This
much, at least, the speech of Fred Doug
lass has fully developed, and to that ex-
tent ii was not an unmixed evil"