Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-02
MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1883
moKEooLoEED APPOINTMENTS

30 MORE COLORED APPOINTMENTS
The colored people would take as much de-
light 10 chasing the white oficeholders out Of
the South az S.. Patrick is said to have ezperi-
enced in chasing the frogs and snakes out Of
Ireland. The breach between the white and
colored Republicans OF the South has so deep
ened and widened that the Cohesive power
OF public plumber" csn never bridge it over.
"Ihe wards OF the nation" have been
cruelty deserted. They long since discovered
that the promise OF "a mule and forty
acres" wac cheat and swindIe, and they
have now learned that in tina distribution of
official patronage mo niger need apply"
In tue contest between the black and
the white Federal rings Of the South, Hayes
and Garfield tried TO satisfy both factions. A
few crumbs were casi 20 the colored politi-
clans, who furnished nearly all the votes cast
for the Republican party in the South; but
the white Federal rings monopoljzsd most
OF the offices. In the future the colored
Republicans are to be discarded and treated
as political outcasts. President Arthur has
gone back on the colored Republicans of the
South. Indeed, he has set down on them.
A gentleman OF Georgia recently called on
Guiteau's president TO recommend white
friend for Office. During the conversation
he remarked 10 the President that the APP
poiutment of colored men to Office in the
South did not help the Republican party in
that section. The President replied that he
had observed the same thing. A colored
man got an Office and appointed white men
az deputies 10 run it for him. The Presi.
dent said be had about reached the conclu.
sion that in the future he would appoint but
few colored men to Office, and that he should
be careful to select only those whose character
for ability and integrity was unquesiioned.
He was satisfied, he said, that the appoint
ment OF colored men tended 10 keep white
men Of standing out Of The Republican party.
Was there ever such ingraiitude as this? 1t
isworse than that Of thankless child. The
ingratilude of Arthur is only egualed to
that Of the infant which bites the nipple
from which it draws the nourishment on
which it subsists. II was the colored vote
in Florida and Louisiana that made the un-
paralleled crime of stealing the presidency
possible. But for the colored vote 10 those
two Southern States Tiden would have &C.
cupied the presidential chair 10 which be
was elected, and the Republican party would
not now be in power. Arthur is indebted 10
Guiteau and the colored vote for the
seat he now occupies, as the blacks
held the balance Of power in the
doubtful States, and casting solid vote for
Garfield secured his election. Arlhur's crit
icism Of the Southern colored Republicans
is characteristic of the csged beast that bites
the hand that feeds it. He says "the ap-
pointment of colored men to Office in the
South did not help the Republican party in
that section" What a base requital to the
race whose fidelity made him president. He
complains that when a colored man "got an
Office he appointed white men as deputies to
run il for him. What contemptibls pre-
text for turning traitor to the people whose
votes made him president. Arthur is op-
posed to a 'nigger" getting the emoluments
of office, when the Office is run by white
deputies; but has no opposition to white
mans receiving the fees when run by
colored deputies. So an Office is
properly and satisfactorily conducted. the
President has no right 10 inquire
whether the deputies are white or black. II
awhile oficeholder has a right 10 appoint
colored deputies, has not a colored official
an equal right to appoint white assistants?
The excuse given by the President is PAL
u L la. L.
the white Federal rings Of the South. The
coloted people have been used to exhaustion
by the Republican party, and it now preposes
to cast them off as unceremoniously as If
they were so many squeezed lemons The
hope of building up strong Republican
party in the South by repudiatipg the negro
is silly delusiou. In opposing the Repub-
can party, the talent, the wealth and educa-
ted taxpayers of the South have not been in
huencsd in their prejudices by any unkind-
ness toward the blacks. Their opposition
has been inspired solely and entirely by the
conduct of the carpebaggerr, the white lead
ers and the Federal rings who took advan-
tage Of the ignorance and creduliiy of the
negroes and arrayed them against their white
employers. The negro had nothing TO do
with robbipg, plundering and prosecuting
the South during the fearful days of recon-
struction. The white taxpsying Democrats
ofthe South have ne antipathy to the blacks.
Ii is true they were to blame for ally
ing themselves with strangers and against
their employers and former owners, bat
this was the result of Ignorance and the
falsehoods of adventures who were using
the wards for selfish purposes. A radical
change is now going on. The white and
colored Republicans express mutual desire
to get rid OF each other, and. whites and
blacks of the South begin to understand that
their interests are identical and that a COM
mon destiny should induce them TO make
both races alike. The antsgonisms OF eight
cen years, cannot be reconciled in day.
But the sigAs of the times Enthusiastically in
dictate that rae prejudices will soon be OBJ
liberated. Much depends upon the whites
They succeeded in Maintaining solid Demo
cratic South in spite v the solid opposition
of the colored vote, and DOW that the blacks
have cut loose from the adventurers that
used them for selfish interests and TO the in
Jury OF both races, it is the duty Of III,
whites to extend that Justice 10 th> blacks
which the Republican party has nsve,
done. God knows We have alread,
enough ofics-seeteus, and nothing Shout,
be done 70 encourage this mania, thi
meDace to our institutions But there cal
be no permanent peace between the white
and blacks il either race be placed unde
the ban and denied participation in III,
administration Of the government. Tn
kuklux was the offspring of disfrsnchise
ment; so long as the rebels were denieG
the ballot-box they were the enemie
Of the government that ostracised and taxet
them without representation, and if tn
Southern people would make ihemselve
hoInogeueous-bnd all natIonalities, race
andeolors into a band Of patriots-they mus
do justice TO all. The ostracism which dis
eliminates against any one race creates al
asp in the bosom Of the community. Boil
as matter Of justice and matter of policy
Justice should be done the blacks in tn
election OF officials and in dispensing pa
tronage.
CAUGHT IN sILvERY MEsHEs.
Notwithstanding all the lessons that tim,
il developing as TO the evils OF our unneces