Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-30
MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1888
LOaAN Az A NEGRO AUCTIONEER.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883
LOGAN As A NEGRO AUCTIONEER.
The Republican party is ransackiug the
country in search of a candidate for the
presidency. The leaders are prying into
every crack azd crevice in the hope Of find
ing some man whose availability will pluck
the party with ambrosial locks from the
mselsrom in which it is drowning. When
ever a new candidate is suggested, be ia e1-
Amined with as much care as the misery
Spectator in trash bestows upon the Ruc-
tioneer's trumpery. Conkling has been ban
ished to the Botany bay where disappointed
politicians live the life of the spawned dray-
horse turned out to die, but still maintain
a precRrious existence upon the stubble
and broomsedge of an old wornout field.
Gsr6eld's friends will net permit the nomiEs-
ton of Arthur, and for the same reason
Conkling's followers will prevent the nomi-
nation of Blaine. II ia impossible for
any Republican prominently identified with
the Garfield. Conkling imbroglio to secure the
deucy. A lew months ago Window seemed
TO be the most available sspirant, bat his
recent defeat for senator in the Minnesota
Legislature has blasted all his bright pros
poets, and he has been turned out to grass.
AS all the old prominent aspirants have
been killed of, John A. Logan has taken
advantage of the situation, and SHES his
castor in the ring as presidential candidate.
He has seized the occasion by thu coat-tail,
and will swing to it with a remorse-
less grip. Logan has waited long,
but his time has come. Tbs remains
OF John Howard Payne have come home at
last, and at last Logan is marching on the
White House. A few newspapers and
Washington correspondents are calling Ius-
tily for the nomination of Logan as the Re-
publican candidate for the presidency, and
Logan has rushed into the North American
Reuieu with an article favoring national aid
to public schools. Indeed, Logan insists
that the government should convert itself
into big suffer and cram education into
the children of the United States upon the
same methods which the frugal house,
wife Grams the sausage meat into
the intestines. Ga this subject, as
on all others, Logan Is ally and abb
surd. He expresses the opinion that in view
Of the fact that our government is paternsl
and centralized, it should undertake TO aid
national education son q uniform system"
by the annual appropriation of not less than
$40,OO0,O0 but "at least for some years to
come" not 20 exceed $60,000,O00. His advo-
cacy OF the measure would seemed to be
based en- The theory that tho general govern
ment should absorb the taxing functions of
the States, collecting revenue by high tariff
rates In the interests Of protection" an
spending it in such way as to consolidate
the influences Of the powers that bs at Wash
ington. This appears plainly when he Gets
forth his doctrine as to the principle on
which practical aid to schools should be dis
tributed. Blair and other champions
OF this question propose to dis
tribute national appropriations to the
States in the ratio of their illiteracy
Bat Senator Logan, after abusing the South
ern States for not having educated the
colored people before they were enfranchised,
aud for not now in their poverty raisin g
mora money than they do by taxation for
their public schools, proposes to distribute
the money appropriated for education 10
each State in proportion to its population.
A distribution in proportion to illiteracy,
he holds, would be "unequsl and unjust"
He thus forgets or ignores the only proper
motive for any national aid at all, and de
aonstrates his disposition as a partisan to
pervert discreet and proper educational
measure into political trick. When We
read Legan's abuse of the Southern white
people for not educating colorsd children,
we invountarily asked, is this the same
John A. Logan who, in the Illinois Legis
lature, secured the passage of bill selling
into slavery all free negroes found in the
State? When tAe constitution of Hi
nois, Lincoln's State, was framed in
1S4S, there were two provisions in
1t which were separately submitted to the
people for their adoption or rejection. One
was that no negro or mulatto shall be per
mitted to migrate or settle in the State. On
this the vote was III 1896 to II 800, being
majority of o0,59O for the provision against
the admission OF negroes or mulattoes into
Illinois. The other was that they should
not hold Office, or have the right of suffrage
On this the vote was oil ,920 to $3.50, being
majority of 1921 against allowing ne
groes or mulattoes to hold Office or to vote
Ia Illinois. To carry these provisions into
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the Judiciary Committee, reported to tht
Legislature of 1858 and secured the passag,
of the following bill:
II q negro or mulatto, bond or free shall here
after come tRto this State and remain ten day.
with the evident intention of residing in the same
every such negro or mulatto shall be deemed
guilty Of a high misdemeanor; and forthe first of
Tense shall be fined the sum OF $50. If such negro
or mulatto shall be found guilty, and the fine
assessed be net paid forthwith to the justice Of thu
peace before whom the proceedings were had, II
shall be the duty OF said justice TO commit SAID
negro or mulstto to the custody of the sheriff, O.
said Justice shall forthwith advertise said negro OF
muIstto, and on the day and at the time and plac,
mentioned in said advertisement the said justics
shall at public auction, proceed to sell said negro
or mulatto 10 any person, or persons. who vii
said purchaser shall have the right to compel said
negro or mulatto 10 work for, and serve out sale
time. II said negro or mulatto shall not withir
ten days after the expiration OF his her or theil
time of service, as aforesaid, leave the State, he
she, they shall be liable TO second prosecution
in which the penalty TO be inflicted shall be 500
and so on for every subsequent ofense the penalty
shall be increased $50 over and above the las
penalty.
This act passed the Legislature of IIlinsi
in 1858, and was not repealed until 1866
John A. Logan was the father and champion
of the bill. He drafted il, ard the record
of the Legislature show that he CAREFUL,
guarded its severe and cruel provision
against all amendments. And this is th,
man who now, in the Senate oElthe UniteC
States, and in a recent article in the Mort
American Revielo, traduees the South for no
educating the negro and for once opposing
their enfranchise ment. The old slave code
OF the South furnish no parallel 10 III
bloody provisions OF Logan's bill, which h
forced through the Illinois Legislature. Ye
he has the impudence to charge the Sout
with hostility to the blacks. Log sn'
bill, selling into slavery free negroes
was founded alone in prejudice again:
color and race, and in the face O
such cruelty and barbarity towar,
the blacks who had fed 10 free Illinois 70
protection, Logan now comes forward as tn
champion of the enfranchised blacks and tn
aSsailant Of the white Southern people for nc
educating the race unfit to live in Illinois. l
view of these facts, the colored people OF tn
South are not crying for the nomination {
John A. Logan for the presidency, and if
should be the candidate OF the Rspublica
party in 1884 the negroes will cast soil
vote against the man who refused their rae
shelter in misfortune