The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29

me south, IL You want 70, but
am go.ssS 81 Sanderville, kiss my wife
and raise a crop, and II tho Yankees
fool with mo any more i will WHIP
'em sgain. Renewed laughter. l wan
t,Fay 10 Gen. 6hermsn--who IL c1ntid
tFod an able man In our parts, thousf
eoGe people think he Is kind Of care
less man alb ut 1re-that from the ashei
left us In 1904 We have raised brave
and beautiful city; that somehow Of
o'hsr we have caught the sunshine In
this bricks aud mortar OF our homes
and have builded therein rot one Elm
gle ienoble prejudice OF memory,
Applaabe
THIEos THAT HAVE BERN ACCohP LHuKD,
But what In the sum OF our work
We have found out that In the gen.
eial summing up the free negro
countB more than he did as slave.
We have planted the schoolhouse on
tho hill top and made II free 10 white
and black, We have soWed towns and
cities In the place OF theories and put
business above politics. LApplause ]
We have challenged your spinnerh
Ia Massachusetts and your iron max.
ers In fsna sylvania. We have learned
that the 100000, 600 aunua ally recoiv-
cd from our cotton crop will make us
rich, when the supplies that make II
arc home raised. We have reduced
the commercial rate OF interest from
"a 10 O per cent, and Gre floating 4
per cent bonds. We have learned
that ono Northern immigrant Ia worth
hty f0reigBers, aud have smocthed
tic path 10 the Southwark, wiped out
the place where Mason and D.xon's
liro used TO be, aud hung our latch
citing out TO you and yours. Pro-
longed applause, We have reached
this paint that mail ks perfect harmony
In every household, whom the has
band confeesee that the pies which
lila own wife cooks are No
good a. those his brother used to
bake; aud we admit that the sun
Ahln,B ~ brightly and the moon az
softly Na II did "beiote the war
Laughter We have established
Thrift In city aud country. We have
fallen In love with work. We have
restored comfort 10 homes from
which culture and elegance never de-
parted. We have let economy take
loot aud spread among us an rank Gs
The crab grass which sprung from
bh0rman'a cavalry camps, until we are
ready 20 lay odds on the GeorQi A
Yankee M he squeCEel pure olive oil
out OF his cotton feed against any
down Easter that ever snapped
wooden nutmegs for flannel sauBages
In the valleys Of Vermont. Above all,
wo know t1at we have achieved In
thess piping times Of peace" fuller
Independence for the South than that
which our fathers sought 10 win In
the forum by their eloquence or COM
pol On the field by their swords.
loud appiause.l
IL Ia q rare privilege, sir TO have
had part, however humble, In this
work, Never was nobler duty con-
fided 60 hun hands than the up
liiting and upbuildipg Of the prostrate
and bleeding Aanih: miagniaed, peg
haps. bat beautiful In her suffering,
and honest, brave and generous al.
ways. Applause In the record of
her aooiAl, industrial and political
restoration we await with confidence
tho verdict OF the world.
But what OF tho negrop Have we
solved the problem he presents or
progressed In honor and equity toward
Ito tolutionf Lee the record speak to
tha point No section shows more
prosperous laboring population than
the negroes Of the South, none in
fuller sympathy with the employing
aud land ownina clasa He shares our
school fund, has tho fullest protection
Of our lava and the lriendship OF our
people. Self interest as we'll an honor
demand that he should have this.
Our future, our very existenCa depend
upon om working out this problem in
iull and eXRot justice. We under
ttand that when Lincoln signed
tho emancipation proclamation your
Victory was assured, for he
then comlalttad You TO tho
causa OF human Liberty against which
thu arms Of man cannot prevail iap.
plapBel -while those OF our sVIesnen
who made slavery tho corner btone OF
the Oqniederaoy doomed Us IN defeat,
committing us 10 a oauee that reason
could not defend or the swoTd main
tain In the light Of advancing clviiza-
ton. Rene we'd applause. Had Mr..
Tcomba said, which no did not say,
that ho would call the roll OF HIS
saves al the foot OF Bunker Hill, he
would have been foolish, for he might
have known that whenever slavery
became OntaDgltd in war Il must per-
ish, and that tho ohattel In human
ilcsh ended forever In New England
When your fathers--not to be blamed
for parling with what didn't pay
cold their nlaves TO our fathera-not TO
DO piRioed for knowing u paying thing
whom they cav Il, Laughter.l The
relations OF the Southern people with
tho negro are close and cordial. We
remember with what fidelity for four
ycam he guarded our defenselepa
women and children, whnPe husbands
and fathers were lighting against his
freedom To his eternal credit DO Il
tRid that whenever he struck blow
for hiS own liberty he fought
ll NNNh NNNhlVt hhh WYNN ~ lNNb
ho RAISED his black and humble hands
that the .haCklos might DO stiuck oil,
those hands were innocent OF wrong
RgNlnet hls helpleaa charges and
worthy TO be taken in loving grasp by
every man who houoU loyalty and
devotion, Applausel Ruflians have
maltroatcd him, rasCals have mjtled
him, philanthropists established Il
a bank for him, bat the South with
the North protests against injustcs 10
this simple and sincere people, To
liberty and Acknowledgement Ia IN far
a. law can carry the negro. The rest
mus be left 10 conscience and com.
mon senN should ba left TO those
em0ng whom his lot Ia cast, with
whom he is indlssolubly connected
aud whoSe prosperity depends upon
their possessing his Intelligent sym,
pStay aud couhdeno@ Faith has
haa been kept with him in spite OF
oalumnious assertions TO the contrary,
by those who assume TO speak for US,
or by frank opponents. Faith viii be
kept with him In the future, II the
South holds her reason and integrity.
| ApplausAl
rue SOUTH HAS Kxrr FAITH WITH rHR