Memphis Daily Appeal

John Covode, M. C. from Pennsylvania, lately declared in a speech that his "grandfather was sold as a slave at Walnut street wharf," and that "it was the captain of the vessel that gave him his name-Covope—which has since been changed to Covode." Our regard for the negro is so great as to make us regret this disclosure. It is a misfortune to the race that every "mean nigger" can go about boasting of his ancestry. Our discolored County Commissioner has nothing to say on that subject, because he knows it's of no use—“men are known by the company they keep."