Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-07-30

therefore do earnestly urge that they
p%atronize them as much as possible
Carried.
OIL PRINCES REPLY To THE COLoRED
PEOPLE
To the Editor Of the Cozonist:
Dear Sir: Your valuable paper of
yesterday has afforded me a rich treat
and not a little fun, in the report of an
Indignation meeting of the "colored eli
tisens" of Toronto, held for the purpose
of c~ensuring me. Perhaps 1 ought not
to notice their proceedings-perhaps it
would be more becoming in me to allow
them to pass at once into the oblivion
which awaits them, but as it is the fash
ion in this country not unfrequently to
assume that to be true which appears in
print against an individual, unless he
fatty denies the accusation, 1 shall, at
least for once, condescend to notice
these absurd proceedings. They deal
in gcneralities, and SO shall L.
Of the colored citizens of Toronto I
know little or nothing; no doubt, some
are respectable enough in their way and
performing inferior duties belonging to
their station tolerably we'll. Here, they
are kept in order-in their proper place
but their ''proccedings' are evidence
of their natural c%onceit, their vanity,
and their Ignorance; and in them the
cloven foot appears, and eyinces what
they would do if they could. 1 believe
that in this city, as in some others of
our province, that they are looked upon
as necessary evils, and only submitted
to because white servants are so scarce.
But L now deal with these fellows as
a body, and [ pronounce them to be as
such, the greatest curse ever inflicted
upon the two magnificent western coun-
tries which [ have the honor to repre-
sent in the Legislative Council of this
Province, and few men have had the ex-
pcrience Of them that [ have.
Among the many estinta6Je qualities
they possess, a systematic habit of lying
is not the least prominent; and the
''colored citizens" aforesaid, seem to
partake of that quality in an eminent
degree, because in their famous Rcsolu-
tons they roundly assert that during
the Rebellion Il walked arm in arm
with colOred men,"-that Il owe my
election to the votes of colored mem
and that 1 have accumulated much
earthly gain" as a lawyer, among ''col-
ored clients" All Lies! Lies Lies!
from beginning to end. [ admit that
n company of blacks did belong to m
contingent battalion, but they made the
worst of soldiers, and were comparative
ly speaking, unsusceptible of drill or
discipline, and were conspicuous for one
act only-a stupid sentry shot the son
of one of our Oldest colonies under a
mistaken notion that he was thereby
doing his duty. But I certainly never
did myself the honor of "walking arm
in arm".with any of the colored gentle
men of that distinguished corps. Then
as to my election. Few, very few blacks
voted for me, 1 never canvassed them,
and hence 1 suppose they supported, as
a body, my opponent. They took COM
passion upon "a monument of Injured
Innocence" and they sustained the mon
ument for awhile, upon the pedestal
their influence had erected. But the
monument fell, and the fall proved that
such influence was merely cphemeral;
and it sank into insignificant nothing
ness, as it should, and I hope ever will
do; or God help this noble land. Poor
Blackies! Be not so bold, or so con-
ceited, or so insolcnt, hereafter, I do
besccch you.
Then how rich I have become among
my "colored" citizens! I assert, with
out the fear of contradiction, that l have
been the friend of our Western 'dar-
kies" for more than twenty years; and
amidst difficulties and troubles immune
rable, Gor they are a litigieus race,) [
have been their adviser, and [ never
long period! The fact is, that the poor
creatures had never the ability to pay
lawyers fees.
1t has been my misfortune and the
misfortune of my family to live among
those blacks (and they have lived upon
us) for twenty-four years. [ have en-
ployed hundreds of them, and, with the
exception of one, named Richard Hun
ter, not one has ever done for us a weeks
honest labor. [ have taken them into
my service, have fed and clothed them
year after year on their arrival from
the States, and in return have generally
found them rogucs and thieves, and a
graceless, worthless, thriftless, lying set
of vagabonds. That is my very plain
and very simple description of the dark
les as a body, and it would be endorsed
by all the Western white men, with a
very few exceptions.
1 have had scores ofGeorge Washing
tons, Thomas Jcffersons, James Madi-
sons, as we'll as Dinahs, Glenoras and
Lavinias, in my service; and Iaundcr-
stand them thoroughly, and L include
the whole batch Gold Richard Hunter
excepted) in the category above des-
cribed. TO conclude, ycu gentlemen
of color" east and west, and especially,
"colored citizens of Toronto" L thank
you for having given me an opportuni-
ty to publish my opinion of your race.
Call another Indignation meeting, and
there make greater fools Of yourselves
than you did at the last, and then Ito