The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-07-12
Geo, Francis Train.

One John S. Williams, Of Boston, in .
published letter, thanking Geo. Francis
Train for q copy Of the latter's recent
speech at Tammany Hail. New York, says:
think the prejudice against the negro
manifested -ofsets oil the good ideas in it.
The negroes are the only race that have
proved truly loyal to our flag, and every
ono that loves the flag, should join in pro.
tecting them, and giving to them every
right Of citizenship; they deserve more,
but don't ask it.
He also says:
1t is mean and barbarous thing to de.
ny them suffrage on account Of color; If
ignorance is test, then mako it equal
against all.
To which letter Mr.. Train makes the fol.
lowing characteristic reply:
New York, June Is, 1855.
DEAB john s. WILLIAMS &C Consistency
is Jewel. You are consistent-so am I.
Hence diamonds are trumps. You prefer
the negroes. the Irish. I know you
arc honest-you know l am. l court no
mans votes neither do you. You would
not accept office-neither would I. Let US
shake hands. favor the whites-you the
blacks. My philanthropy is home. made
yours is imported. Golden, Bright and
Goodwin Smith are not our friends; neither
Exeter Hall nor Free Trade Hall should
govern America. The Irish have no de.
tenders. The negroes have many. Did
the negroes build our factories, foundries,
canals and railways? The Indian has no
vote, nor the California Chinaman Are
they free and equal men and brothersl
While New England women, brave, moral,
intellectual women, have no vote. Why?
Are they not capable Stuart Mills says
so.-Would you make the unlettered ne.
gro their superior Is Mrs. II. B. s., the
sristocratic Caucasian New Highlander,
willing that Mr.. A. B. G. the ignorant AT:
rican negro, should make laws to govern
her property? Again, we have million
educated youths, between sixteen and
twenty.one, (many of them soldiers);
would you give the boorish plantation
freedmen more political power than these
enterLrising Americans possess
You must stand by the workingman's
friend-Andy johnson. He says let the
States settle the question. Twice New
York has said NO, and dozen more North
ern States say NO. Massachusetts,, having
few negroes, only said YES recently.
You say the negroes were the only race
who proved loyal to the flag. Not so. They
prolonged the war; they gave the enemy
the earliest information; their knife cuts
both ways; they took money on both sides;
their most reliable spies were negroes
-Four millions of slaves loyal? To whom?
Their masters? Yes, but not to US. Other.
wise, had they been worthy of votes, there
would have been servile insurrection.-
Four millions of loyal men would not have
remained silent through fear. Where were
their Toussaint L'Ouvertures
question not your philanthrophy or
your patriotism. No man has done more
no, not so much as you for their cause
but frankly confess my sympathes are
not in that quarter.
Tho poor negro must follow the Indian
to his hunting field, with this epitaph over
his Potter's grave: Died from an over.
dose of Exeter Hall. Four millions! That
would give forty negro representatives,
making whortlebcrry- pudding Congress.
Exit Colfax! For Clement, Sunset, Fer.
nando and Benjamin will make co.nbina.
ton and elect Frederick Douglas Speaker
of the House of Representatives Don't
forget that the reputation idea came from
the negro suffrage orator-not from the de.
fender Of the white man.
Sincerely,
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.