Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1865-11-24

nave said has .been evoked by Jour recent
manifestations of kindness to me. THIS L
shall cherish as one OF the proudest recol-
lections of. my life, for it assures me of
yourbsIief UatI have tried 10 do my duty.
1t only remains for 'he, in bidding you
farewell, to say that whenever the. State
needs mY services, she has only to COM
mand. and I shall obey. am, very re
specsfuIly and gratefully, your fsllow-ci,i>
zen, WADE HAMPTON.
GOVERNOR MARVIN TO THE CoLoRED
PEOPLE OF FLORIDA.
Gov. Marvin recently addressed a large
crowd of negroes at Mariana, Fla. He
told them that they had fought no battles;
that the tiood of no man was on their
hands; that it had been a white mans
war that it had unintentionalIy resulted
in the abolition of slavery, and that no
body but God was 10 be thanked for it.
He further said: ...
If you ask me the question, wh6ther the
white man Of the North or the man Of the
South is your friend. 1 will answer you
by saying that I hope and believe both of
them are; but ii it cowes to question Of
certainty as to which OF the two is your
better friend, I shall answer plainly and
tell you, the white man .of the South. I
was born.in the North, raised and educa-
ted there, but have spent the last thirty
years OF my life in the South, and l con-
sIdef "yself capable Of judging between
the two people, particularly in reference to
yourselves. I know. the Northern man, or
Yankee, as you call him, from the crown
OF his head to the sole of his foot, and T
tell You to-day as your friend, that the Sou.
tberu white man. with whom you were
raised. and who is acquainted with your
habits and customs, is the best Giend you
have got.~
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Now, after you shall have found your
freedom, and, driven by stern necessity to
do something for yourselves. the question
is, what is the bes, lor you 10 doa NV
advice is to remain on the plantation where
you have been accustomed to work, with
your former owners, if they will make a
contract with you. Make the best con-
tract you can with them, and show then,
that you are willing to work better, now
that you arc compensated for y0nr work,
than you ever have done before. Be faiu
ful, be honest, be interested in tile affairs
Of the plantation see that the mules are
well fed. that the hogs get good attention,
and that the things entrusted to you be
not NEGLECTED.
r. y.
If you wish to bs esteemed rs ladies'
and gentlemen, you must conduct your
selves accordingly. Cali your old MASTER.
master, and your old mistress, mistress.
/: is right you should; it is proper, it is
polite. You do net mean by calling them
so that you Belong to them. but that you
wish to be respectful and polite, and. to
give no cause FIR offence, but rather desire
to please. don't say that you must call
them master or mistress ;.but' say It is
civil and polite TO do it, and you muat
therefore, do it. Ihave known many white
servants, and there are thou.aads in the
North. where wan raised, and it is 30 in
England, too, who call those. who employ
:hem. master and mistress. Z 1t is term OF
respect and Difference, and they call them
thus because this IS SO. There they, as /
said before, are white. servants, and they
till the land, feed the stock, and do other
work that is done here, and they are res
pected, and all of them find employment,
as you may DO if you, conduct yourselves
PROPERLY.
But you must not think, because you
are as free rs the white people, that you are
their equal because you are not. You
will have to do:a great many things you
cannot do before you begin to be as grea.
as they. sYou viii have to be able to write
q bvok, build . railroad, 81 steam engine, a
steamboat, and thousands Of other things
you know nothing Of. They:Fe fa,,aheaa
of Jon, and IS foolish TOR you to think
they are not superior to, you and will eve,
be; but they win help you :riss -iiff You try
70 raise yourselves, and gon must TRY, aud
make sait friends OF them, and not. 81 bad
behavior towards ,hsha make them hate
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