The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-11-29
Very Plain.

Very Plain.
The Anglo african a negro paper entire,
from Editor to deril, has negro correspondent
at Port Royal, this correspondent writes as fol-
lows about speech made by Col. Montgomery
to the colorcd regiment in South Csrolins,
which he commands.
The Col is in high favor with the ,."blacks'
not appreciate the feelings of his troops: it
seems that the regiment became indebted to
their. suffers, and in order to cheat him the
colored soldiers refused their pay! The Col
had no interest in the sutler store-of course
not! Read him.
| want to speak to you. You want pain
talk and l shall give it to you. am your
friend. made the first anti-slavery speech
ever made in Kansas. l was the first man
service l fought six years in Kansas for
nothing, and do not come here for pay.
can make $4,000 year. | get only 81 500
here. sacrifice my ease and comfort (for
enjoy myself at honey have fought United
States soldiers. There is a general now in the
rebel service whom l fought, killed his horse
from under him. and took him prisoner when
in the United States service | would have
been hung long ago if had held STILL Old
Jimmy Buchanan offered a reward for nv
head. 1t was very mean one, to be sure,
and l was very indignant. He offered only
yc arling niger, worth about two hundred and
fifty dollars. II he had offered full-grown
| niger, would not have cared so much. You
! ought to be glad to pay for the privilege to
| fight, instead of squabbling about money. A
great many of you are fugitive slaves, and can
ny law be returned to your masters. The gov.
eminent by its act in setting you free, has paid
you thousand dollars bounty l know what
the trouble is-the noisy abolitionists have
been telling you you are better than anybody
| else. lhey are your ,corst enemies. You
have two classes Of friends-those who tell
you what you are and those who see in
| Philippians symbol Of injured innocence
have seen hundred regiments. but never
saw one SO fully equipped as this. Look at
your tents and cooking stoves. You want to
be placed on the same footing as white soldiers.
| You must show yourselves as good soldiers as
the white. For all anybody knows you did
very well here? You must show it by bravery
in battle. should be glad to make you as
good soldiers as the white. You are race of
slaves. A few years ago your fathers worship.
ped snakes and crocodiles in Africa Your
features partakc of a beastly character Your
religious exercises in this camp are mixture
of barbarsm and christianity. l am disguised
with the mean. low habits you have learned
from the low whites. hear them say to you,
''Bully boys, bully boys, don't take this pay''
What no they mean by this7 Do you mean to
bully the government out of your money, or
that you are stubborn as bulls? Education ex-
pands the brain and improves the features
Your features can be improved. Your
beauty, cannot recommend you. Your yellow
faces are evidences of rascaity. You should
get rid of this bad blood. My advice to you is,
the lghtest of you must marry the blacklist
women. You owe your sutler nearly $4,000,
and your refusal to take your pay shows that
you intend to cheat him out of his goods
You went to his agent after he had gone
away, and, because he would not trust you,
broke open his place and robbed him.
the men that robbed him should be hung. He
had no right to trust you, and could be hand.
ed for it. 1t is mutiny to refuse to take your
pay, and musiny is punishment with death.