The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-05-25
0nr Colored Formulation

Our Colored Population. af
The colored population of the South are
beginning to understand who are their true
friends. We assure the author of the fol-
lowing communication, who is himself col
ored man, that the day is not far distant
when his race will learn that the people of
the South, among and with whom they were
raised, are their only true friends. The
Yankees freed the colored man because they
hated and envied the white man of the South,
and not because he cared for the negro
Their protested friendship is cheat, an6f
whene yer they fail to make money out of an
attachment so unnatural and illegitimatee
they will abandon their victims. Look at
the recent developments in North Carolina!
Those peculiar lovers of the race, the agents
of the Freedman's Bureau have been detec-
ted in the most stupendous rascalities to-
ward the freedmen. They have not only
cheated them out of their earnings, but cru
ely imprisoned and lacerated them to &C.
complish it. Far .--
We commend to the freedmen heTeabouts
the following Sc nsible advice from a paper
published in the interest Of the tFreedmen,'
at Charleston, S. G. The article is headed
'S6aye Me from Ny Friends:''
'eColored people of the South, listen to
our advice-listen. to the dictates of com
mon sense. Beware of false teachers, who
come in the garb of sheep, but inwardly are
ravenous wolves. These men have no de-
sire TO see you on amicable terms with your
white neighbors. They come to widen the
breach already existing. and to make capital
out of the discussions in our midst. The
moment a good understanding exists be-
tween you and the whites. that moment
their Occupation is gone;" but if these
spectators in ruin attain their aims, we
tremble for the future of your racel Guilt
vste peace with all men, and especially with
those with whom your lot is cast, rather
than with those who are here to-day and
tomorrow gone" J
AS an illustration for the necessity of this
advice the paper above referred to publish
es. an account of the way white men from
the North are playing preacher to the ne
groes, and plundering them under the guise
of Christian Charity"
The Leader says these men would stake
the last peek of hominy, and rob an infant
of its bread and milk
Now, this is freedman's paper talking,
and it give sensible advice-adYice, which
if needed, will bring about a millennium of
good feeling between the races. We be-
lieve the heart of the genuine African, un
corrupted, is always that of child. He
loves those best who think the most -
And there is not man in the South, re-
on Southern plantation, who do not enter
tain feelings of strongest attachment for the
colored people who were his daily compan-
ions when life had most of Joys. There is
not an sx-slave-holder who does not feel an
interest in the welfare Of his people.
8 Whenever these facts are all understood,
the races will dwell together in harmony
But here is the letter referred to above:
Ed. CITIzEN:-You will please allow me
to state through the columns of your paper
that the colored people of the south are be-
coming thoroughly sensible Of the feeling
and interest manifested to them by the
Southern Methodist Episcopal organization.
The courtesy with which they received
the African-Methodist Episcopal delegation
at their General Conference recently held in !
New Orleans, and the kind and charitable
disposition made of their memorial to that
body have eyeryw awakened feeling
of fasting gratitude in the bosom Of the col
ored race; not only 10 those identified with
the a. NJ. E. Church, but in every colored /
man who is looking to the prosperity aud /
elevation of bis race. The Conference gran
ted US all that we requested and more. In
this they assure US that they are our friends,
Not by an attempt to tear down the A. NJ.
E. Church throughout the south. and Pur-
chase their religious liberties with few
Greenbacks. in lust after numerical and f.
nancial gain; but by giving US aid and friend
ship in whichever wav We desired it-msA- !