The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-05-25

pie down South" Well, suppose you
do. What Willyou require in return ?
Let the negro vote. That is about the
whole Of it. These red-handed trait
ors can come back if you will let the
negro vote. They will swop off the
right to punish the criminal, if you
will only give them the vote OF the ne
gro. But. you may ask, why do you
want the negro to vote? Because if
you allow the negro to vote he will
vote for Us. Laughter, He willy vote
for us, and there IS nobody else down
there who wiz. Continued Laughter.
We have behaved toward the white
people 50 outrageously that there is not
one of them who loves Us. That i the
whole secret Of it. | do not see any
difficulty on that point. ! have no per-
sonai animOsity against anybody down
there, and there is no reason for indul-
! ging in any such feeling, except so far
as those people keep it up. But that's
! the explanation Of the whole matter.
/ There are two or three gentlemen
! it has become 50 exceedingly unpopu-
/ lar to name anybody that will not say
who they are--l do not want to throw
! the carcasses of dead dogs into that as
! sembly. I"H0w about the dead duck y
I | do not mention anybody; but there
/ is man, and there are four or five mil
lions Of people down there, not one OF
whom loves that man. Then he Is dead.
/ No man can he hated by four or five
/ millions Of people without being dead.
. Think Of it. / should dislike mon
strously to be hated by two or three
little boys in this crowd, and how much
more by four or five millions of men,
! women and children. They are de-
termined this Union shall not be re-
stored s0long a. these people hate them,
and they have no more hope Of a change
in that respect than you have. DoyOu
suppose they care about the negro:
They know the negro never can be
brought in contact with white people
and compete with them. They know
lust as we'll as we know that we art
stronger, richer and more powerful
than he, and that he cannot compete
with Us in any Of the great business
transactions with which weare brought
in contact.
/ But admit, if You please, that he i
/ stronger than You are and wiser, still
this is not his country; it is your coun
try. He is here kind Of stranger
You cannot eat with him. drink witt
him, sleep with him, or marry witt
him. Laughter and cheers say
then, that 10 true friend Of the c0loreC
man will bring him face to face Will
the white man in any struggle il
which wemay beengaged. Why yshoult
he be brought there? 1t is but to eX
pose him to your greater strength ant
What good would voting 90 HIM: II
has either got to have a party Of hi
own. or else to mix himself with tW
or three Of your parties. If he had
party and the majority, do you thin
) he would elect any white man to office
A voice. ''He would elect a radical ~
Not by any means. He would nc
I touch them with ten-foot pole.
= Sam is a good deal too sharp for thai
i He understands TOO we'll how he ha
2 been used for years as a hobby for ther
q to ride into Office, if he ever gets thel
/ off to ever allow himself to take theI
on again. laughter. Go into Liberi,
2 where he has country OF his own, an
see whether he will permit any whit
= man to vote there. Not at all; his cor
, stitution says that nobody shall vot
e unless he has African blood in his veins
, | Why? Because he does not want to e2
e pose YOU to the defeat Of coming int
: competition with his superior race
y Laughter.
am a friend of his. I have protec
!, ed him very often. and it is because
: am a friend that | say it is a shame
It undertake to bring these innocent PEE
h pie into such difficulties and defeat I
will inevitably follow being brougl
t, into contact and competition with tt
: white race. The negro is one Of Il
5 happiest dogs in the world. Give hi
o cabin in corn field and DINAH
love, and he does not care about poI
O. tics. Not bit of il. As said betor
Y the only difficulty about restoring Il
+ Union is in this party which is not
o. party after all. The radicals never HI
r a party. Twas years ago an old Viii
o. and they were always annoying Us.
+s Those abolitionists did nothing b
p scold and find fault with everybody.
,e The Wing party was rather more
. yorable to them than the Democrat
u party, bat they said, mo, no, we mu
ir have a whole loaf or no bread" Al
d when we wanted TO elect Clay tn
yt stuck up a candidate of their own.
: RI Ioice-Birney.I
:. Yes, that was the man. They got
% few thousand votes for him-enou'
n to defeat Clay, and that was all 1t car
$ to. Then when the war came on tn
10 came out very strongly. They we
ID to work, and what did they do? Sta