Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-11-13
Advice to a Mobile White Niger!


King Pope, some months ago, removed the
legally chosen Mayor Of Mobile. giving that
position to one of those pusilanimous mag.
gots known as Southern loyaiists, preying
upon the mistortunes and miseres of o suffer-
ing people. The military mayor thus selec-
ted to play the petty tyrant over the citizens
OF Mobile was probably one Of the meancst,
most hypocritical and contemplate specimens
of humanity ever endowed with a soul-a pit
iful, nigger.loving coward-a sneaking, can't
ing Aminadab Sleck--a dirty consorter with
niggers and mean whites, deserving to be
kicked and cudgeled by every honest man
With whom he came in contact. Such base
wretch IS Gustavus Horton, the Mild-Man-
nered" White Niger, Military Mayor Of Mo-
bilc-a crawling, obsequious, servile, dcDas-
cd tool oil Rump and military tyranny. But
not alone as Mayor does Gustavus shine. He
is president Of negro L-yal League, and not
long since made speech before it, on which
occasion he used the following language:
"We have al last reached the time when
cur leagues will be able to do active service
for the good cause. The arch traitor, John
son, and his military pappct, Grant, have
conspircd to rob this revolution OF its lcgit-
mate fruits, and undo the great work Of Pres
ident Lincoln, but they are mistaken Gen.
Grant is not the ibcrator Of your race; he
had it butchered on every occasion, to spare
his Dutch and Irish hirelings, and knowing
that be cannot get yourvotesh he turns 10 those
mcrcenaries for support.
I" lie will. however, soon find that the COL
ored citizens, led Jy faithful and derOted
10 eli tphi
will sweep him and his allies from the field
quicker than did the rebels at Shiloh But
YOU must be prepared look 10 your arms, and
be ready to defend, Nth your Jest hcarfs blood,
the freedom yOu haze SO ;al0rously con-
qucred."
Coming from so cowardly and wbte-liyercd
knave as Horton his language seems ridi-
culous, but in taking it into consideration we
must remember to whom it is addressed and
under what circumstances. He is speaking
to an isnoraDt brutal, discontented eisap'
pointed swarm of blacks, possessed of strong
passions and feeble judgments, susceptible in
their natures, and easily led by demagogues
and political trickgters. Freed from the old
restraints imposed upon them by masters and
guar SoI pray or Idle,
as suited them best-disappointed, when pos.
sesscd cf freedom at finding that the onged
for boon did not bring them all the blessings
and privileges Imagination had invested it
wi,h-crowdiry the League rooms to drink
in the strange sights and novel scenes therein
presented AMI imrarted 10 them under q
nledse Of sccrcsy, with the acc9mpanimants
of crremonials calculated TO awe and mystiy
the childish minded creatures-looklns upo
the whites addressing them as honest ard
full of sympathy for their race and interests
they furnish material of the most intamma-
BILE sort for such scoundrels as Horton 20
play upon, and lead 10 their certain desiruc
ton.
Not alone in Mobile, but from the Rio
Grande to the Potomac, things OF the Horton
breed are nciting-ia League rooms, and
upon the s;ump-the freedmen to la%lcss
acts and insurreclionary and rotous demor-
strations. They ere told of their numbers,
their strength, their valor how they saved
the Union when white prowess failed to stem
the tide Of revolution. They are promised
lands, Offices, ease and plenty ; tans lit to des,
pise those who have bcfricndcd them AID
| their ancestors for generations; and cncour
AGED TO prepare to resist those who would
curb their turbulence and keep them within
due bounds
One Of these days there will DC trouble
there must come collision between those
who rule by rights and The black ragabonda
who aspire to share with white men in the
conduct of government The blacks will be
beaten, infailibly-of this there can be no
oucs,ion-white men may be murdered
White women and children become, for
tine, the victims of niger lust and brutality
but white mcn will surely lake dear ven'
geancc for all the wrongs done or crimes per-
pctratcd.
And in that day there will be another ac
coun. to settlc-with you, Gustavus Horton
and your colleagues in viIiainy You will not
be forgolsen--you cannot c. cape! When the
black wretcbes you have lured 10 death, tal
like grass beneath the scythc of the mower
victims Of white mems justice, God help you
then, Gustayus, for neither mild manners mol
strong lies will save You from your parlici
patton in punishment! You are watched
and remembered The time will come wher
ypu shall call upon the rocks and the hills tt
iall upon and hide You from The wrath Of an
outraged people. but without avail Kc
member that, Gpstayrs, and remember, also
tia, Wisconsin White Man tells you 50 J.
Bulcx PoMEEoYs La Cross (Wis.) pem
oc,0t.