The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-04-12
After flse Negro.


controlling his vote. In the march
Of Right, the position OF matters and
things change-formarly the negro
had to bow the lowly knee to the
slave holder; now the slave holder
bows the lowly knee to the negro,
piteously asking him to give his cx-
master the benefit of n vote. Thus
far their success in that line meets
with little encouragement. In South
Carlonia the rebel masters succeeded
in getting w. Beverly Nash, a col
ord orator Of more than ordinary
ability, enlisted In their behalf, and
he has been addressing his colored
brethren, pictming to them the ex-
trcme "bcnevolence and goodness"
of their former master, as against
the "blood thirsty Radical Union
men" of that State, and calls upon
the negro to rally TO the support of
the former 1t was expected by the
owHoS Of this person, who is thus
false TO his rae e, that he would car
with him large portion of the col.
orcd men of the original rebel State.
From the following resolutions,
adopted by large number of colored
men at Columbia, of that State, II
will be seen that they "rcckoned with
out their host
Resolped, That we, the people Of
Columbia and Richland district, do
hereby denounce the speech deliver
ed on the 18th inst by w. b. Nash,
it not being The true sentiments Of
the people at large.
ResOlued, That in the opinion of
the freed people of this district, w.
B. Nash is not a true orloyal man,
but a traitor to his people and the
General Government.
. R,SOlred. That we desire to live in
harmony with the people among
which we are thrown, but do not de
sire to censure any portion of the
military bill recently passed by Con
, gress.
But Southern rebels, as in former
times, do not rely alone upon South
ern born men to do their dirty
work. There are still persons from
the North who are ready to do work
that is too dirty for any Southerner
! to attempt. M. M. Pomeroy-better
ono-nas been south Tor a long time
lecturing to the people of that section
During the war, Southern dirt was
shipped to him to eat; now that the
war is over, lie has gone there, where
he can eat it without trouble--hc
does it with as much Gusto and relish
as is experienced by the german
dist in eating a well arranged dinner.
lie has been extolling the people OF
the South at the expense Of those OF
the North, bringing into use all the
familiar Democratic comparisons, so
tlattering to the residents South OF
Mason and Dixon's line. But the
Joke is not that, rs, from long usage,
it is expected. " Brick" that bright
light of Democracy, has been ad.
dressing the negro has been trying
to make hIm think that the rebels and
their Democratic coadjutors in the
North were first and foremost the
friends of the colored man. Poor
Brick! "to what base uses has he
arrived" First, he abused the peo-
lple of the North ut home, and work
ed upon the prejudices of ignorant
men against the negro. Second, he
goes South and bows the humble
knee TO Southern Aistocrats, show.
ing them in eloquent speeches how
much superior they are to the "mud
sills of the North. Third, he adj
dresses the negroes; attempts to
show them how much more happy
they are now than the laboring men
OF the North; how much better of
they are than the negro of the North,
tells than them that he has seen orer
J a,MouSand Of them frozen and star oed
TO death because the BLOOD thirsty
Radicals" would not assist them
Fourth, any amount of viiainous
things that can come within range OF
the Imagination of man is put forth by
Brick.
Poor Nash Poor Brick the one
mislead by fear, aud the other by the
natural meanness that causes the
"bird to foul its own nest"
Whatever JOY the Democrats have
obtained from the Connecticut elec