Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-05-22
cu,ptrsroN. NM lth. 1867.

we have no doubt will be read with much ina
tercst.
TolAe Hon. Henry Wilson cj' Massachusetts (:
SIn-Thc accident which occasioned your
detention in this city to-day. enables me- to
address ysu few words, in relation to your
harangne delivered yesterday. beg 10 OBJ
serve that you did not de-. SO fairly with the
people of South Carolina as you are;reported
to have done with the people of Virginia and
North Caroline. In those States. on the sew
eral occasions when you addressed the "gath.
erines." citizen WIS permitted to reply to
you, and the poison was thus neutralzed.
Here you have devised the plan Of being an
nounced through the public print, and through
the presiding officer of the meeting, q" an
incited orator; AMI in your introduction Tou
claim to be here and to speak " in competence
,oilA iuuitatiOns." In This way and by these
means, you secured yourself from an answer
which would haze exposed youas an ernltsa-
ry Of the New England Ant.Free Trade PRO >
tecliye Tariff Consolidation Interest, whose
leading objects cap only be subseryed by di-
vld.rg the votes os the South. mother words,
by arraisnng the negro against the Southern
whites aud on the side OF the New>Engiand
manufacturers as their 'specia! friends
You would have done no more than sheer
Justice to US if you had offered to let as de
heard ami You would have contributed to
the enlightenment of your co!ored audience,
ieyou had suffered us to slow them how d.
rectly antogonistic the interests of New Eng
land are to their and our agricultural pur-
suits; and how imperative it is upon both
blacks and whites In the South to get nd OF
the n friendly hag" Of New England high tax
alton ON us for Meir beGeft, and to be united
and stand firmly together IN demanding ,ha:
the fruit of our labor shall not be pocketeol
By Lowell, Lynn and Boston. -
In the plenitude, too, of your conscientl-
business aud candor, pray you, in your rexE
address, enter little into the history OF the
slave trade, and tell your auditors the truth.
that your ancestors Of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York and Pennsyl-
vania, brough-to this country all the Africans
who. ever came here, and hcy sold them u The
people of the South. That they had all the
stips aud sailors, and the South had none.
That The trade was profitable to New England
aad the North, and that the money derived
from it has enabled them to outstrip the
South in wealth and prosperity-aud. then
tnrn to the descendants of those Africans and.
saw to them" The South is innocent Of The.
crime of enslqring you. Yankee cupidtty con.
ceired, planned, and executed the ,d'aloticat
acork." -. te
A truth like this will be more useful in re-
copcling these freedmen TO their former.
masters il that were your purpose, thar all
your advice to them to 60 to work and raise
cotton, cor the beneEs.of New England, to
vote on the side Of justice and right, which
YOU interpret to be the Yankee side of every
question. and then again, sir, be just to-
Yourself and your past record, and say ou:
boldly to these people,-that they never
would, have been liberated by the NORTH, it
the South could have been yanqnished with
ont it. 1t was to overcome the South, BY the
use of a,couple ofhundred thousand Of taeir
bodies as breastworks, (when the South had
not that number all;in ALL that they were
promised liberty, and have now received it,
This, too, will help them to understand the
kind of, friendship your people have for them.
I will ask you in conclusion. to invite 7ss-
cussion before the Freedmen, and in your
presence, that they may have both sides, and
YOU ma may have full opportunity to'reply 10 any
one who may see fit to answefyou. Il lave
the honor to be, yours, aieii9f> % :-s% !.aa'
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