The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1867-03-25
The Coiored Convention in South
Carolina.

We give below IN abstract Of the speeches
made at the large gathering Of colored men
at Columbia, S. G., last Monday. WADE
HAMPTON and several other leading white
men had been invited TO address them, which
they did in the most friendly spirit. We
observe that the Southern papers commend
this movement very heartily:
Gen. Hampton spoke Of the vast import
ance Of the present movement, not only to
the colored, but to the white man. He ad-
vised the freedmen to giUe their friends at
The South a fair trial, and if they were found
wanting, it was then time enough to go
abroad for sympathy. 1t was to their inter-
est to build up the South; for as the country
prospsrad So would they prosper. The
present state Of affairs was not brought about
by the action Of the Southern peOple-white
or black-therefOre, neither was responsible
for it.
Hon. L. j. Arthur said: The occasion of
this celebration is one in which you have had
no agency. 1t is not the act Of the white
men of your country. 1t has been conferred
upon you by the Northern Congress. and he
hoped that II would be the means oil enlight-
ening and improving their mental and moral
condition. He, in conjunction with the white
citizens Of the South, would endeavor to as.
sist them by all the means in their power TO
accomplish that end. They are politically
the equals of the whites, aud education will
go far TO make them morally and mentally
So IL Is true that many OF tne WHITES ore
deprived oil Ine poltlcai rights whiGn the col,
orei men VIII enjoy out thnt shoulu not anu
Wou'u no. create ehV'9us anu uhklhu 'eeIihgs,
ne cohciuueu ny uuNls'he ,heih u reHarG
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