Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-15
A Pew words to the Colored People.

of God, you are called on to take part it. No
one doubts your wish to do what is best fer
yourselves and the country. The question is,
how can you best promote these objects? You
will find plenty of designing people, who, for
their own wicked purposes, will seek to mislead
you. They want Offices and power for them
selves, and they wish to use you, as the monk
ey used the cats paw, to draw the hot chest
nuts out of the fire. Such men will try to ar
ray you against your old masters, and get you
to vote, in solid column, for these pretended
friends. Will you advance your interests in
this way? Who now gives you employment?
Who furnishes your houses, and fuel and food
and clothing? Is it the man who seeks to mis-
lead you, or those against whom they seek to
array you?
Suppose you listen to the counsels Of these
bad men, do you think the men Of property will
employ those who turn against them? If they
do, they will act differently now, from what
they have done heretofore. There are thou
sands of white people in the North, and tens of
thousands of Irish and Germans, who want the
employment and the profits of the business you
now have. Do you wish them to get it? Do
you wish to give it up in their favor? If So,
prove to the men of property that you are
against them, and their interests, and the coun-
try will soon swarm with white servants and la
borers, and you will see your error when it is
too late.
Do you think the Northern people set you
free out of any love they bore for you? By no
means. They did it through necessity, not to
help you, but to hurt the people Of the South.
Who brought your forefathers from Africa and
made them slaves? It was the people of the
North. They sent their ships to Africa, and
either stole or traded for negroes, and brought
them here and sold them to the people of the
South?
All the Northern States once had slaves
What did they do with them? Did they set
them free? By no means! They sold them
South, and then cried out against the wicked
ness of slavery!
Are they your friends now? Do they want
to give you the right to vote, and be on an
equality with the whites, in the Northern
States? Let the late vote in Ohio, where the
people decided against negro suffrage, by fifty
thousand majority, answer the question
Have you ever thought of the reason why
Northern people were so anxious to get rid of
slavery? Was it from affection to you? Quite
the reverse There are thousands of poor white
people in the North, who want to come here
They want the places you now hold, and the
profits of the employment you now have. In
word they want to root you out, to make room
for themselves. AS long as you had intelligent
and powerful masters to protect you, they could
not do this. They saw it, and like cunning fell
lows as they are, they made a flank movement
on you, and sought to do indirectly, what they
could not do directly. The first step was to
sever the connection between you and your old
masters, and thereby withdraw their protection
from you. To this end, they set you free, and
are trying now to array you against those with
whom you were born and raised. AS soon as
they get you fairly cut loose from the protec-
ton of your old masters, and in the position of
dog without an owner, they will kick and cuff
you at pleasure, and there will be no one to de-
Ienu you. Ou Will Idll DeCWeon TWO StOOlS. -
You will lose your old friends, and gain no new
ones.
Let any colored man or woman, go to any
Northern State, and try to get employment in
any factory, or as driver of a street car, or as
hackman, &C., and see how soon he will be
pelted with stones. or beaten with clubs!
This fondness of the Yankee for the negro is
all pretense. Before five years you will see
another negro excitement in the North. This
time it will be not for, but against the negro
1t will be to run him out of the country. This
was Lincoln's idea, as expressed by him to a
colored delegation which called on him.
Northern interest stimulated abolition, to
make you defenceless, and now that you are de-
fenceless, the Northern people will drive you
out, to make room for themselves. They drove
your fathers out of the Northern States, and
they will drive you out of the Southern States
into Mexico. Mark what we say and remem-
Der it