The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-05-17
a word TO the COlOred Voters.

1t were we'll for the colored voters to ex-
anime the questions involved in the pres
ent contest in Tennessee before they re-
solve to cast their suffrages for the radi-
Gals. The issue of the struggle involves
their future prosperity intimately as it
does nIne-tenths of the whites, and it viii
be we'll for them to examine the question
in its true light before they forever alien
ate themselves from the Southern people,
and cast their destinies with the few un-
principled aggitators who are striving to
stir up enmity between them and their true
friends.
Upon this subject the Mobile Tribune
says:
The business of these missionaries of
disorder and misrule is to impress upon
the minds of the negro population the idea
that the Southern people are naturally in
imical to them, begrudge the rights and
freedom by the law, and are of necessity
their enemies. Their business is to fatter
the negro into on exaggerated estimate of
their newly acquired rights, and to magni
fy the obligations they are under to the
radical party for their feedom and, in
word, to array them in hostile attitude,
front to front with the white race of the
South.
Can any unpreiudiced man who has lis
tened to the recent incendiary harangues
addressed to the colored people doubt that
such are the designs of these itinerant va
/ ..L.Iz eto,-,oJ o,,t or dr;.,ar forth from,
the land where they learned their first les
sons in rascality, and coming here, first to
CLEAN meagre subsistence by pettifOg-
gerry, and finally reap whatever profit may
fall to their lot by cajoling and deluding to
their ruin a simple minded, credulous
race
To what extent they may succeed re-
mains to be seen, but undoubtedly they
have the ability and inclination to hatch
much mischief, and viii be able to make
plant tools of portion of the negroes un-
til the novelty of ther newly -hedged Hber-
ty is worn off by the sharp attrition of
poverty and starvation is sure to follow
idleness.
Let not the colored people be deceived
into the belief that they can range themsel-
yes on the side of the imPlacable soes of
| the South and still maintain the friendly
and mutually beneficial relations that now
exist between them aud dnineteen-twentieths
of the Southern whites. To whom does
the colored man look for the employment
that feeds his family, and for relief in time
of sickness and distress To the selfish
demagogues who want only his vote, or to
the citizens among whom he has lived all
his life, and who want his labor and de-
sire to see him happy and contented in his
/ proper sphere Of duties To the latter,
of course, as he very well knows, and as
everybody knows. But if he decides to
serve the former, he must expect 10 forfeit
the favor and kindness of those who alone
hold his material prosperity in their hands.
And what can those miserable demagogues
| rive him IN return for loss that will leave
him more helpless than q penniless stranger
IN strange land If by this means they
succeed in winning all the elections, and
get themselves into fat Offices, what will
they or what can they do for him Can
they give him labor Can they feed aud
cioibe him and bis family? ? Certainly