The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-13

saffoMedsfof VIE occaSi0 fnf and
| well prepared dinner wasspread FandEduly
enjoyed by those present. a separate Ia
ble was prepared for our white citizens.
who were respectfully invited to attend.
BY invitation of quite a number of our
colored population and at the earnest So
licitation of several OF our prominent and
leading citizens. Messrs. John Young
Brown, Robt T. Glass and JAS. +. Clay sew
orally addressed the assembled multitude.
The remarks of each were appropriate and
well-timed, and were received with hearty
applause and approval by vast majority
Of'the colored bly,. The speeches of
the gentlemen were not partizan or politi-
| cal in their nature, but were characterized
by good and wholesome instruction and
advice to those who were but few years
ago the slaves of our citizens-explaining
to them the relations that exist, under the
laws, between whites and blacks, and
! cour1seling themto SO educate and conduct
/ themselves that they: may laborharmoni-
ously with their late masters and friends
for the mutual advantage of both classes of
society. nh
Two or three colored meu also addressed
the large crowd, endorsing the counsel de-
| livered by. the speakers we have men,
TONED.
Our eyes do not deceive US. We
have read it over and over agaip.
About fifteen hundred of our colored
| population were present NOT" buck
niggers and greasy wenches'-but
our colored population with rega,
liza, banners and badges, headed by a
band. By invitation Messrs. JOHN
You've Brown, RoBT. t. GLASS and
JAMES f. CLAY severally addressed
the assembled multitude Two or
three colored men also addressed the
large crowd" Angels and ministers
of grace defend usl
|. What is worse and more of it.
JOHN YOU'VE BRowN and ROBERT
GLASS, Esq, are found counseling
them [our colored population] to so
educate and conduct themselves, that
they may labor tremendously with
their late masters and friends for the
mutual advantage of both classes of
society,"" Are the Democracy of
Henderson County insane? Have we
not been laboring our, best to have
the negro school house. moved
out of Evansville, that the negroes
might be deprived of the benefits of
education in order to conciliate and
propitiate the Kentucky Democracy?
Have we only been splitting agains.
the wind to have it thrown back in
our faces? The negroes are counseled
to so educate and conduct themselves
that they may labor harmomiously
aoith their late masters If that don't
SAVIOR of negro equality, will some
body be good enough to inform us
what it is. like 8 Labor with their
late masters" indeed Isn't it enough
that their tate masters have to work, !
without being compelled to labor with
their negroes. and 9 harnsoaiousiy'' at
that. e.gt 1.t a,faG p
But we must desist. Our indigna-
ton is too great for utterance. We
feel compelled to hand over JOHN
YOUNG Brown and ROBERT GLASS,
Esq, to the Courier, which is better
qualified to denounee them from its
long practice in denonncing every
body that either direetly'or indirectly
has anything to do with negroes, ex-
cept to insult and maltreat them. IF
it fails US in this emergency, we, viii
write :" Ichabod upon the temple. of
American Liberty, and forever de-
spair of the white man Government.