Mississippi index. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1865-18??, 1867-07-30

ought to be exterminated orddyen from
the country. These are the same people
whose fathers found the Indians here
They declared the Earth was the Lords
and belonged to bis saints, and that they
we're bis saints. They then killed and
drove of the poor Indian and took bis
lands. If you do not make and keeE
friends Of the Southern people, your fate
is that of the Indians. Woe to your
race You well know your race is not
prepared to vote Why do you care to
do what you do not understand In
prove yourselves. Learn to read and
Write,be industrious; lay up your means;
acquire homes; live in peace with your
neighbors; and drive of, as you would
serpent, the miserable, dirty adven.
turers who come among you, and who,
being too low to be received into white
society. seek to foment among you hat
red for the decent portion Of the white
race. You can always know a gentle
man, whether from the North or South,
and all such respect and esteem-fOr
such will not deceive you. Do not de-
sire to vote until you are qualified to
vote, and then look for the right to be
given, not in a manner that violates the
Constitution, but in accordance with it
and through your own State Govern
ments. feel more deeply for you than
/ do for the white race. White people
ought to know better than to disregard
the laws and expect any good But you
do not understand deceivers.
am willing, anxious to welcome
among us good and true men from the
North, who come to build up our country
and add to its prosperity. wish they
would come on and come in multitudes.
They will find us friends But when l
see the low, dirty oreatures-hatched
from the venOmOus eggs Of treason
coming here as mere adventures to get
Offices through negro vOtes-to ride into
power on the deluded Negroes shoulders
and creeping into secret leagues with ne
grOes and few renegade Southern
whites, and talking hippantly about dis
franchising the wisest and best men of
the land, because they know it is the
only possible chance for knaves and
fools like themselves to get place, l can
but feel ashamed that such monsters are
to be considered as belonging to human
species | warn you, my cOlOred friends,
if you would be respectable in society,
Or prosperous in your purse, or decent in
your feelings, to avoid all such people.
They will hug you and call you friend,
and talk about your friends, but they
will pull you down to degradation to-
morrow, to poverty, and to shame. They
have white skins but black hearts, and
will ruin your character If you associate
with them. They are creatures born Of
J political accidency and reasonable con-
spiraoy, and are the enemies of all good
governments and all decent people. Ap-
plause
And now, my friends of all races, and
of all cOlOrs, of all nations, of all sexes,
of all ages-let US resolve to stand by
our Constitution, and surrender it to no
enemy. This is our country. Let US
resolve that we will never be driven
from it, nor ostracised in it.
Mr.. Hill concluded amidst rapturOus
and prolonged cheering. When it had
somewhat subsidized a gentleman in the
rear of the audience proposed three
cheers for the only man south of Mason
and DixOA's line that has proclaimed the
truth from the seaboard to the noun.
tains, which the vast assembly gave
9Th hearty will.