The Charleston advocate. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1867-1868, 1867-05-11

person. We remembered that it was q
fbfaek regiment, raised in Rhode Island,
which won the battle If Red Bank. in
delaware River, of which we have boast
led soioeg. We remembered that in the
Revolution. and in the war of
blaaekmen, on land and wave fought
bHeVelgsand herolcanygHor thesanuntgY
gntssmppatlaiessWsesr With your masters
mthescontest. ! say we knew better
than that and, let me tell you, That ev-
erybody else knew YOU better than 70 7
masters did. We people way up in New
England knew you a great deal better
than your masters ever knew you, and
we knew yonr masters better than you
ever knew them. The relation Of master
aid slave IS an unnatural relation; one
always tries to cheat the other, and the,
generally succeed in cheating and de-
c4iving each other, more or less. We
knew you had the instincts and feelings
of lien, and we put the musket into the
hands of black soldiers, and made their
wives and children free. One hundred
and eighty thousand of them fought 70.
the country, and thirty-two thousand Of
them are, to-day, in soldiers graves.
They told US that YOU were not fit to use
the ballot. think the men who an use
the bullet, can use the ballot. (Cheers.)
We put the ballot into Your hands to
give you power to protect your heads ito
give YOU power to defend your rights to
give you power to demand schools for tis'
education of your children; and now let
me say to YOU never vote unless YOU VOTE
for the country that plade you free. Reg
iste.sgeag: names every nan OF you, who
has the right to do it. Vote for q un tee
country; vote far the old fags. vote so
Your liberties will be consnmmated by
your own act, and mail secure forever.
Vote for justice, impartial, equal j"sf't'
between black men and white :aen. Vote
especially to have schools to educate your
children, and make them better than YOU
are. You know what it is to hunger and
thirst after knowledge denied You. See
20 it that by your ballots ,o''r sacrifices
and your contributions. your little ones
are taught that which has been denie: tf
0 in the past. Loud cries OF HeS.)
want to say another wort TO yo:
For more than two centuries Your race
lave been held rs chattel-honght ant
s,,'.l.. That system has gone forever
Let it go, and do not cherish, one mo
.nent of YOUR lives longer, the pre- ad'ees
,.SS;on.s or hates. growing cut Of tha'
ost-rclat;on. Never say or 10 anything
w ,xo,oke a Nal of aces. Do not ta
v,,,r cid masters No body.of men
s;n.,, the world began, have ever bee:
punished as they have been in this great
contest. Their great Feaders-where are
they to-day? Where are those proud.
naughty, domineering, gifted men, who
left the Senate and House 1T Representa-
~tiycs. turned their backs on their country
and raised the flag of rebellion? i'efeat-
ed, some OF them Dead. some Of them IN
exile, their ideas all lost, their purposes
bafted. every object Of their lives gons:
never to come back again, and their names
recorded in tha'Shistoryeef tbs terrible
struggle of the last four years, TO gro"
darker end. darker SIS we pass away from
the era of slavery, and 80 the country
advances in prosperity and glory, and
becomes, as we believe it will become:
the foremost nation Of the globe, so that
all the world will have to look up when
it wants to see the great Republic. 1t is
a terrible fate, and God knows l would
not lay any heavier burden upon any
portion of the human family. ] say to
you, always vote i'll the fear of God-al-
ways remember that the ballot is a sa-
cred things: given to you for a holy
,.aaeo and not to he trif1ed with. Use