Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-26

TO THE COL0RED VOTERS OF THE
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DIS

TRICT. ~ i"2
GENTLEMEN i feel Il MY duty to ad-
dress YOU a few words Of advice. | wish
to advise YOU for your own interest.
Two gentlemen are now asking your
votes, as candidates for Representative in
the United States gress-Hon I'd.
Cooper and Mr. Mullins. Mr.. Cooper Is
well known as kind-hearted gentleman
friend 10 white men and black men Mr.
Mullins also is pretty well known, and
every one knows MIN to be Jealous friend
Of Mr.. Mullins. Quite a number Of my
colored feilow-citizens know what know
Of Mr.. Muliins-that he was a. tight
master before the colored people were freed,
and that he was a number one patroller.
/ Do not many of you recollect what pleasure
he took in whipping colored men when he
caught them without passes? He is now
endeayoring tosInake you believe he helped
to set you free. He did no such thing
You were free before he had any say in the
matter, and hehad no more weight In setting
Won free han lie had in egs0,lacsag the last
rain. He would ike % persuade yoa that
in consenting 10 let yon vote he was moved
by friendly feeling. This is all put on.
He consented to let y0u vote, JUST as he
would have consented to let y0u work
in his corn field, or at his mill lie
believed that with the help Of loyal
leagues and Governor Browulow > militia,
he could patrol you, and that Brownlow's
Commissioners Of Registration would only
give passes to as many of you as would
vote for Mullins. This is the reason why
the gray-haired patroller consented to let
you vote Why, l will state fact which
Mr. Mullins will not deny Immediately
after Mullins had agreed to let You vote,
one of his particular friends, Judge Houk,
said 10 a speech al the capitol in Nash-
vile, that every negro who refused to vote
for such men as Brownlow and Massa
Mullins ought to be crucifed. Does
not that sound like the patroller'5
whip? And | tell you, Mr. Mul-
Inns aud his friends, Brownlow and
Houk would whip every one Of you to the
polls, with :heir ticket in your hand, if they
dared.
Every one Of you will agree with me
when / say there is not man living but
will admit that Mr.. Cooper has all his life
been the colored mans true friend. No
man will say that he was ever seen sneak
ing about with patrollers, carrying a COW
hide IN his cost-sleeve. As evidence of his
kindness to our people, point you to the
fact that his black folks are all with him
yet. Not 50 with Mr. Mullins. His SER
wants had seen enough of him. To them
liberty meant a change of situation. They
were a. weary OF him as was the Whig
party, III the good old days before the war.
In those days the little boys we're accns-
toned, al public speakings after all the
sensible men had spoken, to call out
Mullins Mullins Mullins" This mo-
body cared for bat the joke grew tire
some in this way somebody-I don't say
il was Mr.. Aluliins-got them to calling
for him before sensible men were done.
There is another difference between these
gentlemen. MIR. Cooper is running for
Congress only because his felloW-citizens
wish him to 60 to Washington and work
for all the people of Tennessee, white aud
black. If we send him, he will lose money
by going; for he can make more by staying
al home than Congressman gets But
he will make a great deal for us,
black aud white Mr.. Mullins desires to
30, because five thousand dollars a year,
the pay of Congressman, is more than he
can make,in any other way. But il he be
send, all the black and white people of
Tennes.et. VIII lose a great deal Tor no.
body az Washington city will take much
notice Of the old patroller. Mr.. Mullins
will get bis five thousand dollars year,
aud we will get nothing but disgrace.
la conclusion, fellow citizens of my own
race, beg you to listen to reason, and
vote for such men as Mr. Cooper, who
have an interest in the welfare of all our
citizens, black and white aud who wish all
Of them to vote. These men, like Mr.. Mul-
lins, who only wish to let few vote, who
are pledged to vote for themselves, are
trying to breed trouble. They know that the
white men Of the country will not like the
black men if they are kept from the ballot
box while colored men repermitted to vote.
They wish TO make the white men our
enemies Mr.. Cooper desires that beth white
aud black shall be allowed to vote ifthis
be done, whites and blacks will be friends,
and both will prosper. Do not believe
loyal league patrollers, when they threaten
10 mob you ii YOU do not vote for Mul-
lins. There are too many decent white
men, like Mr.. Cooper, who will not let them.
Vote as you please. If you do this, | am
sure nearly all OF you will vote for Mr..
Cooper.
WASH. TERRY, colored citizen.
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