The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-06


Progress Of Negro RA disafisss is sns Ssssa'
How the Darkies Kaik aud what The
Say.
meeting OF coiored persons \rss' hs'd In hAymsn'
Miss short time sisce Referrln.y isShe "seuha "
| local paper says-
Without any previous notice Whatever 70 s,.oss
popuation-withont the knowledge Of tie N 49, -
far as We are advised the part OF a vbI,e ma -
county-from nve hundred 10 thousand color. IL.
sons came rolling and tamblipg into toxn on s4sur
all enveloped In patriotism and ali ready 10 do and
u needs be, in vindcat,n OF ths manhood and N
soon filled to Overlooking while the court square and
the streets adjacen well thronred The meeting
was addressed by the Reverends Lynch ana snger Tor
ABOUT Tour hours, when the platform adopted by the
convention at Jackson was unanimously confirmed
OF the speeches Of these coored orators the same pa
per remarks:
Inc speeches were clear forcble and effective That
on rarsos Lynch, especially, entirely effective in
audience carried bodily into the radical party and
with clappng o. hands and shouts OF applause There
Is mot to be :. ara ss s1hr or
plant and defiant radicals and all their sympathies and
affections with the Northern radicals and against the
The democrats OF tho North and the antirecons
onsts OF the south were pointed out by the speakers
as the worst living enemies OF the colored race Bur
they advised their audience 10 fear them As they
we're inslGninsas; IN numbers as compared with the
Northern Mort =. ras and Southern blacks, and would
form adoptel vas broad enough for every
honest man Moral and South TO stand upon fsaid the
speakers), ana eve s.acn man mus support II and
die BY Y necessa;g fhat black man who win vote
Tor democrat or Ct datreconslructonst (said the
speaKersl WIN vote ago. his race-will vote TO place
the negroes ON an e1sy with brutes-will vote for
their worst enemies black man lsaid Striueerl
would not be recogr 4 ~ his race as Of them All
were urged TO voiei permit earthly power 70 pro-
vent them from votn--to vote for no man who does
not como out openly AID above board for the platform
to claim all their rights all times the law Il all
hazards Al Washington the blacks regarded rs the
loyal party OF the South and all might depend upon Il
that all the powers OF the would brought
70 bear Tor their protection and support
In continuation Of this subject and referring 10 the
Jackson Convention. the Gasere adds what fblIows
When persons holding influence more or less potent
IN political organization which Is seeking power in the
wealth to frame ito laws deliberately avow that
their intention TO exercise II malicously and msanly
Tor the persecution, punishment and robbery OF large
class OF ~ people; 70 dssscrate the memory OF the
dead and TO trampls on the rights Of the living the
OF resistance This the hrss impulse Isprngs up q
naturally the sting Of the against the heel OF
the oppressor II 10 principle, - enduring a. life
implanted in the nature Of Gods humblsst and lowesI
~ we'll ~ nobest and highest creatures
wretched renegade from his own record and race
named Flournoy, and negro called Newsom e we are
informed, did avow these designs In this convent,on
with the approval OF portion Of their assocats FLOUR
noy declared for prescription against people who we're
taken out Of the Union BY his vote and his sabo
conere gloated over the prospest Of an opportunity -
seize and parcel out uadsF the forms Of the state law
their estatea -