The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-22
Keen Eyeslght from Under Wool


remainder of its existence.
Keen Eyesight from Under Wool.
From the Tribune.
At a recent radical meeting at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, Thomas Kane, negro, spoke at
length, and with signal pertinence and force.
Here is an extract from his remarks, as re-
ported for the Cincinnati CommerclaI-
sour friend here says to speak of little things
or big things. l have no education; can think
big things, but can only speak little things.
my understanding. My friends, SO tar as know
them, suit me very well. and think know
who they are. think Brownlow is one of
them. have seen how they worked for us,
and what they have done for us. Sherman is q
friend TO us. know that my people all over
the southern states have been deprived of the
privileges of education ana of meeting we
do and saying, Il am my own man. When
we stop and think where we were few years
ago, picking in the cotton row, or hoeing in the
corn row, ploughing among the stumps, with
driver and an overseer; and old master
sitting in the house, and saying, Drive
'em,' and what weare now, hardly know what
are going to vote for? Some men say, The
negro has his legal vote; but can buy his vote
with q drink of whisky or a chew of tobacco
Fellow.citiZens, before any man shall buy my
vote with a drink of whisky or chew of
(Applause.) When l was in Selma, on election
day, saw the white men go down into their
ask men in, and say, VINO are you going to
vote for?' and have seen the votes of the
Anglo'Saxon race bought for drink OF
whisky. Great applause0 Now. here are col
oTed men who never saw a church or
school house until lately, and you needn't
talk to me about buying their votes;
while there are white men, raised in the
lap of education, that would sell their votes.
Unless l know, my friends who am going to
vote for, l shall not vote at all. Don't, when
you go to vote, let any man come up and say
Who are you going to vote tor?' Why, so and
know. How should you? Your hair is short
and llinky. Let me tell you; so and so is the
man to vote for; and the first thing you know
you will be voting to cut your own throat.
Now don't know much about political affairs,
but believe Brownlow is the right man in the
right place, and If we have got TO vote, shall
vote for him, because l see that he has worked
for us. My friends the times are ripe. The bud
has come, and the blossoms have dropped of,
and the apple has grown, and it hangs ripe and
rosy on the tree, and we can pluck II Oft and eat
it, and cast the core to the ground, and plant
the seeds, that will grow up into great trees,
stretching their branches up to Heaven. We
must learn to use this great blessing"
The Indians-shan We Have an Indian
From, The Herald.
If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, said
Pascal, the face of the world might have been
different. That epigram is the epitome of
many histories. To the greater or less length
of nose or a chin-to the greater or less cir
cumference of some skull-we may trace war
or peace, the destruction or preservation Of
nations, the happiness or obliteration of whole
branches of the human race. We are likely
to have an immediate application of this prac-
tical paraphrase in the war now perhaps
already raging between our troops and GER
tain Indian tribes. There is good reason to
believe that the present state OF indian rela-
- IL fI,a a9fg M dor
ing incompetence. war whose least result
will be the spending of some millions, that
will cost many lives, and arrest for two or
three wears the magnificent rans-Alissssippi
| march of American progress, may come upon
ms. having no better or greater cause than
/ that most common fact-a bad appointment
made at the national capitalize appointment
| of a man of rather less than average discre-
| tion to post that indeed did not seem to the
| authorities of great Importance.
| We had agreements with the Indians, in
| virtue of which we were able to live on tole-
rable terms as neighbors. npursuance OF such
| agreements certain parties were autnoriIeu 10
| sell them ammunition. If it is bad policy TO
sell powder and ball to the red men, we ought
not to agree to do so, or we ought 10 a1nul
| the agreement in proper manner anu ee
becomes people respecting law-at leasE Jaws
of their own making. SOmel Jdy thougnt IL
WAS had poliey. and, dressed in his brief
%%G oDtb"rit~ " N ready enougl lay magnate and
d;ataVan ,orderssd in Z aste the discon-
tinnance of such SALE 80 the Indians had no
means % 10 kin buffalo, and were distressed and
eTasperated syue and the cause of trouble was an
encr6aohment on their hunting grounds by the
new route to Virginia City; They did ,iII' not
| bo,',o,Jar nlunge into war. Somany Midship-
~ o,, Fasvs could not have been more disposed
to to AZ argue l the points in pacific way. Argu-
Oenf exclamation, good temper would have