Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-09
RECONSTRUCTION In SOUTH
CAROLINA.


speech of GOV. Orr-Acfion Urnder abe
Force BiII-The Negro Vote and HOW
TO Influence 1.-THE Future of Par
Ties in ahe south.
The Board Of Trade Of Charleston gave
banquet ~ the 81 inst, at which Gov.
Orr responded 10 the toast Of South Caro-
lima. After briefly referring TO the terms
Of Congress, and advising their acceptance.
he continued
would therefore say TO every man in
South Carolina who has not been disfran-
chised, that as soon as the proper order has
been issued, he should proceed to register
and prepare to vote for the best man that
can beselected 10 form constitution under
which we and our pOsterity can live. II is
your interest, further, that the black man
shall vote with you in the common election.
l have heard good deal said Of control
ling the vote of the black man. ID has
been supposed that his vote will be con-
trolled by personal influences, notwilhstand-
ing his convictions OF interest, but Won are
mistaken. That vote is destined to be con-
trolled, not by personal considerations, but
BY going TO the black man and talking 10
him in private conversation, and proving
90 him that his interest in South Carolina
is your interest; that the white mans inter.
est is the black mans interest think il
can be shown 10 any rational black man that
Il is TO his interest to make his friends here
rather than in the State of Massachusetts.
II agriculture lourishes in the State, whose
interest IL promoted by 10? Is il not that
mans who occupies the position Of landbol-
der! letyou lind Congress imposing a tax of
three cents pound upon cotton up TO Sep
teElber last and two and half cents since
that date. Look at the last wears crop.
when there was no complaint of the coll
ored people in any section of the State,
and when we produced hundred thousand
bales OF cotton. What proportion Of that
has gone in the shape Of taxation? One
million two hundred thousand dollars
which has been literally wulng from those
people in the shape Of tax upon cotton.
while not dollar has been levied upon the
wheat or grain in Chic or corn in Illinois?
DO not then tell me, gentlemen, that the
osiored people have not the intelligence 70
be interested in these affairs. They need
representation in Congress as much as we
do. They require that the tax shall be
taken off their labor. Ii is not only the
cotton Of South Carolina, however, but the
tobacco Of Virginia and North Carolina.
which Is as unequally taxed. Il is not
:iien, by intimidation and brow beating. or
by Wronging those people, that you are TO
control their votes, but you must show that
. Is 10 their interest 20 vote with Won. and
undertake to say that when those facts are
presented 20 those who have intelligence
they will be found standing shoulder 10
shoulder with the white man, and carving
out the principles which | desire 60 urge
upon you on this occasion. IL Is 20 be ex-
pected that attempts will be made 10 alien
ate the sympathies ofthese people from ma
When an emissary comes here from the
State of New York, Massachusetts, or Ohio
and says 90 the black man, Eve are your
friends, We are going TO take care Of Won
vote with US, those white people cannot
be trusted. / want our cOlored men 10 saw
TO those emissaries-tO the Massachusetts
man-that in South Carolina. under Ibis
law, IL matters not by whom il was passed |
every colored man twenty-one years of ace /
Is entitled TO has ballot, aud that he would /
not be allowed 30 vote in Massachusetts nm /
less he could read and write; say 10 the /
emlssary from Ohio, who comes here for
the purpose Of giving advice as 70 how YOU /
shall vote, go back 10 Ohio and enlighten /
the heather there before you come here
because no black man there is entitled to i
vote" Within the last three weeks New
Jersey Ohio and Michigan have resolved
that the black man shall not vote under
any circumstances whatever Therefore. /
say TO those colored men, when those ennis
sarles come among You, tell them 10 90 back |
and remove the beam from the ewes Of |
their iellow-eitlzens before they come here
TO take the mote from the ewes of our own
people. l have seen indications in various
localities ia South Carolina 10 organize
oolored snd white party, TO be called Ma.
iional Union Republican Radical party.
hink that Is the name / do not think this
Is wise, because / believe that the colored
Ind white people Of those unreconstructed
states will further their ends more tho-
'ougly by turning their attention 20 their
lwn State politics. aud when we get the
ight OF representation in Congress, I
you'd sehd them there not pledged 10 a |
republican Union party, not pledged to
he Democratic party, but | would send I,
men who would say 10 all parties we stand
y that party which will give Us eou1l
ights, equal legislation, and equal iussSef
ndes the laws and constitution oc thf
o1nlry. know there is an appre heos;. a.,
zoe spread IN the North and Wess. that
lter the reconstruction of the So,,l -,
ts'es We shall fall into the arms s,r 80
Ia allies and associates, the old Den ,,,,r.,
party say to You, geatlener d o,go,,ar
a@t would give no such plsaqes 80
ientihed during the ten vars NJ ,.,,, vi, "i''
c career as Rer. rassntstivs, = E t''u
- IN, ol0 !" the districts of South
"a -" 81 .iat party, and as my dis
;f..a- i. end, the commander Of this
49, district, knows, l enjoyed their
n ace in the highest Office within the !
OF that party Applause. | have,
.Aereiore, every reason 90 entertain a re-
'Pect and regard for that party, and have
entertained the hope for many years 10 see
{ reinstated in power. But the dream has
passed. We have accOuntsto settle with that /
party, gentlemen, before / al least will con-
sent to affiliate with H. (Cries of Good
good, and applause Ia nay judgment il
IS time for as 10 seek new friends and
new alliance; hence am opposed 10 or
ganizing any party in south Carolina that
will cement itself 10 the Democratic OF any
other party. i would not affiliate with anv
party that would put a tax OF ~ CENTS n
pound on cotton. when not one cent ia npt
on the corn and grain raised in Ohio. In
diana, and other Western States. will
vote for no party that will perpetrate such
an indignity. Therefore when We are re-
hope that onr representative
will 90 10 Washington and declare ale
glance 10 that party which will 10 ne JUS
ice, and that, IN NV Judgment, isthe policy
Tor South Carolina 10 pursue in this emer-
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