The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-09
CHARLESTON. May 4th. 1867.

-, q ts;, CHARLESTON. MaY 4th. 1857.
To tic Hoza. Henry Wason Of Massachusetts.
s1n-The accid Mt which ocoasioned your deten-
ton IN this city to-day, enables me to address
you few. words, in relation to your harangue de-
.ivered yesterday. / beg to observe that you
Carolina you are reported to have done with the
people of Virginia and North Carolina. In those
States on the several occasions when you address,
ed tho gatherings" o citizen was permitted to
reply to you, and the poison was thus neutralzed.
Here You have devised the. pan Of being an
nounccd through the public print and through the
presiding officer Of the meeting, irsoited ora
tor; and in your reduction you claim to be here
and to speak Sin compliance ,o,h fnuuations.'
In this way and BY these means, you secured your
seR from an answer which would have exposed
yousas an enissary Of the New England Anti
Freq Trade Protective Tariff Consolidation Inter
est,whose leading objects can only be snbserved
by ajyidinss the votes Of the South. In other
words, by svSaigning the negro against the South
ern whites and on the side Of the. New England
manu- 3arers as their special friends.
You would have done no moro than sheer justice
to US if you had offered to let U.s. be heard and
you woufdsa have contributed to the enlightenment
ofyour soleEeA audience, il you had suffered us to
show >tha-hnM directly anita eonistic the interests
Of New England are TO their aud our agricultural
pursuits; and how imperative it s1ppn both blacks
and whites in the sonth to get rid OF the sfriendy
Of New England high taxation Oh, Us for ne,1.
|be,esst, and to-be united and rmly togsther
IN demanding that the fruit OF our labor shall not
bo pocEoted by Lowell, lynn and Boston, ~
In the plenitude, too, aef your consoientiousness
and candor; pray you il fyour next address, en-
ter little into the history of the slave trade and
tell your auditors the tr,th- that your ancestors
OF Massaehusetts, Rhods Island Connecticut, New
York and Pennsyl$ania, brought to this country
1au the Africans who ever here, and they SOFA
them TO the people Of The South That they had all
the ships and sailors, aud the South had none.
That the trade was profitable to New England and
the North, and that the money derived from Il has
enabled them to outstrip the soIth in wealth and
prosperity-and then turn to the descendants OF
those Africans andsay to them-stZhe Soh is limo
cent Of ue crime Of enslautng you. Yankee
cupldity concerned planned and executed the
diaboicdz cork
| A truth ike this will be more useful in recon-
cling these Freedmen to their former masters, .
If that were your purpose, than all your advice to
them to SO to work and raise cotton for the bene
fit of New England, to vote on the side Of Justice
! and right, which you interpret to :bethe Yankee
side Of every question. And chen again, sir, be
just 70 yourself and your past record, and say out
boldly to these people; that they never would
have been liberated by the North, il TIE South
could have been vanquished withoutit II was to
overcome tho South, by the use Of couple Of hun
dred thousand of; their bodies as breastworks,
(when the South had not that number al IN all, j
that they were promised liberty, and have now re-
ceivea it. This too, will help them to under
stand the kind Of friendship you people have for
them. s5 7Ft 5a7 s9,. "
Will ask You IN conclusion, to invite discussion
before the Freedmen, and in your presence, that
they may have both sides, and you may have full
opportunity to reply to any one who may see fit to
answer you. I have the honor to be, yours, N.
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