The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-05
Cclorcs. Candidate Tor Governor II,
Tennessee.

JAChSoN, lENN., EeD. II, 1851
TO Goc. Br0~nlom.
SIR: learn that you and the lo,re,.
House of your Legislature have
| passed Il law to allow the colored
people of this State to vote SO far,
so good. But, sir, you have, at the
same time, provided in the law that
they shall not hold office, Now.
what does s"ch legislation mean? [
am colorcd man, and have wool on
my head, but You and your whHe
trash can't pull that wool over my
eyes. The darkies in Tennessee gene
rally will understand what you are
after, and Will put their d,:oad feet
down upon you.
IEis act reminds me OF the case
where a white man and an Indian
went hunting. They killed q turkey
and buzzard, and when they came
to divide, the white man, to satisfy
the Indian that he would do the fair
thing, made this proposition: ''I'll
take the turkey, and you may take
the buZzald; or you may take the
buzzard, and III take the turkey"
The Indian hung his head for awhile;
then, looking up, said to his sharp
companion: Every time turkey for
white man and buzzard for Indian.
o, yes, you want us to go roting with
you, but every time office for white
man and vote for nigger.
learn, further, that the bill has
been sent to the Senate, where it is
to be hoped the restriction against
my people will be wiped out. In
that event, aud at the warm solicita-
ton of my friends, I hereby an
nounce myself candidate for Go
vernon. expect you to be my
competitor, and I propose to open
the canvass at an early day, and will
join you IN a list of appointments
from Carter to Shelby. L propose to
conduct the canvass like statesman,
but notify you, in advance, that /
will hold you personally responsible
for any insult you may offer. I shall
take along your debate with my
friend, Mr.. Pryne, and shall prove
from that that you have been a
greater prosecutor of my race in Ten
nessee than any other man, and
charge that your present conduct is
one purely Of selfshness.
1t will not be amiss to say here
that | am in favor of equal justice
to all the people Of the State" e"-that
| am in favor of relieving the colored
people of the State from paying
taxes for three years and from paying
taxes Tor vacant lands in the State,
by paying surveyors fees-that [ am
the friend of all religious denomina-
tions-that [ am friendly to all the
secret orders of the State, but only
belong to the ''Order of the Lone
Star" l have held the Constitution of
that order in my hands and sworn to
support it. But more of my princi-
Piles hereafter. When I get YOU on
the stump, you will learn erho am
and achat am.
Respectfully, your fellow-equal,
ETC., MATT. DYER.
WHY SHOULD WE OF THE SoUrH
CoMpLA1N?-Thrs asks an exchange,
and continues: New England, by
nature, cold, rugged, rocky and bar
rem, is of necessity manufacturing
and commercial country. The South
has been agricultural, producing those
great staples, cotton, tobacco and rice,
which constituted the basis of the
manufacturing and commercial inte-
rests of the United States. Our
wealth consisted chiefly in the means
of producing these. and it has been
swept away by fanaticism. Let the
production of cotton and tobacco.
beyond what we need for home con
sumption, go with it. Let us build
upon new foundation, make all our
own supplies, rear up manufactures
of cotton, iron, the implements of
agriculture, and everything else need
full to the prosperity and happiness
OF society. Let New England get her
cotton where best she can, and if her
spindles and her commerce must
stop, she will beEeaping as she sowed.
We have the climate and the soil, the
water-power and the mines necessary
to constitute us a great and indie
pendent people. With all the school
ing received during the Confederacy,
In arts and manufactures, we are al
ready looking back to the flesh-pots
of Egypt, and trying, by the most
uncertain and dearest kind of labor,
to make cotton to buy Yankee plows,
hoes, axes, brooms, etc, instead of
making all these at home. Poor
South! how long will she cling to
wooden hams and nutmegs?
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