The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-27

l. Alabama.
The Mobile Advertiser d Register, Of the21st
inst, has the following notice Of an important
meeting held there on Saturday last:
The meeting was the most important as the
turning point in o political crisis, and the most
momentous in its results that has ever come with
in our political experience. It was designed that
the white men Of Mobile Of all classes should coun-
teract the lies Of a handful Of vagabond adventur-
Of the more ignorant part of the black race the
seeds of hostility md hatred-sure, if unchecked,
to lead to bloody strife-against the white race.
That object has been accomplished, and the good
efforts to keep them away the black men were there
in force, and they learned from the lips Of every
speaker how they had been deceived, cheated and
sWindled BY their new keepers. The saw there q
Judge Of the United States, the most respectable
civil and military officers Of the United States and
and in good faith to take their chances with the
destinies Of the Southern country and people; and
they heard them giving their open approval to the
proposition that those who sought to stir up strife
between whites and blacks were enemies to both
races and that it was the business Of the people OF
Alabama, and not Of foreign intruders and incen-
diaries to control and decide upon their own poll
tcal destines, in the honest efforts Of all to get
rid OF m itary rule, and to make every honorable
| and manly effort to be restored to their civil and
WIG OtCkbOoJ pIO-
tected by it's Constitution and covered once more
| by its flag. This meeting has broken into the
stronghold OF the incendiaries and it has, and will
| set free by the thousands the colored men who
| had been 'sbottled up" for their own uses. It is
the second act Of negro emancipation. The first
freed their bodies. This one frees their minds,
and wills, and souls,
The Selma Messenger is one of the organs Of the
spassivist' school. In it's issue of ,e Goth inst.
it dscourses, through more than column on
Supreme Court. military measures, etc., ETC., and
concludes thus:
"Here is where We take our stand Whatever
the United States impose upon us, it is our duty
to submit to it. Whatever laws they enact
for us, we must obey them. IF they frame for us o
constitution in accordance with the cent legisla
| ton Of Congress, we must accept it. If they put
in operation over us State government based
upon radical ldeas we must use all the privileges
conferred upon us, and all the rights accorded tc
us, IN its support. But we cannot and will not ap
prove and ratlfy measures that stigmatize us all as
criminals, unfit to be trusted, unworthy Of conf.
dence, and with no title to property or life save
through the clemency of the conquerors and de-
nounce and PUNISH our most eminent fellow citi
Zens for doing what We required them to do, anC
Write on the tombstones Of the Southern dead O
the late war the epitaph traitor and hence We
cannot vote to organize for ourselves State gov
ernment under the Sherman bill, and so make thn
| government our own, and thus endorse and ap
prove the justice of legislation which is intended
to extort rom us seH-condemnaton."
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