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

| SuaHLESlONs may flui 1oo''
To the Hon. Henry Ht!soa Of Massachusetts.
| S1E-Thc accid mt which occasioned Your deten'
! ton in this city to-day, enables mo to address
you few words, in relation to your harangue de-
| ircrod yesterday. beg to observe that You
lild not deal so fairly with tho people of South
Carolina you arc reported to have done with tue
people of Virginia and North Carolina. In those
States Oh the several occasions when you address
cd the gatherings a citizen was permitted to
reply to you and tho poison was thus neutrallzed'
Here YOU have devised Tho pan of being an
nounccd through The public print, and through the
prcsidi Gfficcr OF the meeting, as an inoed ora
tor; aud in your introduction you claim to be here
and to speak g; an compliance ap,M iHuitdtions.
In this way and by those means, YOU secured your
self from al answer which would have exposed
you as an cmssary of tho NcS England Anti
Free Trade Protective Tariff Consolidation Inter
est, whose leading objects can only be subservcd
by dividing the votes of the South. III other
words, by arraisning The negro against tho South
crn whites. and on tho side of the New England
manufacturers as their special friends.
You would have done no moro than sheer Justice
to liz if YOU had oiforod to let us be heard and
YOU would have contributed to the enlightenment
Of your colored audience if You had suffered us to
show them how directly anita conistic tho interests
of New England aro TO thor and our agricultural
pursuits; and how imperative it is upon both bhcks
and whites in the South to get rid of the 'fricndly
hug" of New England high taxation on us for hcr
benefit and to bo united and stand firmly tog- thcr
in demanding that the fruit of our labor shall not
be pocketcd By Lowell, Lynn and Boston.
In the plcnitude, too, of your conscientiousness
and canlor, pray You, in your next address, en-
ter ttlo into tic history of the slave trado and
tell Your auditors tho tWth-that your ancestors
of AIassachusctt-, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York and Pennsylvania brought to this country
all the Africans who over came here, and they sod
dtpra 10 Me people ofMc South. Tha they had all
the ships and sailors, and the South had none.
That the trade was profitable 10 New England and
tho North, and that ho money derived from it has
enabled them to outstrip tho South in wealth and
prosperity--and then turn to the descendants ni
those Africans and say to them" The South is inno-
cent of tfe crime Of ems!dr'ng yon fan6eF
:nyi1ity concerned, planned, and erecmted ht
6liaboticdi ar0,k."
A truth ike this will be m 1ro useful in recon-
cims these Freedmen to thcir =" former masters.
if that wero yonr purpose, than all Your advice ia
them to go 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 be the Yankee
sdo of every question. And thon again, sir bo
Just TO Yourself and your past record, and say ont
boldly to these people,-that they never would
have bocn liberated by tho North, if tho South
crul;l have been va,iqushed without it. 1t was to
overcome the South, by the uso Of couple of hum
dred thousand of their bodies as breastworks,
(when the South had not that number a in all }
that they were promised liberty, and have now re-
ccivel it. This too. will help them TO under
stand the kind of friendship you people have for
them.
will ask you in conclusion, to invite discussion
before the Freedmen, ami in your presence, that
thoy may have both sidcs. and you may have full
opportunity 10 reply to amy one who may see 1T to
answer you have the honor to bo, yours,
". H.