The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-16
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, April 16. 1857.
Baware OF Party STRIFE.

Is to STIR up strife between the TWO
races at the SoutlA Now. and then,
there may be found Southern-bern
man among these missionaries Of
mischief, but such cases are excep-
tional. as the greater number are not
to the manor born, are not identified
with the interests Of either the white
or co1ored Southerner, and have no
higher ends to- serve, besides the
division they aim to create, than self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT or elevation to office.
The interests OF both races, whether
political or material, here at the South
are identical. United, they will pros
per; divided, both will suffer.
AS the Atlanta Isteai igencer says, in
its comments, on the extract publish
ed below, from the speech Of a freed.
man at a meeting in Nashville, the
freedman of. the South should be
made to feel and know that there is
no Northern, no Western, home for
him. He is planted, as it %ere,. on
Southern soil, and here he must nd
vance and flourish, or recede and
perish. It were well, then, for the
freedmen within our midst to delibe-
rate seriously on their condition, the
relation they will bear to the South,
and the absolute r,oessity which
requires that there shall be no strife
between him and the Southern white
man, his former master. The South
ern white man is the freedman's natu-
raj ally. He is the freedman's best
friend-the party most interested in
the freedman's welfare.
These remarks are induced by the
following extract from the speech of
colored man, made at political
meeting recently held at Nashville.
His name is 'lexander Williams, who
had formerly been q slave, and then
o soldier in the United States army.
He desired to express the opinions of
his colored fellow-citizens, and the
request was granted. The report
says:
"He came forward amid shower
OF applause, and thanked the gentle
men present for the privilege of ad-
dressing his fellow citizens. He said
slavery was abolished, and no law
could restore it; it was dead forever,
and he, therefore, could see no
reason why the colored man could
not advocate the cause of his former
master, but now best friend, and hold
and express his political sentiments
without being called rebels and cop
perheads. The colored people ought
to aid their old friends in the South
III restoring harmony and good go
vernment. Their former owners were
willing to lend helping hand, and
the colored citizens should aid them
they have the wealth and capacity,
and we the strength and industry.
He could see no reason why we should
not work for our friends, and vote
for them, too. He was proud to see
what had been done to-day, and to
hear the speeches made. This was
the place to give the colored man his
rights-here in the South, where
there are millions of colored men
not in the North, beyond the Ohio.
(Cheers.) Let us join hand and
hand for the common good. We
must agree, or there will be q falling
out. The colored people only asked
to have their rights, and the speaker
felt confident they would be more
easily obtained from their old friends
than their new and pretended ones.
He endorsed everything that had
been said in the Convention, and
was ready to lay down his life for
such principles: (Applause.). The
best thing to be done is to unite. If we
do d that, there will be no danger of
The utterances in the above extract
are true in fact and correct in princi-
pie, and we commend them to the
intelligent freedmen in our commu-
nifty. To. show that mischievous
efforts are being made at the South,
we notice that q meeting of the
colored people Of Augusta was held
in that city on Saturday last, at
which, although some of the promi-
nent men of Georgia were invited by