The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-13

always labored to extend slavery.
=. Would Democrats allow colored
men to vote?
A. No! They have always opposed
it in Congress and in the various State
Legislature.
=. Who abolished slavery in the Dis
trict Of Columbia
A. a Republican Congress and
Abraham Lincoln, Republican Presi-
dent.
Q. Who freed the slaves in the
South
a. Abraham Lincoln, the Republi-
can President, by proclamation.
q. Who passed the Freedman's Bu-
reau Bill.
A. A Republican Congress by more
than two-thirds vote over the veto of
Andrew Johnson, the leader of the
Democratic or Conservative party.
Q. Who gave us the Civil Rights
Bill?
A. The same Republican Congress.
Q. What party gave us the right to
vote?
A. The Republican party.
Q. What has the Democratic, Con-
servative or Copperhead party ever
done for the colored people?
A. 1t has tried to keep them in sla-
very, and opposed giving them the ben
eft Of the freedmen's Bureau and Civil
Rights Bills, and the right to vote.
Q. Why cannot colored men support
the Democratic party.
A. Because that party would disfran-
chise them, and, if possible, return
them to slavery-and certainly keep
them i'll an inferior position before the
law.
Q. With whom do the disloyal white
men Of the South desire the colored
men to vote?
A. With the Democratic party.
Q. Would not the Democrats take
away all the negroes rights?
A. They would.
Q. Then why do they pretend to be
the best friends of the colored men?
A. Because they contend they are fit
ted only for slavery, OF an inferior
position, and happier in either condi-
ton.
Q. How would it suit them to be
served in the same manner?
A. They would not endure it. They
call themselves a superior race of be-
ings, and claim they are born your
rulers.
Q. Why do they not do unto others
as they would be done>by?
A. Because they are devoid of prin-
ciple, and destitute of all sense of JUS
tice where the colored man is con-
cerned.
@. Do all white people belong to
party which would treat us in that way?
A. Theydo not. There are many
who have stood up nobly for your
rights, and who will aid you to the
end indeed, all true Republicans are
such.
Q. To what party do the white peo-
pie Of the South belong ?
A. The larger portion belong to the
Democratic party.
Q. Are the shareholders and the
leaders of the rebellion members of
that party?
A. They are, and would not regard
you as having any right if they were
in power.
Q. The colored men should then
vote with the Republican or Radical
party =?
A. They should, and shun the DEM
ocratic party as they would the over
seer's lash and the auction block.
@. Has the Republican party ever
deceived the colored people?
A. 1t has not. While the Demo-
cratic party has always been opposed
to their freedom and education, and
their right to vote, the Republican par
ty has always been their friend.
Q. To what party do the leading CO.
lored men belong?
A. Without exception they belong to
the Republican party.
@. What are the most prominent
principles advocated by the Republi
can party?
A. Equal rights before the law and
at the ballot box for all men without
regard to race or color; that is, that
every man shall have the same rights
and liberties as any other man.
@. Does not the Military Reconstruc-
tion Act secure to us these rights
A. Yes, but you may yet be depriv-
ed Of them if your enemies get into
power.
@. What would the people think if
the colored men voted with the Demo
cratic party?
A. The people Of the North would
think that they did not fully under
stand their own rights nor the duties
devolving on them; and the people of
the South would proudly say: awe
have always told you that the negro
did not wish to be free"
@. What use has been made Of the
money which the colored people of the
Southern States have paid as taxes.
A. 1t has been used to establish
schools for aohite children; to pay the
expenses of.making and executing laws
in which the colored men have had no
voice, and in endeavoring to have the
Supreme Court set aside the law which
gives you the right to vote.
@. What! are the Democrats using
my own money to take away my
rights? /
A. They have always done so, and