Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-09-12
Race Hatred.

HOW Gu6 AOulSItud I(dO1
:. Gals are Exciting the Ne
i groes to Violence anG
] Bloodshed.
The negro and white Radical
are becoming very incendiary il
their addresses to the colored peo
pie in the parishes Of Attakapa'
and Opelousas. We find, in one
of our exchanges, the following
summary of a negro's speech at &
meeting in the town of Patterson
vile:
He was very belligerent, and
expressed himself with much con
fidence. He advised his colored
friends not to work for the Rebels
next year, but to let the landsgrow
up in bushes, and then the black
men will break up the planters
and get their lands, mules, ETC.
He went strongly in favor of con-
iscation. He said he never saw
white man riding in afour-wheel-
ed buggy that he didn't want two
of the wheels; that he never saw
a man with two mules that he
didn't want one of them, or with
two coats that he didn't want one.
He wanted to see the white. wo-
men come to the wash-tub, and
the white men to the milk-pail,
.plow and hoe. He wanted to
build up the black man and pull
down the white man.
The Planters Banner says that
a Radical in st. Landry named
Moss, who entered the Confeder-
ate service before the conscript
act, and served in Virginia, and
who now leads a Radical negro
club, few days ago assailed a
Methodist preacher named Davis,
whilst the latter was assisting a
negro preacher, knocked him
down and beat him. The club
of which Moss is the leader, then
took possession of the church and
had very noisy session.
On the first of August there
was negro barbecue at Washing
ton, in St. Landry. The speak
ers were all white men and mulat-
toes. They appeared to be ex-
tremely anxious TO excite the ha-
tired and jealousy of the black
men towards the white men of
the country who are not Radicals.
The negroes were advised to snub
the white people socially, to treat
them rudely, and to claim social
with them at once. vi
dal, asEuropean Frenchman, who
has been in the country but a few
years, and who edits the St. Lam
dry Progress, a new Radical pa
per, used language in substance as
follows, tothc negro: He denoun-
ced the former officers and slave
holders of the parish as vipers,
and enemies to the black race
He said, "he who is worthy of
freedom must. strike the blow
now. is. the time; the battle
belongs to numbers" Keary,
was resolutely in favor
of confscation and division of
lands among the people. He said
if. it didn't come this year it would
was sure to come. He
said the black men must be linked
together as one man to put down
the white man-wished every
id Rebel in hell-that, if nee
cessary, and the issue comes, he
would lead them to battle. These
Radical speakers and mischief
so excite the unsuspecting |
and credulous negroes, that blood
she'd and massacres would be in
evitable if they were not held in |
check by the white United States |
troops now stationed at Opelousas. |
The strange spectacle is presented
of white United States troops pro-
teeting Southern white families
and communities against Radicals |
and revolutionists, white and
black. Gentlemen of the high
,st standing, state that they would
eel unsafe in st Landry, mixed
Up with these Radical brothers
# sedition, were the U. S. troops
% be withdrawn.
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