The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-05
9 Colored' candildass..s..

~ Two oOlOr6d men nave announcer
themselves as candidates for Congress
from Georgia. james Patrick Fick-
ling, who desires to represent the
First District, issues an address to
the people, in the course of which he
says: e9 @T
"I am not ambitious for the noto-
riety Of candidacy for Congress,
nor would I consider myself elevated
to post Of honor, were I elected to
seat in the present Congress-; but
considerations Of the gravest moment
to my own race, and to the country
at large, impel me to the conviction
that the surest remedy for radical
evils is for the South to return colored
Representatives, in preference to
strengthening the radical vote by
sending any of their white representa-
tives at present among us. n
The franchise has been conferred
upon my race, either as matter of
right, or for the purpose of using us
as instruments to carry out the
schemes of the radical party, and op-
pressing the white people of the
South. Il do not believe it was be-
slowed in love, or upon consideration
of right; and the means employed to
control our action verifies this con-
clusion. We are expected, aye, re-
quired, to consort or cooperate with
three classes Of persons in carrying
out the reconstruction measures, and
Ill promoting to Office individuals who
are tolerated by the radicals them
selves only because they are capable
of doing the dirty work the less vile
refuse to do. We are not permitted
to heed the councils of the wise and
good of our own land, either in mat
ters affecting our own domestic well
fare or the good of the country ut
large, but q most nauseating feast is
prepared for our digestion, and we
are not only affectionately led up to
the high carnival, but menacingly in
structed and impertinently command
ed to drain each cup to the dregs, and
to swallow down all the ingredients
of the radical cauldron."
Ellick Mahaly has been solicited by
many of his friends, both colored and
white, to announce himself as can
didate in the Fourth District. In his
address, he says:
Elm the event am elected, I shall
use the utmost of my feeble powers
to bring about q reconciliation be-
tween the two sections. We have had
war enough, and strife enough.
While am free to confess that nv
greatest efforts will be directed to the
interest and welfare of my own race,
1 shall do all I can to ameliorate the
condition of the whites, believing
that the interests of the two races are
Identical here in the South. shall
do all in my power to repeal the un-
just discrimination against the pro-
ducts of my section, to wit: the tax
on cotton and tobacco. I will give
one instance of the hardship of the
tax on cotton: Last year, I rented
small farm of DIR. Simmons, of this
County. After paying him the rent,
[ had five bales of cotton. On them,
I paid tax of SIS bale, making
S75. 1t is needless for me to tell poor
men how much I have needed that
money this year. It would have
Dreaded my family the whole year. I
have felt its hardness. I wish it re-
pealed. You may wish to know my
position on reconstruction. I am in
favor of reconstruction under the
military bills; though, if I am elected,
I shall use my influence to have the
disqualifcations removed from all"