The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-27
Grand Rally Of the COnscrva-
tives Last Night.
Plain Truths In Plain Language-Telling
Speeches by Colored Orators-Why the
Black Race was Freed, and why Err
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From the NaAhxins. Dispatch, 2lst inst.]ist
T. The aippesaportion Of the market.
house was throhged last night, at the
meeting called by the Independent Col.
Ored National Union Conservative
Club. Unbounded enthusiasm pre-.
vailed throughout, and for once, to
their credit be it said, the Radical ne
groes did not attempt to get up q dis,
turbance. |h 4o -l3
The first speaker was Joe Williams.
lie said he stood upon the Conserva.
tive platform, and he did so from prin.
ciple and facts. The war was over,
and the colored people have been
granted the right of suffrage and been
made a part Of this nation, but he was
opposed to making them tools to work
out political ends. He wanted to see
justice, mercy, and equal rights to all
before the law. The colored man
should not be influenced by prejudice
for wrongs he had received. God had
said that vengeance was His.
In this country there were three mil
lions of his race. Here they had toiled
in the past, and here they would be in
the future. Brownlow had said the
elective franchise granted to the colored
man would result in their extermina-
ton and they would share the fate of
the Indian. He shrank from this poll
cy of Brownlow's, which was to end in
the destruction of the colored race.
He wished to remainin this country,
and on this continent, and wished to
live on friendly terms with his neigh
bors. Forgiveness, justice and mer-
cy, had ever been melted out by the Di.
vine hand OF God, and he did not think
that his race, nov that they had the
power, should put their heel upon a re.
pentant and PROSTATE foe. ..ye ..
The colored people had no hand in
bringing about the war. They were
not, at the beginning of the war, citi-
zens Of the United States. The gov.
eminent was threatened, and slavery
stood in its way. The wal was car
ricd on for two long years before they
were made free. Colored men raised
their arms and begged to be received
into the army but no, they were re-
fused and repulsed on every hand, and
not until military necessity came were
they permitted to enter the ranks, to
battle for their freedom. M
They rallied to the national standard
as soldiers-were determined to be
free. Through the agency of God
alone were they made free, and they
should not now be governed by preju-
dice and passion, but look to Him for
aid and instruction. On this continent
they numbered only 5000, 900. They
were among twenty eight millions of
white men, and there was no immigra-
ton. In o few years, at most, these
men who were now DISTINGUISHED would
be restored to their political rights, and
would they then turn upon the colorcd
peoplea sOoirB@li b4e7-.t. -.1lbi
= AS a loyal soldier--as a man who
stood up inrdefense Of hiscountry-he
would give his voice for the restoration
of those who had been DISTINGUISHED.
The colorcd people should give them
now, that when they come into
power they might do the colored peo-
pie justice in return. He could look
his race in the face and say he fought
for their freedom, and he was opposed
to men going through the State appeal
ing to them to vote to take the bread
out of their own mouths and out of
the mouths of their children. If such
men were to be listened to, extermina-
ton, as Brownlow had said and wish
ed, would surely come.
He could look around him here and
see colorcd men engaged in business
carrying on barber shops, or running
hacks, or working on the leyees. He
had looked upon the crowded levccs of
New York and Philadelphia, but he had
seer no colored men there. They had
been displaced by white men, as they
would be here, if this mad policy were
carried out. In only one or two States
Of the North could the colored man
vote. In the State of Pennsylvania he
vas not allowed to go to the ballot-box,
and in New York he could not vote un-
less he had a property qualification
There were colorcd men in those States
who had fought gallantly in the army,
but who were not deprived ofthe rights
they had battled for. ./f . -ll
In both the North aid the South
there had been firm friends of the COL
ored people, but to Almighty God
alone they owed their freedom. Scarce
one of the Radical rulers had not been
concerned in the rebellion, and he could
not trust them now. He closed by ur
ging the necessity Of peace and harmo-
ny, and the unity of the colored people
on Conservative principles as their on
" salvation.
At the close Of Mr.. Williams speech,
he introduced Elias Polk, President oil
he Club. Mr.. Polk is a venerable man,
MS hair being quite gray, and his per-
ION q little bent. He was for q great
many years the body-servant of the late
Polk, and accompanied him
n his political canvasses in Tennessee,
ind was with him at the White House
throughout the administration. There
vas great interest manifested to hear
him, and the crowd pressed forward
With eagerness as he rose. He spoke
With ~deliberation, force and clearness.
lie was happy to meet that large as.
'emblage Of black and white people,
he would prefer to address the
as what he had to say was
more especially to them. His heart
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