The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-08-26
To the Oolored PEOPLE,

We publish below an extract from
speech made to the colored people Of
Georgia by an eminent gentleman of
that State. 1t contains some excellent
suggestions, and is worthy of a careful
porusal. We commend it to tho care.
ful consideration Of the colored people of
this State:
What glorious future there is for
you in these Southern States. A mild
winter, fruitful spring, and summer,
and autumn, with its rich and abundant
yield. Acclimatizod, and accustomed to
the culture of the soil ; and in the midst
OF those who have looked upon you,
win feelings OF affection; and you with
gratitude, as the recipients of their kind
ness w hat can prevent yonr advance
IN all The blessings of life? Surrounded
with all its comforts and assured of its
safety. Nothing nothing but the evil
advice OF bad men contemplate aspir.
ants Tor political position, who have
come amongst and are hurryng YOU TO
rum and destruction, by arraying you in
opposition to your friends and former
owners. They tell you that if the Dem
ocrats gain the elections YOU will be
made slaves. This is false, and they
know it to be false, but they tell it with
lhe energy Of truth and want you to
believe IL. Believe thcr' not, fellow
cltizcns. You arc free; never no never,
TO De slaves again; save to your own
passions and their evil advice. Free as
the white man, protected as the white
man, by the same laws of your country,
IN all that is right, just and honorable.
But this Government is a white mans
Government. The Indian never ruled !;
the negro will never rule, and i: is mad
ness to think otherwise. DO vou think,
that two millions and half Of people,
two thirds OF whom cannot read, nor do
they know the simplest letter in the al.
phabet, will govern thirty millions of
men who have made laws for these
States; led armies to battle, and whose
eloquence held i'll breatnless suspense the
Congress OF our country. Are such men
as these to be governed by your Be.
lieve not their falsehood. Listen not to
them. Oh that my voice could reach
you from the seabeacl. to the mountain
of every Southern State, and convince
You that your only friends arc those who
will give you employment aud offer you
The protection of life and property, under
the same laws that guard their own, and
that only quiet submission to those
laws, which we must all obey, will give
peace and plenty where want and op-
preston now relgns triumphant. Now
make your choice, and God direct YOU
to make it wisely, for it will be want
aud exile, or life, peace and prosperi-
ty.
| TnE PRosrEcT IN GEORGlA-FIFTy
| THOUSAND DEMoCRATIC MAJORITY :
The Augusta Chronicle G Sentinel
says:
The accounts which we receive from
the different portions of the State
through our exchanges and private let.
ters, and personal observation, inspire us
with the believe that the canvass is so
far progressing as effectively, and with
lar greater prospects Of an overwhclm-
ing victory, than we had anticipated -
The people everywhere are fully arous-
ed, and the work of organization is being
pushed with vigor and enthusiasm
heretofore rarely witnessed IN the State.
The fifteen or twenty thousand white
voters who, seduccl by the false prom
lses of relief, or frightened by the silly
ougbear OF confscation, voted with the
radlcalsi in the late gubernatorial contest
are everywhere renouncing Radicalism
and returning to the true faith.
Side by side with those prodgal sons
ofthe white race we find thousands of
the more honest and intelligent negroes
marching boldly to The rescue of the
Democratic principles aud the res
toratlon OF constitutional government.
We have never known such sudden,
extensive and overwhelming changes
as have been wrought within the past
twenty days. We had calculated that
with the accession of the ten or fifteen
thousand white votes DISTINGUISHED bv
the Military bills, and The certainty of a
tree election and an homes, count of the
ballots, we should carry the State by
hlteon or twenty thousand majority
But the current Of changes has set SO
strong with the D"mocracy-lhe de-
moralization Of tho Radicals is so com
plete the organization of the. Democra-
cy so pcrfect-that if our friends con.
tinne their exertions to the end of tho
campaign with only half the zeal and
activity they now manifest, we shall
carry the State by forty or fifty thou
sand majority for Seymour and Blair.
This s no wild prediction 1t IS based
upon tacts and figures which assure us
OF It's approximate certainty.
A New GARRISON FOR CHARLESTON.
Six companies of the 9th Infantry
U. States Army, under command Of
Brevet Colonel Clitz, are to garrison
this post under orders from General
Meade, who now commands the new
Department Of tho South. The other
four companies of this regiment are
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