The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-26

to be true-no promise that we do not intend
honestly to fulfil.
Wo commend it to the candid and careful
consideration of the colored voters, confident
ly trusting to the truth to reunite those whose
interests are identical, and whom force and
falsehood have kept separate 80 long.
JAMES CONNER,
President Democratic Central Club
OF City of Charleston.
THE ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC WHITE VOTERS
OF CHARLESTON TO TEE ooLoRED VOTERS OF
CHARLESTON, TIE sEABoARD, AND OF THE
STATE GENERALLY. s'-' ,-..-
We are Influenced by various considerations
| to address you, and, in plain and simple Ian
euage, to tell you truthfully our views and pur-
poses. They are also the views and purposes
| Of the great Democratic party, which, for fully
| three-fourths of the life OF our government, has
governed the United States, and is soon about
| to resume the administration OK that govern.
ment, Among those considerations are the fol-
lowing: - ets-
First. We are naturally your friends and you
are naturally our friends. Any other relations
between us are unnatural and injurious to both.
| We have the capital and give employments.
| We own the lands and require labor to make
| them productive and profitable. You desire to
We desire to employ you and to have your la
bor-not because 1t is better, or cheaper, OF
more profitable to us than the white labor,
which will be glad to come and take
your place If ne are compelled to dis
card yours and invite it; but we desire
your labor because you know us, and We know
you. We were born together here and we
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nursed together, In boyhood we played. to-
gether. and We do not easily forget these
things for the sake OF strangers. Hence it is,
that We intend to leave It entirely to your
choice, whether you will be friends with us
or be our enemies, and compel Us to treat you
| as enemies.
We knop ,pe can do without you. We think
you will find it very difficult to do without us.
| We think it our duty to take care that you are
as fully informed in making your choice, be-
tween enmity and hostiityto us, and friend
| ship and peace ,cih us, as ne can inform you
| by telling you the whole truth. The reason
that it is our duty to do this. is because We
past, and because We are the stronger, and
you the weaker party. It is always the duty
Of the strong and powerful, besides being just,
| to be generous.
We have the wealth. The houses in which
you live are ours; the lands upon which you
must labor or starye are ours. we nave educa,
| ton, advancement in the arts and sciences, and
in civilization generally. You are, for the
most part, uneducated, just starting in the
career in which We are 30 far ahead Of you. We
| have the numbers over you;, our race ls thirty
millions or more; yours four millions or less. .
We thlnk 1t our duty to use all these great
advantages justly and generously for your well
fare, for your advancement in education, in
the acquisition of property, and in the pursuit
| Of every good thing which is meant BY, or
makes up what is meant by, "ciulizdtton, " II
you will allow US to doit.
Second. We see and kno,o that you are hur-
rying on into great and immediate trouble and
danger to yourselves and your race. You are
proposing to BRING on conflict between your
selves and ourselves. II it comes-h you bring
on that conflict it will be q conflict between
| YOUR race and our race. There are indications
that you already think yourselves prepared for
this conflict You have for some time practic-
ed aggressive and hostile conduct towards us.
You have assembled as party or class,
ip our meetings., insulted and assaulted
individuals among us, pelted our houses with
stones, insulted our families by vulgar and
profane language, disturbed the night. quiet by
unearthly whoops and screams, threatening
"death to the Rebels meaning ourselves; as
saulted and threatened the police and police
stations Of the city. You are arming and drill
sion and attack, not for defence; because you
have no cause or pretence Of cause for expect
ing aggresHon- or attack from Is.~You have
never been disturbed, not even in your riotous
and dlsorderly conduct. We, Of course, know
that you are urged and entlced ou towards
this great danger and trouble 6y wicked white
men. We know them, who they are, and all
about them; what they say, and what they are
doing, and we also knoD better than they or
qou can know, the sure and swift penalty
which will fall upon particular men when the
conflict begins. But this will not then save
you. You will not then be excused because
you have been deluded and cheated by these
Infamous men. Listen for one moment TO
particulars:
When we held our great meeting on the eve
ming Of the 24th July, you proposed, it is said,
under the guidance Of a white man who is your
candidate for Mayor, aud, we are told, assem-
bled, to form in procession and disturb our
and people, closely packed, IN the street. You
were, fortunately tor yourselves, prevented by
the influence Of the Mayor who is also Of your
political affinity. If you had attempted this
wilful aggression, you would have brought on
the conflict at that time; you did not expect
or intend otherwise! Itwould have been quick
and decisive, and ended before this time
Upon the click of the telegraph mas Democrats
could moi pedcedbEy assemble IN Charleston TO
rat,fy their nominations, the City OF New YORK
could alone send, and would have Sent from
her swarming population, men enough to
avenge US, and have made atat theast Of such
conflicts for thus occasion. Our next and only
public meeting since vas few days later, and
in the open air. It was 80 disturbed BY color
cd people, with singing I9usio 9sns. whOGpng sSa1
adjourned. ALI this has been submitted to
without retaliation or merited. punishment.
Other designs and threats have been reported
US upon evidence seemingly 9slg trustworthy m @ M
but so criminal and horrible that we will not
disgrace you by the public appearance Of belief
in Such charges. They are at variance with
our experience of your nature and general good
character, but not inconsistent With the bad
men YOU listen to, and might be the natural
consequence Of language we know they have
used They win -. be held ID to to + fearful account
We know, better than you know, why it is
that the Infamous outcast white men who lead
you urge you into these aggressions: We will