Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
From the Nashville Union and Dispatch.
 Signs in inc south.

tis stated that of the 96,000 negro voters in Georgia, at least 10000 will vote for Seymour and Blair, and that 75,000 or S0,000 white men will cast their vote the same way. This would give the States to the Democrats by about 10000 majority. There are now several Democratic clubs in Savannah, composed wholly of negroes, and at every meeting their numbers are in- creased. At Democratic meeting at Harlan, Georgia, on the 18th inst, q large number of negroes wore Seymour and Blair badges. These incidents are of common occurrence throughout Georgia. These signs in Georgia are common elsewhere as the following facts will show:
 "A meeting of colored people was held in Mobile recently to organize a Democratic club. The meeting was called to order by Col. c. A. R. Di- mond, who explained the objects, and expressed his views in regard to their social and political status. An inter- change of sentiment led to the conclu- sion that the colored people have al last found out who their true friends are.
 .sThere was held recently at Demopo- lis, Alabama, Seymour and Blair ratification meeting, almost exclusively by negroes, and addressed by four white men and six black speakers. Old uncle Sandy Cameron, from Hale, said he was born in the South. was a Southern man aud that the Southern men were his friends. He had yet to learn of any good to the black man that could come from these Yankee ped dlers in secret politics. The Southern men never lied to him or deceived him when he was a slave, nor since he was free that God had put him and the Southern man here upon the same soil, and they must either stand or fall to- gether. The old man gave them a scathing rebuke for being blindly hitched in by set of travelling adycn- turers, who had only leagued thcm- selves together as kind of ladder up- on which they could climb into office and wound up by saying that "he had rather be lathered with aqua fortis, and shaved with handsaw, or live on pills hcwn out with broad-ax, than to be l left in the hands of such set of scala | wags."
 III NOttl &tt Oliiltts bllC uCGIOCS Ol Washington, Salisbury, Hopewell, and Halifax have organized. In Tarbora Sandy Long, of Halifax, and Eaton Robinson, both colored, appointed Magistrates in their respective counties 1 by Gov. Holden, have thrown the appointment back in his face with dis. gust. Burton McNeel, a respectable colored man of Salisbury, in card sewers his connection with the Radical party, and declares for Seymour and 1 Blair, advising his friends to do like. wise The negroes of IIopewcll, Meek. lenburg county, have formed Demo cratic club. and large numbers have joined it, with officers of their own" | In Louisiana, at Thibodeaux, Alexan. i dria, Iberville and Algiers, large meet ings ofnegroes have been held adverse | to the Radicals. So great have beer the changes in the political sentiment' of the negro population of Louisiana strong hopes arc entertained that tho Democrats will carry the State for Sey 'mour and Blair.
 There is said to be perfect stampede 1 of the negroes from the Radical party 1 in the interior districts of South Caro- lima. So great have been these changes that one enthusiastic journalist ex presses tho opinion that if anything l like a fair election can be had, tha State will be carried for Seymour ant Blair. Itwould be remarkable if Soutl l Carolina. with her overwhelming ma jority, should vote the Democratic ticket.
 This political awakening has reached our own State. and large numbers 0 negroes in Nashville and Memphis \ particularly the latter place. have allict themselves with the Democratic party l Tho Union City Herald of the l5tl inst. says:
 "We attended q meeting of the col
 orcd citizens at the hall last evening several of whom made speeches in favo
 of the Seymour ticket, giving reason
 for doing so. Next week they vii
 organize club to advocate and perpe
 tuate equality before the law, and g'
 for Seymour and Blair. They arc find ing out who arc their friends indeed
 they have solved the problem. Manl.
 it is for them to come out of thos'
 midnight gatherings, and let their ligh
 shine