Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-16
sEGNs IN THE SOUTH.

IL Is stated that OF the 9O,OUO negro
voters in Georgia, at least 10000 will
vote for Seymour and Blair, and that
$4,000 or $4,000 white men viii east
their vote the same way This would
give the State 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 increased At Dem~
ocratic meeting at Harlan, Georgia, on
the Sth inst, large number Of negroes
wore Seymour and Blair badges. These
incidents are of common occirrenoe
throughout Georgia, These signs in
Georgia are common elsewhere, as the
following facts will show;
5 A meeting of eolored people was held
in Mobile recently to organize a Demo
cratic club. The meeting was called to Or
der by Col. G. A. r. Dimond, who explained
the objects, and expressed his views in re-
gard to their social and political status. An
interchange Of sentiment led to the con-
clusion that the colored people have at last
found out who their true friends are.
There was held recently at Demopolis,
Ala, a 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 and 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 peddlers in secret poll
tics. The Southern men never lied to him
or deceived him when he was 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-
getber. The old man gave them scath-
ing rebuke for being blindly hiiched in by
set of travelling Adventures, who had
only leagued themselves together as kind
OF ladder upon which they could climb
into Office; and wound up by saying that
che had rather be lathered with aqua J0rtis
and shaved with hand-saw, or live on
pills hewn out with broad-ax, than to be
left in the hands Of such a set of scalawags."
In North Carolina, the negroes of
Washington, Salisbury, HOpewell and
Halifax have organized. In Tarbora, San
dy Long, of Halifax, and Eaton Robinson,
both colored, appointed Magistrates in
their respective counties by Gov. Holden,
have thrown the appointment back in his
face with disgust. Burton McNeel, re-
spectacle colored man of Salisbury, in a
card sewers his connection with the Radi-
cal party, and declares for Seymour and
Blair, advising his friends to edo like
WISE" The negroes of Hopewel., Meek
lenburg county, have formed 8 Democratic
club, and large numbers have joined 1t.
with officers of their own.
In Louisiana, at Thibodeaux, Alexan-
dria, Ibcrville and Algiers, large meetA
ings Of negroes have been held adverse
to the Radicals. So great have been the
changes in the political sentiments of the
negro population of Louisiana, strong
hopes are entertained that the Democrats
will carry that State for Seymour and
Blair.
There is said to be perfect stampede
of the negroes from the Radical party in
the interior districts of South Carolina.
So great have been these changes that
one enthusiastic journalist expresses the
opinion that if anything like a fair elec~
ton can be had, that State viii be car
ried for Seymour and Blair. 1t would
be remarkable if South Carolina, with
her overwhelming majority, should vote
the Democratic ticket
This political awakening has reached
our own State, and large numbers of neo
groes in Nashville and Memphis, particu-
larly the latter place, have allied them"
selves with the Democratic party. The
Union City Herald ofthe 18th inst says:
ave attended meeting of the colOred
citizens at the hall last evening, several of
whom made speeches in favor of the Sey-
mour ticket, giving reasons for doing so.
Next week they will organize a club, to
advocate and perpetuate equality before
he law, and go for Seymour and Blair.
They are finding out who are friends in
Iced they have solved the problem. Manly
t is for them to come out OF those midnight
and let their light shine" ~.