Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-18
Signs in the South.
From the Nashville Union and Dispatch

Ii is stated that of the $4,000 negro
voters in Georgia, at least 10000 will
vote for Seymour and Blair, aud that 75,'
900 or 1000 white men will cast their
vote the same way This would give the
State TO the Democrats by about 5000
m ljority. There are now several Demo-
cratic clubs in Savannah, composed
wholly of negroes, and at every meeting
their numbers are increased. At a
Democratic meeting at Harlan, Geor-
gia, on the 18th inst, large number
of negroes wore Seymour and Blair
badges. These incidents are of COM
mon occurrence throughout Georgia.
These signs in Georgia are common else
where, as the following facts will show:
"a meeting of colored people was held
in Mobile recently to organize Demo
cratic club The meeting was called to
order by Col. G. A. r. Dimoud, who ex-
planned the objects, and expressed his
views in regard to their social and poiiti-
cal status. An interchange of sentiment
led to the conclusion that the colored
people have at last found out who their
true friends are.
"There was held recently at Demopo-
lis, Alabama, a Seymour and Blair rati-
fcation 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 politics.
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 coil, and they must either stand or
tall together. The old man gave them
scathing rebuke for being blindly hitched
in by set of travelling adventurers, who
had only leagued themselves together as
kind of ladder upon which they could
climb into Office and wound up by say
ing that she had rather be lathered with |
aqua fortis, and shaved with a hand
saw, or live on pills hewn out with q
broad-ax, than to be left in the hands of |
such set of scsllawags."
"In North Carolina, the negroes of |
Washington, Salisbury, Hopewell and |
Halifax have organized. In Tarbora,
Sandy Long, of Halifax, and Eaton
Robinson, both colored, appointed Magis-
trates in their respective counties by |
Gov. Holden, have thrown the appoint. |
ment back in his face with disgust. Bur.
ton McNeel, a respectable celored man
of Salisbury, in card sewers his con. |
nec.ion with the Radical party, and de-
clares for Seymour and Blair, advising
his friends to do likewise The negroes
of Hopewell, Mecklenburg county, have
formed q Democratic club, and large
numbers have Joined it, with officers Of
their own"
In Louisiana, at Thibodeaux, Alexan-
dria, Iberyille and Algiers, large meet
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 the State for Seymour and
Blair.
There is said to be perfect stampede
Of the negroes from the Radical party in
he interior districts of South Carolina.
80 great have been these changes that
1ne enthusiastic journalist expresses the
opinion that if anything like fair cleo
ion can be had, that State will be carried
or Seymour and Blair. 1t would be re-
narkable if South Carolina, with her
overwhelming majority, should vote the
Democratic ticket.
This political awakening has reached
,ur own State, and large numbers of me-
yroes in Nashville and Memphis, partic-
ilarly the latter place, have allied them.
selves with the Democratic party. The
Union City Herald of the 18th inst. says
rWe attended meeting OF the coll
,red citizens at tho hall last evening,
ievsral of whom made speeches in favor
If the Seymour ticket, giving reasons for
LONG So Next week they will organize
. club to advocate and perpetuate equal
ty before the law, and 60 for Seymour
md Blair. They are finding out who are
heir frisnds indeed; they have solved the
problem. Manly It is for them to come
nut of those midnight gatherings, and let
heir light shine.