The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-27
where, as the following facts will show:

where, as the IolloWlng IactS VIII snow:
A meeting of colored people was held
in Mobile recently to organize Demo-
cratic club. The meeting was called to
order by Colonel G. A. R. Dimond, who
explained the objects, and expressed his
views in regard to their social and politi-
cal status. An interchange of sentiment
led to the conclusion that the colored peo-
pie have at last found out who their true
friends are.
There was held recently at Demopolis,
Alabama, aSeymour and Blair ratification
meeting, almost exclusively by negroes,
and addressed by four white men and six
black speakers. Old uncle Sandy Came
ron, from Hale, said he was born in the
South, was 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 ped
oilers 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 soil,
and they must either stand or fall togeth-
err. The old man gave them a scathing
rebuke for being blindly hitchsd in by
set of travelling adventures, who lad only
leagued themselves together as kind of
ladder upon which they could climb into
Office; and wound up by saying that she
had rather be lathered with aqua fortis
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 Tatboro,
Sandy Long, of Halifax, and Eaton Rob
inson, both colored, appointed Magistrates
in their respective counties by Governor
Holden, have thrown the appointment
back in his face with disgust. Burton
McNeel, respectable colored man of
Salisbury, in card sewers his connection
with the Radical party, and declares for
Seymour and Blair, advising his friends to
"do likewise" The negroes of Hopevell,
Mecklenburg county, have formed a
Democratic club, and large numbers have
joined it with officers of their own.
In Louisiana, at Thibodeaux, Alexan-
dria, Iberville and Algiers, large meetings
of negroes have been held adverse to the
Radicals. So great have been the chang
es 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 stated 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 expressed the opin-
ion that if anything like fair election can
be had, that State will be carried for Sey-
mour 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 ne
groes in Nashville and Memphis, particu-
larly the latter place, have allied them
selves with the Democratic party. The
Union City Herald of the 18th inst. says:
"We 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
the law, and go for Seymour and Blair
They are finding out who are friends in
deed; they have solved the problem.
Manly it is for them to come out of those
midnight gatherings, and let their light
shine"
Wait Awhile!