The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-29
THE SOUTHERN NEGROES

The president Of a Seymour and Blair |
negro club in Montgomery writes that the
Montgomery Club numbers %, 900 members |
that the club ut Mobile has 5000 members |
that one recently organized at Greenvlle con
tanned 500 members, and that he has organ
lied club at Union Springs with fair pros
poets Of success
The Savannah Georgia. Ne'os says the |
negroes of that section are not behind their
brethren in Alabama in their devotion to
the democratic cause and it adds;
Recent events have opened their eyes to the
frauds and receptions that have been practised
upon them by vile carpet aggers nnd scaawags,
who have sought, for their own selfish ends, to
array them against their true and troi white
friends, and their resentment now is both loud
and strong. The cute trick by which herd Of
Yankee adventurers and recreant natives inveigl-
ed the colored men into their support TIL they
got possession Of the Offices of the state, and then
| bascly betrayed them--as illustrated IN the re-
cent expulsion Of the colored representatives ia
| the legislature--is well Understood by the freed
men OF Georgia, who Rrc fast coming to tho con
clusion that they have more to expect from the
| friendship and good will of honest democrats
| than from the false promises Of unprineiPled
crapet-baggOrs and sealRwags
Here is a sample of the radical negro
speeches in the south-the talk put into the
mouths of negro orators by the "carpetbag'
and bureau demagogues. 1t was made by
one Parker, at Gretna, Louisiana
) Parker commenced his harsngue by calling the
planters of that section scoundres, villains and
id rebels, who were trying 10 get the colored
| people to vote the democratic ticket merely to
| enslaye them and put them under the lash again.
lie said that the radicals determined to elect
Grant il not at the ballot box, at the end Of the
l, bayonet; that the colored people of Louisiana
had the whites under their feet, and intended to
keep them there that the torches were ready and
\ fla single radical were killed 10y democrat they
l | would not wait to know why aud wherefore for
, every radical knew his post, and every house
would be fired, and the city would be one sheet
Of fame
The Boston Post has the following &C
count of negro meeting in North Carolina:
Il The scenes at the recent radical mass
meeting in Raleigh, N. G., show in a plain
= and disgustingly truthful manner what man
ner of men the new rulers of the south are
u Four or five thousand blacks were present,
and though they abstained from acts of VIC
! lence, owing, perhaps to the fact that the
whites kept within doors, and they made day
- and night hideous with oaths and drunken
| yells as they swarmed about the streets. AT
- the capitol, Il mass of yelling, curSng ne
groes filed the beautiful grounds and
swarmed in the various rooms and offices OF
the building, while dancing, speaking, shout.
ing and grotesque and Ashsntee perform.
ances ran riot, Up stairs, an antquated
dsrkey was making "stump speech
standing in the char of the speaker of the
house of representatives., while below, anoth-
er, dressed in garb of motley rags, was
preaching sermon to the great edidcation
of a surrounding audience, who shouted and
grosped alternately, as the performance pro.
crossed. As the hour waXed late, these
poor creatures disposed themselves for sleep
in every part Of the capitol. The senate
chamber was filled with negro women lying
on the floor or reclining in the chairs-a
negro, with bludgeon, acting as sentinel at
the door, to keep off the men-while the
steps leading from the first floor, and the
first floor itself, were literally filed with re-
cumbent negroes, packed like sardines.--
Still later in the night, after the rain set in,
almost every porch and sheltered corner in
the city might have been seen filed with
negro men and women, huddled together
asleep in heaps, to wake up the next morn.
ing cold, shivering and hungry, and make
their way on foot, in the mud, homewards.