The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-07-29
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The White People to the Oolored People
of Fairfield Creating,


good Now we all live in The same country,
we have been acquainted with eac1, othcr
long time, the white man knows the colored
man and the colorel man knows the white
man. Many of us have been born OH the
same plantation, and have boon raised TO.
gcthcr, and when boys and girls, played TO-
gether, and we have n great attachment and
see them, and are glad when We hear they
arc doing well. Some of us have camped
with them on tho market road, have enjoy.
ed their company, found them friendly and
accommodating. They have often given us
more help TO got our wheels out Of the mud,
than Hercules himself The colorcd mans
service was useful when hn belonged to Tho
white man, and now that he is free, could
help the white man, while at the same timo
he would greatly benefit himself. Let no
one suppose he has no work TO do because
he is free. No! no for VIC assert lazy
freedman is still h slave. TITO ftetdmdn
must work. We want you to work our
plantations, to help us 10 make our crops on
such terms rs arc fair to both white aud
black. We do not wish to deprive YOU Of
tho privilege of working our lands, but 10
do SO you must be our friend, depart from
the Radicals andgo forth with the white
people who are surely your friends, yes,
your best friends.
Now the white people own the lands, and
while they invite you to be their fricpds, to
vote rs they vote, and live with them. 10
work their farms for their benefit and for
your benefit, they want it distinctly under
stood that the land and tho country belong
to them, and therefore tho white people
claim the right to rule the State. Your an-
cestors were brought here, by tho fore
fathers Of those same Radicals, and sold to
us from their slave ships, for our money i:
we had lauds and wanted hands to work
them and therefore wo bought you. The
Southern people had no hand in tho slave
trade, in fact they were opposed to buyinr
African slaves at first, until they we're al
most forced on them by tho English and
Yankees.
The white people, for the long epacc of
two hundred years, have supplied your peo
pic with land TO work and a country to live
in they have fed and clothed you, nurscd
you when sick, paid the doctors bill, and
have fostcrcd and taken care Of your chill
dren. generation after generation, until you
have grown to be II numerous people, and
you now occupy much higher position in
civilization than your race in Africa. You
understand many Of the arts and arc fam-
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nhss of life The white people have donc
all this for you and you have, on your part
done much for them, you have laborcd for
them, worked their fields, and taken much
of tho hard and rough operations Of life of
their hands: but now look, and SEQ what
4 hs d9S dfq9ntry You is oH ST III
country, but we do want you to desert the
Radicals (for they arc enemies to YOU md
us) and hop us TO recruit our worn ont
lands, upon the products of which we all
live. You can do moro i'm this way than
P. when you were slaves, for it will bo moro to
. your interest TO do 50. We give you part
j, OF the crop, and on every improved acre
g you can make double, the more YOU work
and the more you improve The land the more
yo" will get for your labor. We know a
h'red man, who has family, his wife al
most helpless, who will make enough by
the end OF this year, TO buy his mule or for
= ty acres of land. lie crops for the third,
ana this is only his second year; so thot
with industry and economy you can do we'll
: ana thus while increasing in property and
living in comfort, your children can DO educ
, Gated, and generation after generation, your
race Will improve in mind and body, and be
4""l'hed to take position among The nations
OF the earth as ciYilizcd people.
: The African has gained much by bovin,,
l Dech brought to this country even rs slaves.
You have been christened, you havo had
, the gospel preached to you, and have he.
come moru or less acquainted with tho
scriptures, and advanced to n degree of ci-
vilization, while your raco in Africa are
: naked savagcs, worshiping idols, unac.
Hua'h'ed with the uso Of tho horse or tho
, plow; the tribes mako war upon each
other and either sell into slavery or kill
their prisoners.
now therefore, we assert again that YOU
as people, kavc greatly benefited by hay
ing been brought to this country and sold TO
!, the white people, who, rs we said before
, nave been kind to you, and more humane
than any other people would havo been, for
1t IS notorious that the negro driver was
mnch moro severe than tho white oyorsccr.
Tho Yankee and Eaglishman, the Indian
ana oiack man have bccii moro cruel 10 The
slave than the natiSo Catolinian.
. Now then, for whose benefit is il that we
ask you to come and % with us, and live
with ts, assarcdiy more for your benefit
than nan for ours. We can get other labor, Ell.
rope is tocming with White people ready to
come and work for us. Look at the thing,
think about it, reason on It. Wo offer vol,
no'o, tho oliye branch of peace, and we ex.