Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-14
A SENSIBLE SPEECH.

A few days previous to the recent election, Scip-
10 Clark, Democratic freedman, made the follow
ing sensible speech before large meeting of whites
and blacks in the Court House of Spartanburg
District Scpio is native of that District and has
lived in the vicinity of Limestone Springs,
and bears good character among those who have
always known him. We give below, as near as
possible, says the Spartanburg Spartan, his own
words-his own phraseology. Scipio said:
"MY FRIENDS: I appear before you, not as a
candidate for any big ofhce-dont want to 90 to
the Ring streaked, don't want to go to the Iegis-
later-but come before you as your friend. am
a friend to the black and the white man, and I
speak to you my colored friends because I want to
show you the error of your ways. Idothis because
it is my duty, and because am your friend l am
Democrat, because all the good white people that
we can trust, and who we always knowed, and who
raised US, and who we depend on for livin are
Democrats My colored friends, let me tell you
you say, there is two races Of people; say there
good whites and the mean whites The ring
streaked' which met in Charleston, was pretty
flower, and if you touch it, it will be your ruin.-
Frank Camp come down in my country and prom
ised us all if we would vote for him, he would give
US eighty acres of land. Frank Camp come back
and brought no land with him. Camp wanted to
20 to the Convention to kill all the debts, because
be was in debt Don't you see2 he didn't want to
i've you and me land, but he wanted to keep his
own But Camp says no,o ''vote for the Radical
ticket and you can get big Offices and get rich. Do
you believe this? No! I can tell you what he
wants-he wants to be Superintendent of the Pen
stentiary. He told one of his friends he had the
promise of it if the Radicals were elected. Now,
you see what be means, when he tells you to hold
ont we will take the poor white man and the mig
none of the radicals can't pull what little wool I've
got, over my eyes in that way. 1 tell you, that
Camp and these other white Leagers don't know
no more about maxim laws than hog does about
warm overcoat / hold up for the white man
who's got the capital and the soil because we have
been their servants, and if we help them they will
help us. I don't blame the white man because he
owned slaves. Would you walk if you had horsel
I wouldn't. Don't you look to niger or mean
white man. They can't help you put meat in the
smoke house or corn in the cribs got mighty
little corn in my crib any how, and I'd have less il
1 quit the man what's got the soil, and take up
got the soil don't like Leagers, and they wont have
you on their land if you keep on the way you are
goin. I don't deny I'm nigger-the Convention
can make me anything else. Niger means black.
nigger man means black man. Now, if we send
men to make laws for us, let's send the good white
men what knows somethin. As / said before,
Frank Camp and his like, knows no more about
maxim laws-if they we're honest with you-than
q hog does about putin on overcoat live vote
against the men what got the soil we vote against
ourselves-we vote ourselves out Of employment
we vote ourselves out of house and home-we vote
ourselves out of hog and hominy-that's the truth
about it. Now, suppose you vote with the Leag-
ers what's any of them got to give you! Let me I,
tell you another thing; you can't no more pull
down the white man what's got the soil than you
these white men, who belongs to the Leagues,
do for you? They Il ruin you, and make the man
what's got the soil, who's now your best friend,
your worst enemy, and then comes the empty
crib or no crib at all, and no place to put one il
you did have it. But agn these feIers tells us
we've got heap of friends away off North.
know this amt So I tell you they just want your
votes, and to get this they would make you believe
they are your friends. Go aginst the people you
know, and live with, and are dependent on for a
livin-for land to plow-for work to do-for meat
and bred-and I tell you 60 aginst yourselves when
you do it. And agin they tell US they will give us
the right of suin and bein sued. But what is this
right worth when nobody owes you. Now, | know
my old massa and mistress were my best friends.
Why not2 When I was freed they did not drive
me of, but they told me if I needed, for me to
come to them and they would divide with me- l
have looked around a good deal of late, and be-
lieve this is generally the feen Of the old master.
Suppose we take these radicals-both here and at
the North-to be our friends, they are Of 40 use
to u.s. These that are here we know are not able
to help us, and not reliable no how, while them Of
the North never saw us, and never wil-theres
mountains and rivers between us. But you may
say they're our friends because they freed U.S.
But they didn't free us because they were our
fiends-they done it because they couldn't whip
our white people without it.
Now, let us stick to these people we know to be
our friends. These men we We known all our lives
and who's got the soil and the stock, call No. /,
but these white Radicals that are telling us of our
friend away off, I call No. none. There is another
reason why rs a Democrat because they let me
hear what they've got to say without swarm me
not to tell. Now, the Leagers will take you into
room, lock the door, and place guard around it,
and then swear you not to tell. Now, if there
any good in this, it is good-euh 1.-THE Democrats
(which means all the good white people), has any
thing good, they come out on the platform and let
every man know it. Before twelve months, you
will see that it will be to your sorrow to 60 to this
League house, with guard around it.
A NOVEL CASE IN THE STATE CoURT-AN In
DICTSIENT FOR BIGAMY AGAINST FREEDMAN
A novel case was developed yesterday before the
Court of General Sessions now sitting in this city,
and one that illustrates forciby the unftness of the
negro for the unwonted rights and duties which