The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-02

lions of the radical party, the
tolls of the Union League, the
yilliany Of the carpet-baggers, and
the moral and political depravity
of the white trash in our midst; he
e3horted them to peace and peaceful
pursuits; he urged them to industry
and economy, and tried to disabuse
their minds of the idea of accumulat-
ing wealth save by any other than
honest and legitimate means; he tried
to convince them that their Union
Leagues and Legislative gatherings
had been and was then q continual
drain upon their scanty purses: that
the leaders of the radicals in Carroll
ma, as we'll as in the Southern States,
were seeking only money and Office
at their hands, regardless of their
| present or future condition. Then
he showed them that these white
men, and even negroes, whom they
had elected to Office, had never open
ed their mouths in the negroes BE-
half; never cheaped of Gland or
mules" but had put the taxes on
them with an unsparing hand. He
kindly advised them to pass by in
scorn the men like A. s. Wallace,
who approach them when no respec-
table white man is near, with threats
that if they vote for Seymour, they
will feel the bull-whip again-that
they will be re-enslaved. He CON
vinced them that they had no home
save the South, no people who re-
cognized them as human beings save
their former owners, no guarantee of
peace save their own good conduct,
when war came, no hope of surviving
it; that they could never hope to
control the legislation of this coun-
try; that numerically, not to mention
their inferiority in other ways, they
were to the whites in the Union but
as three to thirty, or three millions
to thirty millions, something which 1
think they had never before heard.
Many were the responses from the
sable throng, one would say, ode
blessed trufe;" another, 81 been
herey long time, never hear dat
afore, but tink dat mus be so, kase
see dat man ride bout here in fine
buggy when he little bit boy" an
other, "dem white people on our side
fraid to come ere today" and the
orator of the occasion, Alf. Wright,
said in his closing remarks, "dat the
reverend gentleman who had per-
vaded him struck the nail right on tie
head Sererdl times"
The negroes were astonished that
the Judge should know so much
about the Union League, and what
they had to swear to, and how they
were guarded and controlled. One
old darkey whispered to another,
cellar fore God, dat man must been
fine us and den leave;" and then
said the other, 'I told somebody
some ODE white folk find out ebout
dis league business yit."
Slack and white were highly enter
tanned, and the Judge left for on ap-
pointment he had made in the morn
ing, carrying with him the kind
wishes of all.
Alf. closed the show in o vain eff
fort, 1 believe, to convince the audi
ence that he had not killed hog
some few days before, which was not
his own. 1t appears, by Alf.'s own
statement, that his nephcws and
himself were trying, in an energetic
way, laudable to all farmers. to get
neighbor's hog out of his field, but
misunderstanding growing up be-
tween ALI, his kinsmen and the hog,
as to the manner of the latter's exit,
the hog suddenly let himself die,
whereupon, the hogs representative
had warrant issued for your orator,
and n post mortem ordered. Alf.
wanted to know of the audience if it
was right that man should be ar
rested upon the charge of hog.steal-
ing? And concluded, by remarking
that he hoped the cullud frens, bofe
black an white, would excuse his fee
BILE remarks, that he was ignorant,
but yet he might convince them of
something tending to their good, for
had not Christ chosen the preachers
from among the fisherpnen and me-
chanics, and other ldboring men.
The poor negroes were very much
deluded. They had been led to be-
lieve that the Governor would send
up speakers and carloads of good
things from Columbia, and the Gre
dulous beings waited until night and
some of them until morning, in ex-
pectation of supplies. There was no
pit. not carcas of any kind, no.
thing to eat, save the little rations of