The Van Buren press., 1868-10-16
A Horrible Notwithstanding Illus.
.ra;ion Of Radical Love for the Negro.
From the Mobile Registsr, September %. !
Let a cor,mlttee OF them 1.-THE negroes

talh sCnDoncf tnit sdil,i ON Oh this pOTl
about eighteen months since, with one
hundred and titly cOlorcd men on board,
ostensibly bound to Texas, where the
carpct-baggers who had charge of them
told the deceived creatures that they
would find wvrk and high wages for them.
\ Make him tell the committee what he
knows about the schooner-vhere she
cleared for and did not go-where she
ibid go-what became Of the negroes
whether any Of them had been heard
from in TeNas-vhc.her i'll short, lie
does not know that they we're carried to
the Island of Cuba, and there sold into
slavery by some of the party carpet bag
gers who have now got hooks in the noses
of the Radical negroes of Mobile, and are
making them howl for Grant and Colfax
every time they give the string jerk
whether, knowing all this from his own
Investigations, Griffin did not hush the
thing up, in consideration of certain
bargain with these carpet baggcrs, TO
push on and advance his financial aud po-
litical interests. These are bully ques-
tons to put to carpet-baggers, seeing
that they are alarming the negroes with
the insinuation that their old masters in
tend TO put them back into slavery when
ever they get into phwcr. Let the com
mittee make him disgorge his knowledge
lleis entitled to the first chance to tell
about IL. Ii be does not, somebody else
will disgorge it for him. The crime is
kidnapping under the laws Of the State,
smd piracy punished with death, under
the laws of the United States. Pump it
out of him colored men! You had bet
ter, or perhaps it viii be your lot to take
the next trip to Cuba.
The man, Griffin, alluded to above is a
Chicago printer who published little ne
gro organ at Mobile and is considered
one Of the leading carpet baggers Of the
State
The above is a fair sample of the gen
uine love Of the Radical party for the
poor down-trodden negro They do
love them for what they will fetch"
They use them to put themselves into of
flee, for the purpose of making MONEY
they use them in all manner Of ways and
all to this end and when all the offices
are filled and there are some carpet bag
gers yet remaining unprovided for they
sell the "poor down-trodden" into Stare
'y and pocket the money. This affair is
quite significant when we reflect that the
theory of the Radical party, as put forth
IN their Reconstruction policy, utterly de
HleS that the ameRdmendment TO the Fed
eroi Constitution, prohibiting Slavery, has
been legally adopted What are the ne
groes to think of these newly fabricated
friends, who thus use them for political
purposes, and that failing to satisfy their
thirst for money, actually become guilty
of kidnapping and piracy by taking them
off to the Island of Cuba and selling
them in slavery. These newly made
friends of the colored man, charge the
Democracy with desire to remand the
negro TO slavery, by changing the laws,
after they acquire power, and behold !!
THEY wait not the tardy process of LEGAL
changes, but absolutely riolate the lac, in
their haste u make money out Of the
bodies Of the "poor down trodden.n
They cry out " slavery to frightcn the
poor, deluded negro from the Democrat
ic party, and for the purpose of inhuenc-
ing the honest, northern anti-slavery
man to support their ticket, and 10 the
unfortunate African finds himself SOLD
INTO SLAVERY before the election. How
long will the negro be thus used, fooled
and made a tool of by these political adj
yenturers? Will they allow the empty
and insineerc declarations of the Loyal
League room to outweigh the actual &C.
complished facts ? Will they never learn
the shallow trick of crying "rebel lie"
whenever their villainy if exposed by re-
liable journals-such as the one above
quoted from2 Surely the negro must be
hopelessly blinded by these "new friends"
if this does not open their eyes to the
true character of their false and treacher-
Gus leaders. The first grand and central
falsehood was the avowed intention of
the Radical party to con fscote the lands
Of the former Stare owaers, and divide
them among the negroes. Each negro
should have forty acres of land and a
mule" What became of this promise ?
Was it complied with? How many ne
groes in Crawford County can count his
forty acres and mule, derived from the
confscation and the answering affection
of the party Of "great moral ideas p
Has not all the attempts at confscation
ended by the carpet-bag officials, and
scallawog incumbents pocketing any
amount of money as fees, after going
through the ridiculous farce of a Court
procedure? Southern men, charged with
the highest crime known to our laws,
were allowed to wipe out the felony by
paying a sum Of money to SAN. f. CooP-
Err, LUTHER c. WHITE and Z. d. HAM !;
but the "poor down trodden' received
not one cent Of money or an acre ofland
But they tell the colored man, that all
this was Legitimate consequence Of the