The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-06

at Washington, the officers voted for Grant
but the private soldiers voted for Seymour, and
go it viii be again. The great heart OF thus
army beats responsive to OFT cry for the reg1o- BIZ
great mass of the privates, volunteer and reg
ular, and the majority of the regular omcers,
will be found in November voting for seymour
and Blair. The Constitution and the Union
that is our CRY, and with it we Will march to
victory. We are going to fight great cagli
| fight at the ballot box, and we must Wln.
we lose, We die. ,,oo,
ed me to-day, continue to encourage us ana
wa are sure to be victorious, and then In NO
vemher next you will Join us in singing our
hosannas Of triumph. [Great applause.]
At the close of Judge Aldrich's speech the
meeting adjourned to the second stand to
hear speeches from Bill Storrs and Pleasant
Goode, both colored.
Storrs said that he was proved to be Q DEM
ocrat and would stick to the party which gave
the right hand to the colored man. He said
he trusted the people Of the South because he
knew them, and he did not call scalawags and
carpet-baggers his friends. The Northern
.sodiery robbed white and black alike on Shero :
mans march; are they, said he, your friends
they are my friends and those Of the colored
people. He said that the Yankees did not free
the slaves. They were fighting ior their coun-
try, and, in 1862, the South could have gone
back with all its rights including the slaves.
What, then, would have become OF the COL
ored man He said the Yankees did not even
fight. They became officers and left the light
ing to the privates, who were foreigners. In
Columbia lately the soldiers would not employ
him, he said, because he was a colored man,
and they took white men who had fought
against them instead. He said, you live upon
the lands OF the white people and sleep In
their cabins, and if you laugh now at the white
people the time will soon come when you VII
laugh on the other side Of your mouths. He
condemned the action of the colored men IN
electing white renegades to positions OF trust
in the Legislature, and said that the other day
q adelegate from Charleston called ontio the
Speaker of the House, 81 have something TO
say" speaker-"I hear you, sirl" Delegate
III want to give notice to bring IN oil 20
abolish the Freedmen's Bureau in North "a
rolina." [Laughter.] This, he said, was the
style Of our legislators.
Pleasant Goode said that when he arrived in
Aiken as pure Democrat; he was looked upon
as menagerie show, and wanted a wagon to
go about in for exhibition. He alluded to the
Legislature, and asked why he (Goode) was not
elected, If they would not have respectable
white men,. he said he was not Like U. s. Sen
ator Tom Robertson, who applied to be made
went to the field Of war, and was ever ready to
take up his musket in defence Of the right.
BE said he had often stripped himself to give
comfort to the soldiers, and he would die un.
der the Democratic flag. He was soldier OF
South Carolina, and il any man was to be Gus,
ftanchised he was ready. he said he would
die for his State, and If his bones were dug up
principles would be found written on them.
At this point colored man in the crowd
asked question, and Goode said:
Are you Rada You are Then show your
tail. Radicals are like monkeys. They are
ignorant brutes, and are educated In kindness
by the whites, who, when they are converted,
cut off their tails. The Yankees didn't whip
us it was all the nations Of the earth. The
Yankees could not do it.
In conclusion he again urged his hearers to
stand by the Southern white man and the
Democratic party.
When Goode had finished, the main stand
was again occupied, and Mr. Finley announced
that the following letter had been received
from the Hon. j. B. Campbell:
CHARLESTON, August 8, 1868.
To Frederick q. Ford, Esq, Chairman Ezecu-
tive Committee aiken Democratic Club:
DEAR SR-I have delayed to the latest mo-
ment reply TO your letter Of the 2sth ultimo,
hoping might be able to accept your invita-
ton to be present at Aiken tomorrow, to wit
ness your "barbecue to the colored people, and
listen to General Hampton and the other prom
inent speakers from this State and Georgia,
whom you expect" regret to say I find my
engagements such that will not be able to
leave the city during the week; must, there
fore, forego the pleasure you 80 kindly offer.
It will be most interesting occasion. Its
purpose is one have profoundly at heart.
Next to the rescue and restoration OF our coun-
try and it's constitution and laws from the
sacrilegious hands laid upon them for destruc-
race from the odious and vulgar slavery con-
trived and being attempted by traitors to their
country, their lineage and to ciyilzatlon--1
have at heart the welfare and advancement IN
prosperity and happiness Of the colored race.
Our conscientious and laborious attention to
this purpose is as much duty to be discharged,
as it is duty to discharge the obligation OF q
ourselves. 1t comes to us from the pact, and
we owe it for the sake e'of the past. We owe it
to the future for the sake OF our children and
our country. And more sacred than all, we
eve it to the present, for the wonderful 10y
atty of the colored man to his owner and bis
owners cause during the temptations OF the
war;-and, considering the natural invitation
10 6XCebS65 Slfcu W puuuoAA OA4"AS
and by the seductons and character OF the ad-
yenturers whose influence he was open to,
we owe something for his conduct since the
war.
In nv Judgment he is the best friend Of the
colored man who most practices towards hum
the duty of justice, kindness, fair-dealing and
material aid, teaching him the way to pros
perity through thrift, industry and education,
and who entices him least into the field OF poll
tics; than which, there is nothing more cor
rupfing to persons like him, just emerging
from q condition Of pupilage. True, the dis
cussion of political subjects with the colored
man is at present forced upon us. The circur-
stances in which ne are placed, leave us no
choice. It is necessity. But would not extend
the field Of discussion beyond the limit Of actual
necessity. I would make him no promises
which might not be sure can and will here
altar be performed; 4iwould hold out no hopes
to Ehfin, whichI might not believe There will
Understandable expectation OF being realized.
would tell him, truthfully and frankly, that his
present political supremacy will not be and
canaot be permanent. That tine worthless ad-
venturers, who cajole and deceive him
to advance themselves, and, like night
mare, press their he,Hy weight upon
MS, knop this. They have never IN
tended or expected the substantial and per-
manent advancement Of the colored man.
They aspire to use him, and, for their own
selfish purposes. to array him IN hostility
against those with whom he was born and has
lived. till We shake off their suffocating en-
brace, when they will, like the oppressive spirit
have likened them to, take their fight and seek
more genial regions. would tell the colored
man that whether they shall succeed IN this