Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-08-28

SOME Of the Northern papers arc
beginning ie,speculate upon the inn
proving pr spects that the negro vote
in the South will be cast for the Dem
i ocratic party. That this result, can
be secured, there is abundant reason
to believe, ind all that is needed is
judlcious AID energetic effort OH the
part of Coz Sentative whites. An ex-
perience Of three years Is teaching the
negro the fallacy of Radical promises
and the still more important lesson
that negro prosperity is solely de-
pendent upon the good VIII of the
whites to whom the lands belong and
by whom colorcd labor is needed.
| We venture the assertion that no
carpet-bagger or scallawag ever lost
an opportunity to swindle negro out
of the Hast dime he had, and we call
upon the negroes themselves to say if
it is not so. How else do they live?
They come here, in most eases, with
out the no cans of support, and by
humbling themselves to the lowest
negro level, set to work TO get office
or some agency which will enable
them to handle the money of their
colored dun 'es, and in addition to bus
mess relations, their ingenuity and
greed sugg est numberlcss pretexts for
weekly OF monthly contributions
which pas into their own private
Golfers. -rf
Having forfeited theirpledge to give
every negro forty acres of land and
mule, and having, instead of helping
to support The negroes, contrived to
make the negroes support them, the
most stupi. among the colored men
are beginn hg to see the trick. They
are beginning, too, to discover that it
was not fl lendship which prompted
the Radicals to give them the right
to vote, bot that it was given in order
that negro IS might give them Office.
And If the present Legislature could
know that the negroes would vote the
Democratic ticket, it would not ad-
journ without taking away the right
which has been conferred from base
and selfish motives These truths are
beginning 70 impress themselves upon
the minds OF the negroes, and well
directed ef ort now can not fail to turn
The scale a ,ainst the Radical deceivers
Of negroes end betrayers of their own
race.
While feeling it to be our duty not
10 withhold these truths from the ne
Sroes, we state candidly that we would .
lot turn upon our heel to make every
me of them Democrats. They have
lone their best for two years to keep
themselves above us, in the political
cale, and are trying still. The time
5 not distant when things will change
md the harder they fight against our
lights, the harder will we strive, when
he time comes, to strip them of a
light which they so grossly abuse. A
legro who votes that we are not as
'ood as he IS, shows spirit of revenge
nd fund of ignorance that assures
IS he is no fit to be trusted with the
ighest privilege of citizenship, and
he oftencr he so votes, the more de- ,
viii be our effort to deprive
i'm of the right he denies to us. If ]
70 ask no favors we are bound to
rant none, and since the negroes
ave declared political war against ,
he people Of the South, we are for [
ghting it out on their own ground I
they win, we can't vote; if we !
lin, they 'han't vote. BY sticking
} the Radicals they force this issue {
pom us, and for one, we meet it firm
: and without a regret.
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