The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-06
THE CIRCULATION OF THE "DIsPATCH :"
rs LARGER THAN THE COMBINED CIRCU-
LATIoN OF ALL THE OTHER DAILY NEWS
PAPERs OF THIS CITY.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 6, 1868.
THE COLORED DEMOCRACY OF
ISIANA.
A DEMOCRATIC SPEECH FROM A NEGRO
ORATOR, WHO SKINS THE sCALAWAGs
AND CARPET BAGGERS. -"..
From the New Orleans Times.

the purpose OF carrying the war into At
rica and Of whipping out the carpet-bagg-
| gers ut their own game. The result of about
six days trial in this direction has been
| quite satisfactory, and there are already
| four clubs organized within the city under
names and managed by officers chosen by
themselves. The scheme is taking like
wildfre. But it appears that in some of the
country parishes these measures have al-
ready been anticipated, and in the last cleo
! ton there were at least ten members OF the
Democratic party who were actually chosen
! by the ballots of those wly-entranchlsed
people who were formerly the slaves OF the
very men whom they now select for parish
and municipal Offices and to represent their
interests in the General Assembly. In the
| speeches made to the colored men, colored
| men spoke to men of their own class, who
| knew their feelings and who felt as they
felt. The feeling in the country has ex-
tended to the city, and six colored men
spoke last night-three of them to the Color
ell Constitution Club, and three of them TO
the Draymen's Democratic Society, on New
Leyce street. The colored men are coming
in by thousands, and we will 90 out on elec-
ton by ten thousand ajority.
SPEECH OF Mr.. PENNYwIT (NEGRo).
"Gentemen and friends,-I feel that lam
justified in using that phrase lcheersI-
We have met here for the purpose OF think
ing about the state of the country. ldood
| humor.l We have come here to express our
! views upon the state of the laws, and l
would like to know-it is q state Of usurpa-
ton and tyranny" He apologized for his
| ignorance, and the crowd excused him IN q
| loud roar. He said he was a d ID - Demo
cratic negro. [Cries Of "bully for you'll
He came here to speak in plain language,
and he told the crowd it was the first speech
| he ever made in his life. He went on IN
plain matter-of-fact style, said he was
a colored man, and q subject of this mis-
ruled Government. He said he was agoin'
to die with the Democrats. [Cheers.] He
said he had rather be the slave Of q south
ern gentleman than live under the carpet
baggers. He looked upon every one OF the
colored men before him as a free man with
himself. He said his old mas'r was still
his friend, and the only friend he had. lie
| said the southern people had right to their
| own country, and he was goin' to help him
to hold on it. [CheerS.] lie denied the
doctrine that the Union army freed him,
and said it was Jefferson Davis and the
southern army freed him. lie said he was
| a pastry cook on steamer, that nobody
| knew him, and he wanted to set himself
right. If the Union army freed him,
| he should like to know how it was that A.
Lincoln stopped sucn long time be-
| fore he rendered the emancipation procla-
nation. Had it not been war measure the
| colored man would not have been free
to-day. Had Jefferson Davis conceded
| ANYTHING to the Union, and come into the
Union, Government would have fettered the
slave forever. Cheers. He was going to
| fight ii out on the Democratic line, no matter
what the consequences might be. When
General Lee, whois an educated gentleman,
surrendered, his people were to 60 nome
and then A. Lincoln came out with q pro-
clamation that all men had their civil rights
on taking the oath. They took the oath,
and then Congress disfranchised them. He
said that when the earpet-baggers stuffed
their carpet-bags with clothes, or with old
paper, to make an appearance, and when
they got it full of good things by cheating
the colored man, they would take him by
the nose and say, "You black rascal, you
may co." These people who have lived
here always, own the country, nave bought
and paid for it, and in the end they will pre-
dominate, depend upon it. | tell you
they are your true friends, for we must all
live in the country; We. must 1--we together,
and we must turn against the carpet-bagg-
GERS. whom we ask for benefits, and they
stuff us with tracts. [Laughter.l He spoke
throughout with strong eafnestness and
| forcible style; plain, short and hearty Sc
| ries of expressions full Of home-bred
phrases, and but for the fact that he
strained after big words would have been
eloquent. "With all the assistance you gel" "
said he, " of your so-called friends you can
not get majority-you cannot get ahead.
The CARPET -baggers only want your help to
get into power, and when they get in they
will turn against you, depend upon what l
say. The Democrats, you, Mr.. Carpet-bag-
ger, say, are our enemies, but can't help it,
I'm agoin' with them. ! will live and die
with it." - s<s - So. T. @S|stS "a
SPEECH OF ROLLINS. ,.s.-...r
Mr.. Willis Rollins was introduced by the
President Of the meeting. He is a tall
man, black as he can be, full face, side
&whiskers, and voice sound, resonant, and
impressive. He was received with wild
cheer both by black and white in the hall,
who were, by the time he rose to speak, as
closely packed as figs in boz The
speakers voice was clear as bell, and the
can't phrases which he made, as well as the
home bred way, in which he spoke, made.
him all the more popular in the crowd. IS
He said that the tune which the band
fJaeger's) had just played put him in2mind
of q piece which the music. used to play
when he once "was goin' round with Cir
GUS" [Laaghter.] 1t was one he used to
love when he was o boy, and it made him
feel as if he could speak. But he felt rather
hoarse he had travelled all the way
through Mississippi, and he had /" spoken
his way right down here" and had made
up his mind 'tfor to come down and lead
his people, 80 that he might let 'em all
know the R-r-radical ruin which now
threatened the country" = L.
Now that l have got easy, am going to
tell YOU that what my friend said was right
the carpet -baggers did not free the colored
man, although they say 80. 1t was the
Dutch and Irish that freed us. When they
started that row down yonder, the carpet
baggers, ] knew could only depend on our
own folks. got across the river [laughterl,
."for the SON Of man fieeth, and the day OF
salvation cometh,'' and. that is the reason
why / got away. You cannot depend upon
them. They will never get You out Of
scrape aSser they have got you into 1T, and q
] knew that when ]. got into skin
and a Frenchman rowed me over--l knew
he was Frenchman, for remem-