Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-08-26

EF The Phia. Eoening Bulletin (Rad-
ical publishes without comment, the fol
lowing striking speech by Howell Cobb.
Let every white man and woman read it
You ask me about the negro how to act
in regard to him. l reply: Treat him
Justly, generous, kindly. Undeceive him.
When the cunning, thieving, miserable
wretches who are travelling through the
country try TO deceive him, 90 to him and
tell him the truth. Tell him that the
charge that you want to put him into sla-
very again is false. Tell him that YOU are
now, as you have always been, his best
and truest friend Tell him to inquire
who were his worst enemies in the davs
of slavery and he will find that they
were these miserable scalawags who are
now pretending TO be bis best friends
Their masters were their best friends in
those days, and those who were their
masters then are their best friends now,
and will continue to be good to tbem.-
| never talk politics with my negroes, and
vet thew voted with me, and will do it
again. The only argument offered them
was four pounds of bacon, one peck of meal,
a quart of potatoes, a good doctor when
sick, and one fourth of my crop. That's
the very best argument YOU can offer them.
Try it. You will find that it will convince
all sensible negroes. | don't intend to de-
ceive these negroes. don't want to put
the idea into your heads that you can con-
troll this country. You cannot do it. If
you don't know this you ought to. The
white people will control it. If they
should wrong YOU in any way, or attempt
t. deprive you of any of your legal rights,
| will stand by you and defend you-at
the court house, here. everywhere. in pro
tectIng you in the enjoyment of all your
civil rights. These people will vote for
you, my friends, if you will be candid
with them and tell them these truths
| But suppose that the present state of
things continues-suppose that negro rule
becomes foisted upon this State, what will
be our condition? / would ask the good
men Of the North to reflect upon the re-
suit to look upon these mothers, these
daughters, these little children. these
good men and true; and l would say to
them Do you think that these women
and children and good men ought to be
placed under negro rule !! Do you be
lieve that the negro ought to be elevated
to social equality with them? DO you
believe that our parlors and our dining
rooms should be thrown open and the
negro invited to come into them, into the
society of our families? Tell me, We men
OF the North, have you mothers, daughters
and sisters Look at that little one
kneeling around its mothers knee see
the tear-drop gistening in that mothers
eyes see that sister clinging to her pa
rents and asking for protection from these
outrages. Oh men of the North would to
God that you could stand here and see
these women, in their tears growing pref
tier and prettier these children, in their
supplications growing sweeter and sweet
er, Tell me, could you, sec this bring
them down to the degradation of negro
equality? They could not but respond
to such an appeal in your behalf, my
friends. And if they could not resist it
oh. my counirymen, how can you resist
it? call upon you, then, not to over
throw your government, but to preserve
your Constitution and the institutions ol
your country. and in ambitions wild hour
never forget these women and children
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