Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-29
/? 1t was because they hated the black

IL !! Lit was because they hated the black
people. There are comparatively few black
people in Ohio, and it would make no diff
ference whether they vote or not There
is no reason why the black people In Ohio
should not vote, except that the white
people there hate them. So if those peo-
pie want you to vote, it is not because they
love you; it is only because they think they
can make something out of you. You had
peter have nothing to do with these Yam
kee adventurers The advice they give
you is bad advice. ...rITf =
NOW listen to another thing. Less than
week ago, 1t was proposed in the Senate
OF pennsylvania to let the black peopIe
vote: The members of that Senate are
nearly all republicans-the very men that
are pretending to be your friends. Well.
what did they do? ..--'
why, almost the whole of them refused
To give the black man any showing. That
shows how friendly they are. That shows
the cloven foot You had better let them
alone. Do you know why they want you
to vote It is not because they love YOU.
You see that by the way they do at home.
1t is not because they think you are quail
fed to vote because they know you are
not qualified, and you know yourselves
that you are not qualified to vote, and do
not know what you are voting for. You
hardly know what voting means WHY
then, do they want you to vote 1t is on
ly because they think they can control
your votes so as to keep themselves in Of
fee In order that they may steal Do you
know that they have been stealing your
money already? They stole two cents and
half on every pound of cotton you made
last year. Now remember who did this
Stealing. 1t was not the Southern people,
old t. Al
Yankees. These very men who come out
here and pretend to be such great friends
with you, although they never saw you be-
fore, will pat you on the back with one
hand and steal from you with the other.
Now, we don't want you to go with these
people. We want you to come with U.s.
If you come with us, then we who live to-
gether can all be friendly together, and we
can make the Yankees stop their stealing.
But if you go with them you make trouble
here at home among ourselves. You di-
vide the house against itself You get up
black mans party here in Georgia, and
of course we shall have white mans par
ty. Now, are you willing for this ? Do
you think you are prepared to struggle
with the white people You must recol-
lect that when it comes to the final strug-
gle you will have not only the Southern
people to contend with, but all the white
people, both North and South.
Now, we, your old masters, do not wish
for anything of this kind. We pray God
that it may never happen. We remember
how faithful you were when you were
slaves. We remember how you stood up
to us during the war. We remember you
as members of our families. We were
boys together, we were raised together
We have not forgotten our old friendships.
We do not wish to break them.
We hope that no impairment Yankee
will come in between us and break our
friendship, and set US against each other.
These Yankees have told you that we wish
to put you back into slavery again. They
are miserable liars. We have no desire to
make slaves of you again. We never made
slaves of you in the first place. 1t was the
Yankees who did it. They will not dare to
deny it. It was Yankee money that brought
you from Africa. You came in Yankee
ships, manned by Yankee sailors. They
forced you on us as slaves when we did not
want you. And now these same Yankees
come here with lie in their mouth and
pretend to be your great friends. If the
money which they got for you, together
with the interest on it, were divided out
among you, it would give to every one OF
you farm and a fortune. When they tell
you that we wish to put you back into
slavery, ask them who made slaves of you
in the first place, and they will turn almost
as black in the face as you are.
No, we do not wish to make slaves OF
you again. Now that you are free, we want
you to stay free The time never will come
when we shall wish to enslave you. We
would not do it if we could, and we could
not if we would.
eknow that we are the stronger party,
and we can afford to be magnanimous.-
We offer to you the right hand of friend
ship. We do not think you are qualified
to vote We know you are not qualified,
and so do you know it, Still, at present,
knowledge that right. If you choose tc
vote with these few Yankees who are try
ing to make use of you for their own pur
poses you can do so. But you may de
pend upon it no good will come of it. Ii
will set you against your former masters
and it will set them against you: You hac
best keep out of that quarrel. We wish tt
keep out of it. We wish to live in peace
We wish to be like one family. Your in
terest is our interest, and our interest il
your interest. Let us all stand together.
We invite you to cooperate with us. L
will be for YOUR benefit and ours too. Whe1
voting time comes you had best go to YOU
old master and get him to give you ticket
that is little piece of paper, and he viii
tell you what to do with it. You had bes
get your old master to go to the voting
places with you. For if one of these steal
ing Yankees gets hold of your ticket, b.
will take it away from you and give yol
another in place of it, which will not do 81
we'll We should be glad to tell you al
about this, and the reasons for it, but can
not do SO in this address. Your old mas
tiers will no doubt take pleasure in explain
ing it to you.
Now, it is getting time to stop. But we
must say once more, that it will be lmpos
sible for the white people and black peo
pie in Georgia to get along together, i
they are voting in a body against eact
other. We hope that you will remember
this, and that is all we have to say, excep
this one word-that we are in all sincerity
ard truth your friends, and desire to re
main so forever, and if we have any trou
BILE, it will start with you and the Yankees
not with us.
FL. Fl. TUCKER, Chairman.
THOMAS STOCKS,
DAN. B. STANFoD,
GEO. @. DAVIS,
W. G.. WooDFN,
Committee.