The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-04-09
For lie Columbia Phenin.
Beverly Nash, and tlic Freedmen.


To, ~ b. NASH. SIR: THE I'M
dersiened. cnlaerea Ea.on, friends TO
their race and members Of the
Democratic party, avail themselves
of this medium of arraigning you
before the public, for language and
sentiments uttered by you to q
large assemblage of our people,
on last Sunday, in the vicinity of
Adams Cut, in this District. In
the first place, you said the reason
why the freedmen made no money
last year, was because the planters
and factors agreed together to keep
the price of cotton down, in order that
they. the freedmen, might not be
able to rent land this. year. This is
entirely false, because, to our certain
knowledge, some of the most reliable
gentlemen in this neighborhood lost
so largely in their planting opera
tions last year, that they have not
been able to obtain advances from
their factors, except to o very limited
extent; and in consequence these
men can put in cultivation only a
small area of soil. If these planters
made money, they would certainly at
this time be prepared to plant large
ly in cotton, especially as this article
has such an inviting price at this
time. Such sentiment as you have
uttered, is the very poison of the
asp, breeding distrnst and suspicion
on the part of onr colored brethren
towards those who are naturally, and
in all truth, our best friends. -.a
In the second place, rs to our people
not being able to rent land. because
they made no money last year, there
is an entire plantation of hrst-rate
land, the Bulkeley place, rented by
Mr.. John 2. Adams, administrator,
to my neighbors-colored men--on a
years credit. Does this look like
keeping our people in bondage to
capital in the hands of the whites?
In the third place, you said, that in
case your party (the radical partly con-
trolled the Legislature of the State,
in the coming election, the stock of
the South Carolina Railroad, owned
by the State, would, by Act of Le-
gislature, be converted into money,
with which to purchase thirty acres
of land for every colored man in the
State. Three years time, with seven
per cent. interest, to be allowed the
purchaser.
Sir, how could you utter such Ian
guage, 80 contrary to all truth, JUS
tice and reason? Why do you seek
to disturb the friendly relations ex-
listing between our people and their
true friends, the Southern whitesf
Such doctrines will bring about war
of races between our people and the
whites, destroy labor III the country,
and the result of the whole will be
the ruin Of our race. We deplore the
Language which you took occasion to
utter to large concourse of our peo-
pie on last Sabbath, and on the spot
where love and good will should as.
cend to Heaven, and not discord,
hatred to and distrust of our neigh.
Dor be the motives that polluted your
lips. And now, in conclusion, We
leave you, regretting that you are
trying to lead astray our people, and
that you are yourself led astray by
the low and corrupt teachings of un-
principled white men, who have not
the respect of their O,on color, and who
certainly ought not to be trusted by
ou people. Your obedient servants
WILLIAM BOYD,
W. w. ADAMS,
LEWIS BROOKS,
JOSEPH MARTIN,
Colored.
GADsDEN, s. c., April 7, 1868.