The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-15
THE SOUTH AND THE COLORED VOTE.


AdreItness Of the Southern Pollticians.
REMARKS OF GENERAL J b. GORDON.
In the course Of a speech delivered in Charleston
on The 18th instant General James B. Gordon of
Georgia-the representative of ''Young South"-
addressed the cOlOred portion OF the audience as
follows:- gsN b,
In the few words shall say TO you, my friends,
II you will listen to me, hope to deal with you
candidy and honestly. The radicals have told you
believe me- this Is a were sous
your freedom; Gaughter) We were ali opposed
eyes, that's So" from the crowd.) And why was
this so? III tell you. We did not do this because
we were your enemies. but because we had bought
you and paid our money for you. Great laughter.)
You belonged to the Northern people once and
some people think you belong to them now, in the
Loyal League. 1t the Northern States that sent
to the shores OF Africa and captured and brought
your fathers to the North. And when your labor
became unprohtable e: they sold ti you to the
you that the North brought on the war to free
you. Let me ask why didn't they set you
free when they owned YOU You might then have
been born free. and might now have owned the forty
acres which the lying rascals promised you. ! say
that they did not wage the war to free YOU ana no
honest solder who participated in 1t Will say 80.
The Idea never was entertained General Grant
himself at time threatened to quit the service
you were freed. They set you free because they
wanted to you, not from any love they bore you.
And now they tell you that we are your enemies.
Have we not been born on the same soif Are not
our interests identcalY Have we not grown up TO-
gether and have not our fathers been buried under
the same sOdf Why, then, are we your enemiesS
You nave been told to arm yourselves against the
whites Cries Of mo- non Well, / am glad to
hear It, What would be the result OF arraying the
Two races. contest will come, which VIII be
war OF races; then which race must trumphY You
are In the majority Oh the seaboard, and could
destroy many people. But my friends, let me tell
you the moment the war OF races S inaugurated that
moment the death warrant Of the black man on this
continent Is signed. There three millions OF
your race and forty millions Of white men. Now,
ask you In all reason which race must 20 DOWN.
The speaker then alluded to the assertion OF
Helper, who said that before the year 1872 no black
man will have habitatiOn on this continent In
quoting this the speaker Saddle says because Of
speculation. Lands are scarce In the North, they
have surplus of labor and they desire to blot out
your race In order that they might come here take
possession OF the place and cultivate the land The
Indian once lived where you now live, but where il
men, and he went to war. The few scattering mounds
that are left In the State speak the result. Now this
gnIar to reIae large majority Of the racs mem
bes OF Congress are subscribers to his book and are
giving it circulation.
Now speak plainly. II you are disposed to live
In peace with the white people they extend to you
aSg9rate war OF races you VIII DC e1etmna 1
to be ruled by the African. These are truths. We
want peace with you We cannot live as enemies.
One or the other must go down. Ii you turn deaf
to the Southern man these green leaves that now
clothe the forrest will not grow red with another
autumn before they will he drenched with your
blood and mine.
LETTER FROM JAMES d. CAMPBELL.
The following is an extract from q letter written
by Mr. James b. Campbell, OF Charleston, in reply
to an invitation to attend meeting Of the de-
mOcracy in Abbevie, >. CT
But we have great and responsible duty
to perform to another class OF our pOpuatiOnto the
colored voters. 1t is duty and the chief duty of
the canvass TO omit no honorable ana truthful effort
to convince them Of their In following the men
who are now leading them. 1t Is desirable aud es-
senta to our success In this State to them
OF this, but 1t is OF even greater Importance than
present success that this shall be done by nothing
that is not truthful either in representations or in
promises. The long future which is sure, is not to
be forgotten or neglected under the pressure and
eXigencies OF the brief present. In our jealous
efforts for the present and the approximate future,
we must not damage the hopes of that long future
which is TO follow tomorrow and the days and
months and years that are to come after In politi
cal affairs as well as in the higher purposes Of life
the anXieties and struggles OF the present must
not betray from the contemplation OF the future
teach above all things to stand steadast by prin
ciples and to practice justice and truth to all per-
sons This is especially due from us to the col0red
people, because they weak and for the most part
uneducated. We are strong and have all the advan-
tage which education gives. We are their natural
and senerest ' We are not not to be- separated from
them unless ls,,t they So DO It, That Sreduty
Of educati9a sHAfGts pthfYe 4es,ssSinTn na msa
WHO are using them to their ultimate ruin. They
are told that We would return them to savery-to
unequal laws-unequal legal rights-and all the
inlet upon them.
From the days when lying demagOgues taught the
people whom God had delivered from the Egyptians
TO discard Him and set up craven images and q
golden calf and to accept themselves In the place
Of their faithful friends their never has been
abomInable falsehood taught to the credulous ana
ignorant.
/ would have this proved to the colored pc ople.
This be safely Gone, because IL can be proved
that we were willing and necessary party to making
them free. The radicals and their Congress have
declared that the abolition OF slavery was illegally
done. They insist upon IT, We deny IL. We say It
was lawfully done, and The great issue now before
which made the c0lored man free were lawful or an
lawful bodies They say these Legislatures were I'M
lawful, and alleging this they have failed to provide
for the emancipation Of the colored man by those
show HIM this and that we, and not the radicals,
are irrevocaby bound in honor, by law
and by own unchanging inclination,
to assure him perpetual freedom, perpetual
enjoyment OF equal laws, equal legal rights equal
and impartial administration OF law and Justice and
all the blessings Of liberty, property and prosperity,
which these can secure, just in the same way and
just rs fully as they can be secured to the
white man. But 1 would tell hm-calmly
and kindly, but without the least reserve
not have durable political and governmental su-
premacy. He cannot govern this country. He can.
not make Its Presidents through his Senators,
they have threatened, unmake President. IL Ia
ment OF the government has once said so. IL was
about to say so again when Its voice was sted by
corrupt Congress.
II we discharge duties to him and he stil pur-
sues the OF ruin will be his great rrevocabe
misfortune aud not our fault. The future Will be
safe to ruinous to him; but IL will be to us with
out reproach and without shame guilt for his mis-.
fortunes.
NEW JERSEY.