The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-15

the bounty of our white benefactors, and while
pretending to their faces the greatest deVouon
and gratitude, We have invited among us name
less adventurers from the North, and scabby
outcasts of white society at home, and secretly
and deceitfally formed ourselves into oath.
bound leagues, in antagonism to the interest
and honor Of the very best men whose kindness
shelters, clothes and feeds us. We have done
all that we could do to degrade them by placing
over them ignorant and corrupt men. We
aspirad to rule and govern the very men who
own the soil we cultivate, the houses We occu-
py-who employ us in the business OF Life, who
aid us in building our churches, and who shell
ter and feed our familes.
What claims have the Radicals to.our favor ?
What have they done for us They tell you
they restored you to freedom. The Radicals
have sprung up since the war. ), They have
come into existence as q party since the war
and since you we're emaucipated, and OF course
they did not free you. ,..r-. I'D ~. :. ger.
The Radical party has no claims on us; they
are our natural enemies; they are the descend
ants Of the men who sold our fathers into
slavery, and they are now depressing us by
their unjust taxation; they are: robbing us Of
the means Of earning an honest living without
benefLting the government. They will never
do you any good. Beggars hardly ever con-
tribute much.to those from whom they live by
begging. ,-.
plainly. I would warn you Of the dangers just
before you. T warn yon against the men who
would receive office at your hands and would
desert you in the hour Of sorest need. Turn
away from such creatures and come back to
the friends to whom your minds are always di-
rected in time of rrowZthe friends who can
do most for you.
NoRTH CAROLINA. .,e.
Burton McNesl; q highly respectable colored
man of Salisbury, N. o.; 'is tout in Q card
seyerine his connection the Radical party,
declaring for Seymour and Blair, and advising
his friends to edo Ikewise.ss u vi saieo sra,
The negroes Of fHopeYell, Mecklegnberg p Coun-
ty, N. G., have formed Democratic club l
A'large number have joined it, and they have
officers Of their own, - h21' ':s9l'l''"p ~
The Tarboro' IN. C.) southerner states that
Sandy Long, of Halifax and Eaton Robinson,
both colored men, and recently appointed ma
eistrates in their respective. counties by the
man t'who writes himself Governor have Ia g
thrown The appointment back in his face with
disgust. -
-ARadical having lectured Wilmington ne
gro on account OF his having allied himself to
the Democratic party, the African returned
ansxer;o uipiT lo Ttf rshlo.s %; .a;:'il
Under your teaching we have alienated from
us the mass Of the white people North as well
as South; you have got the offices and emol d,
ments, while ne have done the work and stand
out in the cold. For one; am done with you.
GEORGIA. ..s,,-,
At q large Democratic meeting at Harlan,
Ga, on the 9th, which was addressed by seve-
raj noted Southern speakers, a.large number
Of colored Democrats were present, proudly
displaying ON their apparel Seymour and Blair
The following letter Is from colored man o.
Wilkinson County, Geor gia: ~, 81. .55
TO the Colored Voter, of oWilk!ns0ns ! ane q
my .pEAR FRIENDS Feeling that. it is my
sacred duty to behiend my race as Tar as J
am able, in any manner whatever, nave con
cluded to write you a letter, kindly advising
and speaking with you in it upon tie great
subject now distracting and disturbing our
nH lAnS in this advice desire you all earnestly
to understand that intend to utter only what
my heart tells mesis the truth, and what are
nv honest sentiments and. convictions. ]
want YOU also to understand that have moi
come upon these convictions and facts in 0
moment ora day, but they are the fruits o!
actual experience for the past three years, and
also Of though. and observation IN the course
Of that. tiule; and rest assured that my eyes
have been widely and eagerly open to the j in
terest OF my race and my people.
Then; my friends, know now that am
hor nd raiQoH in (fa0rp1Q ann
have spent the greater part OF my Life II
Twigqs County; and believe me, when I tell yor
that I haye some education-that is l can reat
and write, and OF course can spell very well
and AMI athe author Of the feelings and senti'
uents of this letter. -; ,.re,.,l = -
Ihave this, then, to say to you: That have
come out openly and boldly upon the Conser
vative or Democratic platform, with our true
Southern white men, whom we might have and
ought to have known long before this were anc
are our only friends. rL.,
And now say to you, my friends, that it il
not only your duty to come out and go witt
them and vote with them, the Conservative
vote, but beg them and ask them to forgive III
for voting with a Set Of heartless liars ant
thieves and scalawags, against every principle
Of honor and truth-yes, against my good anc
your good, and the Southern gentleman's in
terest, and for whatp Ask yourselves. viii
you, for what? Have you got your muller
amt got mine yet; and they told us right here
in Irwinton they was going to. give us one
Have you got your forty acres OF land? Have
you got your $1,000 in greenbacks? Echo an
swers whar's your mule instead OF here's YOU
mule. -, 80,
We'll, now, what do these rascals do witt
your vote when they get it2 Pl tell you, my
countrymen. They get into Office, tax us ane
our white friends on everything we make, cal
it government money for free schools for US
and buy mules and land and to keep up the
army, to keep honest Southern men from put.
ting us back into slavery, and oil such LES; anc
[ thank God that I have opened my eyes te
our true condition.
Every > hite man in the State OF Georgia was
represented in Mlledgeville in 1865, and there
t,ok solemn oath that elayery never should
exist again in the State; 80 that settles going
back into slavery with me. This l know, my
friends, and am satisfied fully upon the sub
iect, 1t is my object to do all can from this
tins to the November election to wake my peo.
ple up, and beg them to think about the mat
ter. Think who is your friend. Now, ask
YOU, who is your friend? The man who proves
It every day that you live, or the man who
has promised to be your friend for the last
three years, and lied, and proved that he hed
Wake up, my friends, wake up. How car
you go to your old master, or your employer
with any thing but sneaking look on your
face and ask hIm, please to do this or that favol
for you, when you have just been and voted
against him, for somebody that never has, mol
never will, do you favor? I'll tell you how
I felt. Just as mean as if my employer hac
caught me stealing one of his sheep. And
4lxntE Col oa hf1 ~