The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-08-15
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Words Of Sobcrness and Truth.
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s Words OF ,Sobcrness and Truth
sA SENSIBLE coLonED MANS ADVICE TO Ills
BRETHREN =. aa'i
Alr.J. A. Wood, of Screven County, Gcor-
gin, sends to tie Savannah Me,cs and Herald
H letter which lle has received from an /, old
family servant, now living in this State, The
tetter ), which might be read to good purpose
by every colored man i'll the State who is not
Zoo blind to know the difference between a
Southern white man and Northern saddle
Iassger, as follows -. II =, ~
/ s. BARNwELL DIsTRICT, S. c.,
49, - ~ ";as July s, 1868
5 s aiy sBelore.1 Btrth4Ai- = ~ -. If tho
Southern people aru uuf elehlss, ,t@here must
We go to find our friedtls7 AYE cau1ot go to
the Radicals they live in the North. They
c9nc South, Tool us out of our votes, go back
/ hple, and never thiuk of the n,gger till they
git out Of Office md want anothcreones .s.ss
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fI toll you,3inoncyis is at tile rooB pfalftheit.
rssllish talk and rnsoally acts We haye
of; Iaid that would be given to the Black
nah, but VIC have never seen itsyut, nua never
will see it.. Idon't bclieve,thc just updfwould
sufur the work OF such injustice to 60 on: and
these sheep. p.hcadcd Radicals can scot ,iar
into the future not to know what the i'll
consequences would be if they attempted to
take away the Southern lands. WAS Radical
once; I'll tell You what changed me; Whom
came to this place i'll january, / had not
bread for my family to cat. There I was, with
my dear little tender ones, suffering for some
thing to cat. Oh, brethren, you do not know
how my brain burned, how my heart was made
to bleed, By the cries of my starving children
[ went to my Radical friends. They would
not lend me one bushcl of corn; but the
gracious Lord, in his infinite wisdom, directed
me to the Denocrats--tho whom I once
called my enemies. found food for tho
hungry, drink for the thirsty, aud nm now
happy, because feel that / have friends
They will let me have what want, but we
can't get anything from the Radicals unless
VIC get the Democratic man to stand our sccur-
ity. Which of the two act like our friends !?
| tell you now, if you are not working to sup.
port your Southern friends, you had better
erc you learn to do 60 to your sorrow. Go to
the Bible. 1t will tell you that when Christ
was on, earth, IIc told tho people to beware of
tho publican, which is the samc as nadioal7-
nor do as they did. You know, brcthruh, If
tho Saviour spoke Of them in that way, they
nust be grand rascals. We are poor, pitifu
creaturcs-got no homu no money. Let us
work, then, to make friends. How in the
world can VIC live but in and through the
Democrats? You may think they can't do
without our labor, but they can they can set
white laborcrs. Dear brethren take my adyicc
1 love you, and if sou do not wish to wound
my feelings, stick to the Southern man. JJc
is your friend
If you will joiH inc; t wait you to come
over uiiu live with me next year. If you don't
I bill you farewell, brethren yes; a lung fare
we'll will havo nothing more to 10 with
you, only when yutif sweet ihouthed Radicals
leave you, to starvc. Then vii! give you
brcad-tlic Democrats brcad-to keep you
alive 4
May God move from your eyes tic scales of
Ignorance, that you may sec tho path Which is
leading you to your own ruin.
l have fine crop Of cotton, corn and pota
toes. ! hope wei all have good luck, and
mako money enough to buy us piece of land
from our Southern friends. Answer this letter
as soon as you get it. Tell me all about my
friends. Your affectionate brother,
AARON WOOD.
p ST would like to have it published
sir, SO that all my colorcd friends can sec
which is tho right way for them to vote.
The house at Yonkcrs, which was Washing