The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-09-29
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from the Mtbiis Register
THE NEGsIkO m POL1IICs

l borne SBOEG8S NOAOlre-NA- = = Nclaf
GENrLEMEN: 1 am not speakes
because am not man 9education.
| hut I am a Southern man and have
the interest OF my people atsheaE
and I desire to talk TO thenas- and
wiz commence by telling mem an
anecdOte. We omit the anecQotet0
abbreviate. Rep. 7 ~ The = Indian
once owned this country, and for
while he and the white man lYea to.
2ether they fell ont, as you are try
| Ing to fall out with the white man,
and where is the Indian to-dayT Zee
him on your streets as he cOmHs 1nom
his pine-bark shanty to sell nghtWood
at ten cents a load for his Dfea9:
] This is what'you are coming 10, L
/ you follow the miserable teachings Of
Radicalism. -T-7.re ,Ir5L
+ 1 came near going the way of the
| Indians over a year ago: Az Ina6
time I was working ca the Dauphln
Street Railroad, and getting ninety
| dollars month in their shops. A6
was fat place for me. I was grow
fling rich and happy my wife and
children were happyy 1ofi We were
laying by a good SUM every month
was working with my old owners
,adYa ana friends, and some OF these Raditt Hiit
Gals came and put taeIr arns about
my neck, and said. Brother, cOfner
With me to the leagues 1T is the place
Tor yousgthe place to Lelp you.nusA e..
am sorry to say so, but / went;
listened to the lying promises and
i pledges OF the nelI / met there In
9 few days the President of the road, ,oH.
/ who paid nae ninety dollars month io1o
came to mes and said, Clay, you are "a
forsaking your people and Helping
these carpe6@baggefs stuff their, peck II
cts and ruin us with taxati on. fyouo2a
/ go and Teteiwith these people, you y
must leave this shop. ~ i stated this; o.
fact in thelleagae the night before %
the election, and three hundred men n
got up and said. ttGo and vote, and
! we will stand up for you ;this is what
the league sfor. - 81 Ibid go and Yote,g
and next daya1 was walked ont Of -
the shop. In two weeks-nny family
| had no home, and; 1s1Wtas for near i 4
i Twelve nonths5in e. Shanfy without -
q roof outside of tOWngand hardly a..
/ piece of breaddt to eat.49zW here was H.
my league friends then? ;qI went to-
them and they turned away and did -
not have time to talk to- me, and IT,
Esorne OF the white : gentlemen
had not come and taken me up 'Hl
lagatn lwQrld haYeStarYsdfo forbFead. g
lone other of BAY league friends got laY
jim the guaRd-heuse qa, a short time %.
after the electionA and disent4fey some e,ns
OF the 4eague)la laWyeB to get hiHa ousirs(
BThe lawyers would n0tEg0near him, q
\ because heeol1ld notFraise fifteendoi' go
lars. The man finally sent ferl his 30
4 old master, Isaac GDmoYRn, ,ssandv 1e -
paid him out WithoutIa, word. ..roqs.-a
] was raised with the white men
4 Of this Countryside gentlemen OF q
the South. Me andmy young master
used to fight whenT TWe were boys
The big ones would whip meran I'd
whip the little Onet and old master
fWOuld whip us all and he never s.
knOwed any, difference when we
NEEDED a whipping & Gnd the56 are
difference u We. would behaye, our r
tselves, and not be led asttray by iese I
: lying dogs who come here and say,
BrOthef; I left my wife AndehildreR
{ to fight for your freedom; slept in al
bitches for you; i double qpicked
forty miles before day, and eat raw -
/ corn for you; now Eeone- and help
me-" It is a lie. Those that AregE Ei
here that did fight and they are very
few, went in for the bounty and they. {
came down for the bounty, and they,
are hugging the darkey for the boun-
ty, and nothing else; and you, my
cJlored brothers, mGy see it too late
I to do you any good. - A.-t
4 ~ Why is it that wages are now re-
Educed for you and your wives to
eight and ten dollars q month? It
II IS because the Radical Williams have Ne
1 got the taxes so high on the white
people already that they cannot pay
am sorry to say that some of my
} race has not as much sense in this
I thing as brute The simplest man
. in a Iunatic asylum has more sense
J than four-footed brute, and yet if4a :
i dog or horse comes to your door and .
you feed him, he will come back, Rndsz,
If you keep feeding him he will keep
coming back. But not so with some
I of the coiored people in this thing Of
Il politics. They get their bread from
the white people of the South, and 20
have been getting it from them ALI
their lives, and yet they are quitting,
their doors to run after few carpet
II -baggers, who are honeying ithem q
Il only to rob and to stRrYe them. . 81 4
For the little while that I rum
with the carpet-bsggers, / took up G
i with the most respectable looking
one in the eity-a preacher called
Brother Branch BROTHER Branch
taught school in the city, and Wonld ef
preach in the Baptist Church In the
morning, MethodisGin the afternoon,
and any where that he could get
crowd enough to take up collection 81
from in the evening. .a B.t1-s afl s
| generally went with him because ,
felt sorry for him-he was so meek
and 30 mighty good. The sisters
would always crowd around him and Pa
learning at school ?1 His answer
would be. ''Oh, darling little Mary
will 90 in the First Reader next
week." when little Mary had d-never
been out other A, CssE .EIzL a szEG
Brother Branch Always wore big
holes in hisshoes and clothes and
n took up collections for him two or .
three times e. Sunday until we gotEoi
his pockets fullg and soon after we
had made one or two big collections ID
which went into brother Branch's
hands; that branch tce,1E dry; he run
some other way, and nobody has
seen him since. And this Is what a
the last one Ofthem are going to do! q
And where Will you be, my coloFed -
friends, after you have done all the
damage to theWhite race of this land =
which you can do2 Will itnot be too
late for you to ask favor of them I
then2 They need your help now Il
they will not need iit after awhile, ~ j
and now is the time to help theha.I 81
Some poor folks talk to me about
being ashamed ofa colOred Democrat
I am ashamed of carpet-bagger or,
a scalawag thief. And If / were
raInmed in q cannon to be blown out,
my last proHdest word would be-
4 democrat, for know Democracy to 4
mean right for me, and right and
l'salvatiOn for my people,
In conclusions, 1 VIII repeat you a
little piece Of rhyme I fixed up In N.Y.
head while eating dinner, and il
/ will show you what RadicalIsm
4 meansS fOr, you all know something
about its s,'7-7>S rsy,ye- 5i'l 11I 80
ann n !. the man called SIaibCt.@ Stores,