Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-09-10
BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON.

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without word.
| Why IS it that wages arc now re-
duccd for you anL your wives t,
! eight aud ten dollars month? Il
is because the Radical villains have
got the taxes so high on the white
people already that they cannot pay
any moro.
l am very sorry to say that some
OF my race have not rs much sense
in this as brute. The simplest
man in lunatic asylum has more
| scnsc than q four-tnotcd brute, and
yet if Il dos or q horse comes to
your door, aud you feed him, he
will come back, and if you keep
feeding him him he will keep COM
ing back. But not so with some of
the colorcd people in this thing of
politics. They get their bread from
the white people Of the South, and
have been getting it from them all
their lives, and yet they arc quitting
their doors to run after carpyt-hag-
gers, who arc ho"cying them only TO
rob and to starvc them.
was raised with the white men of
this coun;ry-thc gentlemen Of the
South. Nc and my young masters
used to fight when We wcrc boys. The
big ones used to whip nc, and 1 would
whip the little, and old master would
whip us all, and hc never knowcd any
difference if VIC would behave our
selves, and not be led astray by those
lying dogs who come here and say,
" "Brothcr, left my vito and children
to fight for your freedom; slept in
bitches for you: now como and help
me-" 1t is 4 lie. Those that arc here
that did fight and they arc very ftw
went in for the bounty, and they
came down here for the bounty, and
they arc hugsing the darlscy for the
bounty and nothing else, and you, my
colored brothers, may sec it too late
to do you any good.
For the little that I run with the
carpot-baggcrs, took up with the
most respectable looking one in the
a preacher called Brother Branch.
Brother Branch taught school in the
city, and would preach in the Bapti.
church in the morning, in tlH Icthod-
i*t in the afternoon, and anywhere
he could get crowd enough TO take up
= collection from in the evening.
l generally went with him because
[ felt sorry for Lim-ho WAS 50 meek
and so mighty good. The sisters
would always crowd around him and
ask, Brother, how is my child learn
ing ut school?' Ills answer would
be, ooh, my darling little Mary will
so on in the reader next week" when
little had never been out Of her i, Is,
C's.
Brother Branch always wore big
holes in his shoes and clothes, and
would tell how poor ho was, and we
took up collections for him two or
threo times a Sunday, until VIC got
his pockets full, and soon after VIC
had made one or two big collections
which went into Brother Branch's
hands, that branch Was dry; he run
somo other way, and no body has
seen him since. And this is what the
last one Of them is going to 10 as soon
as they get something to go on. And
where will You be, my colorcd friends,
after you have done all the damage TO
the race of this land which you can
do? Will it not bc too late for you
to ask favor Of them then? They
need your help now; they will not
need it after awhile, and how is the
time to help them.
Some poor folks talk to mo about
being ashamed Of colorcd Demo
crat. I am ashamed Of carpet bag
ger or scalawag thief: And if !
wcro raiamcd in cannon to be blown
out, my lastand proudcst words would
be Democrat; for I know Democracy
to mean right for me, and right and
salvation for my people.
In conclusion, will repeat you a
little piece of rhyme I fixed up in my
head while eating dinner, and it will
shown you what Radicalism means,
for you all know something about it:
This piece Of p,etry compose,
am the man called Claiborne Stores.
The Radical party is never at rest,
F'r here 80 little they possest
They pick our pockets-rob our purse,
And leave us oil ten times worse.
They shipped for Texas some time ago;
1t made the crew quite glad you know;
They sung their songs; they pat their juba
They fell asleep and woke in Cuba
A letter with an undccyphcrablt
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