The Arkansas freeman., 1869-10-05
4ciS Speuk L0udcl' 2A0n UoauS.

During our residence in this State
we have had many convincing proofs
that the loud professions of friend :
ship for the colored man, made by the
Radical politicians, is all humbug and
moonshine. They love the colored
them, so far as professions go. simply
because through their votes they are
put and kept in good paying offices.
There iS no PRINCIPLE in this Rebels
would do the same thing, If the col
ored voters were to put them back
again in Office. 1t is n matter, after
all. simply of dollars and cents.
But. as we SAID before, we have
many convincing proofs that these
Radical politicians, who. in most
cases. used to be old Border Ruffian-
Democrats. are, really, at heart hos
tile and unfricndly TO the colorcd poo
pie. Did not Gov. Clayton start this
Chinese movement, for the purpose Of
bringing cheap labor in the State ~Op-
posed to the cOlored labor of the
county? Did he not propose to go,
IN person, to California, and secure
30 900 Chinese laborcrs for Arkansas
And did not his organ. the Little
Rock REPUBLICAN, favor the move
ment, while nearly MI .hn democratic
papers in the Sta.s 1t a. being
unwiSc and iniurlou.:
And did not that same organ make
an argument TO PROVE that a negro
was ineligible, under the constitution,
to seat in Congress, while all the
rebel press. even, were contendlng
that. under the law, cOlorcd man
was entitled to all the political rights
accorded to the white man:
When we started this paper, for the
purpose OF benctitting the colored
people. planting it on the platform OF
the Republican party, and pledging
it to the support of Republican men
and measures, did not these Radical
leaders oppose and denounce 1t, and
are they not now trying to break 1t
down and destroy it? And why? Just
u manner
and. if successful, they feared it might
be used for the purpose of raising the
heads of the colored people LITTLE
TOO HIGH They were afraid we would
put notions in the heads Of the colored
men that might induce some of them
TO become candidates Tor office, and
thus interfere with their schemes OF
keeping the colorcd people down only
as '.hewers of wood and drawers OF
water. - whilst TREY would hold all
the paying offices, and pocket all the
money.
There is a Printers Union in this
city, composed principally Of en-
plovees in the Republican = office.
This Union have elected all the editors
of the city papers as honorary mem
bers: but, when the editor of the
FREEMAN was proposed as an honora-
Try member, every employee of the
- Republican, - save one, voted
against him, and he was rejected.
Why? Because he was "a niger. -
If any one of our colored brethren
want to probe and test the friendship
of their white Radical friends, let one
of them try the experiment OF running
for the big paying offices, in our next
city election, for Mayor, or Police
Judge, for instance, and then they
| will find out how shallow are their
hearted professions, as we have
| done.
There is Mr.. Hodges, who made
the SIC, 200 out OF the Penitentiary
| Contract, who is mighty loud in his
professions of friendship for the col
ored people. but he has had one OF
them sent to the Penitentiary for lit
tie petty theft, that would not have
been noticed by real, true friend oi
the poor colored boy, whose ignor-
ance, perhaps, was his only crime.
But that is not all that Mr.. Hodges is
doing. He is working the Peniten-
tiary convicts on good fat outside jobs,
for which he gets well paid, on which
the honest colored laboreI of the city
ought to be employed. And he is
now trying to use his influence with
the colored eople to have officers
elected in the city government that
will give him the contraction building
bridges, and other public works, on
which he will employ convict labor
to the great injury and prejudice OF
the honest colored laborers of the
city. So far does Mr.. Hodges carry
his love Tor the "nigger," that in
stead of employing good, honest
colored girl as house-servant, we
are credibly informed that he appro-
PIRATES the services of one of the col
ored convicts, for that purpose. And
Mr.. Hodges is the very King of4the
Radicals in this town ! We wonder
when our colored countrymen will
have their eyes opened to the false
professions of their Radical friends.
If our colored friends would turn
their faces against these bad Radical