The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-08-21
GOOD ADVICE.

GOOD ADVICE.
Will rBE NEGRO RACE. HsEp rnI
WARNIxol
The Richmond Whig publishes the fol-.
lowing letter wsittsn, It says, by negro in
Africa who has lived there nearly twenty
yeap. We commend it to the perusal oi
the colorsd men Of Georeia, lares major.
ity Of whom need the counsel conveyed to
them:
MoKTRAvIA, LIBERIA. Jan. 8, le0o.
/ have now lived in this home az The
African nearly twenty yeara but tAva
not forgotten the old scenes in. Vieri15S.
nor the kindness Of my friends 10 -
days. wish it was in ny power 10 & z
turn for a short time, that my voics micff
be heard BY my colored brethren ofslhe
Southern States.
| am anxious for their fate. AZ T1fl
here, The shores Of this continent filed VII
. native black popul alton, and look across
the great waters over your continent filed
with white men, ! cannot bu, be fearful 10
regard to the future Of the few millions Of
people Of my own blood in the South, now
left to their own resources. I see a tide
Of white men pouring over those fields
which have heretofore fed them; .
tide coming from the overflowing popula.
ton Of Northern States and Europe. l re-
member how that tide, when feeble and
slow, swept of the native Indians, and
now, - it rushes IN its might, WHAT'S to
shield the tsansp'snted African from its
wavesl can think Of but one hope for
him.
II, a. = body, the colored people Of the
South shalt identify themselves with the
white people who now occupy and hold
the coil, gain their affection and conf
dence, and become useful members Of their
communities, they may float above the
torrent and still dwell in peace among the
a6sociations Of the past; otherwise they will
in the lapse Of years, be buried beneath it.,
Or washed, like drift wood, into the burn
ing zone around the Equator.
And yet the occasional letters and pa
pspsrs we receive here from the United
States tell ~ that political dsmogogues
from The North, peddling politics for their
owa pro6t ore exciting our race to hostili-
y towards the whites. II they shall be-
come the dupes Of such emmissasisa. their
fate u sealed. The scattered white men
on THE continent Of Africa might ~ we'll
array themselves against the native tribes
Of black men, With the expectation Of
meeting isythisg but destruction 10
the pursuit q such folly. feel some
con1dsooe that the moro intelligent por-
tion Of tho people Of color will not b led
astray BY adventusess Who will use them
while they reap any psnosal profit from
pe etendef friendship, and desert them
when they please- But the mas have not
had time to learn lessoos Of political Wis
dom, and the prospect 6lls me With sad
nssS. II could but make them hear me,
l would appeal 10 them to make common
Gauss with the white people Of their own
land, 70 take advios and counsel from soeh
men. - have been known to them through
their ives 70, their high character and
honesty and intelligence. to seek the we1-
fare Of the people oa whom they most de-
pend through al time for their own pros
pesity, TO do no act which shall give 70 the
white population just caase for en-
nifty, and thss identifying thsmselves with
tie ocnmasisill 10 which they dwell, ob.
tain tos thsmsslvss the most powerful Of
allies against those which threstes their
very sxiatssoe. Say this much to them
for me. s. w, w.