The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-11-17
stupidity Rewarded.

otupAuAsy AsCWuh0Cus
The sagacity exhibited by the colored
people of the South, since the day Of their
emancipation, in refusing to follow the lead
Of such men as Turner, is worthy Of the
highest commendation. Loosed from the
shackles of slayery-never again TO be ex-
| hibited as stock, and cried off to the highest
bidder by the dealers in human fesh-en-
loving the inestimable blessing of being a
freeman, to sit undisturbed in the family
circle-.no more to take last farewell of
wife and children and then depart for the
cotton fields of the West--invested with
the right of suffrage, and the choice Of their
| rulers sit is the veriest piece Of stupidity in
colored man to be found in the ranks of
the Democratic or Conservative party.
Such instances of insanity are rare, but
do exist. And the deluded creature, who thus
acknowledges his want of capacity to enjoy
freedom, is more the subject of pity than
contempt. @ i,.s ii. A.,,..r,,g
One of the established principles of the
Democratic party is to cheat the colored
man out of his right to vote-to keep him
| from the enjoyment of the right to hold
office-to make him the serf, as Of former
days, and to place him on the same footing
as the Indians, with the simple difference
that he is to pay taz! With bland smile
these Republican orators and newspa-
pers will tell you this is false! But ask
them what are their principles, and they
cannot tell you. "Opposition to the Repub
lican party" perchance will be their vague
answer. We know this party-their men
and their arms, and we warn the colored
men to keep aloof from them-yicld not to
their pleasant smiles, for in turn they will
smite you, and crush you under their feet
We are led to these remarks by reading
an article that appeared in the Sentinel of a
recent date, which, we have every reason to
believe, is intirely false, and is but stretch
of the fertile imagination of the writer, to
hold up to the ridicule of his readers, the
Ignorance of the colored people" ,r
1t is true, the colored people of the South
are not educated to any considerable extent
it is equally true, that while in the bonds
of slavery, they were not allowed schools or
the use of books, and the white man who
dared to instruct them, save orally. subject
ed himself to heavy penalties. For this ig-
norance, colored men, you are now held
up to ridicule by the Sentinel, which
is an earnest of that papers love for
you, and which is an index of the
feelings and the policy of the Demo
cratic or Conservative party. 1t is against
our Ideaof propriety to ridicule or bring
into ridicule an unfortunate race-they have
olr sympathy, and We would rather elevate,
than pull them still lower down. .t.
To show the animus of the Sentinel, in
this respect, we copy from its columns, the
following very funny bit OF wit o which
we trust every colored man will read-and
that it will be read by white Republicans
to every unfortunate colored man, who has
not the advantage of an education. This is
in keeping with the respect which that pa
per has, in common with its party, for the
colored people: "At recent meeting OF
the Board of Brogden Township, Wayne
county, "fur de puppus of transactin de
biznes OBJ de country fur dat township F" as
they expressed it in the Record they passed
two road orders, and then adjourned, having
performed hard days work.
One of the Board being j. P, was then
called upon to "help set on a case" the case
being the trial of two colored females for
an alleged affIay. After paying crosse atten-
ton to the Obedience which was conclu
s;ve as to the guilt of the parties, the wise
Judge declared that " bein as how he was
onaquainted wild de procedures in SIGH
cases, he was enable to CUB Judgment +"
whereupon, bystander suggested that the
the vote of the crowd be taken, to which
his worship consented.
The justice then put the question:" 1t
has been moved and seconded, dat dis
case be dismissed, all of you who is in
favor oh dat motion will let it be known BY
saying Aye, The vote was unanimous
in the affirmative, and the case dismissed,
and the last our informant saw of the par
ties they were going towards the doggery "to
git de money changed to pay de coss."