The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-08-19
IDAHO WORLD.
A MODEL SPEECH BY A NEGRO.

The Mobile Register gives the following re-
port of speech made in that city short 1lme
ago by negro. He said:
Gertlemen-I am not a speaker because |
am not man of education, but l am Soutn-
ern man and have the interest OF my people a. a.
heart, and I desire to talk to them, ana WI
commence by telling them an anecdote. IVY
omit the anecdote to abbreviate-Rep) Inc me
Indian once owned this country, and for a"niie
he and the white man lived together; they leli
ont as Won are irving to fall out with the Whlte
man and where is the Indian to-day! See HIM
on vonr streets as he comes from his plne-Dark
shantv TO sell lightwood, at ten cents load, Tor
bread This is what you are coming TO, II you
follow the miserable teachings OF Radlcallsm.
came near going the way of the Indians
over wear ago. At that time was working
on the Dauphln street Railroad and getting
ninety dollars month in their shops. IL was
q fat place for me. l was growing rich ana
happy, my wife and children were happy tor
we were laying by good sum every month
was working with my old owners and TRENDS
and some of these Radicals came and put their
arms about my neck, and said, " Brother come
with me to the League; it is the place tor YOU
the place to help you" | am sorry to say so,
l.
and pledges of the men met there. In a lew
DAYS the President of the road who paid me
ninety dollars month, came to me and said,
"Clay, YOU are forsaking your people ana help-
ing these carpet baggers stuff their pockets
and ruin lis with taxation. If yOn go and vote
with these people, you must leave this shop.
stated this fact in the League the night De-
fore the election, and three hundred men got
nm and said. go and vote, and we will stand
up for you; this is what the League is for" !
did 90 and vote, and next day / was walked
out of the shop. In two weeks my family had
no home, and | was for near twelve months
in shanty without roof outside OF town,
and hardly a piece of bread to eat. here
was my League friends then went to them
and they turned away and did not have time
to talk to me- and if some OF the white gentle
men had not come and taken me up again, l
would have starved for bread.
One other of my League friends got IN the
guard-house, a short time after the election
and sent for some of the League lawyers to
get him out. The lawyers would not 60 near
him. because he could not raise fifteen dollars
The man finally sent to his old master, Isaac
Donovan, and he paid him out without word
I was raised with the white men OF this
country-the gentlemen of the South. Ne and
INV Young masters used to fight when we were
boys The big ones would whip mo and
would whip the little ones, and old master
would whip Us all, and he never knOWed any
difference when we needed whipping; aud
these were the men who wouldn't know any
difference if we would behave ourselves, and
not be led astray by these lying dogs who come
here and say, Brother, | left my wife and
children to fight for your freedom; / slept III
bitches for you; double-quicked forty mile:
before day, and eat raw corn for you; now
come and help me" 1t is lie. Those thai
are here that did fight, and they are very few
went in for the bounty, and they came dowf
here for the bounty, and they are hugglng the
darkey for the bounty and nothing else. and
you, my cOlored brothers, may see / too lAtt
to do you any good
Why is it that wages are now reduced iol
you and your wives to eight and ten dollars ;
month? 1t is because the Radical villain!
have got the taxes SO high on the white people
already that they cannot pay any more.
am sorry to say that some of my race ha:
not as much sense in this thing as brute
The simplest man in a lunatic asylum has more
sense than Our-footed brute, and yet II do!
or q horse comes TO your door and you iec'
him, he will come back and if you keep feed
ing him he will keep coming back. But not 81
with some OF the c0iOfed people III thIS lhItI!
of politics. They get their bread from tn
white people of the South, and have been get
ting it from them all their lives, and yet the
are quitting their doors to run after 4 fey
carpet baggers, who are honeying them onl
to rob and to starve them
For the little while that / run with the cal
pet-baggers, took up with the most respects
bic looking one in the city-a preacher, Gale
Brother Branch. Brother Branch laugh
school in the city, and would preach in tn
Baptist Church in the morning, in the MethC
dist in the afternoon, and anywhere that h
could get crowd enough to take up collectlo
from in the evening.
l generally went with him because | teI
sorry for hlm-he was so meek and so might
good The sisters would always crowd aroun
him and ask, "Brother, how is my child learn
ing at schOoll" His answer would be, "Of
darling little Mary will go in the First Reade
next week" when little Mary had never bee
out of her A, B, C's.
Brother Branch always wore big holes i
his shoes and clothes, and would tell how poo
he was, and we took up collections for him tw
or three times Sunday until we got his pock
cts full, and soon after we had made one o
two big collections which went into Brothe
Branch's hands; that branch 'cent dry; he ru
some other way, and nobody has seen hir
since. And this is what the last one of ther
are going to do as soon as they get somethin
to 90 on. And where will you be, my colore
friends, after you have done all the damage
the white race OF this land which you can do