Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-01-15

The election for President was immedi-
ately entered into, resulting in the choice
of John A. Taylor. Esq, for that position.
On motion, an additional member was
placed on the committee of Investigation.
The Chair announced as this committee ::
Messrs. NJ. Cronly, S. L. Fremont, ". J.
Everett and ". L. Smith.
On motion of o. G. Parsley, Esq, the
thanks of the meeting were rendered to the
Chairman and Secretaries.
On motion, the meeting adjourned 10 the
third Wednesday in March next.
Daily Journal. 14tA.
Troubles of on-Letter from "a
Negro
STATE OF n c..
Jan 9th 1869
Well SAM hab som ting to ak you
what am pressing on my mine most dis
trusingly-de fakt is it am Nv de gretust
importance to all Nv we black fookes indiv-
vidually and collectively. It am not bin
long sense you knO Sam when We ware told
dat dare was to be universal equalurty be-
man, but we was to be put Superior to echite
Southern maxwell, den was de time when
de gretust Gen oh de knone wuld ware
candidate for de presidency of desc unigh-
ted States-Ebery WHARF we met up wild
de radikul geatul men of de big class dey
wuld tell as all desc fine tings about supe-
rierity-what war to be our pekuliar privu-
leges in all futur time-well, by golly we
went to wurk, we hnnted up all of our rase,
except them WHARF dide before de time,
and we even had sum OBJ dare names put in
de box, we ware so ankshus to get our tikut
eikted, VIC had wun or too jolifykatiuns
arter dat, and we looked around at our
konditiun and we seed nun oh desc big
kurs had all gone-we war wild out wurk-
wild out bred-wid out ciose-wid out mete
and cherry ting whar brings kumfertto phi
sil1ul man-whot was next to doO-dese
big genteel nun had lef us amung de very
fookes who day sa ware our onemise-We
had dun nuf alreddy to git dar i'll wil-dey
had de lans-dare was no radikul white
men here to help us-indeed de radikul
while here am WIS dan de niger, kase he
is nither white man nor niger, but taks
his seete behind us and axes US please
don't forgit him but Civ him sum chanse
of de krums-welI, in dis kunditiuns
NV tings what ware to be dun
we had seed enuf--Ee had found out
enuf to demunstrait the insinserity Nv all
desc speakers thru de kuntry-dare is not
wun Nv dem nors, but what hav fownd a
greasy spot to seton-dey hav shone dare
interuSt IN oar 2Celfdir? We ak dem for
help, and dey will tell you, oh only be
quiut leetle Will longur and guide times
will kum-dey are ibing on all de good
tipgs Nv de airth, at our kOSt; too which
I wood hab no objecktiun providun we
had got what dey promused-indeed [
wood not komplane any how, but for whut
dey hab last dun; and what am de trubble
which, J. kant git Ober-y0u kno dey glib |
us de rite 20 vote in all de elekshuns-datl
is 10 say, from skule commissioner to
Presidunt ov desc United States-wel you
see Sam when de time was for US to vOOt
for dem, and day was rite here mong us, |
we ware goode-honest, Intelligent enuf
to voote for any boddie-you kno dey ware
here den dey wanted our vootes-dey |
knowd it wood require SUM saft solder to |
git we niggers to blieye in dair professuns |
of interest in our welfare-being as how
sum ov dem war yankees and sum ware
wurse-but dey did git our konfdense-
we vooted-we Civ dem our unyted and |
Individual support-and de very fust ting
dey do, after Citing pour, ware to obJlkt to
our voting for offisers in de kuntry-you
mite voote for offisers in de sity, kase dare
4 H. I'll
whut to debut we kuntry niggers didn't
kno MT to be husted-Sam dis am de true
staff OF the kase-We are told dat de COB
enor must pint officers in kuntry, kase he
nose better dan we do what men we had
better voote fur. If we coold be trusted
to elikt dem, what rite hab dey tC say we
shant voote and elikt our men here p
II we had bin intimeete wild dem I spose
dare mite hab bin sum objikshun to our
habbing de privilege to voote in dare eliE
shun,: yes, spose dey wood hab had some
hause TO doubt de salty oh dat nauoe-but
you see, Sam, we did, kno I'm, and dare
fore our present situation alas I! alas
Sam, what am we to doc Ebe1y day
pruves to us our deplurable condition
We havs protest frens, and dat IS dH-w
need advice-gude kounsil-and who is to
Civ it Am de present pets OBJ de gobenOr
caperble tink not-when I seed a poor
bIak man tried tother day for stealing, and
when his lawyer axed him, arter he was
aquitted who advised you to do this he
told him, echare aCe all kould lear it, that
two magistrates had advised him that it
ware his propurty, and he had rite to it,
and dat ware the reason he luke it-Sam
we blak fookes am determd to Voote fur
nun oh desc gentlemun whar doubts our
qualerferkashuns to UOOte fur oar men here
in de EunTy-We am determined In dis
free Ian of hours to be as free as desc big
men in de sitties, and what is more, we
will hav our officers of SIGH men as we think
air fit to make goode wuns-we kno who
is to suter, if We havs ignorant men elk
ted amt it a purity spot of work to ty
our hans, and then tel us we air free p
air we any better of now den, when we
were slaves ? do we live as vel as we did
den ?-no-hongry, homeless, raggid, pen
nighliss and despised, we air desarted by
our own party men, and with all of our
suffurings and disadvantages, we air in
suited and laft at by the Demokrats who
tel us your marsters have dram the strings