The Arkansas freeman., 1869-10-05
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RIPLEY, Ono, Sept. IS, 1869.

| ihc writer anu you are no Slranp
ers, and this will therefore. need no
apology. The merits and dement's OF
our firm, are well known to you. and
he writes TO You only to solicit share
of patronage which, in his judgment
should be accorded to one strnrrlinr
to keep up business which all ae-
knowledge is beneficial to him, ana
which reflects honor on the entire race
in these parts. A Foundry. doing all
| the bl sincss required of such an in
stitution, and sustaining itself, where
white men of ability and means have
| failed, carried on under tho entire
control of a colored man, lis not met
with in many towns of our Union
de feels, therefore, that he may con
fidently ask the patronage or the
Southern colored people. ana horez
this may not be considered mn intru-
| sion on your columns.
Ii is admitted by all that we should
now be a unit in action. ms well i'm
business as in politics, and in every
way we can strive to build each Other
up. This is the true key 20 success
TO us as whole people. and tho soon
er we act on the principle, the sooner
will our influence be felt throughout
the breadth Of our common country
Does one Of our own farmers want
merchandise, and a cOlured man has
1t to sell, let him that wants give to
his own color, that has it to sell, the
/ preference. A plow made BY black
man, tells for us more than hundred
tirst-class speeches; and it they were
circulated half as much as the speech :
es, would tend ten-fold more to en-
Tighten the world rs to our capacity.
The speech maker, aside from Ills
speeches, may be delicate lounccr
The man who makes the plow, If
properly encouraged, never. A gene
raj disposition TO help each other. nI
all branches of industry, and more
especially the useful arts, where he
who pays feels n consciousness that
he gets the worth ofhis money, Is the
thing we most need, now that we are
entering on new, and ii is to be
hoped, glorious era in our history
But it will only be glorious in pro
portion as we rightly use the means
now put at our disposal.
We look upon ourselves as an op-
pressed people, and so we are. But
in the light OF History, is the prcu-
dice against us any greater than that
which has beset other tribes and ma
tons which have lived in this world
OF ours: Take the Jew, for instance.
and we commend his case, for near q
thousand years, to the careful con-
sideration of every thoughtful man
among us. What treatment, for long
years, was considered too harsh for a
Jew? Chided, on all sides, among
Christian nations, for having been
principals in the murder of the Son OF
God, "a worse than the mark of Cain
has followed him ever since that mem
erable event. Nations have We'd with
each other in doing him injury. But,
to-day, the Jew, by his purse, com
mands the attention of the proudest
rulers in the world; and, what is re
markable, he has no paupers, such a
thing is not allowed in his communi-
ties. They are, as we should be
united in action, in trade, they give
their. own the preference. Let us
profit by SO good an example,
Our firm proposes to send an Agent
smong the Southern people-thc sale
Agent to be colored man. He viii
ask the trade of our people in particu-
lar for our stock, and such things az
we manufacture. We hold ourselve:
prepared to give full satisfaction, il
what we sell, and only ask fair tria
to prove it to the most skeptical.
We manufacture engines, varying
in size from ten to twenty horse
power; Dorsey's patent reaper anC
mower; and sugar mill, which thu;
far has given universal satisfaction
Besides we expect, this fall and win.
ter, to get up an assortment of stee
plows, which we will guarantee tc
do as good work as any in the market.
In Jobbing, we are prepared to do al
that is usually done in our line, or
short notice.
win such an Agent be likely to bt
well receiveds BY patronizing eacf
other, and giving encouragement tt
our mechanics, we will multiply mer
of business and trades amongst us,
and thereby heighten self respect
and thus do an endless amount 0
good.
The writer highly approves youl
policy of universal amnesty and uni,
versal suffrage. He considers it a.
the great means by which we are Il
eventually restore peace and harmony
among all the people of the country
Any policy which disfranchises larg,
number of people, in this country,
must always breed disturbance anC
do harm. But more of this hereafter
This communication is perhaps al
ready too long. Send three or fou,