The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-06-29
Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.]

nation, saying that n MI. DAVIS
would lay down his arms aud come
back in the Union, and 60 to paying
tariff again, the Southern people
might have their niggers Thinks T.,
humph mighty poor chance to get
any freedom from you Mr Lincoln.
Laughter tell you what, I felt
mighty bad for long time. l had
the blues 80 bad 1 was almost black.
Laughter.l I think in two weeks 1
have fell off twenty pounds. 1 was
so fraid Mr.. Davis was going to do it
I couldn't sleep. But by-and-by the
good word come that Mr.. Davis said
shed be d--d if he'd do any such
thing. Iain't fighting for the niggers.
Let the niggers 60. I'm after my
own freedom first before anything else
in the world" tell you my heart
jumped up right up in my mouth.
Thinks I, bully for Joff. Davis! He's
my man! All, my friends, if the
Yankees had been in Mr.. Davis place
you'd been in the cotton patch to-
day with the whip after you, instead
of sitting up here in this court house
hearing me speak. Laughter. But
don't you see the difference between
the Southern man and the Northern
man. The Northorn man never miss.
cd the chance of taking care of the
dimes first.
And now the oarpot-baggers come
here and tell US they are our friends,
and the Southern people our enemies.
They tell us they set us free. Oh,
yes, they've done it all, no doubt
They set us free about like they set
the mules free; Ben. Butler set the
spoons free. Immense laughter and
applause They done it all to help
the Yankee and ipjure the Southern
man. They can't fool this nigger. l
know who brought the nigger to this
country, In the first place the North
ern man brought us here, and when
they began to lose money on the mig
ger they put the niger in his pocket,
sold him down South, and then, to
keep the Union to make her pay tax.
es, tkeJJ ttss:-.::s a.caaaa al! Sc. tbs mig.
ger and the mule and the spoons free,
and they wouldn't have set anything
free Excepting tho spoons,] If they
could have got the South back in the
Union without it. a.aa
They. promised him the s'forty acres
and the mule" I know FIVE niggers
that starved plum to death waiting
for that mule and that forty acres
(Laughter.) Id like to know where
tho oarpet.baggsr got his forty acres
You all remember the devil took tho
Lord up into a high mountain, and
promised if he'd fall down and serve
him he'd give the whole world, and
the old scouudrel knew all the time he
didn't own foot of land on the con-
tiDent. (Great laughter.)
The carpet-baggers ask me to cast
my vote to keep the white folks down.
Nog all l ever wanted was to get on
. level with the white man. I never
wanted to get above him. They say
a nigger is better than white man in
Cincinnati. Well, that may be tho
truth--in Cincinl'ati. But it amt
true down here. 1t is my interest to
stand by the Southern man, aud it's
my wish too. Whatever law is made
to effect the white mans plantation
also effects my little cotton patch in
the same way. The three cent tax
on cotton hurts me worse than it does
the white man. But it puts money
in the Yankees pocket.
They want to disfranchise the white
man, and make the digger put them
into Office, and they may have taxes
aud things their own way. They
never would have passed law allow.
ing niggers to vote if they hadn't
thought the niger would vote the
Republican ticket. Never, NEVER,
NEVER. Who believes otherwise b
Not this niggor certain. The Yankee
brought the niger here from Africa
for selfish purposes, set him free for
selfish purposes, and now they want
to vote him for selfish purposes.
Il RIVAL ron BoNNER's DExrER.--
At race OH the Magnolia course, at
Mobile, on tho 9th Of May, dark
bay horse. formerly owned in Charles.
tion by carpenter, trotted a race OF
Eve heats to o wagon weighing l3G
pounds, and the driver weighing liz
pounds. The last and slcwost heat