The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-09-08
Plain words Fsely Spoken.


Mr.. SoLoN Johnson, we'll informed
and sensible colored resident Of Baltimore,
has written letter TO r T. DANIEL,
Esq Chairman of the Virginia State Con-
servative Committee, in which he appeals
to the colored voters to support the native
whites at the polls. That he fully under
stands the subject upon which he writes
may be cleaned from these extracts:
Few books have been opened to us except
the great book of human nature. That book
! confirms what the Bible has said. that we
must Judge men by their fruits. What fruits
have the Radicals put forth since the theatre
meeting that We should put any more faith
IN them now than before We have sense
enough to sec that they are using US oniy to
put themselves in power, and it is AZ insult
to the intelligence Of our whole race that they
expect thus to use it, and be permitted 20
use it. and not even be suspected as having
any other motive than our good and happi-
ness.
/ have always believed. anG still believe,
that the white men Of the South, among
whom the coiored men were raised are bet
ter friends of the colored men than strau-
gers, who know nothing of their ways and
habits. and who believed that, in reality,
they have become debased and degraded be-
low the level of human beings. All their
dealings, personal and political, with the
colOred men, proceed upon the theory that
VIC are in reality an inferior type of humani-
ty ; that we are unable Gas 10 fact we too
often are4 to Hpete with them in ntelH-
gence and cunning; that can be made
political slaves of, and even not receive as
mucA for it as We did in the old days of per-
sonal slavery. / ask any respectable colored
man II one of our race in thousand receives
much from his Radical masters he used to
90 frcm his oid masters. or if he gets anv
pay for voting for them TO ol3ice except soft.
hypocritical words, that cost nothing and
mean nothing
They tell US we owe TO the Republican
party our freedom, as if none of rs had
learned enough since the war to discover
that our freedom was 'war measure'
brought about by the providence Of God,
through the necessities OF the Federal Gov
ernment. and that we should never have
had it If The men whose fathers first sold our
fathers to the Southern people had found it
to their advantage to keep US in bondage.
| appreciate that freedom as much IS any
man. Thank God. and Him alone, for it.
| will never part with it any more than men
of any other race will part with their poIiti>
cal privileges. But when a wLiuing cheat
informs me that he has got a fortune for
me by the will of God, and charges me a
hundred per cent. for the nfol nation, have
the right to look upon him as an impudent
rascal and knave. This is just what the Rad /
icals have been doing.
believe it is the true interest of the whites /
and colored people Of The South to be friends /
for we all afloat in a common vessel. I
and if we get to quarreing she is sure to
capsize and 90 down with both. They were
born on the same soil, raised there. live there .
now, and expect to die there. Whatever /
increases the prosperity of one increases that .
OF the other. We know the whites of the F.
South, and whatever they intend thew sneak .
out, and have no sly, secret. uuderhand pun I.
poses. l. for my part. have confidence in
them, and if they bctray it it will be the FIRST
time.