Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-21

editor in the South, or small tra1lckerS
ir sentimentalisms, or any ofthose peo-
pie who speak from the raw and childish
preiudices of an untraUeted or Bourbon
existence. to impeach for real patriot
ism, or to challenge on the grounds of
wise and generous humanity. My re-
gard for the negro has a basis infinitely
broader than political party. L owe
him many happy hours in that early
home of my childhood, where not less
than five hundred slaves constituted
the ancestral estate. The .humor, the
tenderness, the real virtues of his race
had impressed my heart, even when he
had no opportunities of showing these
qualities but in the hard and narrow
fortune of the slave. | believe l was
the first to invent for these then de-
spised creatures poetic name. wrote
the book BLACK Diamonds" more than
ten years ago. risked my life, even
in the days of slavery, TO defend poor.
nameless negro on the Notifications OF
Richmond from the brutality of white
overseer, whose fierce bullylsm had
hitherto been the terror of the cowardly
city-that city which has furnished as
sassins for its modern heroes; l fought
him to the point of bloodshed; and L
cringing slave, whose only claim to my
protection was that he was wronged and
stricken in my sight. My battle with
"Hagan, the King of the Cherokee Ma
ton" I am ready to renew with what
ever lawless man dares to abuse negro,
or any other unprotected human crea-
ture in my view. l intend to STAND oy
the negro in the South, and before
weapons of the -KluX-Klans, or the
more cowarily sings of libel and abuse.
OF the male members of Il family greatly
ravaged by death there only remain
myself and Il brother in Lynchburg,
Virginia, and dare to say that there is
not "a negro who has ever lived III the
home of either of US, or knows either Of
us. but would stand by Us in any diff
cuity or peril. For myself, here, SOL
emnly, touched by the spirit Of many
recollections of what has passed in my
life, remembering many loved ones
among humble and despised people,
speaking in no disposition of egotism,
and with no possible accent of boastful-
ness, declare and pledge myself that on
every occasion and i'll every presence L
shall protect and defend the negro to
the last extremity that justice and hu-
manity shall ever demand of me.
EDWARD A. POLLARD.
Letter of Horace Morris.
The following is the iettor of the
Kentucky negro referred to i'll the
above by Mr.. Pollard:
LOUISVILLE, KY, March "a, 1870.
Ea,Uard 4 Pollard Esq:
Dear Gr-The only apology L make
for seeming so bold in writing to you, an
entire stranger, is that l am colOred
man.
have read your article-'Fhe Negro
in the South"-in the April number of
Lippincott's Magazine, and | stretch my
hand along the distance, grasring yours
in friendly honesty, and pray God
that more like you-men of decided
take the same broad and
enlightened views. L sub: crlbe to all
YOU say, in the main, but must put IN
an objection to one idea you advance
4. e.. that colored men would advance
their interests by taking up the good
men of the South and placing them Ill
positions filled by 'carpet-bagger5," as
you term them.
Now, the great difficulty with us is
that we cannot find white men OF the
class YOU mention. How many Wade
Hamptons, General Longstreets and
Edward A. POllard5 are there in the
South? Are we not forced to identify
ourselves with the Radical" party, The
only ,rty as such that has given us
| admit that the Repu5iI-
can party has in some cases been hasty,
i'm Others seemingly harsh upon the
people OF che South, yet the antaSonism
that has been shown the coiored man
by the unthinking masses has compelled
him. no matter how much his better
Judgment may have repudiated all
to acquiesce under the cir
/ know that the thinking
norton of the colored people are opposed
to ANYTHING that is calculated to breed
They desire to be on friend
lv terms with the whites, knowing that
the interests of each are identical; that
"what is sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander." to use u homely express
sion: that what benefits the white man
benefits the colored man also; and what
is am injury to the one is an injury like
wise to the other.
Men of your style of thought cannot
hope for coiored men to identity them
selves with Il party that has Tor ITS
such nlen as Brick Pomeroy,
s.Fernandy" Wood, Vallandigham,
seymour. Hoffman and "fddling BliP
MiIngen in the North, and Ryland (?)
Jesse ID. Bright and the ku-
K,uy-E Elans in the South. You could
not would not, think that we had any
in us, but that, spaniel like,
we would lick the hand that smote us,
Here in my native city we have petit
TONED. time after time, that "the pow
ers that be" would open one or more
cchools for the benefit of our children,
(they tax us "for school purposes, but
they will not even answer uS-we nave
knocked at the door, but it will not open
unto us. When clothed in the garb of
full grown citizens, can We vote for those
who will not even listen to our prayer?
Will we not rather put that man In
office who, though IAN adventurer,"
still is willing that justice shall be done
unto us?
In The very nature of things the Re-
nublican party, like all other parties,
must grow old and die, or die prema-
turely. (the Democratic party lis not
only dead, but it stinketh." To keep
If alive it must have good men and true
at the head. And like other parties, i'll
the course of time it will become more
and more corrupt; but so long as it re-
m, ins the party Of progress, the col
ored man will be found in its ranks, and
yeur good Judgment approves his choice,
though you have not got that far along
yet, sir.
The Democratic party being dead, a
new party can he built upon its ruins
a party Of liberal views, broad principles
that will embrace in its ranks all
lovers of their country-who know no
North, no South, no East, no West; but
YOU cannot do it with such men as Sey-
mour, nor Pendleton, nor Hendricks,
nor any man of the past. You must
have men for leaders. The old fogies
are still mourning at the shrine where
G,1,i stc,..l IlhaM re hali nd