The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-04-29
MARIETTA GEORGIA FRIDAY MORNING. 80, 1870.

thirty-six miles" Thinks / to myself,
"Humph! pretty good driving all in
six hours too !" But heap of people
think the niger is fool.
Well, l sorter thought, maybe, the
Yankees were really fighting to free the
niggers. But they didn't keep the wool
over my eyes long. | watched 'em
mighty close. One day the news came
into camp that Mr.. Lincoln had done is
sued his proclamation, saying that if
Mr.. Davis would lay down his arms
and come back into the Union and go to
paying tariff again the Southern people
might have their niggers Thinks |,
humph Mighty poor chance to get any
freedom from you, Mr.. Lincoln
[Laughter.] l tell you what felt
mighty bad for long time. l had the
blues so bad l was almost black
Laughter Think in two weeks must
have fell off twenty pounds. | was SO
'ffraid Mr.. Davis going to do it | couldn't
sleep. But by and-by the good word
come that Mr.. Davis said "he'd be Id
if he'd do any such thing. / amt fight
ing for the niggers. Let the niggers go.
I'm after my own freedom first before
anything else in the world" | tell you
my heart jumped right up in my mouth,
Thinks |, bully for Jeff Davis ! He's
my man All, my friends, if the Yam
KEGS had been in Mr.. Dvis' 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
Northern man never missed the chance
of taking care of the dimes first.
And now the carpet-baggcrs COM
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 sci
us free about like they set the mules
free about like Ben Butler set the
spoons free. Immense laughter and
applause.] They done it all to help
The Yankee, and to injure the Southern
man. They can't fool this niger. |
| know who brought the niger to this
country, in the first place; the North
ern man brought us here, and when
they began to lose money on the niger
they put the niger in their pocket !;
sold him down South in the Union to
make her pay taxes, they turn around
and set the niger and the mule and
the spoons free; and they wouldn't have
set anything free Excepting the spoons)
if they could have got the South back
into the Union without it.
They promise him the "forty acres
aud the mule" know five niggers that
starved plum to death waiting for that
mule and that forty acres. Laughter
I'd like to know where the carpct-bag
ger got his forty acres? You all re-
member the devil took the Lord up into
a high mountain, and promised the Lore
if he he'd fall down and serve him hc'C
give him the whole world, and the ole
scoundrel knew all the time no didn't
own foot of land on the continent
| [Great laughter
The carpet-baggers ask me to cast
my vote to keep the white folks down.
Now all ever wanted was to get on q
level with the white man. / never
wanted get above him. They say mig
ger is better than white man in Gin.
cnnati. Well, that may be the truth il
Cincinnati But it amt true down
here. 1t is my interest to stand by tht
Southern man, and it's my wish, too. =
Whatever law is made to affect ths
white mans plantation also affects my
little patch in the same way. TIL
three cent tax on cotton hurts me wors
than it does the white man. But it put
money in the Yankees pocket.
They want to disfranchisc the white
man and make the niger put them int
office, that they may have taxes anC
things their own way. They never
would have passed law allowing mig
gers to vote if they hadn't thought the
niggcrs would vote the Republican tick
ct. Ncrer. NEVER, NEVER. Who be-
lieves otherwise? Not this niger, GER
tain, The Yankee brought the niger
here from Africa for selfish purposes,
and now they want to vote him for sell
fish purposes.