The Cairo daily bulletin., 1871-09-09

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A crowd, one evening, tried TO git
me down to de railroad bridge across
Tar River, just to take walk, dey said.
| 'spected something wrong, cause |
heard they had threatened Inc. So
pretends like it was all right; but soon
as / gifts out of the embankment gives
EN- some irstclass leg bail. I heard
EN- holler out, 'Well git you yt, you
id scoundrel.' AT another time
dey got me in crowd, and dey said dey
was going to whip me. / talked until
l got to the edge Of the crowd, and l
eased off tolerable fast"
At Dortch's precinct, four mile. from
here, Riland Sovey, colored man, was
handed a ticket by white man named
Moore, when Grant white man, who
stood at the box and voted 300 of his
black machines, with frowning face and
stentorian tones, thundered out
What do you mean? You know
you amt voting rightr'
The negro wilted, and at once came
to time"
Mr.. Durham, seeing the negroes FL.
ing in to the polls at Joyner's Depot
like "dumb, driven CATTLE" under the
propelling power of an Office holder, in
quired of them:
"Why do you vote all together so?
The whites do not all of them think
alike. They are never so united as you
are. Why is it ?"
With one accord they all exclaimed,
1--WE are votin' agin you whites"
"Then, suppose the whites should all
vote mo convention, how would you
vote p asked Major d.
"We'd 90 for convention shouted
the negroes.
So lying and coercion sway this black
human mass like huge ball. The Of
tice-holders tell them the whites are
itching to re.enslave them, erect whip.
ping posts, and raise blood hounds for
them. They tell the blacks they are
perfectly justifable to taking the
strongest measures to make their own
color "vote right"
The above are only few of the
thousands of instances in which the ne
groes are intimidated' Every respect
able white witness can mention numer-
Gus cases that have come under his own
eye.
To evidence to the northern mind
the various ways in which the black
man. prejudices are nursed, this exam
pie is cited:
A grand Grant mogul, whose nod
will make a negro tremble, hedged in
with Offices, state and federal, rioting
in post Office and a magistracy, who
unblushingly proclaims his belief to be
that the sun sets in General
Grants pocket, remarked officially a
day or two since to citizen:
"You white men are to blame for the
negroes stealing SO much more than
white men," On. b. He excluded
Grants white Office -holders)
"You don't pay 'em enough to sup
port their families.
ave pay them as much as We are
able, and as much as We pay white la
borers. You know great many Of us
employ white labor, and they don't
steal.
"Well, | wouldn't work for such
wages" said the postmaster,
But" continued the citizen, "you
know in the western part Of the state
they don't pay laborers as much as we
do, and that's the reason so many Of
the negroes come to Edgecomb and
other cotton counties, and the criminal
dockets there don't compare with ours.
Wecan't afford to pay more. Few men
make more than 4 per cent. farming and
the large majority don't make any
thing, at least we havn't since the war
owing to the fluctuations in the cottor
market. We always pay as much a
we are able. When We obtained bet
ter price for our staple we paid our hand
more. But that made no difference il
the amount of stealing.
"Umph y was all the p. NJ. coul'
calculate, and the citizen seeing his dis
comfturc still piled him.
" An Office holder like you, who's
word is law and gospel to these ne
groes, should not countenancc crime b,
such language, You become a par
t;ccpS criminis. You know that W
cant raise hogs nor anything else with
out losing a good part by roguery
They steal our cotton in the fields, GU
cabbages in the garden, peas in tn
patch, etc, Didn't Judge Moore tel
them from the bench at Martin Cour
he believed they perpetrated crime i
order to get into jail to keep from work
| ing in the hot sun and to get fed
When one comes out Of Jail he is lion
lied by his fellows as bearing the re
flected lustre Of martyr to the whit
mans injustice-all your teaching
and received in the highest colored cir
|, cles. There are thirty in Tarboro jai
J now. and only one white man, aud he
, stranger, at cost on the taxpayers @
forty cents per head every day. The
steal our property, and we are punishe
more than they are for it"
) DO the northern people understsn