The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-25
THE CANVASS.
WHATS WILT AND WHO'S WHO
A SCRrrBBY RACE, MINED AND
JUMBbED.
THE CuLoRED MEETING.

THE CuLoRED MEETING.
As we have said we believe VIC have
before made the remark-that the colored
mass meeting held ut Schecls hall on
Friday night was itch, rare and racy;'
nnl u couple Of tn, speeches were rather
remarkable in their way. Scott, who nc,e
the part of n firm frienl Of Col. Winston,
made some f1rcible points on Bross. Said
he:
al sholld like TO know in what pariieu-
lar Bross is entitled to the votes of the
colored men. What single act has he
done2 What word of kindness has he
spoken? Is his claim to our support-if he
makes any cluim-bascd upon the declar-
alton, which he made several years ago,
that he would resign his office before he
would allow a colored man to testify In
his court? Has he right to our votes be-
cause he has had his bread and butter from
the Land of the public for tie past eight or
ten years? Or sholld we vote for
him because prominent white republican
nearly all OF them-are supporting him
This is no political fight. Both candidates
are democrats, and ii Mr.. Bross is liber-
al democrat, save us from the illiberal
ones have looked at this matter, and
formed my opinion or principle. and 1
have concluded to 90 for Col. Winston.
He is more liberal man than Mr.. Bross.
He has proved himself in many ways the
friend Of colorcd men. He has been lib
eral in his dealings with colored men
Who rent from him, He is fair and
square, and the charge that he was Il
slave holder is not true. lie has always
been clever gentleman, is
now an advocate of "equal rights for all, y
and has every qualification for the office
he is seeking"
In conclusion, he warned his hearers to
beware of the eloquenee of Bird, recog-
nized everywhere, he said, as the "eaglc
orator of Egypt Bird he said, "lilses to
follow Scott, and cannot pretend to cope
with him in eloquencs and elegance of
diction, but in this argument have the
best side and he must resort to all his skill
to present his friend Bross before you in a
favorable light. Don't, pray YOU allow
him to get the better of your judgment.
Bird did follow Scott, and his speech, if
it had been made with proper surround
ings, would have been recognized by the
appreciative as very skillful tit bit OF
elegant sarcasm. Take, for instance, this
passage in reply to Scctts assertion that
Col. Winston had advanced to the equa'
rights for all.position
"My friend Scott is pleased to claim tina
Col. Winston has outstripped Judge Bros
in the race towards the stand point Of
the equality of mankind, and is now press
ing forward with those whose slo
gan is equal rights for all
This assertion ustonished me when / re
membered that Col. Winston was the sam
man who lately declared, when he wa.
beaten at the polls by the votes of colored
electors, that he was satisfied in defeat b,
the knowledge that he had received onl,
the votes ofintelligent and decent whit
men and was doubly astonshcd-ift tn
expression is permissable-w / Gale,
to mind that Col. Winston was one o
those democrats, who, not long ago, wcr
inclined to read out of the democrati
party the liberal men who recognized nc
complis he'd facts and were in favor of &c
quiescng in the inevitable which prophe
sled the early dawn Of the day fpolitca
equality. Really, the discovery of thi
conversion of Col. Winston from the sin
fulness of democr .cy, is important an,
gratifying. 1t is one of the cheering sign
Of the times. / think l see the galan
Colonel now, mounted upon that fer
charger Of his sitting erect with the mar
tial bearing peculiar TO him, riding proud
ly along Commercial avenue AT hi, sid
is my friend Scott, mounted also-for he
too, has lately purchased Lery steed
The one is conscious of his own great i'm
portance; the other is proud OF the compa
ny he is I'M and above their heads, movin,
with them rs they sweep along may b,
seen and read the legend: Equal right
for ALL The vision is gratifying one
1t heralds the better iday coming"
The Reverend Shores, when he addressed
the meeting, paid Col. Winston man,
compliments, and commented at som
length on that gent!eman's iberality
The Colonel had refused 500 for the lot
on which his church stood, and had nc
ceptcd from him $3.50 for them He ha
alse given 10 the colorcd Methodists thei
lots, and sold them the building for II SINAI
sum, and u like kindness he had extende
to Rev. Mr. Bradley. Bross was gentle
man. Shores protested that he would no
say that Bross had fined innocent men, bu
he did know, and would say, that Bross ha
let OF men who should have been fined
and then he gazed at Bradley in yer
significant manner. at has been said,
he remarked, "that Colonel Winston is
southern man and was a Shareholder
Cries of ats lie.') He did not Sc
proper to investigate the truth of tn
charge, but he didn't care if it was true.
IL don't deny | have sympathy for til
southern people. They understand I
colored people, but these northern peopl
don't, and you may search all over Car
aud you will find that two-thrds of tn
people were slave owners. | was ais
born in the south, but was raised and ed
ucated in Illinois and Ohio. Mr.. Bir
says we colored men owe debt of graft
tuie To the Germans, that they fought fl
us, and will go lack on US if we don
vote for Bross. They had better 90 fol
ward on us first. Mr.. Bird has learnc
this since ls came from Canada
Here Bird interrupted by saying he wa
| horn i'm Ohio