New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-25
SOUTHERN POLITICS.
THE NORTH CAROLINA cANvAss

| RALEIGH July M.-Secretary DelanO smoke
to-day TO an audience estimated 400 seveneghbs Of
whom were eOiored. He was waited upon at his hotel
by procession headed by the Oak City Bras, Band,
procession numbering % men, whom 81 were negroes
The white man was the marshal. Arriving al the
ground, where he was expected TO addre,s q Isrge
audience che Secretafy seemed much mortified
and ohaGriDed az the prospect before him After
speaking about IS minutes he discovered that by con
timing himself to the text OF his written speech woulf
be unable TO enthusiasm with his audience OF IN
educated coored men, He therefore left It entirely
resorng to low and vulgar anecdotes which were badly
expressed and delivered He did refer 10 the
| KuKlux portion Of bis written speech, On alb
sract Of which printed the second page OF the TRB
| UsE. The entire affair, speech and meeting, wa
| grand failure. The Hon. John Pool followed
| Secretary Deiano He said that ne his distinguished
friend had addressed the meeting upon national affairs
He would refer to matters in which they i'm,
medately coDcerned-the State campaign. His speech
was repetition Of the charges against the Liberal can
ddaes as contained In Infamous circular OF which no
is charged the authorship, Secretary Delano left this
evening for Fayetteville. Col Butler OF Washington
addressing small audience at Metropolitan Hall to-
| night
special to The Daily Yers this evening from High
| Point says: "The Democratic meeting at High
Point to-day. the largest gathering of the peopo
there since the days Of 1910. over 5000 people
present. Great speeches by Col A. X Mcclure OF Penn
sylvania and the Hon. T. L. Clinglea. The meeting
presided by Levi D. Scott. After dinner stirring
speeches made by Coils. Duffy ,Caldwelland Sapes
THE COLoRED VOTE SOLID FOR GRAST-How
1T IS CONTROLLED - PROSECUTIONS or
LIBERAL NEGROES.
IRON THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THB FRIDUSRt
CHARLOTTE, n. c., July 21.-The colored men
Of North Carolina Will cast solid vote for the Grant
Republican ticket in the State election any prediction
which does recognize this fact is provo falls
cious Stronger appeals have been made 10 the negroes
by the Liberal speakers during the present ceuyass
than at any previous time since the
orators from the North have reminded
them OF Mr. Greeley's lifelong efforts in
their behalf and depicted in vivid eOors the evils which
befall them in the end, II they band them
selves together a against the intelligence and tho
wealth OF the South. Colored men In whom they have
always had confidence have into the State, chal
lenged their colored speakers, and made the most
earnest public and private appeals TO them, and yet
not able TO hear Of considerable break In
ranks. They like flock Of sheep; they all 90
together and led by few INSCRIPTIONS men, white
and black, whom they do mt respect themselves whose
advice they would take any other subject and %
whose keeping they would not trust dollar Of their
property This unnatural state or affairs Is easily
accounted for. In the first place, the carpetbaggers
Of North Carolina have complete control OF the Grant
Republican organization of the State. Tho negroes I'M
dersand that it the Republican party which gave
them their freedom and they told that only long
that party remains in power will that freedom DO
secure. IDe opposition OF the Democratic
South to the Reconstruction measures had something TO
with alternating the colored people, politically, from
their late masters and placing them entirely 10 the power
OF the carpetbaggers but this alone would not have
had they almost without exception left their
old homes obtaining their freedom, and gone away to
for strangers to lounge about the towns and
plantations doing nothing. At the close Of the war
when the proclamation Of emancipation first reached
the negroes, the crops were well under way and
the planters in this vicinity generally succeeded in in
ducng their former slaves to remain through the season
until after the harvested and the cotton picked
But when that years crops secured they not
long leaving their old masters. They couldno realize
that they free while they remained on the spot
where they born and worked the fields in which
they had labored slaves, they preferred to live
among strangers though deprived Of their old mas
ters advice, and treated with far less consideration
Then the carpetbaggers came, gathered them up, and
through the agency Of the Leagues used them for their
corrupt purposes. One by the industrious
of the negroes going back to their old homes and
showing willingness TO work for the TO whom they
have always looked for advice and aid and should
pet-bag rule be entirely overturned in the South,
there might be possibility OF dividing the vote.
but see indications of such division in this
paign. -
But the solidity of the negro vote is not wholly
counted for BY the natural causes 10 which have re-
fe1red. The colOred deceived and ntimdated.
The Grant Republican speakers in this State do not hes
geous lies circulate them privately through leading
coored men. For instance, in localities they tell
them Mr.. Greeley their friend and never
did anything for them, that II Mr. Greeley felt
kindly toward them he has now "gone back" on his
former record, and, IL elected, viii reenslaye them
while Grant fought to make them free, and viii
never desert them. They believe all this 1t is hardly
credible know, that any class Of people can be de-
ceved by such improbable stories, but 1t must be
remembered that the dense Ignorance OF these
people almost past comprehension They cannot
read they bound not to believe anything the Liberals
tell them while these doctrines preached TO them in
their churches and taught them on every occasion.
Their preachers pray for Grants success, Sunday.
and harange the coored people from the stump during
the week. Their bishops, "Dsruct" the people
how to vote On my arrival in tins town the other even
ing heard that the coored people holding meet
ing the Courthouse and went over to hear the speech
Of the African Methodist Bishop OF thus diocese. His
address was adapted the comprehension Of his audi
euce who h,ed the Courthouse moderately full He took
ND the candidates for each office State and county, and
with little argumen explanation directed his hearers
how to vote They received his instructions with sh0uts
Of applause. He said that they could not trust Mr.
Greeley; that he had refused to give coored man
money with which TO buy his wife, while Fernando
Wood had cheerully contributed s. for that purposes
and that the Liberal candidate for Congress IN ths dis
trct Mr.. Ashe, would be unable TO do anything for
them at II he felt disposed to- IA he would
be in the minority there should he be elected lie said
that he would advise them not TO trade VITA mem
beers OF Liberal party but II they heard political talk
in any particular stores they had better kep from
them. "Now" said he. "there is store n' below tho
post-oce where they talk pofticS all OF the une you
| had be ttor not 90 there
PERSECUTION CoLoRgD LIBERAF.
| A few coored men would prefer to the Liberal
ticket and would influence other do 50 they dared
10 hut the negIoes show merry TO coiored LIBERAL