American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-03
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Radical Teachings.

and brother whose name is Hamil
ton Price, appeared upon the scene,
claiming to hail from Canton, Miss,
and harangucd his colored hearers
beginning in this style:
Gentlemen and LADIES' have
come up from Canton to- give you
some information. and what | tell
YOU is true, for Canton is where all
the newspapers are published, and
where we talk over all these things,
and what l tell you may be relied
upon" And then commenced one
of tho most infamous, infiamatory
harangues against the white race
that it was ever my misfortune to
hear. He referred back to the days
of slavery and repeated over and
over all the exaggerated cruelties
that Negroes imagination, when
stirred up 10y carpet-bag deviltry,
could conceive of. Said lie hated a
white man as bad as he did a rattle
snake, and that any colOred man
who would vote for a white man in
stead Of cOlOrcd man, ought to be
i'm hell, where he soon would be.
Said the white man had deceived
them all the time; that he had ia
ken all the fruits of their labor away
from them that he was too lazy to
work, and that they (the negroes)
shonld put him down.
He charged Mr.. Greeley with be-
ing a Id old rascal that had al
ways worked against the freedom
of the cOlOred men that he was a
Democrat and was still working
against the colOred men, and that
he ought to be kicked out of the
country.
While this infamous TRADE of
abuse was going on, one Lank
HemphilI, from your town, would
cry out: I" Amen Jesus is here >
This incendiary negro claims to
have been sent out by the carpet
baggers in Canton, the favOrite
name he used being that of one Mi.
Pratt. And this is the result of the
carpet-baggers' teaching, is it?
1 am glad to say that quito a
number of the colOred people were
dlsgusted with Price and did not
countenance his language. x.
1 find the above in the Kosciusko
Leader, paper published by my
friend, "Joe" Garrett, who was
born and reared in Canton. Is 1t
possible that we have men in our
midst, who are so base and deprav-
ed, as to be guilty of such outrage
to society by exciting an ignorant
and credulons class of our popula-
ton to such a degree as that ex-
by this negro orator. Let
those who appeal to the passions,
and instincts of an ig-
excitable people be ware,
lest they heap Goals on their own
heads. The acts of the Communists
at Paris is a suitable example for
exciters of strife, and of class against
class. Some of the leaders of the
were among their first
victims. The leaders were aston
islled and amazed at the excuses of
their followers. They had gone so
far beyond their expectations, that
when they tried t. check them in
their career of plumber and slaugh-
ter, they found themselves power
less. Do we not see signs of the
example of Communist leaders crop
ping out i'm the speech of this sable
orator Brice 6 He hated the white
man" etc. These are the senti-
ments that the teachings of the car
pet-bagger lead to, and they con-
duct him to his own political guillo
tine, if not to a worse one. l think
1 can account for tho great zeal of
some of the Canton carpet-baggers,
from the fact, that they are recent
1t is said that the zeal of
(or perverts) is in an in
verse ratio to the length of time since
their conversion. Where the car
et.baggers have the controlling in
fluence, they have brought disgrace
on the Republican party. There
are many of them so low and de-
PRAYED, and who act as leaders, that
decent men wOnld he ashamed to be
seen in their company. There are
many who do not love the old De-
OF its leaders much, but
who love the carpet-bagger and his
influence less. j.
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