The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-07-23
CORRESPONDENCE.

LIEUTENANT SCOTT, OF CAPT. PoPE's BE-
DoUINs, IN PRINT.
w. I. Scott, the negro hotel-keeper--
u really sharp and money-getting fellow,
and Popes right-hand man in politics,
contributes the following to our columns
EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN:
SIR Pardon me for taking the liberty
of answering an article that appeared in the
columns of The BULLETIN OF the 10Th and
hope you will have the courage to publish
il. and not do n the editor of the sun Mr..
Davis. refuse to publish articles a they are
written nom the hands Of colorcd men.
Why Mr.. Davis will not defend the right, OF
q colored voter nor allow the same to be pub
lished in his paper, the colored men cannot
understand. | see letters answering from
the hands of Greeley men in his sheet, and If
the sun i Greeley paper would like him
to come out and let us know, and we will
know what to depend on, for there amt any
middle ground. He must be a republican or
democrat. Come out, sun You have
been in the dark long enough.
| find in The BULLETIN of the 18th,
charges against Grant negroes, and Bird,
Gladney and scott in particular. You stated
that the Grant negroes are determined to
drive out of the city by pressure OF social os-
tracism. If not by violence, any negro who
shall advocate the cause of Greeley and
| Brown. We do not want to use any violence
and no word Of that kind has ever come
from the lips Of any one that has addressed
| the club but If words or argument can
change the mind OF a Greeley man /, for one,
will be found in every county, township aud
precinct in the 18th district, using both in
the interest of Grant and Wilson.
You also stated that the negroes were led
| by Pope, Mum and Linegar. and that Scott,
Bird and Gladney were paid by them to be-
I.it \ lad lx.s /.
could not be led by three better men, nor by
three men who have taken more interest In
the black man than them, in this community.
If these men were not worthy you would
not see a single colored man being led by
them; and, if you think that they would, let
one Of them join your Greeley band and see
how quick they will let loose as they did
Greeley and Charles sumner No man can
lead and vote the colored vote
of Cairo unless he is right,
and as long as these men advocate the prin-
ciples they do now we are with them, and
when they lay them down as other men
have done we are not with them; and ii we
are truly for them ! hope that we will use
them well, and In way that will cause twen-
ty-fye hundred voters in the 18th district, to
W. r. SCOTT.
Scott is one of those negroes who know
which side of their bread is buttered, and
he knows he can draw consolation from
NUNS Golfer through gentleman who
shah be nameless, and he intends to do SO.
Scott knows that his darkies have been
INDUCING in threats, and that he would
not have condemned them if they had car
ried them out We have heard members
Of his club declare on the street in loud
tones of voice that they would not only
take off Rev. Mr.. Shores white hat but
also his id old head, and that Pete Con-
way one of tho negroes such men as
Scott and Gladney and Mum use to do
their dirty work, made an incendiary
speech IN the Grant and Wilson club no.
body will deny. We are glad to learn,
through Scott, that Mum has abandoned
the policy Of kuklux intimidation. To
have attempted its execution would have
proved unhealthy.