The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-08-03
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oassius NJ. Clay, the life long aboli
tIoOist, he who fought in Kentucky for
the freedom of the negro when all others
we're opposed to it, and endured perse
cuuon u every conceivable shape for
me coiored race, delivered an address at
beg'ing Green, designed especially for
the eolored voters.
20 say that Mr.. Clay was equal to the
great prestige of his splendid fame as
ops OF the most powerful and argument
a'S,s deoaters in the country would be
u'aAiug simple statement, in which all
VINO could hear him in the immense
eso~a will at once sustain Mr.. Clay
snYaid have had an audience Of two or
'anee thousand eolored voters, instead
OF ne thousands who were already con
yl"sed of the friendship of Mr.. Greeley
Tor 'he colored race 1t Is my duty,
howsyer to chronicle the fact that the
seal agags and carpet baggers, who yet
( sslE-ese and lneauly attempt to keep up
aS1gonism between whites and blacks.
bs the manipulation of secret oath bound
+ societies, and the baleful influence Of
Spurious religious and social preiudices.
were able TO keep the colored people
from the meeting last night in the face
Of cordial Invitation to be presen,, to
hear and to criticise We are not among
those who despair Of the future of the
colored race. because they are vet under
aruinous cloud Of prejudice The elec
ton of Greeley will sever the bonds Of
these secret societies as efectually as it
will dissipaie the ehostly raw head aud
bloody bones of Kukluxism that now
disturb the waking aud sleeping hours
Of the deluded colored people of the
South. The desperate meaus taken bv
the Radicals Of this section to own the
negro, and manage him as their political
property at any cost, only eviuce the
weak ness Of their cause, aud infallibly
foreshadow its hopeless overihrow. Ed
ueaiion will one day make the negro as
free in MUD as he already is in person.
aud with the first true political light that
breaks in upon his mind he will register
al eternal curse upon the heads of the
Kentucky sealawags and imported car
pet baggers who, TO promote selfish ends.
''Nt+'~ NJ NA4~ SNAei~A tIbPiI W ANtu
tucky forever at enmity aud at war with
their white neighbors in Kentucky Mr.
Clay stated from the stand last night,
and doubtless upon good authority. that
some Radical who has charge Of a United
States flag in Bowling Green had refused
it to decorate the speakers stand, and
declined to lend it to procession OF
rebels working for Greeley and reconcile
alton. To what base uses has this United
States fae come at last, when its high
destiny Is suppressed by such an un-
patriotic fellow as that Radical must be
who owns it. No wonder the colored
population can be kept well 10 hand for
'the best Government the world ever
saw, when an Influential Radical has
admitted that seventy FIVE thousand dol
lars have been received from the corrup-
tion tuad to be used in this vicinity
Kentucky pays her tax into the Govern
ment Golfers, and it is used tc keep her
in chains and slavery to an AdmiOistra
ton she utterly abhors. How many
majority will she give against Grant ?
One for every dollar the minions Of
Grant have sent here TO buy her free
people.