American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-07
The Canvass.

The Canvass.
So far, the canvass has developed
one unfortunate feature, and that Is
that the negroes will vote for nc
presidential or other candidate who
receives the mass of white votes
This we conceive to be unfortunate
We had hoped that seven years OF
freedom, and the means of obtaining
an education which the blackman
have had since the war, would have
taught them, that all the present
population of the South must live
together, and that the interests OF
each class were inseparably bound
up in each other, and that mutual
concessions from the old status
must be made to insure prosperity.
Tho white people have progressed
as far in this direction, by the advo-
cacy of Horace Greeley and the
Cincinnati platform, as they can
ever be expected to do; as far as
we hope they ever will; and it looks
like ingratitude and want Of sense
in black people to expect anything
further. They ought to be suffi-
GENTLY DESTROYS Of peace and pros
perity, as to pick up this "olive
branch rendered by the whites.
The white people of the South,
by the voting for Horace Greeley,
and the maintenance of the princi-
Piles set forth in the Cincinnati
platform, will have done all that
the masses of the dominant sections
of the union require of them, and
whether Greeley or Grant is elected
if they shall remain peaceful and
industrious, and obey the laws Of
the land while they stand on the
statute books, they will in their
misfortunes and troubles, have the
sympathy of their brethren there,
to an extent which will astOnish
them and the carpet baggers of the
order that want no peace here, and
further, many who now deride the
men of the South as ruffians and
drones, will, when they are made
aware of their manly fOrbearance
under great prOvocation, and indus
try of the most incessant character,
become as warm in the advocacy OF
our rights as they now are, to keep
us under the ban.
In a late speech delivered at
Lynn, Mass, Gen. Banks who is
most shrewd politician, makes use
Of the following expression : "You
wi l find hereafter that which I tell
you is as true as history, and that
is, that the administration party,
with its leaders and its organization,
will be destroyed by this canvass,
and q acso party of wiser and better
men will be installed in their places"
NJ more prophetic announcement
was ever made than this. How is
it possible that any practical race
of white men, such as that of the
North, can see without appreciation
and sympathy, their old enemies
come up to the very mark they
wish, viz: to the mark of obedience
to law, love of country, and a desire
to Join with them in making our
Republic the greatest of all nations,
utterly regardless of all past animos-
tiles. Such a grand solving Of a
difficult problem, such cementing
of great country, such closing
up of the scars of war, such a start
ing point for great National glory,
such a proof of the power of Repub-
lies to perpetuate themselves after
civil war, has never yet been seen
on earth; and the party who seeks
to do SO, and who makes it evident
to Americans, that it can he done,
will live in history and in the CRATE
full memory of all lovers of freedom
and equal rights forever, as man
kinds great benefactOr. Banks,
Sumner, Schurz, men who love
freedom for freedom sake, see this,
and When they can win former
focman's love, and have his cooper
alton to make all men free and
happy, that to them is worth all the
party triumphs that ever have or
ever will he known. The wave of
love versus hate is rising in the
East; it is sweeping over the West;
it is being felt in the South, and