Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-30

"AH the earnest, thoughtful men o.
the Republican party"
"Au unknown quantity, ..s-.
s.At the South he Is the caly man who
csn carry the cclored vote"
81 beg your pardon. he win NOT get ,
man. The bsllos- -stufing IL that direc,;ou
has been legsliIed and secured. The
mas Of ignorance has been given the bal
lots and then sworn into a league that is
under, the control Of the carpe,-baccers
and scalawags-common thie~es. Let me
give you an instance in illustration. MIR.
-y Of Texas. a planter, told me Of il:
4 soonndEel by the name CT Caldwell be.
fore the war bought his only slave at 4
low price. because of the sact that the ne
gro was i'll Of the consumption. He pu,
the poor fellow to work and soon found
that he could do no work. being too i'll
and weak. and threatened him with 500
( lashes. The man did his best and failed
The cruel owner tied him up and whipped
him to death. He died under the lash
This Caldwell had to fly to safe his life.
/ the Indignation Of the country was so III
| tense. He came back afterthe wsr roaring
abo!itiouist. joined the league. aud had
himself nominated in the place of chief
justice. Mr-had the satisfaction of
seeing bis three hundred late slaves march,
ed out 10 vote for this inhuman raonster
Among these was 4 colored man. a preach
er. better educated aud more Intelligent
than the others. To him he appealed -
WY is it, he said. 'tha, YOU vote for
that man. who murdered in the most cru
el manner one Of your own race-vo.e to
give him au Office in which he has powcr
over YOU and your liyes-over one who
never did you any harm Well. massa, ;
responded The man. we knows dat; We
knows he is q nifty bad man; but den we
belongs to de league, and We has taken an
oath to obey de league. and de league or
ders US to vote for dat man. What can
you do under those circumstance ~
Appeal to Sumner, who is with US,
and the leading colorcd mcn-'
Pooh. Excuse me, but must say
pooh. Sumner has no more influence
against this Internal league than have ::
and as for the leading negroes, they are
all bought and owned by these carpet-bas-
gers and scaawags."
There. judge. you make grave mis-
take. The great mass OF negroes are ig-
norant, of course. hut the educated men
among them have pride of citizenship
and higher appreciation of official priv-
lege than their white brethren. We would
sooner appeal to such men As Langston
aud Clark than 10 any white man Of three
times their pretcntions Wha. they fear
and the fear is to be respec,e6-isa return
of the Democratic party to power, aud
through that loss of their sacred privi-
leges. This cannot occur with Horace
Greeley in the lead. and they will soon
learn that. Blu. cone, now, give the i'll
fuence of your great name TO this move in
behalf CT the republic"
"Wel!,' said the judge. "I',l tell you
what We are going to do. The platform
put forth at Cincinnati is a broad, fair.
democratic platform. There is nothing
passive in that. Now, if the convention
that meets at Baltimore finds in its wis
dom that Greeley fits the platform, we will
make the best fight for him We can. /
have no question but when the canvass
warns up. and men take their sides as
men are wont to do. that the entire Dem
ocratic party will be found striving for the
right"