The enquirer southerner., 1874-08-07
Radical Meeting on Saturday.

A'''NlS"lo VI tIllo Coullty NohCA'iNt>h loA WV
years their harrangues to negro audiences.
About 10 o'clock ''Circus crowd of
blacks from the country made an appear
ance, and as we soon thereafter saw
McCabe and MADISON, Cobb and Bum,
Duggan and Turner, Civil Rights confreres,
bobbing' their heads together and locking
arms affecti0nately with the "man and
brother, we safely concluded there was
something in the wind and accordingly adj
jOurned to the Court House.
When we arrived, Willis Bum had pos
session of the stand He occupied an hour
with one of his characteristic, abusive, i'm
pudent and vulgar speeches, if such tir-
ade of impudence and villiany could be ac-
corded the dignity OF a speech. Never in
one hour did we hear such loud-mOuthed
and sweeping denunciations of the white
man fall from the lips of negro dema-
gOgue. If there is democrat in the coun-
ty who is undecided in regard to becoming
the official bondsman for the Radicals elect,
we wish he could have been in town to
have heard the infamous remarks which
the fertile Imagination of this evil-design-
ing wretch could alone well conceive. He
gloated over the fact that in the proud old
county of Edgecombe, he could lord it over
the chivalrOus white man who was power
less to help himself and who had lorded it
over him until the days of reconstruction.
lie did not forget to handle with gloves off
Battle Bryan, independent candidate for
Sheriff, for belonging to the "Patrons of
Husbandry." Bum tried to say that this
organization was on aristocratic conspiracy
to deprive the poor white man and negro
OF their labor and rights; therefore, he ar
g'led, man connected with this organiza-
ton was unfit to be a publican and shouldn't
receive the support of the great National
Republican party. He reminded, further
more, His Highness, the Sheriff, of ''Her-
ring Soup" and the partial treatment
which colored prisoners received when in
his custody.
Goodwin, white, candidate for the lower
House, was next announced and duly made
his appearance. He. spoke little over
ten minutes and about as rapidly as
school boy in his first attempt at declama-
ton. He seemed to know equally as well
what to do with his hands which he kept
head-high all the time. His speech
was decidedly a poorer excuse than those
which the little yankee generally greets his
dear negroes with.
McD. MatheWsOn then commenced to
crate apparently in the interests of the de-
funct Boilers, and his opening remarks
mquestionably indicated that he proposed
to speak several truths to the cOlored peo-
pie which would be poorly relished by the
Court House ring; but after a few min
utes, McCabe gave the signal, and lie was
so seriously interrupted by cries of ''pull
him down, he's a democrat ard the like
from the rabble under the leadership of the
iackey, MADISON, that he was compelled to
desist, and left the place mad enough, as
he was understood 10 say to see the whole
concern id.
Then came Mabson's turn to harangue
the black horde before him. He We'd with
his colleague, Bum, in his filthy and obscene
remarks, which were gulped down like so
much rot-gut by the sea of dupes assem-
bled in the Courthouse square, and which
out of regard for the decency of our col
umns we refrain from commenting upon.
After giving vent to all the spleen his NAL
ice could originate against the white race
IA representative of which about thirty-one
or two years ago in gratifying his lust gave
eNistance to this mOngrel who,isnow an in
cubus upon the body polite of Edgecombe
and knaVe in whose footsteps is entailed
those evils which result from the unholy
contamination of white blo0d) he was base
enough to arouse the animal passions of
the black multitude in the sound of his
voice by such wilful and false insinuations
as-the first victory for democracy meant
the reinstatement of the colOred people
that white men in Edgccombe were in
augurating schemes to deprive him of the
life so precious to the colored men, women
and children of Edgecombe county. This
he knew to be lie when he uttered it, and
we have no sympathy for being who
prostitutes the sacredness of truth to get
the passions of his ignorant supporters in
famed enough to enable him to carry out
his nefarious, wicked, hellish designs
against the lives and property of the white
people of this county. When forbear-
ance passes that point when it ceases to be
virtue, and if he still continues in no.
ton to sacrifice his life for the welfare of
his prosecuted (?) race, if he will then in
form LIS of the fact, we will with the great
est imaginable pleasure drop a postal card
to the skilful Ku Klux, Tommie Purnell,
whom he supported yesterday for Superin-
tCiNCIlG VI 1 lbllC lLSlIuCIOll, 10 COllt
down from Raleigh and perform the dirty
job. This demagogue, No. ,, went on to
state that next winter the representatives
of the party of Reform and Progress" in
the Congress of the United States would
pass unamended the Civil Rights bill as re-
| turned by the Senate, and arrogantly boasted
of the pleasure he would take in showing
white folks whether or not he would eat,
sleep and drink in the Tarboro' hotels
And just here he boldly asserted that the
man who said the Republican party in
Edgecombe was opposed to Civil Rights
was an infamous LIAR. This certainly let
the ''cat out of the bag as was concerned
McCabe, Cobb and Duggan who have been
trying for months past to hoodwink the
Democracy of the county by claiming to be