The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-02
AwFUI. ALABAMA.
The zk,llIuG AIs ON One side
Charles Hays, Once AEabamaI
Largest slave Owner, 10
Glen. HRWlRY.

Charles Hays, Once Alabamas
Largest slave Owner. 10
Gen. H0Wley.
al once believed that ere the year
1874 dawned upon us the admiring
world would behold in US . free,
united, and happy people. but the
Vaccinations and secret workof de-
signing and rebellious leaders have
prevented such 3 contamination. ]
regret to acknowledge the fact, for,
as q Southern man, / do yet look
upon her sunny hills and fertile
valleys with filiai love, but still ]
must-the work Of war against re-
belIion was not complete. Leaders
and men there still exist who
would rush TO the carnival of battle
against the flag of our country with
fiendish delight and courageous
daring. These men are silently,
nevertheless effectively, working.
No outbreak against the soldiers OF
the army need be apprehended
now, but to those Of us who are
standing in the breach for the main
tenance of the Constitution and the
Union-for the liberty and freedom
of all men-be we white or black,
the hour is indeed trying. We see
our comrades swept away like
chaff before the wind. Every mid
night breeze brings TO US the dying
groans of some man who has fallen
In the cause OF right and liberty.
UP to this time not q single white
Democrat has been murdered, out
ragged, or otherwise maltreated in
any way In the State of Alabama.
The killing has all been on one
side. The reports even Of our own
sufterings have been held back and
kept back from the people OF the
North. The agents OF the Southern
Associated Press alone furnish
news to your papers. Every agent
of this association in Alabama (and
in the South generality is 9 rebel
aud Democrat. Our views,
speeches, platforms, writings, and
actions generally are garbled and
missent to deceive the people of the
North, and convince them that the
South is being plundered by adven-
turers; that corruption and infamy
stalk forth with monstrous iDiqui-
ty in sll our public places, and that
every man who dares to raise his
voice for the principles Of Republi-
canism is q felon, and unworthy to
walk the earth on which he lives.
All these things, and more too,
have we borne in silence. The
faithful old slaves who fell upon
their knees at New Years dawn,
1868, and from their lonely huts
and novels of poverty ana slavery
sent forth prayers and thanks to
Heaven for LincOln's Proclamation
of Emancipation, are now begging
and imploring to be put back into
slavery to protect themselves and
their little ones from murder and
destruction. Many, many of my
old slaves have come to me and
begged me to take them back and
save them from the reign of the
drunken desperate and the mid
night marsuder. When remem-
Der that all through the sombre
scenes of war, in the midst Of ad-
versity and tribulatiOn, they stood
faithful to me and mine, it makes
my very heart bleed to see them
writhe and suffer in the enjoyment
% of that boon which was intend
ed to bring happiness and comfort.
l am powerless to help them, but
as long as life lasts let me appeal
to my Northern friends TO stand by
and protect these sable sons of the
South, who have never sung q song.
unless it was one dedicated to lib
erty and to Union Shall I not
bear to my prosecuted people of all
races and colors the glad tidings
that a better day is dawning, and,
changing the line of the poet:
t.'That freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire 70 SON,
Though baffied OFT is ever won.'
''That the day of peace may soon
come and bring with il all the
blessings of home and happiness is
my sincere DESIRE"