The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-18

We" Orleans. Mr.. Gordon, quoting from
etter OF lady friend residing there, said
t cost more TO pay the taxes than could be
obtained from rents. The lady continued
\ the letter: "We are called company
# inurderera and assassins. | tell you that
sheie Que white man can be found that has
a murder for any cause at all, | ,
will name TO you two who have committed |
suicide from sheer desperation" This Was
simply private letter, written to friend,
with nc expectation that 1t would be made /
public. She subsequently, gives long list
Of names Of prominent citizens Of New |
Orleans
WHO HAD CONE MAD
and taken their own lives. at is a horrid
state Of society and government, added
Mr.. Gordon, THAT drives people to that
sort Of resort" They lad come, lie said,
With the hope that by an honest plain rep
resentation, bracsd by facts and the testi
mony which they propose to present, mostly
from republican sources, they can show the
people of the North the true condition Of
the Southern States. They felt sure that
whenever We did understand, as braye
and generous people, with common his
tory and common destiny with theirs, We
wonld not tolerate tie abuses to which they
were subjected, the Interference of the
Federal A Administration. OF course, if they
could not redeem The mselyes
THROUGH TUE BALLOT BOX
they must 70 on suffering, but they wanted
the same rights at the ballot box as " had.
They did not want men forced upon them
by fraudulent elections as was done i'll Ar
kansas, as was done every year 10 Missls.
sippi, and as was done last year in Louis-
ana. They had come here not to make
political speeches, but merely to spread out
before the people their condition. Speak
Ing Of the condition Of affairs in Georgia,
he said there bad not been life taken in
that State unless it was in an untrequent
drunken street row. The negroes lyed
happily and peaceably. lie suggested that
it was not II very good argument for THOSE
who tried to make it appear that the whites
were hostile to the negroes when i'll this
State, where tie former race outuumbercd
the latter four to one, quiet relgned. He
mentioned as one significant fact, that the
Legislature appropriated .he same amount
Of money
FOR TIE NEGRO COLLEGE
as for the college which was tie pride Of
every Georgian. In all the States the
oder citizens saw that !he negro, so far
the uddUI III the nands oil men who used him
Tor their own purposes. A bad governments
Was the continuous source of irritation. 1t
was perfectly impossible for anybody to
conceive Of a race Of intelligent men who,
knowing that their whole prosI Gritty, every
thing they had in the world depended on
keeping the peace between the race, should
turn cut and Kill the negroes wholesale.
For example: Ills home was four miles IN
the country from Atlanta. Everything be
had on earth in the way Of housekeeping
bis farm, mules, corn, fodder, hay, houses,
everything was in the hands Of negroes
while he was in Washington, and not
white man upon the place. lie knew the
sentiment of tie Snutherners upon the
questions of race and color, and he could
affirm that there was 10 hostility towards
tie negro as man. Mrs. Gordon and
himself had gone away from home and left
their entire family, their little children, in
the hands of negro servants, with not a
white man anywhere about. His children
slept with their colored nurse at night, and
he had no objection t. the association, ex-
certa as it might
INFLUENCE THEIR MORALITY.
The danger of this was much greater than
before the war. Then the negro was in
the control of his master. He was ted not
TO swear, not to drink, not to use obscene
language among the children. There WIS
ing any power to control him in any way
to prevent any arts that would mi.lead him,
he was filed with apprehension. 1t was
not repugnance toward him, but distrust
to him. The negroes on his place worked
his farm. and he divided its products equal !
ly with them. Every man voted against |
bin every time. They had been with him |
ever since the war, and had never voted |
with him, and they did not dare to- He |
,ited an instance which occurred when lie 1
vas running for Governor. His carriage |
iriver, a boy to whom he was very much |
attached and who was devoted to him,
came to hun very much affected and said to !
him: General | would vote for you, bu;
must be candid with you and tell you the /
ruth, | am afraid to do it. Ny own color
will charge me with deserving tn, m. al d /
hese shite men who have been locking af
er us tell me that will not be safe if .
iesert my own color, and | want to ask .
Iou whether it is true that if YOU are elect
d we will all be put back INTO shver-
'gain?" Il laughed at him." Mr.. Gordon
aid, 'and replied, don't you know that il
would be utterly impossible; il tie whole
southern people were united as one man,
md should attempt that, they could accomp,
ish nothing by it. Ii the whole power of
he government was given us lie continu
d, ''its armies, its navies, its counts. i,s
Congress, one man IN 5000 could not he
uund who would put the negro back into
slavery again. We don't want slavery any
more"
THE NEGRo VOTE
vas dividing more aud more every year,
nd he was sure the time was not far dis
ant when parties would be formed not up.
n the color Ene at all. Il would have
ONE long age i il were not for those men
' hose interest 1t was 10 keep up the party
inc. To show the kink OF influence these
aryet bsggers had over the negroes, be
aid shst after be had addressed them m