The Republican journal., 1875-03-18

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Sensible Views by Colored Man.
The colored men of the south are not
all blindly led by carpet baggers and
demagogues. Now and then there is one
who understands that the interests of the
two races are not antagonistic, and that
the welfare of both can be promoted by
good understanding and mutual good will.
OF this class was Major Delaney, who re-
Gently delivered a speech Of marked ability
at Irving Hall, New York Major Della
ney is a negro of unmixed descent and
one of superior intellect and education.
He was born in Virginia, resided in Can
ada during the last years of the slave
power, and at the conclusion of the war
settled in Charleston, where he has Ia
bored sedulously to harmonic his race
with their old masters, believing such re-
cancellation to be the true and only per-
manent reconstruction. He was the can
didate of the convention of conservative
negroes for lieutenant-go governor of South
Carolina, and the ticket so nominated was
endorsed by the native southern white
men. 1t unfortunately was defeated by
the candidates of the corruptionists and
carpet-baggers His address in New York
was delivered on an invitation from sew
eral prominent citizens. among them Will
liam Cullen Bryant. who presided at the
| meeting.
In opening his remarks Major Delaney
| observed that he expected to be sharply
criticized for what he should say, by those
who do not know the true condition OF
the south and who take their information
from interested politicians; but he could
! say for himself that he was an old under
ground railroad man; that. he was asso-
ciated tor three Years with Fred Douglas
IN his publication Of the North Star, and
1t was even whispered that he had had
something to do with John Brown, though
not in his Harpers Ferry raid. From the
| moment that his race obtained freedom
and political reimbursement he had seen
that it was necessary for them to be placed
in relations of amitv with the white race
in the south, and he had labored to that
end from the beginning. At first the col
ored people naturally looked to their old
masters tor political leadership, but these
at the outset refused to exercise the influ-
ence which they might have had. Then
the blacks turned to new corners among
them, who protessed peculiar friendship
and who took advantage OF their igno-
rance. Of the carpet-bag class of polti-
clans who thus acquired largely the con-
troll OF the negro vote, Major Delaney
drew some strong pictures. He declared
knowingly that they had, as Il rule, no
interest in either the black or white race
of the south. They taught the blacks that
they should crush out the whites They
made them believe they were representa-
tives OF the government sent from Wash
ington to be custodians of their rights
that the white men would re-enslave them
the moment they put confidence in them
$50, pushing back the whites on one
hand and the blacks on the other, they
plunged their arms to the elbow in the
pockets of the blacks, and to the armpits
in those Of the whites" He appealed to
the people OF the north to shape their pol
icy so as to discharge the interference of
mischievous political adventurers. The
two races must dwell together They
We're labor and capital, each necessary to
the other, each useless without the other.
He had heard something of war in
the north between labor and capital
He was thankful that the south had not
come to that Could they not see there
two grand races needing each other, and
not to be parted or set at variance by
miserable politicians of a certain style of
baggage? From personal knowledge and
experience he asserted the fact that there
is no luminosity between The whites and
blacks in the south. The white people
of the south are waiting and willing to
take the blacks by the hand and 60 with
them in every measure tending to the COM
mon good of both. They do not wish
them to leave their position, their man
hood or their rights
Who can doubt the interests of the
negro race are more honestly and intelli-
gently represented by this Major Delaney
than by the Pinchbacks and the carpet
baggers2