The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-08-17
ANOTHER COLORED MAN SPEAKS.

e.. Inc heV. DT. y. W.. DuHReo, VI Auien
mond, Va., has written a letter to tie
Dispatch, from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts, and hope our colored
people will read and ponder them we'll !:
1 feel compelled, in justice to myself,
the good of my race, and the best well
fare of the community in which I live,
to say few things which l think ought
to be said.
For years we have seen our people
marched to the polls and compelled to
vote for any man brought out by the
Radical party, without regard to his
moral character or fitness for the Office.
This has been practiced all over the
South. The mep thus voted for or put
in Office, have plundered the Southern
people in the most shameful manner.
Every State where they have had the op-
portunity has been sunk beneath a bur-
den. of debt. Behold the cunning du-
plicity, which they practiced upon our
people. in the Freedman's Bank fraud,
as we'll as in many other instances. In
Washington, right under the eyes of the
government, they had a board of public
works which plundered the District gov
eminent in the most wretched manner.
The report of Hon. B. B. Douglass, OF
Virginia, and the Hon. w. S. Singer, OF
Pennsylvania, expose the most startling
frauds practiced upon us at a time when
we were helpless and con6ding in their
friendship. It turns out to have been a
scheme concocted for the very purpose
of robbing our poor people. They have
robbed every State government in the
South where they have had the chance.
They have labored steadily to keep US
arrayed against the white people OF our
section, who are our best friends. They
have only used us as political tools.
True, they have kept few colored men
in office, but it has been to do their dirty
work.
1t gives me great pain to speak of the
outrages practiced against me and my
church of late. The whole neighbcr-
hood of my church has been canvassed
and the people warned not to attend my
church. They have also compelled the
children to leave my Sabbath school.
Some of these children have been to my
house and wept bitterly because they
were made to leave. They have threat
ened to burn my house and church they
have left no stone unturned to drive me
out of the city. l heard one minister
say that he would compel me to leave by
all means he could resort 10. Now, all
these are facts. Does this look like peace
and prosperity? No, no; it is just the
work which they are bid to do By the
Radical party. l say to these gentlemen
and to the colored people at large, that
these are things which they cannot over
look. The first thing for us to do is to
make full and manly reconciliation with
the whites among whom we live. l was
born in the South, and served t'centy-
seue,, gears of my life slave, and l have
travelled over nearly every part of the
North, and I know that the colored peo-
pie of the South are better of than any
where in the North; and | would advise
our people to be frugal and upright
educate your children, give them good
trades; buy homes, get property, and
stand with our own people; drive all
carpet-baggcrs out Of the South by letting
them alone, and then we will have peace.
Bury the dead past, go in for honesty
and reform, and we will have peace and
prosperity indeed.