The New York herald., 1876-11-03
A NEGRO STATESMAN.

WHAT THE Ex-sLAvEs FEAR-soMETHIN0
WORSE THAN THE TAsKMAsTRB"-'ALwAYs
KINDLY TREATED WHILE HE ACTS LIKE A
NIaGER AND KEEPS IN A NIGGER's PLACE"
RICHMOND, Va, Oct 81, 1874
To EDITOR TIE HERALD
As OF the few negroes who this city read rcgu-
larry your valuable paper take the liberty address
you this ncgro's OF the OF affairs here
and In the South generally.
Allow me to say, hrst. whlc am os strongly At
tached to the republican party ns any man living the
men who have done the for me, do individual
arc the democratic party. There are, believe rs
good South North. In things prefer
tho oil southern birth. Every community has It's
good and its bad citizens, bat here have a larger
class OF them than you have Il don't mean New York
city, because sometimes think II beats the world
from the that poorer class Of people
ucacd Being thus, their educated c2hbor who seeks
Office arrays tho poor whto against the negro by say
ing s'Tho negro your daughter to wife" such
u like thing, just Of speakers on
the other hand say TO my moro ignorant
brethren, f tho democratic party is triumphant you
will bc put back into slavery" But sensible
gro believes that he Will again have taskmascr but
the negro fears something worse than taskmascr.
He already knows that in Virginia he has not the cdu
cational iactes that whitc citizens enjoy Hc knows
u
than negro's negro Is always kindly treated a.
long Us he acts lise a niger and
XiGGgRs rLAcE,
but as thinks he Is n man, and teaches
others so, he is called fanatic, they said OF the
Rev. Walter H. Brooks, because ho told gentleman
who for a dollars had parted with what Mr. Brooks
called his (and iact, nil good thinking pcopie ber
ties and him. II want nothing to do with YOU"
&C. tor which he tRev. Brooks arrested aud fined
So merely bccaus. tho coorcd claimed to lie
co,orcd conservative tive lave no democrats ~ l
did not intend 10 write any or this stuf but know
you OF
THE NORTH CAST UNDERSTAND SITUATION
dout believe there Is any people moro kindiy dis
po cd TO any people than my people arc TO thcir lac
masters, Notwithstanding your southern correspon-
dents tell you that all the riots arc started by tho me-
groes; but with due respect thcm must say II s
not SO. They are started by that low class oil
white mon that we used 70 see over The
negro the fafm-who cannot write their
names count loo many Instances. II Is
TACT that right IN city tho reporters go
to our mass meetings and see these come, xctng
drunk aud kicking up these rows, and right oil to
tDor composing rooms and say ''tnc negroes had
meeting and u broke up IN row. Ii Is tins 1x
1nd ourselves, mis- represented every hand There
is living that viii more glauly welcome the
day when the negro will not be all on side
count OF prejudice than WILL | want to see the
and not, as II IS now men saying the, Won't the
republican ticket because the negroes vote u.
coLoRKp AND WHITE CONSERVATIVES.
There are in city about dozen colorod conscrva-
tiyes They have part lot IN the White Ward or
ganizations All this must bo done away VIII. Before
The negro trust the democratic party they must
throw away this ar.stocracy IN" ncancst and lowest
IN our city, III his skin white, have any right and
privilege that the highest can enjoy; but negro, let
him. be nice and respectable, Is made TO
know that ho is negro and can't be anything moro
Nov you know that kind or treatment Is hard and
must be doue away with before The intcleen negro
will bs found voting with Tho national democratic