The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-31

educate himself and people, advise them
to buy houses, land, etc., Lave on bad
habits and manners and vote for your
only true friends--the southern people,
ne viii be a wiser and better man than
heretofore. Such folly, Butler, for you
to talk about voting for Hayes and
Wheeler In Kentucky. You had as well
jump into the Kentucky river as TO sup
pose by your insignificant influence and
vote, you could hurt the great reform
ticket. The people of this country want
true and trusty men to rule over them !;
such men as ridden, Hendricks, Thur
man, Adams and others, and not Morton.
Belknap, Chandler and other malignants
and miscreants, whom Greeley, Sumner
anu Chase repudiated In 1872. say, II
they were living to-day they would be
found voting for those distinguished
statesmen and roformers Hidden ana
Hendricks. Now. suppose the man on
whose land you now live (if you do not
plenty other colored persons) should turn
you off; why, as soon as you crossed the
fence you would find yourself on an
others place; and suppose he should
drive you OIL, you would still find your
self on somebody's land. What would
be the consequence
The false aud vilainouS carpet-baggers.
the interruptions scalawags who have
poisoned and instilled the venom of hate
and malice into your hearts, could not
shield you from the deserved wrath OF Il
well-disposed but injured people.
Spurn then the serpents whom You
have so long warmed, Tor which nothing
but stlngs have been received.
think you are the paid agent of the
Radical party, and warn the colored
people not to trust such ignorant and
base men as YOU. You say the Demo-
Gratis will re-enslave the colored people.
You don't believe any such thing. for it
is impossible. There is not Democrat
living who entertains such preposter-
Gus idea. They would not do it il they
could. | have travelled all over the
states, and find the colored people of
the South better of than in any other
part of the country. II the base men
from the North will leave the negroes
alone. we will hear of no more Hamburg
and Yorktown. Va. riots.
would call youf attention to the
great fraud committed upon the men,
women and children through the instru-
mentality OF the Freedmen's hank. Our
people have been swindled out Of mil
hons Of dollars, and we hear not one
worn Vi pTOttct a. diust tiiOSe IOUDtrs w
this same party who say they have done
so much TO elevate our people.
The colored men who belong to THE
corrupted and doomed party are the
worst kind of slaves politically, and ars
bought and sold by the custom-house
rings and carpet-baggers and scalawags.
The Republican party has been false &c
itself. false 10 the country. false TO the
negro. whom il has pretended to favor
but In fact. whom it has made pe7rers,
because of The policy OF hate it has forced
MIN 10 accept against people with
whom he lives and must continue tc
live.
For these reasons alone We expect &c
cooperate with the Democrats in III,
| coming presidential election, and aid by
our ballots. TO retrieve the good name
aud lost honor OF our common country
Colorel friends, may God enhghten yol
10 see your political duty in the coming
contest. is the wish OF your friend ant
| well-wisher. W. Ii. l.. COMBS.
State Prest. T. and II. Clubs Of Va.