Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-10-20
Correspondence Of the Raleigh Sentinel
D<. Lsacn Go tho Negroes.

xs<. Zach Go tho Negroes.
Johnston o., n. @, Sept. 27, 1876.
1 have before me two letters
purp0rting TO have been written by
two democratic negro preachers.
Negro ike, they move slow and
think SLOW, it has taken them fifteen
years to ind Out what any intelligent
Sabbath school boy Of the Anglo Saxon
race would have learned IL fifteen
n.autee; better later than never. Now
nly coiored friends iet me ask you in all
cA2dor VINO have been your best and
cniy friends alucs, you were set free,
who have ound you lard 30 cultivate,
who have paid you waSes for your
labor, who has fed You when you
were huGgry, vho have visited you
9llcu yOu were giCk. The radicals
knew they have turned a deaf ear to
Jour cries il yYur hour Of Il ed, in
ycof hont cf distress and sickness
you know ii. In4y tell you if the
da4.Cct->lc psrvg 9eo III power that
hey will pat you back into slavery;
ttaJ ne willingly and knowingly when
they say 80 In answer 10 their false
hood ask them for NE why did they
net do something for you when they
set you fro ;; every + ,ot OF land, every
horae, every mUla, every COW, every
OK, overy sheep, every, hog was at
thel' disposal. How many horses did
they gtyo ,Svu? None. How many
mules ? None. How mauy COWS /?
None. "ow many oxen ? None. How
nany sheep? None. How many hogs g?
Aooe Ana y45 thay have the unb!usta-
lLsG 'lfront@rg, the unblushing impu
denca 10 Sell yDu tha. they ara your
friends and that the democrats want
to put you back into slagery. God
save yCu from such lying hungry.
starving oa5 II tlmau n0ustera. MY.
oolorcG friends aun'6 you know three
fourths OF them are aa poor honestly
aS yOli are. today? shat half Of them are
without mouse or home to shelter
them from the summers heat Or the
Winters cold. Think CT these things,
yea know where they ART and who
they arc 60 70 theit houses If they
have my. lock in at the door, take
ilsi of their 3ro perty and Shen tell me,
ii have not to!;} yon tie truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the
naked truth. Ny colored friends,
your liberties are il danger, but you
have not looked III the right direction,
IN the right place TO see it. those that
have fsaats-d ana fattened off of your
votes would TO day or at any future
time be your only and bitterest
enemies: wAaa Jney loose your inhu~
euce 81 the ballot box, when they
loose your votes, they will abuse and
villify, curse ami damn you to your
faces as they have your best and only
friends behind their backs
Ny colored friends blame your
White AID Dupgee. Men
Of your own color, their advice Is
good, nO5 only for the present, but
for yo1r fu-urs Pc zee, happiness and
prosperity, as free nen. If they
(tho radical=) could not control your
votes they you'd colonizo you and
5enl you to soae extreme part of the
United States too poor to keep
gTasshoppeGs- a';ve or tu feed cabs
bago lice; or they would send you
back 10 Africa TO die Of hunger and
boat. Why do say SO ? because here
4 the south the radicals will want
'our place ~ laborers, as in the north,
Is the cafe now stands. You would
D. IL the radicals way az voters from
h fact that with your votes the south
6 stronger at home aud in congress
han she wonld be With ont them.
Now my colored frien g you have my
Jews upon the suDject as your friend,
,u3 the advice Of men Of your own
,otcr, think seriously o. the matter and
.ct ii such manner that you may not |
'egre5 II when it is too late.
J, {. LEACH.