Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-15

= bue5c INSTRUCTIONS ana CDL1ill ~ near
ing, we had splendid barbecues, 4
2 which the negroes were freely In
/ vited; we had band-Wagons, lsaintel
I red, white and blue; we had nerr
musicians, rs we'll AS white, wht
played ON ali manner OF instru
ments; we dressed Our followers
white and black, in shirts OF fiarninn
red flannel, TO attract The attention
and admiration of the tOlored men
we carried the Star,SIangled Ban.
ner, and we made the wellzin ring
with our artillery and shonts. One
of the most exciting scenes / ever
witnessed was a democratic meet
| ing, where we had about fifteen
hundred men ON horseback--and "a
large number of them cOlored--with
their red shirts blazing In the sun,
with banners flying, with brass
bands playing, drums beating, men
shouting, and cannon roaring. It
concluded with r band Of eoloretl
minstrels singing, to the intense
delight Of their colnred brethren,
1.-THE Carpet Bagger's LAMENT to
the tune Of sold Rosiu the Bow"
The words ran thus;
have travelled this country All over.
And now 20 another must go,
Where the niggers are easier swindled
And less OF my lying do know.
l came nom the cold frosty region
The land OF the ice and the snow
e;ime with my carpet-ilag empty
But now 'tis quite full, as you know.
At home was ragged and dirty
LETT when the sun had got low
But 1 soon made rise in this country,
When got In the Freedmans Bureau.
told how shouldered my musiSct
And fought for the poor old negro;
How hated the secesh and rebels,
And told them to hate them also.
/ swore them mt night by darl lanterns,
In the league we call loyal, you know,
And made them believe II thty left it
Straighs down TO the devil they'd go.
promised that land we would give them
Ofacres quite forty or more,
With a mule fat and ready ID work iti
That caught the fool-nigger, be sure.
We got every Office we wanted,
We threw the poor darkies bone
We robbed and we stole without fearing;
For Grant would let US alone.
That mournful-fact speech of Old Greeley
Struck us the first heavy blow;
Now the niRgers, confound them, want Office,
Where shall we carpet-bags gog
/ see that more trouble Is coming;
The mule and the land cant showi
So, like many a swindler before me,
must pack up my steallnSs and go.
This gave us an audience of Will
ing listeners and enabled us to
expose before the negro the unjust
and treacherous conduct Of the re-
publican party toward his race. We
demonstrated to them that we had
never engaged in the slave-trade,
and that no southern man had ever
man who was free; that
we had bought them when they had
been enslaVed by Others and paid
our money for them. We showed
them that the ancestors Of republi-
cans had sold them to us from slave
ships before the war, aud that after
the war, when they were free, when
planters wanted hands for their
they went to Memphis
and other places where negro SOL
1iers were being discharged ind
bought them at from five to ten
dollars a head from the Freedman's
Bureau officers. These officers not
only put them under contract, but
them to abide by Il, and
)n one occasion la nay district q
negro who attempted TO run away
rom his contract was not only
saught and brought back, but also
whipped by the bureau officer. We
showed them that the new constltu-
ion of Mississippi contained clause
made expressly for their benefit
which provided that all persons
living together as man and wife on
he day of its adoption should be
married and their chill
lren legitimate. But when radical
,lerks came into power they sum
noned all the negroes, old and
young, some who had been living
ogether for thirty years as man and
wife, and compelled them TO take
)ut marriage licenses at three dollars
lpiece and be married over again
Inder threat of prosecution for adul-
cry. We showed how the republi-
an legislature had robbed the
State how they had stolen a large
lortiOn of the school funds to pay
heir own salaries and wasted much
If the remainder in paying eXtIava-
rant salaries TO school superintend-
snts and teachers who were mere
wire-pullers I'm the different
counties. We pointed to the Freed
mans Bank swindle, where the
.redulity, the loyalty, and the re-
igion Of tho negroes were prOsti.
uted to rob him of his hard-earncd
avings,
The honest and intelligent portion
# the negroes who were not political
spirants listened and were con-
'inced that IL was their best interest
o join the democratic party. The
most fearful argument which the
had used, as Senator
Rev velssays, to enslave the the minds
# his race, was that the democrats,
successful, would break up tho
rec schools and return the negro to
lavery, When this spell was bro
zen its falsehOod recoiled ON the
reads OF its inventors. When the
legroes Of Mississippi saw that they
we're as free under democratic as
lnder republican rule; that tho
chOOl facilities wereincreased that
he school funds were honestly ap-
to the education OF chill
lren and not TO the salaries OF
uperintendents and political teach
rs when the taxes were reduced,
vhen good government was Fe.
tored, when the feeling Of hate
by carpet. .bag teachings
ave place to the old kindly feeling
'etween tho races, a large number
f them sustained the democratic
for Office.
And you cannot again draw them
rom us, for the negro, more per-
aps than any other voter, delights
0 be on the side that wins at home.
Resignation Of Gov. Hampton.
Hon, Wade Hampton has ten
erred his resignation as Governor OF
outh Carolina. In his letter Gov.
Hampton says ''To the people of
'Outh Carolina, who have done noe
ueh undeserved honor in tho past,
VhO have sustained me with such
confidence, and who
ave manifested toward me during
ny late Illness an affection never
have no words by
Which adequately To express my
Tatitude. can only promise to
IevOte whatever of life and ability
Tod may grant me to their service,
My asking them to Oremembert thatl
ave never solicited Office at their
ands: and III / fail in the notv