The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-29
NEW SERIES--.NO. 1O5.

zeal adventures, sent among them for that
express purpose. But more recently the
party who controls you, to promote their
own selfish purposes and gain tor them
selves lucrative official positions, have tax
en- your people from their homes in the
south where, since freed from carpetbagism,
they have been dong we'll, and distributed
them likcso many cattle in Kansas, Indi-
ana, Ohio and wherever else they
needed them for the purpose of carrying
elections.
What have your people received for all
this, except the mere pittance given them
to detray expenses during the time they
were dong this dirty work for them? Do
you know that in dong this they were
leading your people into crime punishable
in the penctentiary, corupting their morals
and debasing them as people9 Can 70
reasonably hope to ever accomplish any
thing for yourselves as people, while you
submit to the guidance OF such party and
allow yourselves to be used for such ignoble
purposesl Has it ever occurred to you that
you are in political slavery? If not, stop
and think about it for moment. You
ask us if it will not be just as bad, if you
should all go over to the democratic partyG
Yes, If they were to use you in the same
way it would be equally as bad. AS one
who wishes you well we would not have
you all go into any one party. TO do so
would be conclusive evidence that you were
the mere tools of that party What We
would have you lois to libcrate yourselves
from the slavery of party and begin 10 think,
and act tor yourselves.
When you begin to do that you will
yourselves, just like the whites, divide be-
tween the two great parties.
Some will think one way and some an
other; some will join one of the parties and
some the other.
When you begin to do this and act upon
your honest convictions as to what Is best
for the country and your people, then the
good people of all parties will begin to
respect you, and acknowledge your fitness
for citizenship, and you yourselves will
then begin to realize that you were made
for more noble purpose than to be the
mere tools of any party.
Your Birds, Scots, Shoreses, Taylors,
Gladneys and many others we might men
ton, are men Of fine sense, and some Of
them, men of culture, and the wonder has
been with US for years past, that they have
not before this, declared their own indie.
pendence and bursted assunder, the letters
that bind them and their people, in this
most humiliating political slavery. They
should denounce it from the pulpit, the
rostrum, the lecturers desk, yea from
the very house tops until their people see it
in all its odious deformity. When the
eyes of your people are once opened
to the wrongs that have been and are
Being done you by your political leaders,
they will no longer be insulted and de-
graded by being forced to take pre-
tended oath to vote a straight republican
ticket, or any other kind OF ticket. No
man who has any sense of decency or re-
spect for you would ask you to 60 through
the idle form of such pretended oath which
either to take or observe is almost sacri-
lege 10 the sight of God. No one is bound
by such pretended oath either in law or
morals and it is lasting disgrace to the
man who keeps it,
Let US add in conclusion. Declare your
selves free. Begin to think and act for
yourselves. Tie yourselves to no party.
Assert your manhood by acting politi-
cally upon your individual convictions
If you want Office put out your
best men and you will then see who are
your friends. If you wait for the hungry
horde of Office seekers who control your
conventions to give you place on their
ticket you will never get one We appeal
to you if this is not 500 They have been
telling you to our knowledge for the last
ten years 'the time has not yet come for
you to have Office" And we tell you
now if you wait for them
to say the time has come it will never come
till you are all laid in your coffins.
Finally, we ask you, We entreat you to
take new departure. The future OF your
people and race depends upon your action.
Begin the noble work now by declaring
your political independence. Live up to the
declaration, and the good Of all parties
will respect you. You will have the approx
al of your own consciences, and God will
aid you and crown your efforts with final
success.
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