The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-01
NO BULLDOZING IN THE SOUTH.
WHAT A coLoRED MAN, a FORMER Resident
OF THIS CITY, HAS TO SAY

WHAT A CoLoRED MAN, FORMER hEs'o-Ni
OF THIS CITY, HAS TO SAY
The other day we met q colored man
at the corner of Twelfth and CofA-
mercia, who was "laylng it OF 10 a
crowd of listeners, in manner seldom
before heard of. He hailed from OsceoIa'
Arkansas, and, although a Republican,
uttered some refreshing truths which it will
do our Republican friends good to read
and remember He is man who was tor
many years resident OF TINS
city and has many acquaintance
among our white as well as
colored citizens. His name is Peter IlII-
man and he is the son OF old Ruben Till
man who will be remembered by many OF
our readers as the old gentleman who USED
to ring the auction bell on our streets with
50 much vigor.
His remarks as given below are some.
what disconnected since they are presented
almost word for word as the fell from his
lips, but they are very clear, and show him.
to be, what he really is, an lntel'igen;
man:
81 left Cairo for Osceola on the l2th day
of August, last year, ami took my wife ana
four children with me. rented a pIanta'
ton OF three hundred and seventy-dye acres
few miles distant from the city
and have raised splendid crop Of cotton
and quite a good crop Of early potatoes
have come to Cairo for the purpose OF
getting men to 90 down with me and pick
my cotton and Will pay elghty.hve cents
Immediately upon their arrival down there,
and assure them dollar three weeks from
now. Although | have spoken to
number of co.ored men who have
known me for years and who know that
they will receive their money whenever
they ask tor it. only few have consented
to 90 with neal the Others express
ing the fear that they will lose their vote
il they do. But have secured the services
of some women, whose political opinions do
notpreyent them from leaving for the south.
| read the Republican newspapers,
published in the north and see
that they accuse the southern plan
tation owners Of
CHARGING SUCH HIGH RENT
| for their lands that the negroes can barely
make enough money to pay the rent. | am
acquainted with every owner Of plantations
around about Osceola and up and down the
river, and know the negroes who have
rented plantations. can call most Of them
| by name, and know the exact price that
many Of the negroes pay for the use of
plantations, and tell you, and am willing
to tell anybody, that these Republican pa
pers do not tell the truth when they
give voice to such stories. Why, sir,
besides my rent and every other expense
| and my family have cleared thirty dol
lars per day, and no man can say that owe
him single cent on my farm
THE PERNIcrOus CREDIT SYSTEM
OF which these northern news.
papers speak is also lie You
will notice that all the ISLANDERS of the south
are published by northern papers and not
by the southern papers who ought to know
the most about such matters. We have
plenty Of Republican papers in
the south, but if they published
such statements as are to DC found in
the northern journals, they would become
the laughing stock Of the community No,
sir; the southern people handle their cash
with more liberal hand than any other
people on the face Of the globe. The deal.
er in cotton visits my plantation and says,
"Tllman, want so or so many bales of
cotton" All right, SIR say to him, and
ship them and announce my price, and,
without word of grumbling, he
COUNTS THE MONEY OUT TO NE
On this knee or on that knee. That is the
way we do business down there. He does
not give me his note and when it comes
due asks for renewal and pays me
only a portion Of 1t. No, sir;
it stands to reason that were we paid in this
manner we could never pay our hands, and
you know, and everybody else knows, that
a darkey never left the south without
having received his pay for the cotton he
picked or other labor he may have done
The Republican papers only circulate these
stories with the expectation Of influencing
weak members Of the Democratic party in
the north. But what's the differencel The
whites as well as the blacks down there care
very little about what news
papers or politicians may say
They are interested in their work in
making money -- and ignore every