The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-08
AS VIEWED BY THE COLORED MEN.
THE PARTY THAT swINDLED THE RACE NO
LONGER WORTHY OF ITS SUPPORT.

THE PARTY THAT swINDLED THE RACE NO
LONGER WORTHY OF ITS SUPPORT.
329 appeared last evening at the meeting
of the democratic union club of the seventh
assembly district at "a Greenwich avenue.
Col. Frederick A. Conkling, the president,
set up a placard having the strange device
at the edge Of the flag -draped platform, and
there was burst of applause. Mr.. VIM. j.
Curtis reviewed the issue of the campaign,
and then Conkling introduced Mr., Isaac III.
Hunter, coored, formerly of North Carroll
ma. sit might seem strange to some repub-
Leans, he said, Ito see colored man adj
vocating the election of democratic presi-
dent. But to understand fully how this
| can be they have only to transform them
themselves into negroes for twenty-four
hours If they could do this, they would
vote to man against the republican
party as it is now constituted. Applause.I
1t would, of course, be of small conse-
quence to me whether the republican can
didate bartered his honor for $399, if he
were private citizen. But when he calls
upon the American people to flock to the
polls and approve fraud, rascality. corrup-
tion, bribery, and perjury by voting for
him, assert that he Is guilty of one of the
greatest, perhaps the greatest insult that
was ever offered to the nation. APP
plause,
THE men who strike the Keynote of his
canvass tell US that it is unsafe for white
man to vote the Republican ticket south OF
| Macon and nynpfc linz al hat xrhaH
negro dares to vote it, his cattle are driven
off, his fields laid waste, and his cabin is
burned and he and his family are MUIR
dered. If this Is so, and |, come from
the land whence these manufactured
stories of outrage are sent to
give pretext for the waving of the bloody
shirt before the eyes of the northern voters,
challenge the production of any proof that
would be accepted in any court of law in
this city, is it not the fault Of the Republi-
can party! For 16 years they had absolute
control of the government its purse and its
army and navy. They made whatever laws
they pleased, and brought force to bear in
imposing these laws upon a submissive
people. In Gods name, then, is not the
Republican party blamable for the exist
ence of this wrong, if there is one9 [Ap-
plause.
"My race remembers the Freedman's
savings bank, and will give evidence of
their remembrance in the coming election.
Republican statesmen organized the bank
to enable them to take lasting care of every
penny that the poor negro might be
smart enough to earn and save.
Charles Sumner offered an amend
ment to the bill organizing the bank to the
effect that its funds should be invested
only in government bonds. For this noble
effort to put safeguard around the poor
Negroes money, he was deposed from his
high position in congress, and was given
the cold shoulder by the magnates of the
republican party. Applause. The bank
was robbed, and it was one of the meanest
steals that was ever perpetrated by white
men. Applause. Men representing the
party of enlightenment and lofty ideas,
gentlemen, stopped beneath the dignity of
the common highwayman, to rob the widow,
whose husband or son died on the battle
field Of his country, Of her last dollar.
Applause.
"The time has come, gentlemen, when
the black men see that all OF their friends
are not in the republican party. They will
give voice to their trust in aparty led by
the hero statesman, Winfield Scott Hancock.
on the cd of November, in thunder tones"
Applause.
Three cheers were given for Mr.. Hunter.
Messrs Moore and William G. Bergen
spoke, and then Col. Conkling announced
that the club will holda meeting every
Friday night until election day.