The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-29
LIVERPOOL GRAIN.
LIVERPOOL, October 2s, 2 P. NJ
Wheat and corn unchanged.
TO THE C0LORED PEOPLE OF ALEX
AMBER COUNTY.

We have lived among you for years, and
claim to know something about you. We
desire your real welfare, and to this end
we wish to say few plain words to you,
The southern people, your former masters,
some twenty years ago, when many Of you
were children, rebelled against the federal
government and precipitated upon the
country devastating civil war that lasted
for years with varied success, but resulted
finally in the triumph of the Union forces
and the suppression of the rebellion. Pend
ing this mighty struggle for national su-
premacy, AS A WAR MEASURE PURELY, you
were declared free people, and by subse-
quent constitutional amendments and legis-
lative enactments you were made citizens,
given the elective franchise, and, otherwise,
made the equal of the white citizen so far
as it was possible to do so by constitutional
or legislative enactment
While, IN fact, your freedom was a mere
incident Of the war you have been taught
to believe, and we know honestly too, that
the republican party, as such, and exclusive
ly fought for your freedom and are your
sole liberators.
Believing this to be SOFAS grateful peo-
pie, which we know you to be, you have
from that day to this looked up to the re-
publlcans as your bencfactors and only true
friends.
You have been under their exclusive in
huence and guidance for the last fifteen
years and you have worked for them faith.
fully and earnestly and done whatever they
nave required of you, even at the sacrifice
in some instances Of your own honor and
manhood, Now let us ask you what have
they during all this time done for you in
return.
Here in this congressional district you
have during this entire period, whenever
they were in the ascendant, held the bal
ancc of power. To you they are indebted
for every representative they have had in
congress, and for every other Office they
have enjoyed.
During all this time you have had men
among you of your own race more than
the equal of any of their nominees and yet
they have never given you place on
their ticket.
That John J. Bird, William T. Scott,
and others we might mention, are more
than the equal of your present representa-
tive in congress, in any point of view you
take them no one who knows them
will deny, and yet none of them,
though Mr. Bird once really desired
it, have ever been given even place on
their legislative ticket or any other ticket.
They sent to your people in the south, i'm
mediately after tho war, unprincipled vaga-
bonds and political adventures long since
consigned to oblivion, who inaugurated
among them carpetbagism by which they
were not only robbed of their scanty earn
ings through the machinery of a Freed
mans bureau but by it the seeds Of strife,
envy and hatred between them and the
southern whites, their natural friends, were
pcrsistently and Systematically sown broad
cast throughout tho country, resulting in
rich harvest of bloodshed and crime.
Through eight long years carpctbagism was
kept alive by watering It with the blood
Of your people, shed in conflicts between
them and the whites deliberately planned