The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-11-02

| that party which has folsted upon u:
the most oppressive laws; has disrobee
US Of our privileges, and has made u'
worse tan chattrls and slaves. If we
do not nominate Il ticket we say TO the
world that we want to have the kind o
Government We have had since 1876
! It would be to say chat wo are satisfied
with that party whose plans and method:
of carrying elections are shame and
; disgrace 10 American civilization. The
law guarantees to every man his rights
rs citizen. and il wouI'! i,n damna'
bic DISGRACE for the cuiorrd people 'C
give up those rights Will. they have Il
majority. | am opposed to tie demo
cratic party; herauS,' it has always op-
posed our people in everything that
looked to their advancement; because
: it is opposed to onr social, political and
educational progress; bfcausc it held
our race in slavery for 200 years; be-
cause since 1868 it has shot down the
colorea people like dogs. to terrorlze
them so as to make solid South and to
make us, in al but name, slaves again ;
because at the Judgment day there will
20 up from Ncwberry County colored
men who have been SHOT down and
murdered by the democrats for their
political opinions-such men as Lee
Nance and johnson and Randolph.
Let Us remember the Cainlioy riot, the
Ellenton riot, the Hamburg riot, and
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party will never give you your privi-
leges; it is determined to keep you
ground down in the rut that they may
enjoy all the advantages, while YOU To-
main the hewers Of wood and the draw
ers Of water. Any co!ored man who
does not oppose that party ought never
to have been emancipated and ought to
be slave to-day. We have nado pro-
gress that has not bcen uiad, rs the
white race; a progress that has startled
the world. Such men as Wendell Phil
ips, Charles Sumner. (who shed his
blood in the United States Senate by
the hands of a South Carolinian,) and
Abraham Lincoln contendc,! Err our
freedom and rights because they knew
that by creation we were their equals;
and we should be true to the memory
of these noble men. He theu nomina-
ted F. L. Hicks for the Legislature.
Mafetl's speech was loudly cheered.
Jno. Daniels nominated Newton G.
Duckctt, of No. 4, for the Legislature.
Duckett was not present; but David +.
Lyles, of No. 4, said that he was salts
fed Duckett would not accept the nom-
ination. He opposed nominations be-
canse he thought there was no chance
of success.
Charley Brown, of No. /, said there
was no more use to nominate co'ored
man for the Legislature than to get a
dead man out Of the sea who had been
there a thousand years, and run him.
He and Maffett had a wrangle over the
respective merits Of ignorant negroes
and educated negroes, in the course of
which Mafett said that one of the most
ignorant negroes he knew was Gen.
Smalls, and he had been in the peniten-
tiary.
Lyles moved to adjourn sine die.
Mafett took the floor again. He said {:
If the republican party has got to that
point where it is afraid to make Il fight
while it has a majority / will say to 1t,
farewell, for it has sealed its destiny.
The responsibility will not rest on the
young men, but on the old men who
have been bribed. Your County Chair
man has deserted you; he doesn't want
a ticket.
A delegate arose and declared that
two or three men could not prevent
their making ticket. Matfctt said,
these two or three men are going to
make a ticket, and it is money that is
working. Hicks said ho bad been ask
ed to take part in movement to make
a secret ticket, putting one democratic
nominee upon it. and springing it oE
election day. He said that men had
been to him to make such coalition,
and that money was being used for the
purpose as in 1880. The money that
was collected from the republicans in
1880 and sent to the Court House to
print tickets, DC, was stolen and kept
By two men-and they were getting
money from the democrats nj .he same
time. rReferring to Henry Kennedy
the reporter could not learn the other
party referred to.
At this stage of the proceedings some
one nominated D. H. Mafett. Mafett
declined; ami then Hicks 'I'."li"".!
Orange Matett moved to adjourn for
want of a quorum. About fifteen of the
twenty present kept clamoring for a
ticket: MAKE 3 ticketanyhow;" make
some sort of nominations" two men
made ticket in 1880; fifteen men can
do it now;" make ticket" "we must
have ticket" Joe Hines mounted
the stage and poured forth a tarrent Of
lnvectlVe against Kennedy. and clam
ored for ticket. Maffett got the floor
and advised against making ticket, as
there was not a quorum present.
And the Convention dispersed.