Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-24


for him. He went to the old, and said,
aHere, uncle, is ten dollars we have got
for you. and we want to present it to you
in token of our admiration of your being
such hero" The old man says, Hero,
boss? What about boss?" "Why, be-
cause you went down into that river and
rescued that little son of yours" The
old negro said laws, boss, he aint no
son Of mine" "Well, your cousin, then"
..Sho, boss; that little boy aint my son
and he aint nay cousin: | will splain it to
you: that boy had the bait in his pocket
and hit was the bait | was after"
Now, these old Republican grannies up
North are grabbing after the bait, and
have been for many years. A sensible old
colored man up in Virginia found that
out, and explained it to General Malone
in this way: He said General. had a
dream last night I" General Malone said,
"Well, what was it?'' He said II dreamt
| went up to Heaven and knocked at the
door, and St. Peter said who's dar?' And
[ told him who l was; and he said you
cant get in here, cause nobody gets in
here except them that s mounted; star
ted on back den, and met you, and | told
you could not get in dar without you rid
ing; den | dreamed you said, 81 tell you
what. Fred: you and me has always been
good friends; you let me get on your back
and ride you up there, and then l can
say | am mounted" And dreamt that
tried it and you rode me up there, and
knocked, and St. Peter says "Who dar?"
and you says General Maholne of Vir-
glnia." Den st. Peter said "Is you afoot
or mounted?" And den you says .'Is
mounted"; and St. Peter says "Well, jest
hich your horse outside, and come right
in" (Applause.) There is not an intel
ligent colored man or woman in Alaba-
ma that has not got sense enough to know
that the Northern politicians treating you
as nothing in the world but tools: and
they pretend to be great philanthropists,
and many of you have been foolish
enough to believeit Ii they were philan-
thropists why have they not shown it to
the Indians, and why do they not to-day?
They have robbed him of his land and
are doing so to. day. If they have got so
much philanthropy, why do they not show
i to the poor Indians? Why is 1t they
are 50 much interested in the colored peo-
pie. They are trying to use you as po-
lltical instrument to help themselves along
and you should not listen to those people
who come here to lead you astray: 1
head man say the other day that man,
who had been drinking good deal tried
to reform, and he behaved himself very
| well for about month; but finally he got
out with the boys and took a little too
much, and got in home about 2 o'clock,
and slipped in, so as not to wake his wife.
She walked up though, and said "Now
aint this pretty time of night for you to
be coming home. He said "Why, it aint
bat ten o'clock" but just about that time
the clock struck three; and his wife be-
gan to give him curtain lecture, and
said Just think of it; you said it was just
ten o'clock, and here the clock is striking
three" He began to feel mighty bad,
then, and began weeping; his wife said to
him MY dear, what are you crying
about ?" And he said "Just to think you
would believe that old three-dollar clock
before you would me-" (Applause).
Never believe those old three-dolar
men in the North again. They say, we
have given you money: Yes; but did
they not sell your ancestors, your fathers
and your mothers, and put that money at
interest. The southern people took your
ancestors, and treated them well as
rule, of course there are exceptions to all
rules, but as rule there was never any,
body trated better than were the colored
people in the South; and they are proud
of it, and are proud of their names wher-
ever they 60. Now, think, you are citi-
zens here on this great state-this grand
and glorious Alabama. You are citizens,
you have your rights. There wrs once
a man in street who heard man and
his wife in a house fighting, and he
thought he would go in and help the
woman; but the first thing he knew she
picked up pot of hot coffee and threw
it on him, and said 'Get out of here, and
tend to your own business, this is our
family affair"
You ought to be proud of Alabama,
she has done so much for you, you have
equal educational, industrial, CONNER
cial, legal and political rights Society
is thing that regulates itself and always
has done SO, and always will do so. Now,
right here, to-day you have a man as
Governor who is the advocate of the
rights of the colored people. l speak of
Gov Thomas g. Jones. He is a true
patriot and able statesman. He said to
me the other day "What do you think of
my action in the Catherine natter" |