The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-13
The Southern People the Best
Friends of the Negro.

Rockville Advocate, as touching
a subject which has a great part
in the present campaign. 1t was
written by one who calls himself
an sold farmer" and whilst it
does not display great literary
strength, and it shows that the
northern people were never real
friends to the negroes, but have
always used them to further their
own financial or political ends, to
the utter decentralization of the
race:
"When the war between the
States commenced nearly all the
negroes in the United States
we're found in the Southern
States, and the most of them
slaves, but they were not brought
there by the southern people, nor
was it any act of theirs that they
were made slaves. 1t was the
people of New England who
brought them from Africa or
bought them from the English or
Dutch traders. 1t was found
that the New Englanders could
make money, and make it faster,
by bringing the negro South and
selling him to the southern people
to make tobacco, sugar and cot.
ton than to take the trouble
to civilize and teach him to work
themselves. The southern people
were opposed to the slave trade
and wanted to stop it, but the
northern people, who were max
ing money out of it, would not
give it up. Thomas jefferson
said that when he looked on the
slave trade and remembered that
God was just, he trembled for his
country Later, Henry Clay,
fOreseeing the trouble that slavery
would bring on the country,
tried to bring about the gradual
emancipation and colonization;
but the Yankees saw no money in
it for them and it was never car.
ried out. 1t was from the south
ern people that the negro got all
their civilization, all their learn
ing, and every other good thing
that they have had since the
northern Yankees brought them.
uncivilized savages, and sold
them into slavery to the planters.
When the war came on there was
not a working class of people
anywhere in any country that was
better fed, had better clothes,
had better doctors, or who was
better looked after and cared for,
or so contented and happy, as the
slaves in the South. And this
was before the Republicans con.
taminated them. And there was
more love and attachment be.
tween master and slave in the
South than could be found any.
where between employer and EN-
ployee. Nine tenths of the mas.
tiers would defend their slaves
next TO their wives and children:
and most slaves would risk their
lives in defence of their masters.
That was shown by the faithful
ness of the cOlored people when
almost the entire male popula.
ton was absent from home in the
war, and the women and children
were left at home with no one but
the negro slaves who could have
slaughtered them all on the south.
ern plantations. But they were
the old time negroes as we knew
them before and during the war;
and before the Republicans had
reconstructed them and taught
them that liberty meant license.
and that the domination of the
white man of the South was the
one thing for them to strive fol-
and attain. But it was not fol-
the love that the Republicans had
for the negroes, or that they
wanted to better the negroes
condition, that they taught them
to hate and envy the people OF
the South, causing all the trouble
between the races. If the Repub.
llcans were sincere in their pre-.
tentions and really wanted tic
raise and elevate the negro over
the white man, why did they
not take them up north and give
them the places of honor and
preferment-make them postmas
tiers and officers over the white
peopleY But they do not want
the negroes up there and WON'T
have them. But it was done to get
the negro votes to put the carpet.
bag Republicans in power anC
give them control over the affair,
OF the southern people, and not
far any good they wanted to dc
the negroes. And if the negroes
were wise they would not vote TIL,
Republican ticket.n