Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-25
A NEGRO DEMOCRAT.
His Vandalia Speech Gets
Into Print.

is thoro Democrat. He is Il fair
type of the old-time darkey of an
te-bcllum days, now fast disap-
pearing. He does not belong to
the idle, noisy, insolent, bcer-guz-
zling class of darkcys, but has al
ways been industrious and sober.
The Columbia Herald says of him:
Uncle Clay Taylor of Mexico,
an old colored man who is celebra-
ted as one of the few Democratic
darkcys, lately made two or three
speeches in Nandalia to show that
the Democratic party and not the
Republican freed the slave. The
old darkey says he was raised by
\. b. Weldon, formerly of Boone
county. He says he first learned
tailoring in Columbia, then black
smithing and finally making.
He laid the first rock that was ev-
er laid in Columbia and helped
cut the rock for the big columns
that stand today i'll the University.
He is seventy-tive years old and
bought his freedom for the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars. He says
he never had no. education, but
when he gets up to make speech
heis just "pcrSpired." Here is
his argument that the Democratic
party freed the black man, in his
own language:
"ln the first place if Il man vio-
lates the law he has got to suffer
the penalty of that law; and so
the proclamation was from Abra-
ham Lincoln to jeff Davis, Come
back to the Union in sixty days
and we will not exact your slaves.
He gave us the right thru the
State and SAYS you are welcome to
your slaves so you don't let them
go across Mason and DiXOn's line.
And | suppose that Mr.. Davis was
like Pharaoh and that he thought
he had as much power as God; 50
he told Moses to 90 down and tell
him to turn the children of Israel
loose and he would not accept it
after Moses had told him. Then
he told Moses to 90 down and take
the rod and Smite the water. We
are told by history and scripture
that he did so. The water depart
ed on each side and the children of
Israel all marched thru on dry
shod. Pharaoh and his host pur-
sued them, and after the children
of Israel stepped out, Pharaoh
and his host stepped III and 50 He
closed the sea upon all of them
The children Of Israel were all
turned loose. The scripture reads
like this, They shall be servants
of servants. They shall serve ;
certain length Of time and then
they shall be turned loose but il
did not say in what shape they
should be turned loose.
Nov comes the fight. SO Mr.
Davis he went down after violat,
ing the law and would not accep'
the proclamation Of Mr.. Lincoln
but fits his vessels and fires upon
Ft. Sumptcr. The sound is hearC
in the honey comb. Then it be
comes law breaking, and the fire
of that gun from the Democrat,
party freed the slave man. Tia
is what freed him. And when tn,
slave men was set free, on wha
ground was he set free ON? | asl
that as IA question. He was Sc
free-they claim they took him on
of hell Il hate to speak that word
but that is what they say. If,
say, they took him out Of hell
then it was thru hell's door. Thel
to make the thing perfect, 'Th
birds of the all has nests, the fox
es has holes, but no place for th
Son OF Man to lay his head. W.
2 was then set frec-upon wha
ground? Where we could no
claim bread, where We could no
say this was onr home, and th
party that claims to be our frienC
says they set us free. On wha
ground does they set us free ON
Where we could not ever say W
had home, where we could no
say we had bread nor where W
had no liberty whatever. The Re