Year: 1868

regret that | cannot be with you to-
night and tomorrow, as invited. l am
delighted to see the COnsfitutiOn-loviDg
patriots of the country IN council. These
are dark days for our State. 1t is ruled
by band of wicked strangers who care
nothing for US, except to wiring from as
by taxation what little we can make by
the sweat OF cur brow, to pay their horde
/ OF useless and corrupt officials. Having,
partly through the Acknowledgement Of
a large portion Of the white people, part
IL through the aid Of the deluded col
Ored people, and partly through the
means OF stuffed bRiiot-boXes, obtained
the mastery over us, they seem resolved
to retain that mastery by making the
State Government so odiOUs that no de-
cent white man from the North or else
where will think of making it his home.
What respectable white man will think
of moving to a State where he is liahie
at any moment to be seized aud hurried
OF to Jail by a negro constable, acting
under 2 warrant issued by a corrupt or
ignorant negro magistrate


Where the African race, or those
elected and controlled by them, owning
no property and paying no taxes, are
yet creating expenses unprecedented IN
a free country, while the people OF the
white race, though unrepresented in the
Legislature, have ali these expenses to
bear?


Where the people are taxed to pay,
among other things, an unlimited NUM-
Der Of secret policemen and sptesY


Where the principal business of the
officials and " official newspapers seems
to be to stir up strife between the coiored
and white races?


Where the officials and " official news
papers are constantly asserting the
enormous lie that Northern men are not
sGfes


Where the people are deprived Of the
right of publishing their legal advertise
ments ia any but the official neEspa-
pers? ?"


Where the Governor, instead of try
ing 70 sOOihs the asperities arising out OF
the late war, issues a circular inviting
and reQuesting& rehash and republicG-
ton, at the peoples expense, OF all the
feuds and neigh bnrh0Od broils OF the
last eight years


Where the same Governor was elected
almost exclusively by negro votes and
false bAllOt-b0Xes white vote being
SO small you could nearly tell it on your
fingers?


Where the people have not the right
to vote for their Judges, OF Sheritfs. or
Clerks, or Justices OF the Peace, or Sec
rstary Of State, or Comptroller, or At
/ torney. General, or even, as il now turns
ont, for Electors of President and Vice
President Of the United States?
I Where about one-fifth of the people,
and those the best qualified to fill the
offices Of the State, are not allowed to fill
Office at all. and were not even allowed
I 10 vote at the last elections
Where most of the chief offices are
/ filed by men Of such character that they
would not dare to offer themselves as
candidates for constable in the Northern
/ States they came from?


/ Where not dollar is voted for the ed
ucation OF the children of the State,
though $4,000 are voted as salary 20 tne
/ Superintendent Of Schools?
I Where not a dollar is voted TO induce
immigration, while $1,000 are voted as
a salary 70 the Commissioners Of Immi-
grafton?


Where the Government is not founded
I sson the consent of the governed" but
! on ignorance, force and fraud?


Where the Governor, in his address to
/ the Legislature, openly cOnfesses that
his Government is based on an EN-
tirely new principle" SO odious to the
/ people that be does not expect them to
assent 10 it quietly, and therefore asks
for national force to hold them in cub
lection until he can organize negro mi
litia for that purpose?


1 say, la view of these facts, and many
others OF similar character too numerous
to mention, does it not look as though
cur tyrants having placed their iron heel
upon our necks, are resolved TO keep 1t
there By driving the white people now
here out OF the State, and preventing
. IS. ffnua of THAR fIky from
coming in F.?


The white people of this State met, by
their representatives in State COnven-
ton on the first day of last month, and
. nominated electoral candidates for Pres
ident and Vice President. No sooner
had we done this than our tyrants passed
a law that none of the people should
vote for electors except such as had been
returned as members of the Legislature,
and should be present at the Capitol on
the third day of next November.


And these are 10 vote, not as q Legfs-
Idtitre. b5cause the State Constitution
does not permit the Legislature to ad-
journ over to the 81 of November, and
because also many who were returned
as members, and therefore will have the
right TO vote under this law for electors,
have since been appointed Judges, So


icitors, etc, and are not now members
and further, because a majority, or quo
rum Of the Legislature are not required
to be present. The electors may be
elected under this law though only three
or four of those returned as members be
present and though not one of those be
now a member. They will not, there
fore meet as Legislature, but as small
mum Der OF the people upon whom the
Legislature has conferred the exclusive
privilege OF electing our electors, The
reason which impelled our masters te
this course 1 need not state; but the rea-
son they ..ssigu in their "O1fieial news
papers y Ia sort OF newspaper unknown
IN any free country, is the pretenos that
the white people in their Convention
had threatened that the negroes should
not vote. This they know TO be false.
was President Of the Convention, and
assert that no such threat was made. On
the contrary, all our resolutions and
speeches declared that there should be @
fair election, and that there should be no
more stu6ing Of 60il0t-601es. This is
the threat that has so much alarmed
them. But they wanted an excuse for
their usuFpation, and this tTumped up
threat they hoped would serve them the
( triple purpose OF ezcusing them for rob-
bing us of our right to vote, of soaring
away decent white people from our State,
and Of aiding their friends in the North
ern elections.


l think we should send agents North
to let the people know our true senti-
ments-that we are anxious foI the good
people of the North to come here and
live with US and assist US to devslope our
State, and that they are as safe here as
in any other State Of the Union. This
being done, l think hundreds Of thous-
ands vii remain North only long enough
TO secure the triumph OF the Constitution
by the election Of Seymour and Blair,
and then allow themselves no longer to
be locked ont of this delightful region by
the wicked State Government and lying
stories Of Radical tyrsnts, but come with
all their energies, all their industry, all
their ingenuity and all their wealth, and
make cur country once more prosperous,
united, happy and free.


D. S. WALKER.


The welcome to General Mcclellan
J promises TO be a brilliant affair. The
;, Aldermen and Council of New York
Z and RronEiyn haUa annronrto tod poopav