Year: 1868

Radical leaders from Massachusetts and
and her old puritanical colonies out west
as well as her new settlement" of carpet
sackers down south are beginning to
"smell' too much ''wool'' in the votes OF
the RECONSTRUCTED" states of the Gulf
and the lower Atlantic. That the former
masters of the slaves will not control the
votes OF the new-made citizens of the
South is assuming that ties of association
over 100 years old in families of white and
black amount to nothing. We believe
not in the exhaustion of subject by
lengthy articles. A talented minister once
told us that he always tried to preach in
such a way as to leave his audience some.
thing for reflection. He seldom used up
about 40 minutes in his sermons. Long
editorials and long speeches (H. Clay
Deans, for instance) are seldom read and
if read at all, the points are generally lost
in the immense clothing of words in which
they are dressed. Georgia's "colored"
vote of 1000 against the RAIDS; the late
victory in Missssippi; the close vote in
North and South Carolina--ali these elec-
tions, under the management of the gov
ernment Major Generals, mind you, are
straws which indicate the current of
events.


Now read this clip from an exclian. G,
and then 60 to thinking:


Truth IN Ir.-The colorcd Democrats
of Memphis held meeting few DAYS
since, at which several rowdies presented
themselves and endeavored to convert it
into Radical powwow. While MIR.
Thomas (coloredD was calling the attention
of his brethren to their former and present
condition, he was interrupted by noisy
fellow with the question "What had
you when the war broke out?r To which
hr. Thomas replied:


Il had great deal more than l have
now, and it was in no danger Of being
stolen from me by Radical thieves Loud
appause.) True, was slave, but had
a kind master whom l love to this day.
The Bible said that the people of Ethiopia
would one day become "a people, and they
are fast tecoming so, but they never will
be, if they adhere to the Radical party.
They have promised you land, but they
lied to you when they did so. The only
way you can ever get your land is to 70 to
work, and when you make n dollar, save
it, invest it in land, and become part and
parcel of the people of the country. 1t is
the only way you will ever get it. The
New England States, in the first place sold
us into slavery brought US from our ma
tive African homes, and almost forced us
upon the people of the South. We, as a
people, are too poor to hold ourselves to-
gether, and we must depend upon the
whites and all thinking colored men,
know that what is the white mans interest
is also the colored man's.'


Mr.. Thomas was followed by several
colored speakers, expressing similar senti-
ments. Mr. Avent said he had been a
slave, but intended to stand by his South
ern friends. We quote:


cat the beginning of the war, the col
ored people were prosperous and happy.
Now we have nothing. Every good SOL
dier who came from the North went home
at the conclusion of the war, but the
thieves staid here, and from that time to
the present, they have done nothing but
steal"


At the conclusion of Mr.. Avent' speech.
MIR. Bruce arose and said:


''The colored race have lived three years
under Radical rule, and they have, even
in that short time, sounded the lowest
depths of degradation. The Radicals pre-
tend to be the friends of the colored men.
and no doubt they are-for his vote, and
after that is given, they have no further
use for him. Who owns the lands of the
country? Where are the men Of our
race to get employment, and gain living?
The radicals came here, carpet bag in
hand, and as soon as they could succeed
in filling them, they would leave on the
first train for the North and leave the
colored men to enjoy the benefit of the
hate they had engendered.