Year: 1868

lHe loio"iHS eAtracts VIII SNOW the,
spirit which governs the Rebels Of ;AIabanl lal
The Mobile Register Of the 9th says o


Every colored man wllos votes in the
election for the thing called q, a,Constitution,
makes his record as an enempof his white
fellow citizens No matter whether re, does,
this with his eyes open, or as the. ,ignorant
tool of the carpct-bag ADVENTURES and
scamps who have come among us to make
dissension between whites and blacks, the ef.
feet will he the same-the white men Of the
South will have nothing more TO dc, with.
him, whether as friend, adviser. or employer.
After he has cast this vote be must look to
Griffin, Granger, Horton, aud the rest of this
tribe of Yankee Spectators ;ad renegades
|, foreWirl and comfort and eye1 1y-negro rngiat
TO know by this time that'lle isas likely to
| get blood out of a turnip as either employ
ment or help of any kind out of tlem.-.
These men are after their votes for their own
benefit, and they well know that in asking
the negroes to vote for them they are setting
trap for their injury and ruin. Our advice
to the colored people is to keep out of this
election. They are perfectly free to vote or
not. rs they choose, and no restraint or him
drance. beyond advice for their own goutl,
will he used to prevent them from exercis-
ing the right. The white men who will be
at the polls to challenge voters for illegality
are specially instructed to use no coercion.
and to do no act to interfere with perfect
freedom of election. or to create disturbance
or disorder They will he there simply to
represent the white people. and see that the
election is fairly conducted All persons





pealed to to do all in theirpower to instruct
and to enlighten the colored people as to
their rights and privileges whether in voting
or not voting, and to explain to them how
impolitic it is on their part to allow them
selves to he made the tools and catspaws of
a small lot of white men, who have no stake
or responsibility in this community"


The Mobile Tribune of the 9TH says:


Some of the negroes are probably aware
| hy this time that the white men of this CITY
are in dead earnest when they say they will
not have in their employ any one who has
striven to injure them. and registers himself
as their enemy. In order that they may he
! fully apprised of the fact that what has been
said and told them is meant, we relate the
| following: Yesterday a negro man, who has
| been in employment number Of months,
went to the polls and voted for the ratifca-
| tion of the internal instrument called "A Con-
stitution. Fifteen minutes atterwarl his
employer was notified of the fact. and in Il
brief time the negro returned to the estab-
lishment. The gentleman called him into
his office, paid HIM up to date, and ordered
him to leave his premises and never appear
there again. Having number of negroes
in his employ, he called them up and told
| them of the circumstances, and il they went
near the polls to vote he would treat them
| in the same way. A gentleman in the Wcs-
tern section of tie city,s who has about a
| dozen negroes in his employ discharged two
Yesterday tor the same cauA.. He had told
| them that they had as good Constitution
to live under as they or any one could de-
sire. and that all their reasonable rights and
privileges were guaranteed to them, and
there was no necessity voting for this bant-
ling. which was destined to bring ruin. de-
gradaton. and untold woes upon this peo-
Pile. and that they would I've acting directly
against his interests if they went there, and
he would no longer keep them. They went,
and were discharged. The negroes may as
well realize this at once. They will not be
| given employment by white men against
whom they are working. and it will be bet
ter for them to turn deaf ear to the miser
able cowar,lly hounds like Griffin, Hurter,
Horter and Others, and behave themselves
quietly. The name of every negro who has
voted has been taken down. and his employ
er notified of the fact. Ifthey want to keep
on friendly terms with tile white men of this
city, and retain their comfortable places,
they had better take warning by the tate of
the above mentioned. The negro cotton
samplers had especially better bear this in
mind. They cannot vote without being
known, and they, in thus acting, must ex-
pect nothing else than discharge from en-
ployment." ' 's1l