Year: 1867

their leaders, The editor sees the natural
results of the principles ('l of that party
cropping out in the other Southern States,
where negro elections have taken place,
aud is fearful that the Freedmen Of Texas
will 60 and do likewise Thcy will GER
tainly do so IL such papers as the San An
tonic Express, Austin Republican, aud u
few other papers we might name, are cir
culated among them. We make the follow
ing extracts from the Bulletins article


Under the guardianship of dem
agoguos, political gamblers, men
without political honor, you have
suffered yourselves to be used as
tools-we speak Of the freedmen in
other States-to work their designs
and do their labors.


ain the Alabama Convention, on
tho 23d of November, one of your
race, n delegate, suffered himself to
be induced by Kciffer, the President
of the Convention, and one other
white man, to demand social equal
ity, thing that white men do not
grant each other, as you can see ev-
cry day of your lives. You see that
there are classes among white men
which are distinctly marked and as
widely separated as you are from
the whites. 1t is not every white
man who is the equal of every 9th
cr white man, and do you expect
moro than white men yield each
other? We have said that you are
induced to do these things by dem
agogues, who care nothing for you,
but everything for themselves. Who
is John G. Koiffer, who urges you
to do this? We have known him
from the day when he was boy to
tho present, but we never knew him
to risk life or limb, or bestow dol
lars or cents upon the black man.
He became the black mans friend
when it became profitable to do SO.
Under the same tutoragc another
black man prepared an unnatural
and revolving law, divorcing all
wives from rebel husbands, and
making illegitimate all children
born OF them during the war. There
was sense enough in the Alabama
Convention 10 keep this hideous law
off the record.


ain the New Orleans Convention,
one man, candidate for the Presi-
dency, arose, and for the purpose of
wheodling black mon out of their
votes, said that he twas sorry he
| had no black blood in his veins. =
Another, who had always been re-
gardcd as IL white man arose in his
place and disgraced the mother who
bore him, with the assertion that he
was one fourth negro! Do you be-
lieve these men? Your own con
sciences tell you that it was false.
You know that there is not a white
man living who would have negro
blood in his veins by choice. They
are demagogues, telling falschoods
to use you, and they do use you.-
AS Texas colored men, you have
their example TO warn, and we pray
you give heed to warning that may
save you from consequences the
most dire.


"What would four millions of ig-
norant black men do against thirty
two millions of educated white men?
You must wait for further privileg-
es till you know how to use those
that you now properly have, in due
time you will get everything that
God intended you to have, but re-
member that to ascend a mountain
YOU must slowly climb up its sides,
step by step; attempt to jump up in
a few leaps, you will fall and Kill
yourselves as on a race you would
do the same. Your only hope is in
the generosity of the white people
and in your acquisitions Of knowl-
edge and property. Look at the
men who now seek to lead you and
advise you to do these cxtravagant
things. DO they not ask all the good
places for themselves, and if they
name black for any place OF value
do they not claim three such places
for themsclves2 Do you ever see
these demagogues giving money
that they do not get four fold inre-
turn ?-are they the men who fought
for your emancipation You can
trust those who were Union men
when there was danger in it,
and do not seek now to make money
out Of you or out of Office got
through your votes. These are plain
words, and words you will remem
Der, if you go on after the fashion
of the freedmen Of Alabama and
Louisiana, destroying the conf
dence that the loyal white men
have reposed in you. These dema-
gogues will then desert you, to suf-
fer alone from the storm that you
raised.


"Some of YOU have been taught
that YOU are entitled to share Of
the Offices because ofyour numbers.
We tell you no such thing Intel
ligence and capability are the quail
tiles which must rule office holding
by colored men, as a general thing,
for a long time to come it is not to
be thought of 1t is impossible
The great mass ofyou are not quail
lied for it. Your interests are safer
In the hands of honest, intilligent
white men than in the hands of ig-
norant black men. We tell you, in
all pIainness of speech, that the
great majority of you are incapable
Of holding any Office, and that you
will do well 20 frown down those
who tell you that numbers, and not
intelligence, should hold the Offices.
This desire for Office is not a good
trait Of character in white man,