Year: 1867


newspaper or read Southern speech
without seeing that the negro has becomt
the centre Of attraction in Southern POI
itics. The orators and Journals we WITH
each other and with the most radical he
publicans, in the use of honled phrases
toward the colored population. In fact
the Radicals are apparently lett tar De, :
hind in the race the hattery, the sof'
soap, the gentle persuasion come from
the former slave n,asters-the men Wnc
sought to make perpetual slavery the
foundation stone of a new ootlthefn Iov-
ernment Their love for the negro, thei!
solicitude for his intcllectaal, material and
political welfare, find constant and affec-
tionate expression III eloquent words
Thus, Wade Hampton in his speech to
the negroes at Columbia, said: Why
should we not be friends? Are not you
Southern men as we are? Is this not
your home as we'll as ours Did not this
soil give birth to all Of us? And will we
not all alike, when our troubles are over,
sleep in the same soil in which we first
drew breath? Speaking of the abolition
of slavery, he said the deed had been
done, more did he wish to see it revoked +;
he did not believe the people Of the
South would remand the negro to slavery,
if they had the power to do so unques-
toned. He then set forth the claims of
she Southern whites OH the gratitude OF
the black man, as follows: Under our
paternal care, from mere handful he
grew to be mighty host He came to
US heathen; we made him Christian.
Idle, vicious, savage iii his own country,
in ours he became industrious, gentle,
ciriit:zed'' He further declared that a
stronger prejudice had always existed and
still exists against the negro in the North,
than is entertained in the South, and as
an Instance stated that some years ago,
while passing through Philadelphia, he
was told that the two negroes who We're
with him could not ride in the same car
with him, but he insisted on their right
to do SO, and gave them the privilege
against the protestations OF the conductor.
Thus Wade Hampton puts himself on
record as a champion Of negro equality.
He asks if they are not all Southerners
together; if, when dead, the same earth
will not cover them alike. He asserts
that the negroes are Christians, are IN
dustrious, gentle, civilized. W hat Alb
olitionist ever went further what agent
OF the Freedmen Bureau ever gave the
negro a better character


Hardly Southern newspaper now Is
sues from the press that does not TEEN
with such praises of the negro as we have
ouoted from Mr.. Hampton. The Rich
nIond Examiner OF recent date devotes a
column Of editorial to '''rhe Colored Peo-
pie of ' rglnia, and sets out with the
declarat. on that there must be some
IL. i, l,ao Il h. mt
of any man who could view, without
much admiration, the general demeanol
of the colored people OF this Common
wealth during and since the war. Ii
then goes Oh with series of propositions,
intended to convince the black man that
the Southern whites love and admire him
to a degree that never was and never can
be attaiEe;! in the North. tasks him to
remember that the North did not go to
war to free him. ''fhe Yankees, it as
serts, simply made use of the southern
negro to help them out of difficulty
they had not the skill To deliver themselves
from The North, tllerti.1t, deserves
no credit for the act. 2. 1t reminds
him that he is denied the ballot in a ma
jority of the Northern States. B. He
will be dependent on the whites of the
South for employment for generations to
come; while the strangers that go South
will turn their backs On him as soon d.
they have used him: Ike those terrible
Freedmen Bureau officers whe tempt
ed hiln 20 wUrk AND then cheated HIM
out OF his wages.


We might multi ,ly such extracts to
almost any extent, but we deem 1t un-
necessary. The above gives a pretty fail
idea OF the manner in which the South
ern whites propose to conduct the cam
paign. Hencetorth the great question in
Southern politics is, Hho can secau'e The
a,eyso rote ''Will you place in office
these strangers, Northerners], asks
Wade Hampton, ''who have Hocked here
to plunder what little there is left to us !
Or will you trust the men among whom
you have lived heretofore-amongst whom
you must always live; That is tho
question with every Southern politician.
If the negro can be persuaded that his
Old asters are his best friends after all,
then tn, Southern whites may be able to
rei.ow heir lease On power, at least until,
as the World has said, the negroes shall
enjoy for a year or two, the substantial
blessings of freedom. This they regard
as their last chance. If the negroes will
not vote for them they must go to the
wall But it is certain that mere empty
promises and professions will not deceive
the coiored man, or secure his vote.
These professions will have to be embod-
led in actual laws and deeds; and the
negro may regard his rights as pretty well
secured, since the question is, which par
ty in the South will now do most for him.
Chicago Tribune.


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