Year: 1866




Before the warrior Independence we see tn


cOlored men pouring forth his blood ant


giving an impetus to that mOEemen


which afterwards secured us nationa


flag. The colored men assisted Wash
ington in crossing the Delaware, and the,


assisted Jackson in the war of 1912 a


New Orleans, and lastly called BY A


Lincoln finished this rebellion. Every


where the colored man had to be brough


to settle the hash. It could not be seitlec


aCithout them. They have been the medi


ators between US and the enemy. e7R


coLored men took Richmond Our oppo


nents declare that there wasn't regi


ment of troops in Richmond at the time


don't care if there wasn't but one


man there. A regiment of coloret


men led by that little Dutchmar


entered Richmond and found JEFF


Davis in church and drove him out. We


took Richmond and have got it yet
And yet these opponents of universal
liberty say we can not be citizens Of the


United States, for if we do the whole
nation will be defled. Now I want tc
tell my good Democratic friends to go tC
the negro if you want to be successful
They can't carry us on their backs and
Vallandigham to be successful. If a
person starts to Cincinnati with one
pound weight in his hand, it may ba a
one pound weight here, but it will be a
twenty pound weight in Cincinnati
Years ago we were a pound weight, now
we are twenty pound weight and they
cannot carry US SO easy. They never can
succeed in the world with Clement Val
landigham on their one shoulder and the
colored people on the other You cant
carry two buckets of water on both
shoulders and succeed. Now if you don t
take us, aCben the election comes rOund goa
can't succeed, FOR WE ARE GOING BY THAT
TINE TO VOTE. expect may and will
cast a vote before 1 die If I don't cast
a vote somebody will for me. I am not
abusing anybody but am talking to them
as public property. talked this way in
the Legislature and they didn't harm me
and l am going to talk so in all circum-
stances and in every place. When the
war commenced, Mr.. Lincoln, Congress
not being in session, called for $4,000
men, and they thought they could eat
breakfast and go and do the work and
come back to dinner. Congress met and
said 5000 men won't do, we must have
a hundred thousand Cabinet met, they
said 100000 won't do, a 10000 won't
do, and they kept on. to 100000, and
that won't do, we can'tWhip these rascals,
they have their slaves to help them, We
must abolish slavery. So when A. Lin
coin issued his proclamation obolishing
slavery that won't do. Why ? the ne
groes amt fighting. The Almighty told
them at the beginning that unless they
freed the negro, unless the colored men
be put to fight they could not succeed
Then when the colored men down there
all went right. One could whip thous-
and, and two put ten thousand to flight.
These men cannot deny it, and these men
further, know it. Every body knows it.
The only trouble is you're going it dead
blind and don't want to acknowledge
what the colored men do. We have done
everything in this nation that any body
else has done you can't put your hand on
anything he understands whether fight
ing, &C., but he is equal to you and supe-
rior so far as loyalty is concerned. The
men when escaping from Rebel prison
pens in the South, never asked among
the whites who were their friends to pro-
tect them, they dare not tTust eUep their
in their escape, but when
they came across the slaves they sought
their help and they knew it was bona
fde, and through them they were able to
escape and proceed from their prison
houses to their friends, all over the coun-
Try it was the same way, they have done
all this, done everything and should not
they enjoy the same privileges with their
loyalty, and the protection they have
afforded that Government given citizens
by birth and who don't have to 90 thro'
a process of courts. And don't have to
issue papers to US just before voting


These men want US to 60 away from
here at his biddiog. We wont go away.
You brought us here against our wills
and against your agillsaOe are agoing to stag.
We are american citizens. Are acknowl-
edged as such by American Congress as
3embled now in session. They have placed
Is in position with the Democratic party,
md we will have an epen field and fair
because he has got us on his
shoulders and can't carry US. Guess
is pretty near eating time.)


There's a good time coming boys,


4 good time coming,


We may not live to see the day,
1t the good time coming


cannon balls may aid the truth but that has her


weapons stronger, ,,,, |


longer.