Year: 1867

II means InuC We Illc PSOplC VI luG
State of North Carolina have the power, and
if you expect to get it you will be mistaken
And one way for you to be mistaken is to
take your friends advice. Uaughter) If
you go that road he needs not be prophet
to know that you are mistaken.


The first speaker said" What good
would it be to you to have leading citizens
disfranchised 2" Another cat out of the
bag Ah they want to have the leading
men kept in power The fact is, all the
good which can be effected depends on
their staying out of power. Those men who
brought on the rebellion, finding themselves
powerless by the law that gives power to you,
are almost worried to death about it
(Great applausc)


Well, we are in fair way of having
good time There is a big difference be-
tween this meeting and the meeting of yes
terday Why,I think this 1ooe .feast-
Perhaps, they will say What strange
thing Mr. Conway said down at that meet
ing that it was a love feast. He must be
loving the niggers." Uau-&llter and cheers
But when they say that, they ought to blush
on the other side of the c.ieck. Renewed
laughter)


They are terribly alarmed at the idea of
their leaders going out of power. Another
thing said by tile second speaker at that
meeting is this: IF ynn follow public
speakers, your employers will cease to employ
you You will surely suffer by it,"


Well, now of all the contemplate. mean,
shabby things a man can say, that is the
meanest, the most contemplate, and the
most shabby A man who can threaten YOU
with discharging you from employment if
you don't vote his way-that is the meaning
of it's not ready yet to be received into
this fold. daughter and applause.)


Now, if you were discharged from employ
ment, what would these people do them
selves? You have as much power IN your
hands as laborers, as those who employ you
to do the labor for them. Oh don't be
bit alarmed about that it is the desperate
trick of the devil at this time. (Applause.)


Governor Worth let the cat out of the
bag. He says g he accepts the law, but he
is opposed to it." That is the finest way OF
accepting a thing that these rebels have, l
have ever yet heard Of We are going to
put it through and accept it but we want
you to come over to our side. That is what
they mean.


The man who is opposed to your voting
and would have you to vote as he would
himself vote, is not going to have vote
from you.


This manner of fighting ought to be
dropped 1t was talked of too at the Rich
mend theatre. One man who was rebel
told them that if those Yankees came Gown
South, {" l pray to God you will fight them
back" A colored man told him next day,
that he ought not to talk about fighting the
Yankees back seeing that he tried it him
self and failed. loud laughter and cheers.


l don't want to talk about fighting.
would think myself degraded were l to say
to Confederate soldier whom had fought
and whipped, " You contemptible coward,
1 whipped you" That is buried and |
think it should never be brought up again.
l invited those people at the r chmond thea
tire, to come up to New York and we would
not ask any body to whip them back, pro-
vidcd they came up there as we came down
here, paying their way. daughter and ar
plause)


have addressed you at some length.
have endeavored to talk these matters over
in such IL manner that you might easily un
derstand me. Ihave timely word of adj
vice to give you. That is, that the people on
the plantations are not as well informed as
you are here. They should he we'll informed.
If they cannot come to you, would have
you go to them. 1t matters not it you are
discharged from your employment, you
should go to work with zeal, for this is q
great and an all absorbing moment in the
history of this country. 1t is better for you
to suffer and bear with the results which may
follow your being discharged, than to suffer
for all the future. The welfare of your chill
dren is involved in this great struggle
Your suffering momentary, and will
amount to nothing in comparison with the
sufferings of your children, should you vote
against your liberty and their liberty
(Cheers.)


Do you think would vote against my
own freedom Do you think would COM
promise my own rights and bring back to
power men who would crush me to the
earth who would scern and despise me,
and by every means in their power, labor to
keep me in slavery 1t is question of life
and death with you. After all, was quite
pleased with whatI heard up there at the
better spirit than found in Virginia, and
I gave them credit for it in a communication
which sent on to New York.


would ask you. do you think your hopes
are linked Enthusiastically with the party
which has given you the right to vote and
every privilege which belongs to freemen
| (Cries of yes, yes.) I would have you send
missionaries into the country anon sst those
who are far removed from sources of infor-
nation. Send them without delay. 1t
matters not whether they CAN speak or not.
If they can't speak they Can rhisper into
their brethrens ears. Uaughter.) They can
tell them Of the work which we need them
to do. See to it that the people in the
country are fully informed. am going to
the South am going to Louisiana. What
shall tell your brethren of New Orleans
shall tell them "good news from North
Caroina2 p (Cries of yes, yes, an pro.
tracted cheering) shall do so. will tell
them good news from You, and I will tell
them that they may expect this from You
| always.


have detained you too long and I will
now close, (cries of 60 on, we can hear you
all night9 Well, since you insist will
relate to you little anecdote


| There was once Dutch Doctor who went
to visit patient. He administered two kinds
of medicine, saying. take little of dis and
a little OF dat, and ven you gets veil you feels
better"


Now, such is the case with these Cnnscrva-
tives, they accept the situation and they are at
the same time opposed to it, and we tell the
Conservatives when they are we'll they will
feel better.


think now of another Dutchman about
whom shall tell you before close. He