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ADVERTISER & REGISTER

Official [[Journal of]] City and County.

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We have [[crossed out]] the proceedings of the [[crossed out]] "Colored Mass Convention of the State of Alabama" lately held in this city. A body in which not more than six or eight counties were pretended to be represented is hardly to be called either a Mass or State Convention. But let this boastful pretension pass. But we cannot let pass without the reprobation they merit the sentiments put forth in the resolutions of this meeting. They are evidently the work of some devilish white man, intended and calculated to sow in the minds of the unintelligent class, to which they are addressed, thoughts and opinions the more heretical, and the most dangerous to the future welfare of this class. If one had written these resolutions with the fixed and single purpose to inflame the black against the white man, and to draw a line of deep hostility between them, they could not have been more fiendishly worded to that end.
We respectfully call Gen. Swayne's attention to these resolutions and ask him if there is not a deliberate and deep design in them to inaugurate a political, if not an actual war of races, and to neutralize all the efforts of the best members of society to maintain that peace and good will between the races, so essential to the happiness of both? And, if he agrees with us, we call upon him as the appointed guardian of good order in this city and State to take measures to protect society against the calamitous results that must spring from such teachings. While this journal, aided by the best men in the community, is exerting its influence to convince the colored people that their late masters are not their enemies, and that the highest interest and duty of both is to maintain relations of friendliness and confidence between them; it is monstrous that a handful of imported incendiaries, who have come here to grind their own axes of profit and preferment, by trading in the passions of an untutored race, should be allowed to neutralize these efforts, and sow the poisoned seeds of a bloody war of castes under the very windows of the domestic hearths that enshrine our wives and daughters. These scoundrels are sowing the wind, let them beware of the whirlwind, for conquered as we are by the power of the United States, there is spirit enough left to overtake with a fearful vengeance, those upon whom will rest the responsibility for the first drop of blood that flows from their teachings.