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Northern Society

FOR twelve months we have urged the Southern people not to patronize the Radicals doing business in the South. We have been opposed to enriching men who use the profits of their business to crush and degrade those who are battling for equality. None but a fool or a knave would put means in the hands of men who are trampling upon the rights of the people. The men who come in our midst and propose to exercise rights and privileges they would deny others, are not surely the men to be patronized over liberal conservative business men. This same rule applies with equal force to the colored population. Can the negro expect to vote against the Conservatives and then to receive employment from the men he drives from the polls? All that the Conservatives ask of the negro is equality before the law and at the ballot box. If the negro refuses these rights, can he expect employment from those he thus insults? If the negro organizes the "black man's party," does he not know that this would beget, in opposition, a white man's party, and thus produce a war of races? This is a grave subject, and we beg the freedmen to consider it well before he hurls himself against the men who give him employment. If the negro tells the white man that he should not vote, does he not know that the white man will not patronize him? Does he not know that such a policy would be the cause of bringing in our midst foreign labor to compete with negro labor. The interest of the negro and the white man is reciprocal. We are mutually dependent upon each other. Our destiny ought to be the same. But if the negro denies, at the ballot, to the white man the same privileges accorded to himself, then will commence an enmity that will finally terminate in a war of races.