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will support themselves by labor.  They need nothing but justice before the courts of the land, impartial judges, and juries, to encourage them in well-doing, or to punish them for the violation of just laws, a chance to own land and property that they honestly obtain, the free exercise of their right to have schools and churches-- and the, let them alone.
   The delegates who visit Washington , think that it is their peculiar duty to see the President, and arrange the affairs of the negro.  Why dont they attend to their own affairs, and make arrangements for the working of the disbanded rebel army in the cotton fields and workshops?  There are today as many houseless, homeless, poor wandering, idle white men in the South as there are negroes, yet no arrangements are made for their working.  All the trickery, chicanery, and political power possible are being brought to bear on the poor negro to make  him do the hard labor for the whites, as in days of old.