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wish to put the negro above them, and that if my way of schools becomes a fact, the negroes will be better able to read, write, and cipher than they. That they the once rich, are scarcely able to afford schooling for their own children, and certainly the poor, shiftless poor whites, have not the ambition to go ahead in educational projects and they consequentially will have to send their children to colored schools or grow up in ignorance. Thus the serpent of secession, the tail end of the rebellion, as a mustard seed in size, lies embedded in the hearts of the old aristocracy, stinging every noble and generous impulse of the human heart and leaving its deadly venom, if it is but to blight:- which is all it can do now- but at retards. Who can blame the negro from hating people who hate them. The negroes in speeches all through my district have invited politely their former owners and the whites generally. Some of them turned out. The negroes at these meetings, spoke in a quiet conciliatory manner. They expressed that let by-gones be by-gones and now commence anew. Give us the rights you have, and equal justice in the courts; that is all we ask. But no the whites get up and say we sympathize with you in your now degraded state that the Yankees who pretend to be your friends are not your friends- we are your friends. That you are ignorant, that you will steal, that you must let us legislate for you; to elevate you from these vices; we are better acquainted with you, then they are, we know your disposition. We are your superiors you should not know to much That God never intended you to occupy the position you now occupy, but we of the south your real friends sympathize with you;- William Walker's speech before the bar at Richmond Co. C.H. The right appears very plainly- who tries to live amicably; The negroes asked me to assist them in getting up a 4th of July celebration at Colden's Park. I did so. As soon as it became known, the whites immediately seized a great husbandery, that there would be a riot. That the whole county would be robbed, buildings burned & 5,000 persons assembled on that day however, speeches were made, an elegant dinner served up to the Whites who attended (about 250) They partook of it and not a row nor disturbance of any kind occurred to mar the festivities of the day, nor was a thing stolen, nor a building hurt.

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