The Newberry Herald

Major Delaney's Lecture in New York.

On the invitation of distinguished gentlemen of New York, Maj. Martin R. Delaney lately addressed a respectable audience in the city of New York, on the Present Political Issues of the South.

The New York World gives the following synopsis of the address:

The speaker said that few in the North know anything of the relations of the people of the South. Representations regarding the condition of affairs have been for years made to and believed by the people of the North, but they have been made by interested politicians. Only one who lives in the South is capable of knowing the position of affairs. It might be objected that the speaker was working in the interest of some party not in sympathy with the government, and that he was not a true friend to the cause of the blacks. He then referred to the establishment of the Northern Star in Central New York, by Fred. Douglass and himself, and to his connection with John Brown's movements, as proof of his friendship to his own people. In stating the condition of affairs, Maj. Delaney said that when the war closed the colored people were the best social element any country ever saw. If at this time the negroes had been properly directed they would have become a political force that the country might have taken pride in.

He next spoke of the entirely new relations existing between late master and slave at this time—a relation so new that neither party knew its own position. The blacks, as a race, knew nothing of politics or the affairs of a free life, and so they had to look up to the whites, who naturally advised them so as to secure their own selfish interests.

THE CARPET-BAGGER'S INFLUENCE.

But the men who at last undertook at this time to lead the blacks of the South in their new political life were men who had no interest in the colored people of the South, and no interest in the white people of the South. These men passed themselves off upon the innocent colored people as representatives of the government, and they taught the blacks that it was their right and duty to distrust and keep down, as much as possible, the whites. These men stood between the whites and blacks, keeping them apart, but with their arms to the elbows in the black man's pocket, and to the armpit in the pocket of the white man, stealing from each. The whites conducted the legislation, of which the blacks were wholly ignorant, and thus these carpet-baggers were continually robbing the colored people. These facts, the speaker said, had never reached the North because they had been reported by politicians who told not the truth. In regard to the colored man's knowledge of the parties, Mr. Delany said that he was taught by these men that to be a Republican was to have a license to do anything which would give him an advantage over his opponent. The Major said that during a period of seven years, and until within a year, he did not remember a single political meeting where the colored people did not attend armed as a military band and were so taught to do by the whites.

SAMPLE LEGISLATORS.

Of the privileges gained by the blacks, he said that shiftless, good-for-nothing ones, who were unable to get any position whatever North, went South to become legislators and law-makers at the hands of these men. These meddling politicians taught the blacks that Democracy meant slavery and Republicanism meant freedom. Democracy he defined as an institution of the Americans, in opposition to aristocracy and monarchy, and Republicanism as nothing but Democracy carried out. The colored people have learned their faults and bad habits from the white adventurer who have come from the North to mislead them, and their desire now is that this class of men be discouraged from coming among them. Mr. Delaney said that there is no feeling of antagonism between the whites of the South and the blacks of the South, but on the contrary the two races would confide in each other were it not for the class of miserable political adventurers who go down among them. The two races must continue to dwell together, for the blacks represent the labor and the whites of the South, the capital. The two must exist together. The idea of a war between the races the speaker pronounced absurd, as there are seven whites to every black, and such a war would lead to the extermination of the blacks. "There can be no war of races; there shan't be a war of races," he exclaimed, and continued with an appeal to the people of the North to acquaint themselves thoroughly with the real facts of the situation, and to discourage the scheming politicians, and acknowledge the position and political importance of the colored people.

The audience frequently applauded Maj. Delany, and he was listened to throughout with marked interest.