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Letter
As one of yr subscribers, I complain of yr course in
reference to RI affairs. You do injustice gross injustice
to the Landholders Party so called – the leaders of this
party if not a great majority of the party itself [are] now in favor
of admitting the colored population to the right
of suffrage. This was not the plan of the Dorrites who
had no other object in view than his own aggrandizement
but by the late act of the Gen Assembly authorizing a Convention
for the purpose of forming a Constitution the colored population
are admitted to vote for delegates precisely on the same
footing with the whites.
And if you will take the trouble to inquire you will
find that in the late rebellion in RI there was not a
colored man in the state who was not on the side of the
Law & Order party. They formed a militia company in Prov
took the management of Fire Engines & did other service
which has created a sympathy in their favor which will
never be effaced - and let me tell you that
if you are really as you profess to be the friend of
the colored race that you should at least exclude
such scandalous articles from yr paper as the one
signed by “Goodell” this man must either be a blockhead
or a scoundrel or under some unaccountable infatuation or
hallucination.