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1869 - "An Old Farmer" Addresses Colored Voters.

We invite attention to the address of "An old Farmer" to the colored voters, published in this issue. He speaks plain, common sense in a frank manner, and gives the colored voters good counsel. It would be well for persons to read this short address to such colored men as are unable to read it themselves that they may reflect and act upon the counsel so frankly and honestly given them. As the colored men have secured the right to vote, they should not vote to deprive white men of the same right to vote, and hold office, and thereby put the Government into the hands of a few Yankee carpet-baggers to the injury of both white and colored. The colored voters have the right, of course, to vote as they please, at the election, and the whites have the right, of course, to act as they please after the election.
REGISTER ! REGISTER ! ! REGISTER! ! !

Staunton Spectator and Vindicator
Staunton, Virginia
Tues., June 15, 1869

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