A Negro On Carpet-baggers

In tlu: Arc, printed at Houston, Texas, we find i speech 'Of Sonator Mat; Gaines, a cotton-field negro of V ishington ciunty, v.liioh we are infonncd, representa very fairly the thoughts and feeling.s of the sixty thónsand negro votors of that State. The Senator was addressing his constituenta in Brenham, und giving them a general account of his stewardship os their representatÏTe in tho State Legislatura. His indignatioB H diroet■ ly againBt the carpet-bagger, as will be seun by the extraets that we give below : " It is time for colored poople to wake up. Little fellows like. (.'ark oame down here f rom Connecücvt wli. u evorything was ia a state of distraotion. We were imorganizod, and did not kiww wbat to iik thom tip- bob-taileA coat, tigbt pants, little gold-headed cane and all, and we h ivo fed the'ni long enough on our own chiokeso-pie. They aro uuthrifty stock. There is no coraeout in them. I am botter fitted for Congivsjs than Clurk, and there woul.'l be niore pr priety in my boiug there by the side ot' (i. eley ai1 Sunlneri i hwí grand Iicpublicans like Ruliy Érött Jl iine,ootn0 down 1 , ouUi make yon belipve that t: t tlie whol(? war throurh by themselvi . and that they tore Viokgburg down with their mvu liands for your lVoodoin, and tlioy will slrcp in your beds with you, no matter how lousy. No moro pulling wuol over uur eyes. ome old black men here who have dancod to the musir of the dinni r horn, iind not mitch dinher at that, and who de8erve chiefcen-pié, und tire battef worthy ot'p isitiön tb ra th HHle worms that have crawled into bo maily orKcos. Those little i'oiluvs are Ijo weak to plough, and too breed. Givo yonr provonder to better stock. They will iretti oirt ourm j Phey . nbad b decent suit of olothea till they cume down from Oonn rtimit, or t' abouts, and got ooibos. They uted to hang roiïrid nry desk at Ausl'.i, and usa my Btationerj, and ".'.1 me Senator they got Office it was Mr. Guiñes, and after i I wttsMatt, I :!; 1 ir . t .-, 1 1 ;_L t . '. These old bla ive seen sights, aad ought te be in i be it' the had not been pulled over their eyes, are made to stand back General Olarfc bah grot proud in Congre s, Snd I t ■ ■ 1 1 yon he lias wurii his tigilt pants and switrhed his gold-headfld oanè long enoügh at our expense. Wher are the achool-nonseí be promised usi Ni I here. United States has paid Mm 6 r all done, md we ow.' him nothing. Btephenaoit, like the rest, aime down here to i p. enlate on the black man, and ho has been paid too. There are plenty of them in this district. They hardly spunk to you now, imd won't sli.ike lüinls. llutjust b the election they will knook at your door before diiylifrht to Ie: you knnw that they are candidatos and wil! eat with you out of your dlrty skilleM It aüuoat makes m' a Democrat to think of sueh fellows. Butlwasnot raited a Denoocrat. I grnduatüd in tlie cotton-field college."