ADDRESS TO THE COLORED VOTERS.
ROOMS OF THE INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION, NEW-YORK CITY,
Saturday Evening, Nov. 3, 1866.
To the Colored Freemen of New-York City.
GENTLEMEN: Through the Independent Political Association of the Colored Citizens, we have – as far as possible with our limited means and time – organized the City, and secured the registration of many colored voters in the various Wards.
It is now too late in the canvass to repeat our many urgent appeals to you to register your names – for that opportunity is now almost past.
But we feel it incumbent upon us, as an Association, to remind you that on Tuesday next, Nov. 6, you who have been registered will be expected to cast your ballots for Fenton and Progress – for a Convention to revise the Constitution of the State, for such Congressmen as will vote for a Reconstruction which will bring the largest liberty – and for such local officers as will serve the people faithfully, and administer justice without regard to the shape of a man’s nose or the hue of his skin.
As it is understood that generally but a proportion of those who register go to the polls, let us entreat every one of you who has registered, to go early on Tuesday to vote, and thus help to swell the wave of opinion sweeping over the land in favor of free principles. May God defend the right.
WM. HOWARD DAY, President.
Attest: J. J. SPELMAN, Secretary.