The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-05
-, -. Co,r.u,,on I'm Washington.

-, o,oninu an adjourned meeting OF Tue
National EQUAL Suffrage CONVENTION We" , n.ra
in the Fifteenth street Ss ,,.an.v white
Rev II III. Garnetts). Some twenty WIZ WIZ,
49,. wore among those present. Besides
Tho delegates who were present NJ inc I9llne s
rnaating. there were delegates from New aorh'
pn,aa island and other States among them,
nr"S douglass. and Mr.. Downing, OF Rhode
leland the celebrated FISHERMAN. The Irest-
lent. J. ID. Bcckley, of Alexandria, va.
ncrnnied the chair, and Dr.. ID. Nj. Norton, OF
Williamsburg, acted ~ secretary, inc otheT
officers being also on the stand.
Rev. Samuel Brown, OF Norfolk, was called
on md addressed the meeting on the grievances
of the race, in the course of his remarks SUI
ting that If Congress gave the colored peop'o
The right OF suffrage here he believed thgy
would give the same right i'll Virginia ne
went n little further, and not oniy "anae $50;
right OF suffrage, but the priNiieee VI oaS'
drinking, sleeping, and If he thoue1t p1obh od
of getting married with me y ,,.hira os some
"a much right to mix with inc wiz ,Ia snnite
20 Nc niot,yps had with the black. II" SPIN
If Colonel Pepper, Colonel htte. 80 ,yho
,,b;te man in the vicinity OF -No'Ioih' ~
49,, ar,, friends of their race, ana eau - , ne
W. W. n,.oa and said anything hhont keepinS
w. ,r,,n ont of n colored meeting ne "oi.u
10 knocked down. There are sotie Wv 'irn 80
aons white men in Virginia. Few ilU nor
t,,n,iur blows like the passage OF ille SUI
Tr,ra hill and the amendment 10 the Const'tu-
ION will induce Virginia TO come right. =,
The Chair suggested that Virginia was al
ready coming right, the Leg s,rr,,
passed bill so that they could marry
Mr.. Brown. -" What IN idea we can get
married :" He then spoke of the GOOD time
coming, abiding 10 the schools IN NOTION 10,
,olored children, where over one tnousihu
pupils are taught during the day, ana from flTe
TO six hundred grown persons at night. ne
vas in favor OF lust such rights as the whites
have and nothing else; If PADDY couih not
-pad and the blacks were required 10 read Dc,
fore they can vote, Paddy must learn - feao
before he can put in his ballot.
Or Garnett offered = resolution endorsing
,nd recommending the Fee Southsrntr, pup
Iished ~ Hampton by Colonel Is. ID. While' us
tho organ of the convention In the Stdtc oi
Virginia which was adopted.
Colonel Pepper offered 4 resolution endorsing
Mrs. Syyissheim's ReconstructioRist rs the CO.
Iored organ here which was adopted
Dr Norton next spoke, stating that in ' lr-
r,nia now no mans life is safe except the lie
Of those " no had fought against their country;
The former slaves there were now being placed
! nm The auction block and sold for year; others,
after having worked the entlre year, were
driven off without pay, and told 10 20 10 the
Id Yankees Sc. H. also spoke Of colonization,
saving he hated the very word. Formerly
the States passed laws 10 keep the negroes
in the State but now the great questionlS, now
10 get rid of them. He rejoiced that now TINS
was the land of the free, and that elements
were at work which would blot out all caste
! FOR two hundred and forty six years the
| colored man had lived In bondage; ne nae
| hIaoched his bones with the whites, having
| fought for n country who refused to call him 4
! nan helppd 10 cement the old thirteen States
and 10 restore the Union. They were now free
| INT vet had not all their rights Washington
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