The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-07

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| the State OF Virginia. took up arms for
my country" And said !, "Sir, do you
consider yourself IS under any obligations
to follow your State In doing what your
own Judgment and your own conscience
convince you Is wrongf You were an ori.
ginal Union man." EYES," says he, 81
consider that to be my duty" "If Ii was
your duty, it Is my duty" said I. ado
you think" said l, "that am under any
obligation to protect and defend horse
thief or pirate, because he comes from
my State, any sooner than would protect
and defend a horse thief coming from South
Carolina or Massachusetts, "No," saws he,
Il don't think you are" "Why, then, am
bound to protect traitor 2" Great ap-
plause.l "How," said he, edo you expect
me to respect Government that tramples
upon my rights and Expresses me 7" ain
what respect" said /, shave your rights
been trampled upon :" "Who has assailed
your rights ~ "This Government" said
he. ain what ?" "Because they tax me
without representation" "Why," said /,
"you were represented. Howe comes it
that you are not represented now? Is it
not your own fault Did not your repre-
scntativcs abandon, voluntarily and treach-
erously abandon, their positions in the
public councils as your representatives !"
"Wcll," said he, "that's got nothing to do
with it now" "Wcll," said ], "you are
opposed to taxation without representa-
tion! ?" EYES," he said he was. "Well,"
said I, "you are in favor of negro suffrage,
then? ' "Oh, now says he, "not I, not
l." [Great laughter.l "Why," said l.,
"don't you mean to tax the property of
the negroes" "Why, of course" said he.
"Then don't you mean to allow them to
be represented" "Oh, that's different
affair altogether" Laughter.l l would
not allude to the subject of this converse
ton except that heard an original Union
man, and gentleman, occupying his posi-
tion-an intelligent gentleman, lawyer,
and egislator,-express such opinions as
these.
l believe Wise, the unwise Henry A..
[aughterl, has refused to ask for q pardon,
and is travelling over the country, like
Paddy at Donnybrook fair, begging, for
Gods sake, that some one will tread on the
tail of his coat. [Great laughter.l He
wants to make martyr of himself. l sup
pose the reason they do not take Wise is
because they know he would be acquitted
on the ground of lunacy. (Laughter.]
think | know more about this instltu-
ton Of slavery than many of my northern
friends who arc so anxious for the estab-
lishmcnt of negro suffrage. They expect
to overcome to overpower-thc secession
clement in the south by comforting suffrage
upon the negroes. Unfit as large ma
iority of them are for it, grant you there
arc great many who would exercise the
right very judiciously, and with great safe
| ty to the country-you would fail to break
that element. Make the constitutional
amendment to say that they shall have the
power to vote whenever they vote the loyal
| ticket, and when they do not, to strike it
out. Laughter / tell you, just as surely
as you live here to-day, that the Demo-
cracy will have all their votes in the end.
They will give the right of suffrage to them
themselves Just as soon as they are certain
they can get their votes for themselves. l
say they will vote with the Democratic
party. They will vote with the Sc
ccssion element, because it is impos-
sible, in the nature of things and the
nature of men, that they can resist it.
Self.protcction will require them to do
it, and they will do it. We have now in
the State of Virginia, believe, not less
than thirty or fifty thousand loyal men,
and out of that number you cannot find OF
that superior race five hundred out Of that
fifty thousand who will 60 to the polls and
say so. Why? Because they have not the
moral courage to resist public opinion and
the papers of the country. Now, do you
expect to turn loose an inferior body OF
men to be manipulated, to be argued with,
to be reasoned with, to be controlled by a
unanimous body of superior men, and con-
ceive that the negro race can resist such an
influence when your own white race cannot
do it They have men in the Democratic
party that, before an election, will per-
suade them that, as they made the war,
and as their freedom grew out of the war,
they are indebted to them for their free.
dom, and to nobody else. [Laughtcr.l They
will make them believe more than that
They will make them believe that the Yam
KEGS are for reducing them to slavery
again, and that they arc their only protec.
tors. know their tricks and their habits
They will eat with the negroes; they will
drink with the negroes they will SLEEP
with the negroes, and they will carry them
to the polls the next day to vote. Laugh
ter and apDlauSe1