The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-03
Something Rich Varte.
ties-Exhibtti0n at Masonic Hall-A
Crowded House.
From the Indianapolis Herald, 2

From the Indianapolis Herald, goth.
Brownlow's troupe Of negro minstrcls
gave an exhibition at Masonic Hall last
night.
REV. MR.. HUNNICUTT
Is preacher and editor of niger paper
in Richmond, Virginia. He is a gaunt,
grizzly specimen Of concrete fanaticism,
evidently out of place in the society OF
white men, even such as those who COM
pose the loyal delegation Of southern pill
grims now on their way to crocodile at the
tomb of Lincoln. Hunnicutt is an send
man" of the show, and perfect Guy
Fawkes. He is blood and thunder cuss,
who is determined on the regeneration OF
the South at all hazards. In the outset of
his speech he narrowly avoided the rock
ON which he split in the Philadelphia Con-
yention-persOnal biography-but sheered
off in time, and proceeded to draw agraphic
and striking picture Of matters and things
in Virginia. The people of that Internal
commonwealth are a thousand per cent.
more deyilish, inhuman, blOOdthirsty, dis
loyal, damnable, ungodly and hell-deserv-
ing than at any time during the rebellion.
A loyal man cannot live there. The foul
atmosphere of treason would choke one
like fire-damp. The hell-hounds would
tear him limb from limb Oh the faintest
suspicion of loyalty, drink his blood, and
grind his bones. Blood cocktails, arterial
punches, and yenous sangarees, made of
the vital fluid Of loyal men, are the most
fashionable drinks at the Richmond saloons.
In the next breath he told as he published
the most radical paper in the world right
In the midst Of these horrible man-eaters,
said what he pleased, did what he pleased,
and was not nolested.
Mr.. Hunnicutt laid down his programme
for the regeneration Of the South. He de-
lnanded Of Congress an army of bayonets,
to he quartered in Richmond until he
could revolptionize the Government, turn
the rebels out Of office, and place loyal ne
groes In their places. He proposed to raise
an army of white and black loyslists, and
II rebel even dared to crook his finger,
ne would be dead rebel. He did not pro-
pose TO disfranchise rebels for FIVE years
simply. but for 1890 years. After he had
succeeded in ell this, with the ballot and
The bayonet in the hands OF the loyal ne
groes, the millennium would come and he
invited bis Indiana friends to come down
ana see him in his paradise. They had
u1ed 70 get up mob when he established
tne feO Notion at Richmond. Pollard had
P9oiisnsd In his paper that the white men
VINO pauonized his paper were already
ID, ana that the negroes who encour aged
u should be expelled from the community.
Yet he walked the streets Of Richmond
day and night, and had never been mo-
Tested. Ho knew the southern people.
Give way TO them, and they were domi-
neering, oyerbesrtng, and murderous. But
stand Tor the right, and they were towards.
He himself ~ss o man of peace. He didn't
want 70 KIN snybody, nor to be killed; but
II anybody attscksd him, by the God who
made him, BIO wouh Shy bis antagonist
dom 81 Of which We draw the inference
thai Hunaicutt II 8 fighting chs. "a said
that u syse xsllsgd laid The weight of his
asgsr upos hin, ftom that moment b. VA