The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-18
The Radical Faction--L Letter from the Hon. w.
A. Richardson, Of Illlnois-Hc Opposes Their

from Quincy, and Is ms follows;
My Dear Sir,-I know of no reason why l
should not place In your hands, for such use
as you please to make of them, my views and
opinions upon the situation" as you request
IN yours of the 18th.
have no aspiration for place-no wish or
hope for office. The public confidence, SO often
reposed in me by the people, entities them to
my opinions. / have no motive TO conceal
them. The surrender Of the Southern armies
ended the rebellion, and by the stipulations of
the surrender both officers and men made
prisoners were protected from trial and pun
ishment for treason.
Nearly all the leaders were thus protected
from harm, and in my opinion it would have
been better had the President issued at once a
general amnesty proclamation, and restored
the hd6eds corpus, recognized at once the fact
that the rebellion was over, the States still in
the Union, and left the civil authorities TO do
the balance.
This would have been better and speedier
This was not done, and we have to take things
as they are.
had 4 very satisfactory interview with the
President 4 day or two before the meeting of
Congress. His message contained all that
expected. Acts are more potent than words,
and the President, by withdrawing his Pro-
visional Governors in North Carolina, Ala
bama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Caro-
lima, and recognizing the Governors elected as
the proper officers TO discharge the duties of
the place, has shown his desire 10 do all he can
do in the premises. / repeat, this is all he can
do now, recognizing them rs States in the
Union, with the rights of the States. The Re
publicans in Congress are opposed to this. The
President saws the rebellion is over Congress
says no, the rebellion is still going on. Be
tween the President and the Radical Republi-
cans there is " a deep ditch and high wall y
The Radical Republicans in Congress don /
want the Union they mean to keep discord
and anarchy triumphant as long az they have
the power Their expulsion from place by the
people is certain.
There is not To- day in the land except in
Congress- any opposition TO the Union, the
Constitution which makes the Union, or the
laws passed in pursuance of the Constitution,
yet the Radical Republicans say the rebellion
still continues; that ii will last and continue
until the negro is allowed TO vote in all the
States lately in rebellion. Negro voting is now
the test of "loyalty." All the States and
people opposed to this are in rebellion. BY this
test Connecticut, at her last election, placed
herself in rebellion, so did Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Colorado. Massachusetts, allowed the
negro to vote Rhode Island, Vermont and
Maine do the same; all the rest of the States, l
believe, deny the negro this privilege
according to this test. Four, say six, are
loyal" l have heard the story of juror
who disagreed with the rest, when asked by
the court if they could agree TO n verdict, said :
" No. Mr.. Judge, they are eleven OF the most
contrary men | ever saw Massachusetts says
there are thirty old States in rebellion. The
capital, Washington and Georgetown, by the
almost unanimous vote of the people, are in
rebellion
| need not argue the question now that the
negro is IN inferior race TO ours. The history
of all time proves this. The popular vote of
the people everywhere demonstrates the fact
that we will not follow the example of other
REPUBLICS of this continent, who have been
plunged in to and keep in anarchy by comforting
the right of suffrage upon inferior races. l
would not throw 4 straw i'll the way Of the
unfortunate African. The white race, per-
haps have done the black and red races much
wrong In the contest now to enSue the black
man will disappear rs the red one has done.
Superior races eXterminate inferior ones
When in contact, the inferior race only learns
and practices the vices of the superior. | am
doing what experience teaches should be done,
by excluding from the greatest privileges
known TO civilized people all inferior races from
the ballot-bOx They have never preserved ii
when committed to them.
In conclusion, think it our duty in thi con-
test TO overthrow the Radical party--a mere
faction, now controlling and running the coun
try.
Let us give the President an earnest support
in discriminating this faG5o9' Ri am irnly
" T. Do,gdaU, Peoria Ill.
SHOOTING OF CLERGYNAN.-The city of
Portsmouth was thrown into quite an excite
ment yesterday morning in consequence of n
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the Dinwiddie Street Methodist Episcopal
Church. had been shot and instantly
killed by negro. 1t appears the report of the
death of Mr.. Blunt was premature, but that
he had been shot under very suspicious circum-
stances was lamentably true. The particulars
of the case, as near as 1t was possible
to obtain them, are, that Mr.. Blunt,
while in the rear of his premises, on
Swimming Point, was shot about O'Clock
in the morning. The ball took effect
in his right breast, three inches below the nip
pie, and ranged diagonaIly through the body,
coming out on the left side of his back. The
deed is supposed to have been perpetrated by
negro boy named Richard Ellet, whether
dcsignedly or accidentally cannot be con-
irctured until the arrest of the boy. Mr. Blunt
was highly esteemed by both white and black,
and ii is matter of surprise 10 all that any one
should have been found so malicious as to
make this dastardly attempt on the good man s
life. At last accounts Richard Ellet had not
been arrested, but every effort will be made by
the police 10 prevent his escape. Mr.. Blunt
was alive at last accounts, but ii is feared Will
not recover, his wound being of Il very serious
nature. We trust the assassin will be promptly
brought To Justice. There seems 10 be II lament
able want of security for life in this section of
the country, which we trust will be Temeded.
Clcrgvmen, especially, hold their lives by 4
slim tenure rs this is the second whose calling
has not made sacred his person Norfolk Paper.