The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-14
Radical Speeches In favor OF Negro
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p.aical speeches In favor OF Negro
i sa6fsge.
The travelling committee Of the Radi-
"a, National Convention give no uncer-
tain sound from their trumpets on the
question of admitting negroes to the right
Of suffrage. At a meeting held in the
Cooper Institute, in New York city, on
Tuesday evening last,
BRowNIOw SAID:
I find here at the North you do not
need, and many Of you do not want negro
suffrage. We are not so. We want inc
loyal negroes to help us vote down th1
disloyal traitors and white people. haa
sooner have the vote, if / were candi-
date for office to. morrow, of loyal negro,
than Of a mean, pitiful, disloyal white man.
I wonld sooner associate with loyal negro
than with disloyal white rebel. l "oulu
sooner take my chance with loyai neslo
after death than with a'sio!ai "hi'o'
GApplause.l But am sorry to sayto you,
gentlemen, that You do not 1uiiy anu
thoroughly understand the tone anu
temper of the people of the South. INC
very Old Scratch himself is in the whole
of them yet. They are unrcpchtaht, uh-
HANGED rebels. wicked and rcbclllous TO
the core. and it is their purpose 10 brlns
nm another rebellion. 1T is their purpose
either to restore by proclamation the instl-
tr,ion of slavery, or to have pay for their
cmancipatcd negroes.
SENATOR FOWLER SAID:
lie would not ask the people of New
York to adopt negro suffrage, for they ala
not want it, but he did want the people OF
the country to accede to the request OF
loval southerners that they would estap,
lish negro suffrage for the South. tCheers.
So sure as the Presidents policy is carried
ont go sure as he continues to be main
tanned in power unrcbukcd for the next
three wears, he would not give two dollars
for the Union. [Cheers.l The southern
leaders look to the President as their head,
and this rejection, coming as it must come,
will result in the establishment of the in
dcpendence of the Southern Confederacy.
That is the southern policy to-day.
ICheers.] lie contendcd also that the Co.
yernment had the power and the right to
hang every rebel i'm the South. lChcers.l
The Government had the power to wipe
ont all State lines and make the South one
vast territory; and having done that, the
Government could rsjrganize just such
States as the loyal people of the country
might desire. [Cheers.l lie called upon
the people to instruct their representa-
tivcs in Congress to undo everything that
Mr.. Johnson has done cheers land to
say that none but men who have been true
to the flag, without distinction Of race or
color, shall govern there. [Chccrs.l
COLONEL STOKES SAID:
There were two political parties in the
country, and the question was, which oil
these parties should govern. The question
is, shall the Government he controlled by
loyal people or by disloyal people! That
is the issue: and it was the duty OF
all to examine the elements that con-
stitutc these two parties OF the coun-
try. The Republican Union party
consists of men ,rHh0nt any erccptt"n who
marched to the field and offered up their
lives in defence of the country-( chccrs)-
or endcavorcd in some way or other to
crush out the rebellion. That is the clc-
ment composing our Republican Union
party. The other was the johnson Union
Coppcrhead party, composed Of anti-war
men, Coppcrheads, disunionists, and rebel
sympathizerS.
MIR. STEWART SAID:
The rope which was TO hang jeff Davis,
and didn't, was perhaps reserved for a
worse traitor. This drew forth trcmen-
dous cheering, voice crying out, "Thats
r.