The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-22
Botts again on the stump.

tains report Of three-hours speech maze
by Mr.. Bolts in Paterson, n. ~ on the
evening of the 10th. He reiterates his
peculiar and ridiculous theories in regard
70 tho present status of the people and the
States lately in rebellion, Notwithstanding
h;s letter to Stofer in which he declared
,ba, these rebels had "crawled up on ms
platform" and violates his promise to follow
tho lead of Mr.. Barbour by dcnomcing the
President and calling for his impeachment.
lie repeats tina, he never did believe in the
power of the President to pardon before
trial md conviction; which is sly hint to
land-loyipg Radicals that there is yet
chance Tor them to get hold of southern
farms. His remarks on negro suffrage we
quote as follows:
"The Tribune finds fault with me be-
cause at the late Convention did not sup
port negro suffrage but l said then, and
| say now, do not think the negro is pre-
pared for it :: do not believe the time has
come yet do not believe that, after
years of bondage, they can instantly be set
free and clothed with all the privileges Of
citizens. They have not yet the know
ledge necessary TO exercise the civil pri-
vileges. am not one OF those either who
believe their votes would benefit the
South; for il appears 10 me, looking at the
scenes lately occurring in New Orleans
and Memphis, that they would have to vote
for the Democrats for their own safety,
and in such an election as between Grant
and Left such a one were to take
placc-thcy would throw Johnson as high
as kite, and elect Bob Lee in his place /;
and it would tend to the determination OF
their race, for at the elections, if they did
not vote with their late rebel masters, some
drunken man might cause a riot, which
would end in the firing of their houses over
their heads and wholesale slaughter in the
streets"
1t having been reported in the HcroH
and other papers that he declared if the
southern people again provoked war they
ought to be cxtcrminated, he replies:
"Therc arc sentiments ascribcd to me in
that article as obnoxious TO my feelings
and sentiments as the Christian religion is
to the Jews, and as abhorrcnt to me as they
arc to any gentleman whatever. | repu-
date them as atrociouS in any man, north
crn or southern, and if any one can point
to any action or speech in the whole of
NY life to favor such conduct | am ready
10 forfeit that life. What right has any
man to speak SO of me? | have not seen
Mr.. Brownlow, Governor Hamilton, or Mr..
WardmOuth since the Convention, nor
have | ever heard them express such SEN
timents, and no man ever heard me-
This disclaimer is creditable to Mr..
Bolts: but no rather spols it in the fol-
lowing declaration:
81 said in another place, and / say it
here, woe to that man who shall again stir
up strife in our country for if another
rebellion should take place, it will lead to
the total determination of all those leaders
who dcludc my ellow-countrymcn of the
South, and they would well deserve it. /
say that now; and the English language
does not give me words sufficient to express
my hatred for that class of men who arc
always ready to make war and then escape
its dangers. These gentlemen OF the press
who are so violent in their articles take
very good care to do none OF the fighting
and during the war, when CONSUMPTION had
TO be rcsortcd to to fill our armies, they
presumed on the Constitution for their cX-
emption from duty, and fell back on the
freedom of the press.
When CONSUMPTION had to be resorted to
to FIJI "our" armies, quoth Mr.. Bolts.
Good for Bolts.
Mr.. Bolts in three hours made, of course,
numerous characteristic remarks; but we
have quoted enough to show the spiri:
which still animates him, and renders him
an alien at home and stranger among his
own brcthrru