The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-13
Virginia.
From me Tribune.

Virginia.
An attempt to unite the newly enfranohised
voters of Virginia in a common organization,
under a common platform Of equal rights with
those white citizens who opposed secession so
long as they could, and are to-day hearty sup
porters of the reconstruction policy of Con-
gress, is stoutly resisted by the Rev. J. w.
Hunnicutt x Co. The AnG- SldUery Standard
has a letter from certain Colonel G. Il. Moss.
denouncing the movement, as follows:-
THAT such convention will be holden. ana
an attempt made to resurreoL the Whip partv
In Virginia, is morally certain. l was Informed
bv a prominent man favorable TO such a conrsa
that they were advised to do so by prominent
Republican members of Congress. believe he
stated the truth, and that the Republican Com
work all over the Union. In no other way can
the fact be explained that nearly all the matter
published ana circulated by that Committee in
the South is tariff speeches and documents, at.
tempting 10 prove that none but Wings are
favorable to The Union. The truth is that com
mittee is more anxious TO reorganize the old
timid. compromising Wing party, with its Oh,
solete tar ifts. corrupt national banks and other
insane follies, than IL is to reorganize the re.
Gently rebelious states on a radical basis
"Tne effect OF such "A course in Virginia is
likely to make three parties in the next eiecs
tion. The radicals, composed of the outspoken
white Union men and the colored VOTE are de-
termined never to breathe the breath of life
into the old time serving and intriguing Whi0
party. They prefer bold men to towards; and
If a choice must be lad between ancient
parties they would choose the old Democratic
party, under the lead of Robert f. Lee and the
outspoken Rebel chiefs, To give you an idea
Of the feeling Of the colored men respecting
thought, 1 will give you an extract from a
speech by the Rev; Nicholas Richmond
(colored), of Delaware, last week.
"'All who were for the Union before the war
were for the Union as IL was Who will say
they are for the Union as it Isl? In speaking
Of Tnio mo ma UOnln call atfpnt N on
John Minor Bolts, who has turned like a
weathercock on housetop' He would suffer
his right arm to be cut off before he would vote
"Such is the language used by the leading
colored men respecting John Minor Bolts,
Governor Pierpont, and the men the New York
Tribune asks the Republicans to accept as
leaders The Republicans Of Virginia will
never organize under the lead OF such men, no
matter how eloquently the Tribune and the
Northern Republican leaders may beg them to
do so Radicals or Rebels will rule the South
in the future. True Union men prefer the old
Rebel Democracy to the old, aint-hearted Rebel
Whig party. The old Rebel Democrat is a bold
man, and will accept the logic of his position
The old Rebel Wing is tlmid man, given to
intrigueand treachery, and can never be trusted
nation, for the radicals, and friends of freedom,
TO restore the old Democratic party to power
than to resurrect the old Wing party"
Wendell Phillips, in a leader of the
Standard, entitled 'Guide-Boards," urges
essentially the same ideas, as follows:-
National self-respect, security from such
knaVishneSs in Office hereafter, and the safe use
of Executive patronage for the next two years,
demand the removal Of Johnson. Whoever
leaves q stone unturned to effect the removal of
Johnson and the condign punishment of JEFF
ferson Davis Is doing all that in him lies TO
encourage and render easy another rebellion;
and the blood shed in it will rest on his con
science. Amid the general JOY over our victory,
we are forgetting moral distinctions and per-
bear hard on the sinners in times past but it
may be necessary to refer TO them in order to
| Int fIoar nf M NaU md
| W ebster Wings, and the church members OF
the New York Observer and American Tract
Society class, are guilty. above all others, for
| the blood shed in this war 1t is their selfish
party spirit, their sectarian and Christian mar
widow of her husband, the mother Of her son,
| and loaded the industry of the land with cruel
and bitter taxes: Although Gods thunderbolts
| have humbled them into silence, and possibly
| converted some of them into repentance, that
does not change the facts of history nor blot out
the foul record of their previous guilt.
"In the same sense, we wish to put on record
our affirmation that the trimmers and hucks-
ters of to-day, the universal amnesty men, the
blotters out of all moral distinctions, who coun-
sci new Cider of things in which knaves and
honest men shall stand just equal; all these
milk-and-wat statesmen are to be reminded
that this is not game of jackstraws, but war
and when the next Lee thinks of breaking
his hundred oaths. and the next Davis thinks
of another Andersonville, they-the sugared 60
betweens-are furnishing the incipient traitors
with motives to go forward by letting them
our day not only went unhung, but in some
sense honored, for their vlllany.
1--WE are to remember that the fate of the
coored race hangs yet in the balance. For this
generation, at least, their welfare or their cruel
Oppression will be decided by the election of
1868 Put Grant, either of the Shermans, Fes
senden, or any huckstering Senator, into the
White House, and half of the men who gave
their lives in the long five years march to Rich
"WENDELL PHILLIPS"
Mr.. Phillips seems afraid that he may, in
one Presidential contest, find himself acting
and voting with majority of the American
people. We do not perceive the slightest dan
! ger Of it.