Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-06-27


OTHERS,
There was meetingat African Church
last night, to hear Senator Wilson and
other Republican speakers from the North,
The audience was chiefly colored, and the
house was crowded. Governor Peirpoint
presided.
Mr.. Jay, of New York, was the first
speaker, and after congratulating the Re-
publicans Of Virginia that the divisions
which have heretofore existed in their
ranks have been healed, said that in Vir-
ginia, with platform upon which rich and
poor, high and low may stand together har-
moniously, the Republican par y can bid
defiance to the democracy of the North,
who lured the people Of the South into Sc
cession, ard basely deserted them when
the hour of trial came The Northern
Democratic party during the war was false
to its country and the States, as James
Brady told them in his speech at Tam
many Hall Prior to the fall of Sumpter,
Seymour and other leaders Of the Northern
Democracy were more for the South than
the North After that memorable event,
the fear Of public opinion impelled them to
take the position that the rebellion must be
suppressed and the Union preserved at all
hazards. Upon the escutcheon of the Re-
publican party their rest no stain in the past,
and it is to-day equally Jealous as then for
the preservation OF the Union, with equal
ri ghts and guarantees to all. lifts teachings
are but followed, wealth will flow into Vir-
ginia and she will become the great State
which nature assigned her to be. He
again congratulated his hearers upon the
union Of the party.
Colonel Noyes, of New York, was next
announced by the Governor. He said
that his remarks must ofnecessity be brief,
and he could not, therefore. be expected
to argyle the political questions Of the day.
HI could, extend the right hand offellow
ship. The occasion was the proudest of
his life, for never in the widest dreams Of
his boyhood had he ever imagined that the
time would come when in Richmond he
could look into the faces Of an assembly Of
all colors and say hail freemen. He had
started to Richmond twice before, and had
at last gotten here, and that; too, upon q
mission of peace. He had seen since his
arrival here black and white Republicans
the former proud Of their new-bor free
dom, and the latter elevated to that broad
platform of human sympathy. The doc
trine Of States rights is dead, and States
and counties are too small to cirscribc our
PATRIOTISM If the people of. the South
would have the States lately in rebellion
reconstructed they must learn to look upon
the national flag with the same love and
devotion as the men Of the North do
They must also believe in unconditional
equal rights, without regard to Color
There can be no peace-no Union until
this question is settled In vain would Viz
ginia send her representatives to Congress
because they would not be admitted,
and if they were the war of sections
would be resumed in our legislative
halls, which would Inevitably cul-
inmate in another civil war The people
of the North would endure again all the
toll and sacrifices they made to preserve
the Union, rather than surrender the doc
trine Of equal rights to all. For himself.
lie was willing to go through four more
years Of blood rather than now make such
a surrender of principle, and thereby prove
false to his black brethren. We Of the
North, said he, are not for confscation,
but we believe iii justice and magnanimity.
But, however, unless the rights of the
blacks are respected we will for confscation
and another four years war. Loud APP
plause and cries Of Ego on" as tie speak
er here retired.
Senator Wilson took the stand amid i'm
mense cheering, and commenced by say
ing that he had not time to makea speech,
nor was it necessary for him to again ut
ter his sentiments and opinions uponNpub-
lie affairs, as he had spoken from Orange
Courthouse to New Orleans, and all who
desired to know his views had consequent
ly had ample opportunity to do SO. He
was certain that the Republican party will
carry Virginia, and he desired gentlemen
to note that he predicted that she will elect
a Radical Republican convention, which
will conform the constitution to the require
ments of Congress she will elect a
Radical Governor, majority of Radical
representatives, to Congress as we'll as a
Radical legislature which will send two
Radical Republicans to the United States
Senate and that in 81 she will take her
stand by New England and the great
Northwest in favor of the country that
loves and recognizes Humanity and jus
tiee.
The Thirty ninth Congress had provid
ed plan Of reconstruction near the close
of the session Some feared the result at
Tire time, but we saw they were putting
the ballot into the hands of 5000, 900 10y
al black men in the rebel States, men true
to their country, who, though they prayed
for lis success during the late mighty
struggle, had done outrage, either to their
old masters or the enemies of their coun-
try.
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