The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-30
From Richnond

From Richmond
Eastern Virginia and Eastern North
Carolina have suffered considerably by
recent Hoods. The whole country has
had a severe dose of cold water within
the last year.
Parson Hunnicutt, the leader of the
Freemen in Richmond, Virginia, has
issued an address to his coIored friends
in which he uses this very unequiyocal
language:
LET every man set his face as flint
I against the intrigues and wire-workinG
OF rebels, who have illuminated them
without measure or stint. They will
talk with you, eatwith you, drink with
( you and, II need be- sleep with you to
| get your votes, and swear you are the
best bedfellows in the world. Be not
| decelVed, God is not Knocked, and what
soeEer you SOW that also will You reap.
II you vote with secesh, when the vot-
/ ing is over and the secesh get the DOW
1 er, you may look out for secesh fruit.
The whipping-p post, the jail, the peni-
tenhary, the chsin-gang, high rents
and low prices and vagrant laws.
Never, never vote with rebels"
The determination of the ex-rebels to
get the negro vote at the South, is man.
ifest- The meeting at Columbia, S. C.,
was case in point In Virginia they
are going at it systematically. A letter
from Richmond says:
THE press here have all turned their
attention to the necessity OF securing
the negro vote, and are urgent in their
demands that the most influential citi-
zens IN the State who are respected by
the negroes as well as the whites, should
take the matter in hand. With this
view preparations are now being made
for an active canvass the coming sum
mer, when no doubt the darkies will be
well harangued.''
The indications are strong that an eff
fort will be made all through the South
to control the negro vote in the interest
Of the party which comprises all those
who took an active part in the rebel
lion. And if as much progress is made
in the future as the past two weeks
have shown, toward recognizing the
newborn rights and privileges of the
colored men, we see no reason why the
new champions of the cause which was
a few weeks ago so hateful, may not
fairly claim the support of their coIored
fellow-citizens on the ground that they
have earned it. The Richmond Tunes
thus seconds the movement which WIS
begun in South Carolina by Wade
Hampton:
I've have very unwisely, not to saw
fOolishly, assumed that the emancipa-
ted and now enfranchfsed blacks
would, under the malign Influence of
that very class of white men whom the
negro, as slave, held In undisguised
contempt array themselves against
those whom il is to their interest to pro-
pitiate. f - = -
: forgetting all which centuries of
slavery should have taughtus of nature.
temperament aud prejudices of the
blacks, We have for two years left the
negro at the mercy of those who have
thinking mind the belief that there
were good grounds for violent antag-
onfsm between capital and labor, and
that while white gentlemen were his
enemies whtte rascals and VaRabonds
were his only friends and defenders.
Whsn emancipation ruptursd the old
ties OF master and slave, We should
have taken immediate steps to con-
vince the freedmen that their old mas
ters were still their best and only
friends. The poor black, who had been
all his life parasite clinginS to some
thing stronger and more vigorous than
himself, when turned loose, dazed and
pllnded by the novelty ofhis new state,
should have at once been taught that
the great laws regulating the relations
of labor and capital eould not be abro-
gated by proclamation of emancipa-
ton. W should at once have placed
him upon his guard against these
wolves in Sleeps clothing, who, the
moment the protection OF his master
FaYnnVa6 4 ~, L
wreckers upon stranded vessel.
while We have lost much by falling
to act with the promptness and wisdom
OF men like Wade Hampton, vet the
relations between the freedmen OF rvir-
ginia and their employers have been
since Aprf, 1865. for the most part so
kind thai 1t Is not yet toolate TO deliver
them from those false and malignant
influences to which We have so often
alluded. It is also a peeuliarIyafortu-
nate circumstance that evil disposed
and degraded white men have only in
\ few IocaiioeS succeeded in prejudicing
the freedmen against their natural
friends and protectors In the agricuI-
tural districts there will be no Siffi ieal-
II in teaching them their true interests
and duties. And here in Rfchmond
and elsewhere, where the efforts 10 cor
rupt and demoralize the blacks have
been constant and penssTering. a few
SADAIs llAS tlAL OF w aue ham ptOu, in
Columbia, will efface the vile lessons of
renegade white men as easily as the
waves of the sea do characters written
upon its unstable sands y
Its not little curious to see so NO
lent aconversion on what be had been
made to believe WAS SO momentozs a
subject, and we are led to fnquire for
that terrible war OF racesp which was
predicted by the President and echoed
all through the South. It is gratifying
TO learn on so good authority that thsre
Is no antagonism between capital ana
labor; and ifthe southern people carry
outin good faith what they propose, it
IS difhealt 70 see, when they have once
more entered the Union In good and
regular Standing. why the whole peo-
pler black and white, viii not be pretty
good republicans. with Impeachment
dropped, coufscatIou LEFT alone. the
civil rights bill rendered unnecessary,
and new issues raised on the currency
and the tariff. Truly the world moves.