Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-25
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The following report 9ftha proceedings
of the
/ " VIRGINIA BLACK REPUBLICAN eOS-
VENTION
NAV be read with pleasure and profit by
our old acquaintance and friend, Gov
ernor JOHN J. MCRAE, Of Mississippi
and others, who, in 1860 secessiouists per
I Sc, are nov resigned to negro suffrage, as
g legitimate result OF defpst
RICHMOND, April Is.-The session o.
z the REPUBLICAN State convention to-
dav was very animated. Resolutions
were read expressing gratitude to CON
gress, declaring the new p9rty OF Vir-
gfnia part of the 0TEaniEal+0n5 end
adopting, besides general principles, pTo.
positions declaring for equal political
rights, ofice-hOlding included, for
thorough system of common schools, for
a more equitable mode of taxation, for
modification OF The psuFY laws so as 10
I encourage capitalists, for intern&l m
! proyements and emigration, etc.
! A lengthy address was read bg Judge
! Underwood, and adopted.
! A warm discussion occurred 6G the
allusion in the resolutions TO the military
act as the Sherman-ShellabaTge bill.
ThCd. Stevens was substituted for Sher-
! man a beipV declared by the speakers
| that the latter WSs not its author. The
| enthusiasm over the aEnQs o. Stevens was
| immense.
A resolution in honor Of Abraham
| Lincoln was adopted. The feature OF
/ the day was the discussion on confsca-
/ ton.
Pesolutions were offered sustaining the
.,eT a snNiTNU
/ The impeacnment Of President Johnson
/ for not executing thela. EScrly all the
eoIored speakers declared it to be tpe
dutv Of congress to cOnfscate rebel lands,
I 50 that homestesds might be obtained.
I The resolutions were referred to COM
mittee. and the convention adjourned
J after the appointment OF q state com
nitteei to Capitol square for ratiBca-
tion meeting, Of which DR.. Brown, OF
/ Richmond, was made president, Thos.
| Hargist. Of Winchester, ice-president,
and Andrew Washburn, OF Richmond
secretary.
This public demand for the passage
Of STEVENS Confscation bill, is but an
imprudent manifestation Of what has
been already settled upon in the Secret
Societies of Negrodom and confirms
what we have more than enee said, that
confscation is proposed as a bribe, and
to create a resistless pressure upon Con-
gress to enact it as an act Of good faith to
the loyal descendants of the noblemen
of Ashantee and Dahomey.
"Tne enthusiasm over the name Of
| STEVENS was immense &" The fea-
ture of the day was the discussion on
confscation - The cOIorsd speakers de-
clare it to be the duty Of Congress to
confscate rebel lands, so that honlssteads
Bady be obtained.
HEERg WILSON, Senator from Masss-
chusetts, had Just before appeared in
Richmond, Petersburg, and elsewhere,
made a gracious and eondeseending
speech to black and white, at Peters
burg. and another at Orange Court
House. But being replied to at the lat
te5 place. he significantly hinted that
failure 10 reconstruct might be followed
by confscation. WheLhez this was an
, -ulsivs imprudenee, caused by anger
! Al contracted OF whether the result
of calculation, and by way Of response
to the antieipations of the tnloPlans'
aud of promise and pledge on the part o.
RadicaIism, We do not know: but we
naturally put his appearance in Virginia,
the hurting out of their joyful expecta-
tions by the negro delegates in Conven-
ton, and this seemingly unpremedi-
tated hint together, and do not doubt
: thst WILSON'S purpose in his journey
Z South Is to use the bribe of confiscation
to secure the Ethiopian vote.