Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-08-06


the Hall of the House of Delegates two of the
negro speakers said that they chopped that they
might yet sit in that Legislative Hall as repre-
sentatives of the people,"
The following is an extract of the report OF
the speech of Gen. Pierce in the meeting at
Republican Hall:
IF Mr.. Bolts would go for progress and the
best interests of Virginia he would strike hands
with him but if he stood in the way OF the
great car of progress it would grind him to pow
der. Great. cheers The General charged,
gesticulated, and cavorted with great energy.
In the course of his remarks, referring to Gen
eral Longstreet whose bravery he eulogized, he
said he would not refuse him admission Iin but
then he would not vote for him. ''There was
devilish sight of difference between voting for
General Longstreet and General Longstreet vo-
ting with u.s." lGreat cheering. He wanted
General L. to sit on the anxious bench until his
robes were washed white. [Cheers.
Thus the Northern people think in reference
to the negroes-they think there is a ''devilish
sight of difference between the negroes voting
Nth them and their voting for the negroes
They are willing for the negroes to vote if they
vote with them, but are unwilling to vote for
the negroes for any Office. This the negroes
will, in time, find out.
SECOND DAY
It will be remembered that stHunnicutt and
his set" as they were short time since con-
temptuously termed by the Richmond Wing,
on the first day had everything their own way,
and re-adopted the platform OF the Hunnicutt
Convention of the 18th of April, and adjourned
to 10 o'clock the next day-Friday instead of
adjourning sine die, because they wished to
watch the Bolts party and the co-operationists,
and to give them an opportunity to join the
''Simon pures' if they could furnish satisfac-
tory evidence that they were sufficiently loyal to
be accepted into the true fold of Radicals.
As soon as the appointed hour had arrived
and the meeting called to order-which was
like calling spirits from the vastly deep-Dr.
Bayne of Norfolk, oolored, offered the following
| resolution:
Resolved, That as the business of the Con-
vention are completed as per call, that it adj
journ ssne die."
Thereupon there were many cries Of different
| kinds, and confusion was worse COMPOUNDED. .
Finally Hunnicutt succeeded in gaining the at
tention of the assembled mass, and said that he
was for receiving all who would sincerely repent
of their political sins, and would stop cursing
"old Hunnicutt and the Republican party,
| and concluded by hoping that the motion to adj
journ would be withdrawn. Thereupon the
confusion was worse COMPOUNDED than before,
| and after an understandable scene the motion to
| adjourn sine die was passed, the party triumph
ing expressing by loud cries great exultation.
| Thus ended the great Radical Convention,
which Bolts and the co-operationists confident
| ly expected to control, but which they found
they could do nothing with.
The negroes triumphed over Bolts, the CO.
operationists. and, in the end, even over Hun
nicutt himself
| The whites who sought utilization with the
negroes were rebufed, condemned, despised.-
IF they have any feeling of self-respect left,
they must feel Inundated to degree bordering
upon agony-and that feeling must be intensi-
| fed by the reflection that their treatment was
deserved and that none feel for them particle
of sympathy. The bottom rail was certainly or
| top in that Convention.
| In the Convention, Bolts and the co-opera-
tionists were not recognized, and Bolts was not
allowed an opportunity even to speak. When
the Convention had adjourned, those who had
controlled it-"Hunnicutt and his set '-gra-
| ciousy agreed to allow Bolts to speak to the
assembled crowd. He spoke tried to impress
the negroes that he had been their special
friend for thirty years, denounced the Demo
Gratis, said they must be watched, that they had,
like cats, nine lives then read a written ad-
dress embracing his platform which had been
adopted in caucus of his party the day before
the Convention met, and which it was then
| agreed should be submitted for adoption to the
| Convention, but which they never got the shad-
ow of chance to do. The object now was, as
they failed utterly in Convention. to get an en-
| dorsement of that address from the mass meet
| ing then present. and accordingly Geo. Rye, of
! Woodstock moved the adoption of Bolts plat
| form, but it was met with such storm of OPP
position that Rye soon withdrew his motion,
| and thus the platform fell, and with it Bolts
| and the co-operationists. They met with no
| more success in mass meeting than in Conven-
tion-the bottom rail was still painfully felt to
be on top.
Speeches were then made by Gov. Pierpont
| Chandler of Norfolk, Lewis Scott (colored) of
| Danvile, Rev. Jno Givens (colored) of Brook
lyn, n. Y, Whittlesy, Pierce, and others
Resolutions endorsing the conduct Of General
Sheridan were offered by Buttz of Norfolk and
adopted by the meeting.
| The author of these resolutions was charged
! with being horse-thief The Dispatch says
that ''the concluding words of the Governor s
address were lost in the confusion attendant up
| on personal difficulty between Mr.. Buttz, of
Norfolk, and Mr.. J. 3. Lewis The latter
charged Mr.. Buttz with being a horse-thief, or
alleged that he had stolen a horse. For some
moments fight was considered imminent; but
Lewis finally made public apology, with the
explanation that he had only heard that Mr..
Buttz had stolen the horse"
So far as the co-opera tionists are concerned,
the world has never exhibited such disgrace
full and ignominious faiure-so far as the ne
groes are concerned, it has no record of more
decided victory or more insulting exultation
over the PROSTATE fallen.
There would be two hundred and forty two
members of the House of Representatives if
all the members from all the States warn rra-