The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-04-13
Senator Wilson's Visit to Richmond.
what He Saw, what He Said, what He
Thinks, and what Was Said Absus
Hfm.

" hat He Saw, what He said, w hat He
Thinks, and what Wss Said Assss
Him.
The telegraph has given brief account OF
the visit of Senator Wilson to Richmond.
From IN exchange We gather the following
additional and interesting facts:
THE PROCESSION OF FREEDMEN.
He was present At the celebration Of the
fall Of Richmond by the colored population /
on Wednesday last, and says he will never
forget the lesson OF that wonderful scene.
The procession wss-xiles in length, and the
meeting that succeeded it solemn and i'm |
presslve, as demonstration Of gratitude for |
liberty achieved and for precious lrighu Sc |
cured Here was q commemoration OF day |
which humiliated the whole South. and espe- |
cially Virginia, in the overthrow Of the rebel |
capital and the conquest OF the rebel cause
the commemoration, too. exclusively BY the
manumitted blacks, Of the great failure OF
the white race to destroy great government;
and yet there was no offensive rejoicing by
the one, and not the slightest disposition TO |
retaliate by the other.
General Wilson says he did not hear
word Of reproach or evea of Fidieuie OF the
blacks. The aRiversal spirit sesaSed to be Of
acquiescDnee in the fact that they had ire
versibly secured their personal LbArties and
their political rights. The movement vas
exclusively in their own hands, and in the
hands of their known white frieads and
General Wilson did not deem it in good taste
to interfere with any remarks of bis own, es-
pecisllY as such remarks might be construed
by the people to mean that he came to Rich.
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them on the anniversary OF the fall OF their
city.
HIS OPINION OF GEN. scHofiELD.
| He speaks highly Of Gen. SchofeId, the
military commander Of the department Of
Virginia, and says be has the ful confidence
of the unconditional loyaIists, white and
blsck, and will appoint no registrars OF the
voters for the coming election who are not
now Internationally loyal
ALL CLASSES INVITE HIN TO SPEAK.
| On Thursday morning General Wilson
started for Petersburg. and when he reached
there was called upon by the Mayor of the
city and committee of Councilmen, who adj
dressed him as citizen of the United States
and Senator from the Great State OF Massa-
chusettetts, and invited him 10 kpeak To the
people on the duties and responsibilities of
| the hour. This committee was followed by
delegation Of colored men, who rendered
| him their congrAtulation, and extended TO
him the same invitation, and this again by Q
committee OF Radical white men, who en-
dorsed what had been said by the others.
| THE NESTING.
| AT eight o clock in the evening be spoke in
| front Of the hotel to an immense tbroug,
standing upon the same spot where Judge
Douglas stood, in 1860, when he travelled
| South to warn the Southern Democrats OF
the plots of Davis and the seceders, led by
Davis and Breckenridge.
The Mayor of the city presided at the
| meeting, assisted by number Of leading cit
liens, including one of the Judges Of the
\ conrts. 49,
4 Gen. Wilson spoke for more than an hour.
He announced himself as = Radical Of the
EXTREMIST school, and declared his intention
TO speak TO them as frankly as if be addressed
his own constituents in Massachusetts. He
came to speak in no spirit of bitterness or
revenge.
/ ms SPEECH TO TIE WHITES.
To the white people be said In trusting
TO the copperheads of the North you have
trusted to faithless politicians. They prom
ised that if secession ended in war they would
defend you; Unnecessary, to make rsnpart
| Of their dead bodies. You saw khat prosnise
fulfilled by seeing their foloversin the Union
army fighting against you, where they will be
found again il they could tempt you into an
other rebellion. You trusted And rev John
son, and he has deceived you, ~ be hes every
body else and now some Of yos are looking
to the Supreme Court of the United States,
where you will be more disappointed than ia
the other two instances. | will tell you
where you can place full and constant reliance.
| mean upon the great Radical Republican
party of the United States-that party which
has never deceived anybody (which pledged
freedom TO the slave and won it, and then
pledged them their rights and has secured
them. Ii extends from Maine to Mexico,
and whatever may be said or hoped, i, 10
bound to continue to maintain its present DO.
sition- Let the men Of that party see that
you mean in good faith to abide by the law,
and the removal of all your disabilities will
be magnsnimously and promptly proffered.
his ADVICE TO THE BLACKS.
Gen. wilson then addressed the colored
race before him. He told them he did not
E intend to speak to them in patronzing way.
That day Lad gone by. He had for thirty years
prayed for their deliverance from slavery, and
belonged 10 a pa riy that had made Their ele
: walton and liberation subject of constant
solictude. He implored them to do nothing
in anger or violence, or revenge. He in
voked thernto elevate themselves, but not to
| seek to pull others down. Let them always
vote for liberty, and for the friends of liber-
ty. Letthem remember that the day Of the
school house had come Let them see 70 j,
that when they are taxed it shall be for uni.
versal edueation-
HIS isfrRvfrw wfrH HESRY A. WISE.
tFroin the Richmond Wing, April 81
Senator Wilson is still in town Yesterday
he walked about town and rambled into the
capitol. lie walked into the library unher.
aided, and engaging the services Of Alber,
1 Thornton, took look from the roof of the
A building. As be was going out of the library,
whom should be meet but General Wise, and
: the two had = chat. The Senator put his
back against the railing, and the General
! stood in front of him vita . book under his
!. arm, and they presented a curious contrast,
!, the great uureconstructed and the great de.
structive- The Senator did not seem TO be al
all afraid OF the soldier, although said Sena
tor stood in such . position that with the tin
Q of his heel or slight dig IN the eye, the lat.
n ter could have tumbied the former clean owe
:, the railing to the floor below, and no one
could have been the wiser a. 10 who did it.
We didn't see any s,gn Of the bowie knife or