The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-04-15
The Colored People-Great Meeting
Tonight.


rhera vii, be a great meeting OF colored
reop,e tonight at the Theatre to hear al.
dresses from Messrs. WILLIAM Il. MAcFAR-
LAND. r, T. DANIEL, and MARxADukk
JOHNSON, on the political questions OF Inc
day. The meeting to take place al .
O'Clock.
This meeting and the addresses on the
occasion are in compliance with the re-
Quest Of many respectable and well-bred
colored citizens, whose appropriate letter,
together with the notice Of the meeting,
will be found in this mornings Dispatch.
1t is not only due TO the colored people,
but il is due to this community, that they
should hear both sides. To leave the
blacks to the teachings Of those who desire,
for the most sordid and selfish copsidera-
tions, to separate them, in the exercise OF
their political rights, from the white people
in whose midst they live would be fraught
with the worst consequences. They could
not be so left to the unopposcd false teach
inss of these false teachers without a gross
neglect Of duty-social, moral, and reli-
gious-by the whites. 1t Is, therefore.
gratifying that the distinguished gentlemen
whospeak tonight at the Theatre are about
to commence the important work of setting
before the black man the true aspect OF
his new relations to southern society.
There could he nothing more injurious
to the well-being of the colored people
than to array them in feeling and action
against the people amongst whom they
were born and raised, amongst whom they
must now reside, and whose fortunes,
good or evil, they must share. The knot
NJ Yaboos who are endeavoring to ALLEVIATE
the blacks from their best friends, under
the disguise of "loyalty" on their part,
and by the senscless cry of "rebels," can
indemnify them in no earthly manner for
the injury to be thus inflicted upon them.
The aeitators have neither employment
nor means of subsistence for them. In
deed. these volunteer teachers ofthe freed
man have not his welfare at heart. 1t is
ONLY TO belp themselves to office that they
would intiame his mind and secure his
vote. Ii is all a party movements move
ment the success Of which depends upon
sowing the seeds of diScord in the commu-
nifty, and inaugurating war of colors and
OF races. This would be destructive of
order, industry, thrift, and happiness.
Even the New York Tribune, the princi-
pal organ of the great Radical party at the
North, appreciates the horrors Of this sort
Of social alienation in the South. 1t says:
"Far be it from us to advise campaign
" of bitterness. We do not propose to in
" fluence the negro by exciting in his mind
"a hatred of his former masters. Nor
" should We advise any organization anita
" gonistic to those masters. Agitators like
" Mr.. HUNNIcUTr in Virginia may mean
" well, but their zeal is bitter and often
" sive. To organize campaign on the
" HUNNIcuTT plan is to abandon any hope
" of permanent Union party in the South.
" We cannot afford to array the white
against the black, or the black against
" the white. white mems tickets and
"'black mems tickets, any ticket, in
" deed, which represents prejudice, or a
u" grievance, or the remembrance of any
" wrong, any party of vengeance and
" wrath-we shall oppose"
These are words of wisdom, and worthy |
the especial attention of the colored peo-
pie. The Tribune is devoted to their in
terests.
We have no fear that the freedmen will |
not form a just idea of their true interests
after q fair discussion of their relations to
the southern people-their late masters,
their present friends. Let them hear to-
night the addresses at the Theatre, and they
will hear something greatly more to their
than the slangsof the disor-
ganizers who have with so much haste anu
zeal sought to mislead them. We nope
that every seat in the Theatre will be LETT
to the colored people. As many as the
building will hold should be there. There
should be no crowding about the doors and
the Hobbies that may at all interrupt free
access to the house.