The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-22

wanted them and everybody else TO understand
an tner thing and that was that no power on eartn
ship, or the ballot lCheers) Addre sing himself
again 70 the white vrsnlsns he ssd he & TsTted pdh
lion who now was ready to accept me new oqctrnes & &
party % to which hi he properly belonged aud TO act
politically with those men who adhered 70 the IDEAS
ss sn anf there SSy ANY present. WRo
adopted the heresy Of secesson-the most con con
graced humanity-but who 10 the smoke Of battle,
eSed in the old ag and in lie pocy of the freedom
and elevation OF all classes, he invited them TO plant
II there any dsrauchised by the constitutional
amendment they could sti lend their voice and in In
imposed, and they would demonstrate by such patr
to be removed and they would be speedily removed
Ifthe men who believed what he stated here TO day
carry the Commonweaith Of Virginia by a large ma
jorty and control It's policy for years; ,,,,,
son, came forward again and discoursed for an
hour or more with the! negroes, reminding
them that he and they had grown up together,
played together, fished together, occasionally
fought each other, and were good friends gene
rally. C"Oh, yes" said black man, with a
familiar gesture; but you shut the school door
in our faces.'O Major Lee protested that he had
done nothing of the kind; but the laugh and
TnH aecisom fbe wgre tbot agansi @bd@ P9
they had such confidence, had, before
the war, opposed the building of a
and that the people of that city, against whom
this same Hunnfcutt was now stirring up the
negroes to hostility, had decided church on
credit. He also informed them that Massachu-
setts was the first State to engage in the slave
trade and the last TO give 1t up; that Fred Doug
lass could not get seat in the New York Con-
stitutional Convention, and that the people of
Rochester would not allow Fred Douglass SON.
in-law, John Sprague, to keep hack for hire
A smart, bright looking mulatto named Will
liam Lucas, who teaches a colored school in
Gordonsville came forward and made a short,
sensible speech, advising the men of his race to
vote for those whom they knew to be their
friends, and not for those who would put the
handouts on them again If they had the power.
Senator Wilson came forward to answer some
points made by Major Lee. He declared his
belief that nineteen n-twentieths of the colored
voters would vote for the men who had secured
crowd asked Mr.. Wilson in reference to confs-
cation, Mr., Wilson replied that If the Southern
States refus ed to settle the question on the
basis of equal rights and justice condscation
might come. He would not say that it would
come; but he would say that if they accepted
their State Governments, and elected men to
Congress who could honestly take the oath,
they had heard The last OF this matter of con-
fiscaton.
AT the close Of the speaking DR.. Terrin pro-
posed three cheers for Senator Wilson, to which
the colored people responded heartily. Senator
Wilson is to speak in this city Tomorrow in
by Governor Pierpont and many members of
the State Legislature, which is now in session.
His objectappears to be to encourage the forma-
tion of a new parJyin this State, to be composed
chiefly of members of the old Wing party, and
to be sustained by the colored vote which is
John Minor Bolts from the meeting at Orange
yesterday occasioned some remarks.