Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-24
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RECONSTRUCTION In VIRGINIA.

Unity the Negro VOte-SenRtOr VIII
EsOn Against Hunnicuff-The COnser
VatIVe COunseIs not Altogether Har
mOniOus-A Leader of True States
mRnship Needed.
Virginia is evidently anxious to recon
struct under the force measure Of Congress
bat does not know precisely how to do i
with the least injury TO herself The Hun
nicutt convention at Richmond on the l7tf
inst, and the appearance of Senator VIII
son on the stage Immediately after, has
quickened the political pulse, and initiated
a degree Of confusion all around the board
What Virginia wants is common want in
all theSOuthern States, accommodating leader O
epalted pOwers, honesty, and true craftsmanship
courage and firmness-a man who will shun
tie details of pot house discussion, rise
to the great height of the occasion, and ar
nounce principles, applicable to our future,
as States and as Union embracing all the
States.
We subjoin extracts from the Richmond
press, showing the present movements and
general situation:
From the Richmond Enquirer, 10Th.
RADICAL DIFFERENCES.
1t is proper that our people understand
the political situation, and the games which
are now being played over our interests.
We are informed in the papers, and from
the rostrum, and we may accept it as true,
that great effort is 70 be made to enrol the
South in the Radical organization. Money
is to flow like water, and political agitators
are to SECURE the State. 1t is already APP
parent, however, that diverse counseIs are
springing up among the missionaries.
There is faction composed of Hunni-
cut and his followers, who stake the cam
paign upon securing unity of the colored
vote. Their reliance is upon the jealousies
and animosities of race. These are fed
and stimulated by vituperation of the
whites, against whom they seek to unite the
negroes.
But there are others who stop to figure
which Hunnicutt disdains TO do--and who
know, therefore, that to produce confronta-
ton Of races is to be beaten by an over
whelming majority. They compute the
negro vote at sixty thousand in the State,
and the white vote at one hundred and fifty
thousand, and they see nothing in Hunni-
cults tactics but utter and final overthrow.
They estimate that they must in some way
secure at least One-Hird of the white vote as
a reinforcement to the blacks or they have
no chance for success, even with the latter
voting as a unit. They know further, that
Il To- 10
circumstances, a white following to men of
the repute of Hunnicutt and Wardwell and
such as they. So long, therefore, as these
are the leaders, their party can be nothing
more than a negro party, organized on the
basis of antipathy TO the whites. Hence
their effort is TO depose these obnoxious
persons, and change the tactics.
These two factions cannot compromise.
One of them must fall. Will il be Hun
nicutt2 II is not to be denied that he has
got an immense start of those who desire
to pull him down. Any one who heard, or
has read the utterances of the late negro
convention here, or who listened to the
rant and the cheerings in the Capitol
Square on Thursday night, will appreciate
how terribly Hunnicutts incendiarism has
poisoned the masses of the negroes, and
filled their bosoms with the blacklist of de-
signs. The more violent and criminal the
utterance, and the darker the hate of the
white community which it expressed, the
more loudly and enthusiastically was il APP
plauded. In short, ,Hunnicutthas made and
cemented black peoples party as against
the white people, and it will be very hard
for his rivals with their rival policy, to
trip him up. Nor will he be diverted from
his course by any show of mere figures.
With a crowd of bowling supporters around
him, he will fancy himself omnipotent.
Monarch of all he surveys, he will dream
himself monarch of all. Milton describes
spirits that deem it better to reign in hell
than to serve in Heaven" We need not
go so far to find such as would rather lead
minority 20 ruin than follow a majority
to victory. la short, Hunnicutt cannot be
driven of, or argued of, or cajoled of, by
his rivals. 1t remains TO be seen whether
they can crush him.
Ofthe Radicals who head the movement
against Hunnicutt, our readers have already
heard. We have quoted from Horace
Greeley in strong condemnation of his
proceedings. Greeley says: To organize
a campaign on the Hunnicutt plan, is to
abandon any hope Of permanent Union
party in the South" We have quoted
from Thurlow Weed to the same purport
"The course of Hunnicutt is to be seriously
Reproduced. He is evidently dangerous
and pestilent agitator." We copied a very
biting sentence from Hilton's letter to the
New York Tribune, written from Richmond
on Monday last. In evident allusion to II.
and his right bower" this man said
'The prospect is, they will be utterly
ignored, and the good work carried on by
wiser hands"
1t matters nothing that Hilton was
cheek by jowl in the convention with the
man whom he thus whistled down the
wind and that on Thursday night he WED
with him in wickedness in the harangnes
with which they both fed the mob on
Capitol Square While both were poison
ing the negroes before them, they were
planning in their hearts how to poison each
other.
Ii is understood that Senator Wilson,
who is about to enter on n canvass in this
State, and who will speak at Orange Court
house to-day, will inaugurate the movement
for subordinating Hunnicutt or setting him
aside, and securing for the Republican"
organization he seeks to establish, a more
respectable front and leadership. Hunni-
cut is siufling the heads of his disciples
with ideas of social interchange and equali-
ties. Wilson confines himself TO political
equality. Ii is easy to see that he will be
no equal competitor with Hunnicuttism,
for the favor of the mass of the black men.
Hunnicutt outbiSs him. But Wilson hopes
to make il up, and much more by recruits
from among the whites. He hopes thus to
build up a Republican party, of permanent
material. Prominent citizens are TO be
sought and solicited They are TO be taken
up "littIe mountains" as Bill Arp says,
and shown golden reasons for fnsing with
the Radicals They are 10 be piled with
promises Of what will be done for them if
they will be compliant; and with awful
threats of what they must otherwise expect
from the unexhausted store Of fortunes and
outrages at the command of Congress.
These are the two agencies at work by
opposite policies, for the same end. They
antagonize each other, and in the end, one
must yield. But meanwhile both must be
watched, and both must be guarded against.
ORr PROSTATE and impoverished people are
to be assailed with perils on The one hand,
and with temptations and threats on the
other, all in the interest Of uRholy indi-
vidual ambitions. We are to be torn bv
sedition, or dragooned and seduced into
party alliances, at a time when We are ask
ing for quiet