Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1868-01-09
The Incendiary Hunnicutt.

A Richmond Correspondent Of the New York
Vo,ld gives a sad account Of the condition of
things at the Capital of the Old Dominion, the
conduct of the negroes under the advice of bad
white men being such as to disgust honest
Northern men, aud convince them of the de-
structive tendency of Radicalism. He says;
"On every side the ears of the traveller are
greeted with reports of meat-houses robbed,
pantries ransacked, poultry yards piIlaged, hog
pens gntted, granaries broken open, barns burn
ed, aud even of dwelling houses laid in ashes
by the wards of the na,ionF Rarely were
the offenders apprchended, aud even In these
instances, hopeless Of obtaining justice under
the present regime, the poor whites frequently
allowed the rascals TO 80 without prosecution.
The negro is actually advised to such means
of obtaining subsistence by the persons who
now control hisvoteS Hear the raScally dema-
gogue Hunnicutt, man who once occupied
the sacred desk and woe the livery Of Jesus,
pandering to the appetite of m of blacks.
At a meeting held at Hunnicutt Hall, on FRI
day night, alter adverting at length upon the
wrongs iil OF The cOlUred race, he said There
is corn and wheat, and flour and bacon, and
turkeys and chickens, and wood and coal in
the Safe, and the cOlOred people lciHhdre them
before hey cW Stare" This declaration was
received with deaiening shouts Of applause by
the intamed crowd Of negroes. 4 few of tLe
more sensible white Republicans ventured to
protest that these good people would not
steal )" but their voice was huShed in the hoarse
murmur of the blacks, and amid shouts of APP
plauSe Hunnicutt repeated his offensive words,
adding " II is so-all history and mature prove
that it is SO. These people don't intend to
starre.'
% Let the thinking men of the North remem
| Der that the man who thus advises thieying,
and even adds the influence of bis ministerial
calling to defend it, is the leading Republican
in the State of Virginia, and will probably be
the negro candidate for Governor, under the
new constitution"
The writer then details many scenes of strife
in different portions of the State, in which the
negroes behaved in brutal manner In
Lynchburg there is a deadly feud between the
soldiers and the negroes, and mobs of the latter
are frequent and repressed with difficulty by
the police.
If Gen, Schofeld does not suppress Hunni
cults vile teachings he WILDE properly consid
cred partieeps crjmnis. Public sentiment in
dictates that President Johnson ought at once
relieve Schofeld
The Richmond Examiner gives the following
picture Of affairs in Virginia
"The accounts which are coming up from
/ nearly all quarters are enough to curdle the
| blood Of every humane man. The farest land
under the sun lies in "retcheduesS aud ruin
! A domain which has teemed with abundance
/ is now region of universal pauperlom.-
| Frightful restitution everywhere prevails, and
gauut, grim starvation already shows its horrid
! front, though the winter is but begun. The
! labor of the multitude Of the blacks consists in
| fnges on the barns and barn-yarlS Of the
whites; the corn aud the live stock are diSap-
pearing under Interpretations of the black thieves
aud robbers, who are organizing in bands too
numerous 10 be resisted by their victims, and
! already formidable even to the military.
war of white and black is imminent, aud it will
he invested with complication of horrors. 1t
| will he a war Of culurS. war Of castles. a war
with robbers. war over bread. 1t will appeal
to every consideration which can command the
convictions aud fire the passions