The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-26
WEDNESDAY. ....AususT 2s. 1868.
The Radical Farce.

Our local columns give full account o
the Radical ratification farce Of yesterday
gotten up by the military Governor Of the
State and his associate csrpet-baggers. :
HUNNIeUTT was revenged for the atfron
put upon him by the utterly dispirited ant
contemplate procession under the "carpet
baggers." The white allies of the BAN
boozlcd negroes, never appearing to muef
advantage in association with them IN pup,
lie, had on unusually hang-dog look anu
even the negroes caught the Infection OF
shame, which they are hardly ever known
10 suffer from. The line should have moved
to the dead march, for more Impressive
indication of 9 dead party we never wit
messed.
What farce A long line of negroe:
marched out to be addressed on the polite:
of the day, about which they are pro
foundry ignorant! Would that the north
ern people could have witnessed the gro
tesque affair and the hypocritical formal
ties of the few white men in sashes, OF
horseback, and in carriages, marshalline
negroes to place Of political discussion
|, was disgrace to the country and age II
which we live.
The negroes were taken in hand by by
pocrites and fanatics Immediately after the
war. Large colored meetings were hello
fwhen the whites could not meet, and they
were addressed by offce-hunting adventu-
rers and imported preachers, and every
artifce employed to put them against their
old masters, and really their true friends.
Not only this, but filed with wild concerts
Of the part they were to play in the world,
they went to drilling, making night hideous
with their drumming and clangour and
clamor until that bitter Radical General
TERRY saw that order and security were
so seriously imperilled that he had to put
3 stop to il. This was when the whites
were disarmed and under the sharpest sur
VIGILANCE of military power.
The meetings continued, and the aglta-
tors industriously poisoned the ear OF the
negro. The work was complete. The ne
gro learned all the slang Of the rabid IA
natic rs well as the hypocritical Radicals.
When there was not man in arms, not
token Of resistance anywhere, these ne
groes, in their meetings, were calling the
whites all "rebels," claiming their lands
and working submissively for their ne~
masters, the oarpet-baggers and scalawags.
The result was there was negro party
in Virginia, which elected white incompe-
tents and scamps and Ignorant negroes 10
make our laws. The issue was forced upon
the whites, and it is still the issue. Our
dearest rights and most important interests
depend upon it. 1t is a question even be-
yond mere Radicalsm. 1t is question of
having any government fit to call a govern
ment-of having any order, security, and
prosperity.
This is the true state Of the issue in Vir-
ginia. 1t is for white people to consider
and choose sides. But that man who sides
against his own white race upon such
division must be assuming his status for
life. Parties may change and men may
change, but the hue Of politics nor put on
by men 1ch0 desert their race cum neuer be
eJuced-meUer be oraShed om.
The farce of yesterday was well-it was
cheering-it wore a doomed aspect, and
foreahadowed the near approach of the end
Of the Accountable mockery Of politics and
government with which we have been SO
iearfully cursed.