The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-13
LOCAL MATTERS.

HUNN1cUTT DEFINES Hrs PosITIoN-THE
NEGROES SUPPORT H1M.-Mr. Hunnicutt
addressed a large crowd of the Republicans
Of Richmond on the Capitol Square yester-
day afternoon. His purpose was to explain
his position, which he did in speech about
four hours in length. He reviewed his course
during the first years of the war and since
the surrender of General Lee, clai lining to
be the John the Baptist Of the Republican
party Of Virginia. In those days, little did
he expect ever to stand on the capitol
steps to defend his policy But he
gratitude of republics. The vipers (i.e.,
carpet-ba ggers) that his own bosom had
warmed into life were now trying to sting
| him to death. Would his hitherto faithful
colored adherents allow him to meet such a
fate9 mol No!1 Would they ego back
upon !" the man who first dared to brave
popular prejudice and come out fat-footed
for universal sufrage2 Dat we won't.
He had been blackguarded by the press,
scorned on the street, tabooed by society,
even ruled out of the Church of Christ
all for the sake of the colored man. Would
he forget the friend and hero9 Never |!
Neveru sI
AS 70, the Capital Square meeting de-
nounced by the Central Com mittee, he ap-
peaied to the crowd to answer whether he
had anything to do with getting it up.
["Nol" from the steps.] he had been in
vited to speak, and did speak. For the ac-
ton of that meeting he had been read out
of the party by a set of carpet-bag Office
seekers. Washburne and Painter are pretty
men to attempt to control, the party. Wash
burne came from Washington without yisi-
BILE means of support. Painter came from
Fairfax to Richmond in search of an office,
and got it from George Rye. Humphreys,
another of the committee, was q man who
had imposed himself as delegate upon the
Republican Nominating Convention, and as
many more had done the same thing. The
nominations Of that Convention should not
be respected by the people of Virginia.
The speaker, then paid his respects to
Samuels, the negro 'speech-reporter from
Baltimore, who in that Convention re-
| presented q county which he had never
been within q hundred miles of. Now this
fellow claimed to read the editor Of the Neao
Nation out of the party. "Great Heaven,
boys, what is the country coming to %
After Hunnicutt closed,
The following resolutions, offered by Full
ler, the chairman, were unanimously
adopted: -
"Whereas the series of resolutions offer
ed by Mr.. Painter and adopted by the Re-
publican Central Committee of the city at
a regular meeting held by them on the eve
ming Of the 25th of September, 1868, and
published in the Alexandria State Journal
and some few other papers, denouncing the
meeting held on the Square On the 2lst
ultimo and the editor of the Neoo Nation as
disorganizers are deemed unfair and un-
just therefore .,....
Resolued, That we censure that portion
of the Central Committee that voted for
those resolutions, and earnestly request
them to have the resolutions struck from the
minutes of their meeting.
/" Resolved, That we recognize in James
W. Hunnicutt, the editor of the Neoo
Nation, q true, tried, firm, and unfinching
friend and patriot-one who, since his ar
rival in this city in 1866, has battled as
none other dared battle for the equal rights
of all men before the law, without regard
to race, color, or CASTE"
A third resolution expresses unbounded
confidence in Hunnicutt's paper, I" it having
been first to commence the work Of build
ing up the Republican party in Virginia" "
and swears renewed allegiance to its editor.
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