Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-24

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tickets before the people, one was white
and the other black There could be no
doubt of the action of the city. He asked
the negroes whether they had the idea
that this city would be allowed to pass In
to the hands of the Negro, and told them
if it did at the coming election their VIC
tory would be short-l lived He warned
them against placing themselves in posi-
ton OF hostility to the whites, and gave
them advice in very calm and unexcited
manner.
MR. ". ". WALKERS SPEECH.
NJ NJ ". W Walker, of estmoreland,
vas then introduced to the audience by
Mr.. Daniel.
He commenced by saying that the con
dition of his voice was such that he feared
be wou'dsbe unable to make himself heard
by the immense audience present He
said it was impossible for him to conduct
the canvass as it should be conducted by
a gentleman. If he called the miserable
people he had to speak of respectable, or
honest, or gentlemanly, they themselves
would consider it the bitterest irony He
would be compelled to use pretty rough
language in dealing with the me2 who
were wallowing in the slime and filth of
political degradation. He wanted no Office
in the gift of the people. He had not
gone into this canvass to procure Office
HI was battling for the right to live with
his own family, on his own farm, and die
at his own home, and be buried under the
shade of the trees alongside Of his father
bones, and not be driven out of his State
an outcast to wander over the earth. In
regard to Wells he said he was actuated
by no ambition, by nothing else than to
gorge his cormorant appetite for money
out Of the State treasury. He had ac
cused the gentlemen of Virginia of per-
jury, and his schemes for their degradation
were so vile that they actually disguised
Thad. Stevens and Boutwell,
Congress would not consent to them,
and had put in the hands of the people
knife with which to excise the worst fea-
lures of it. Would you put that party in
power by your supineness and indifference
by failing to register and vote Z? Put
them in power aud they would have a
devils dance over the remains of your
University and Military Institute, and over
the very altar of God itself. He said the
party was such an one that he couldn't
trust it, because there was nothing in it to
demand confidence.
Here Mr.. Walker was interrupted by
some of the negroes in the crowd, and IF
teen or twenty minutes were occupied by
him in talking to them
He said the success Of the Wells party
in this State would be the means of pros
tratiug the white people in the dust, for
his black cohorts to walk over. Their
rights would be taken from them, and the
effort to regain them might be through
blood. In that event what would become
of the negro race? What would become
of the negro race if the white people refu-
sed to rent them land p?
A Negro-''All the land belongs to
the government"
Mr. Walker-"Does it? Well come
down and take my land in the name of
the government You'll find it an un-
healthy place"
Mr.. Walker continued, and warned the
negroes of the consequences of placing
themselves in hostility to the white race
1t had been said that Gilbert G. Walker
was a Northern man. He knew it, and
would have preferred to vote for Virgin
ian, but Gilbert G. Walker is an adopted
son of Virginia that her most honorable
sons may feel proud of. He placed HIM
self in the breach when her dearest inter-
ests, her very existence was imperilled,
and should receive a most hearty and
unanimous support.
Mr.. Walker was frequently interrupted
by negroes, but never failed to be ready
with an apt reply to anything they said,
and always turned the laugh against his
interrogatofs.
His voice has been much affected from
speaking in the open air, aud he was so
hoarse that he could scarce be heard. His
speech was received with much enthu-
siasm and elected much applause. He
asked whether he should tell the people
in the Southwest that Richmond was
aroused, and the response was an univer-
sal eyes"
The meeting was an enthusiastic one,
aud the speeches were received with great
satisfaction and loud applause. 1t was
evident that every man present felt the
Importance of the issues involved in the
canvass, and that the meeting was imbucd
with renewed ardor for the cause Rich
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