The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-19

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bel5borne I'M mind that Mr.. Gilbert
Walker, the opponent OF Wells for, Go.
vernon, is Northern man, whose cha
racter is such as to have gained the respect
and support of the Democrats of Vir-
ginia; + II GOV
- 49, SPEECH OF COLONEL. ouLp.
He commenced, by saying that he, be-
1onged to that hard headed, old fashioned
class of people who didn't believe that
negro was the cream of the earth and the
Joy of the universe. His heart had been
always responsive to the doctrine that this
should be white man's government, and
that the negro had no right to share in its
administration, not because he was ne.
gro, not because his skin was black. but
because he was uneducated, and unfit to
take part In its administration. When
the time came for a canvass to take place
on this platform, the negro himself
shifted it, and instead of equality claimed
superiority. He adverted to the teaching
of the carpet-baggers to the negroes, and
the ultimate effect of it. OF the carpet.
baggers, he said their rapacity was insa-
table; their mouths were Mediterranean
and their stomnchs could never be filled.
They absorbed all that came to them, and
gave back nothing. In regard to the
Underwood constitution, he said that it
was so monstrons that both the Congress
Of the United States and General Grant
said, t''this thing can't be; it is a crime
against civilization" And the two most
obnoxious clauses have been submitted
to a separate vote. This proposition n
came from o radical Congress and Re-
publican President, and no man can say
that that Congress and that President
would have united upon such PROPOSE
ton if these provisions had not been
monstrons.
The negro starts ont with the doctrine
that he has equal rights with tue white
man. and is building the foundations of
his house on the sands of intolerance and
prescription. While they claim equal
rights, they deny to the sons of the men
who formed THE Government the right
to vote and hold Office. In Tennessee,
where Brownlow has been on the ram
page for four years; where GO, 900 or TO-
600 white men are DISTINGUISHED, Senter
and Stokes, the rival candidates for Go
vernon of that State. are vieing with each
other who shall go farthest in the work
of enfranchisement. The poor ignorant
and deluded negroes who are thus endea-
voring to build up this doctrine of pro-
scription should know that q day of re-
tribution will come; and when it does
come, it will not come with still small
voice, but with the whirlwind and the
earthquake. Negro suffrage and white
Acknowledgement is an iniquity that
neither God nor man will submit to-
White men. do you hear that? APP
plause. Negroes, do You hear that?
Yes, yes, and laughter.
It is the part of madness and folly be-
cause you cannot get the highest good
not to take the highest possible good
Do not initiate the dog in the fable, who
lost his dinner in grasping at its shadow
What is the highest possible good? The
Black Crook cohstit1tion he considered
the sum of7aH iniquity, and disgrace to
the men who made it; and that was going
as low rs he could go. He would advise
no one to vote for it after it was expur-
gated. The idea that the constitution
was all was mistake. Where the con-
stitution touches you once the law
touches you fifty times. Secure the Lee
gislature; secure the men who make the
laws. That is the highest possible good
Upon this depends the question whether
Virginia shall be habitable for white
men. The conservatives and true repub-
HCauS ubu puL iorIu u tlCkeC, ana he was
not going to bawl himself hoarse in
praise of them separately. It sufficed
for him to say that the worst man on it
was better, much better, than the best
man on the other ticket. The radical
ticket was composed of an Irishman, an
Englishman, q German and eight Afri-
cans-the United States not represented
at all, the Western Continent not repre-
sented at all White men, choose between
these tickets; choose whom you will
serve. It is glorious privilege to be a
white man. 1t is glorious thing to have
4 white skin.
In addition to the Legislature, you
have to vote for u Governor, clothed for
the first time under this new Constitu-
ton with the veto power. For this Office
Mr.. II. II. Wells and Colonel Gilbert G..
Walker are candidates. GILBERT g. Walker
has never allied himself with race TO-
reign to the blood that runs in the veins
Of his own children. He never insulted
the down-trodden people of this State
after they had fought their gallant fight
and had surrendered. He has never been
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