The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-16
The Jefferson Ward Rally.
THE OED DOMINION CLUR STARTS
THE DALA IN MOTION.
ADDRESSES BY COLONEL 0. T, BEARD.
Nix. JOHN WISE, AND COLONEL
JOSEPH MAYO.

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large number of the Conservatives, not only
Of that ward. but also from other sections OF
the city. The meeting. however, was not
composed Of Conservatives alone, for there
were many prominent Republicans present,
q goodly number Of whom We're negroes.
| on TUE STAND.
Among the gentlemen who were on the
stand were Colonel .. Il. Beard, Major E. B.
| Cook president Of Old Dominion Club
Colonel Joseph Mayo Estate Treasurer, Mr..
John S. Wise, of this city, and others. The
stand was erected on the eastern side Of the
spacious hall, next to Seventeenth street, and
! was tastefnlly decorated with the national
colors. '...i
REMARKS OF COLONEL BEARD.
Shortly after s o'clock the meeting was
called to order by Major Cook, who intro
duced Colonel o. L. Beard, who had been
previously invited by the club and announced
Us one OF the speakers On the occasion.
Colonel Beard made powerful speech.
He said that the difference between the two
parties contending for the highest Executive
honors in this State were never more clearly
defined than now; it is Il contest between
ignorance and intelligence. He claimed that
the Hughes party do not possess in
lSiti-ShNS, SNStPt GHUSC w uO UlC
candidates for office. No people can govern
| well, or ought to govern at all, who cannot
take part in and be improved by the cur
rent thought Of the times as it finds express
sion in .ocial or business circles. The poor
est white man can avail himself of this
knowledge. The colored man cannot with
ont uniting him for control. Too many Of
them have not yet passed from the low
order Of intelligence. The Ignorance Of the
colored lDln had led him into trouble.
lie had joined the Republican party TO Sc
cure his rights, but how has he been de-
ludcd: The rights Of the race have been
dc>piscd, and the colored man who was
found not yotiny with his fellows, is ac-
counted III enemy TO his race. The appeals
which have been made to him by his would
be friends have hut invited attack.
Who in Virginia are the trueSt friends OF
the negro? That is an important question
for him to decide. Are they those who only
use them for their own advancement or their
votes, or are they those who want to
fit them for the new duties that freedom
ard citizenship impose? What have his
pretended friends done for him? Nothing.
Look at the Industries, the aborS ofthe land,
the asylllmS, the railroads, and all the great
internal improvements Of the country, are
they the results Of his brain or his money?
Are they the results of what he has done by
the aid of his Republican friends? The CO.
lorcd people do not own the land or the
money of the State; they do not control the
OCCUPATIONS, and they cannot help them
selves without being helped; aud time will
show who has helped them. They vote the
Republican ticket out OF gratitude for their
freedom and right of suffrage. The oppo-
sition of the laborer to the black man, the
speaker claimed, was the beginning OF ths
war. In August, 1862, Mr.. Lincoln said:
1T I could save the Uffon without freeing
any of the slaves l would do it."
The speaker next detailed the effects of
Republican and negro rule in the southern
States, and gave the statistics of Virginia as
compared with those Of the South, to show
the difference between the two sections, the
one under Radical rule, the other under that
of the Conservatives. The men against
whom the negroes are urged to vote are
those who can do most for them, and who are
making the greatest efforts for their moral
and ma; ial advancement. The colored man
cannot '.a elevated by arraying himself
against the only men who can accomplish
these ends.
Colonel Beard next compared the public
schools of this State with those of the South,
and argued that here in Virginia, under Con-
serYatiye rule, they were carried OH far more
successfully and to the advancement and i'm
provcment of the negro, and asserted that
this as well as the development of the mate
rial resources Of the State depends on the
success Of the Conservative party.
In comparing again the results that are
seen of the effect of tho rule, the two parties,
Al, o,,l 10 hnr in, Ir-
ginia, the speaker said that if Wells had
been elected in place of Walker the Capitol
Square would be tit type of the condition
of things all over the State. When Wells
was military Governor of Virginia this spot
was barren and painful to look upon, now it
presents u far different aspect. Green and
beautiful, it is pleasant to look upon; and so
with the State at large. The success Of the
Hughes party will produce hard times and
low wages ; it will close the tobacco facto-
rics and emigration will shun US as it does
poor South Carolina.
The speaker next complimented the Nir-
gina people, and expressed the belief that
they are the most law-abiding to be found
anywhere in the country. He was proud to
recognize them as such. He was proud
himself TO be Republican. He had voted
for Grant, and now saw no reason to regret
it. but here in Virginia the interest Of SOcie.
ty depends on the success Of the Conservative
party.
NEGRO he remarked that he did not believe
there vas a man in all the southern land
who would like to see it restored. The pco-
nlr of the North only ask Of their southern
friends that the Constitution and laws of the
land shall be respected and obeyed, and that
The black man should have his rights given
him bv Congress. And this he felt sure they
would do-indeed, they have done so
already, for the negro has more rights IN Vtr'
oinia than in any State in the North; for
there he never had seen black mechanic, no
hlork office-holders, no black magistrates or
artizans. AS to the people of this State being
law.abiding and peaceable, there could be no
question body everywhere admitted
| that to DO true.
Az All evidence Of the respect paid to the
rights OF the colored man here. he alluded
| to the lats Jail whippiug-case. Hs had seen
| in the papers an account OF the city Jallpr
and his assistants having whipped prisoner,
and no sooner had the fact reached the ears
| of the proper officers than the offenders were
indicted, tried by their countrymen, hned,
and imprisoned. Do you think, my friends,
said he. you could ever get grand jury in
the North to have indicted. them! Never,
unless in Iowa, Massachusetts, or posslsly
! one or two other States; and argue from
this that the rights Of the negro here IN Vir-
ginis are better respected than anywhere
else in this land.
The North, in its relations, Is commercial;
its business and its interests in the South
are continually growing, and there is COM
mon desire to renew their former kindly re-
Iatiops with the people Of the South: IL Is
claimed by some that the kemper TICKET Is