The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-26

ciasses work together In peace, harmony.
and mutual goodwill imposing none
out equal burdens and disposing equal
benefits and impartial justice TO all. He
affirmed before The world that during
| the past four years the Conservative party
IN Virginia has, as far as it lies in human
power, fulfilled these conditions. There
| has been equality of rights and Justice be-
| tween the two races-both races living un-
| der the same laws and enjoying the same.
rights with the exceptions in favor of the
blacks. Six years before the time appointed
by a Radical Convention the Conservatives
had established and organized system of
free education, and to-day 100000 persons.
the great majority colored, were receiving its
benefits while the white people raised the
money. So fairly has the State government
IN Virginia been conducted and as Justly
have the negroes been dealt with that
the most trying eyes of Federal Office
holders and detectives have been un.
able to make out single case of vio-
lation of crilrights in Virginia. Only day
or two ago the African Conference of the
colored Methodist Church in Virginia met in
| Richmond and bore testimony to this effect.
Yet, in the face of these. facts Colonel
Hughes had dared in his Lynchburg speech
to arraign the people Of Virginia for hostility
to the colored race. This Yeuom-tipped
i African arrow, shot out of white mans
bow, he would pick up and carry it to the
bosom of that Africa in which Robert
Hughes lives, to which he belongs. Who
started this conflict of races! 1t is simple
history, that as soon as the war closed the
camp followers, Freedmen's Bureau agents,
and Others with whom Colonel Hughes is now
| allied, but whose peculations are now being
hunted up with a view to the condign pun.
shment aud disgrace 0: the thieves. that
these came South, got the ear of the col.
orcd people, organized them with Leagues,
and by terrible uatIs bound them to obey
their will. They taught the negroes to be-
lieve that the land of the STAKEHOLDER of
right belonged to them, and that the white
man desired to remand them back to slavery.
General Grant in his reports of the condi-
ton of the southern States testified to this
state of affairs.
General kemper then spoke Of the effort
Of the Republicans of Virginia in the early
part of 1868, with Robert w. Hughes as one
of their number, to diSfranchisc ninc-tenths
of the white people and TO deprive them even
of the right to sit on juries for the grave
offence of taking up arms in the cause OF
their own State or for lending aid and COM
fort to their own flesh and blood. By one
fell blow they sought TO degrade below the
level of the negroes nearly all the intelligent
population of the State, and for this base
measure the Radical party voted almost
Us unit. The white men appealed to
the colored men by the most ancient and
most tender ties, but in vain and thus the
conflict of races was prccipituted upon Fir-
ginia. The negroes, under the lead Of the
same men now controlling the party, tried
to dictate tp the whites worse terms Than the
Shah OF Persia or the Sultan of Turkey
would prescribe for his most ahject subjects.
The war thus begun by the blacks and their
> |
day Washington paper, the ayowed organ
of the Republican party in Virginia, official
" proclaimed and boasted that the 100000
colorcd voters in Virginia were so controlled
that they could always be counted on As II
unit for the Radical party; aud yet, here
Hughes has the audacity to say that the Con-
scryatiyes are organized in hostility to the
colored race Before The God of heaven
and earth 1 can go to Robert w.
Hughes and answer the question, who
originated this conflict of races, in the solemn
words of Nathan, the prophet of God {:
Thou art the man." The party represented
by Mr.. Hughes is stepped to the lips IN this
sin, and with Infamous alldacity seek to lay
the fruits of their crime at the door of Con-
servatire innocence.
General kemper then spoke of Hughes's
speech at Lynchburg, upon which he relies
to secure his election, as il most incendiary
and inruriated manifesto, with intent to fire
the hearts of the blacks. He paints horr-
Bile picture of the whites, and lauds the
blacks almost, in so many words, as second
only to the apostles OF God. As 4 laborer
+ he puts the negro far above the native and
fJreicn-born white man, aud covers with
shame and inlamy that system OF domestic
slavery of which Robert w. Hughes was
for wears the foremost editorial champion OF
that slavery. He then spoke OF Col
onel Hughcs's career as delegate to
the Democratic Convention Of 1868.
when he voted with General kemper
for the game cock Of Missouri rs candidate
for yice-President, for Francis z. Blair
who had openly spoken in favor of declaring
the reconstruction acts null and void, and
compelling the army to disannul their acts
in order that the white man might set VI
governments of their own in the South. In
the same Convention he denounced as afro
cious and villainous the policy he now ap
plauds. Passing to the consideration of the
supposed plank in the Lynchburg platform.
that which opposed mixed schools and was
withdrawn because the sentiment of the Con-
: yeution was SO overwhelmingly opposed to
it, General Kemper demanded to know oil
Robert w. Hughes whether, if elected Gov.
ernor, he would approve or veto u bill ad-
mittiug negroes to hotels, theatres, and other
places of amusement, entertainment, and in.
struction. Cries OF 4" Make him answer it,"
Calls for 3" Hughes" Sci
He dare not, cannot, will not answer
the question. He defends his vote in the
New York Convention on the ground thai
he but carried out The wishes of his consti-
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