Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-10-31

understand him, and both having beer
tired out by his predecessor. Getting up
on the subject OF miscegenation he sale
that none but a degraded white man would
marry a black woman, but if such mar
chose to do it why let hint was FREE
country. The meeting which had been or
derby adjourned quietly.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF COL. BEARD-A
REGULAR CAVALRY DASH.
A few moments after the Radical meet
ing had adjourned the cars from Richmond
arrived with Col. Beard aboard, the Court
House bell was rung and the news was all
over town that the expected orator had
come. In fifteen minutes the people
thronging down every street leading to the
Court House had packed the building, and
the negroes who had been attending the
Radical funeral took possession OF the gal
leries to hear what the yankee" had to
say. The Colonel with Yankee push had
jumped off the train and showed straight
for the building in hope of finding the enc
my. He was introduced to the audience
by Mr.. Chas. Grattan and received with
deafening cheers. He is well built man Of
medium size with handsome face, orna-
mented with long mutton chop whiskers,
and was clad in suit of black broadcloth
topped off by tall white hat encircled by a
bombazine mourning band. In three min
utes he had taken possession of the audi
ence, and from that time till about IL
O'Clock at night, there was such time as
hasn't been in Staunton since the wall
His manner is polished, and in introducing
himself to the audience as a Republican,
supporter of President Grant, soldier in
the Federal army and a prime mover in
negro suffrage, he did it with the easy dig
nifty of man that isn't ashamed OF any
thing he has donenor afraid to tell it. He
said that when the war was over the peo-
pie at the North were tired of it, and when
President Lincoln made his visit to the
South after it's close, they hoped through
his wisdom, and the apparent growing
kindness and confidence of the South to-
wards him that there might be a thorough
reconciliation Unfortunately Mr.. Lin
coin was assassinated, and the suspicious
of the North, of completely, gathered around
v1CE-PREs1DENT JOHNSON.
though there was nothing to justify them
These suspicious to a great extent inf1u-
enced President Johnson's subsequent con-
duct and to dispense them he said Urea
son must be made odious, +" traitors must
be hung and all that sort of thing, and the
reasonable people of the North had to hold
him back-I mean that calm, clear headed
portion of them who felt that no good
could come of going back to the war to
punish people. This conduct of Mr.. john
son stirred up the people of the North till
they became half way monomaniacs. His
propositions were so monstrous that they
needed only to be calmly stated to the peo-
pie to be repudiated. but the people were
in no reasonable frame Of mind to hear
calm statements Just then he commenced
summoning men from the South to him
but he called the wrong men-men in
whom the people reposed no confidence.
Under his advisers johnson commenced
saying what he would do and what he
wouldn't, and then Congress determined
he should do nothing. Then came the
election Of Grant who supported as sup
ported Mr.. Lincoln. The people had conf
dence in Grant,as they had not had in john
son. Immediately after his election it was
said that he had great leaning to the
South, and this, whispered, caused Congress
to refuse to repeal some of its laws by
which the Presidents hands were tied
Things went on this way for the first two
years until it was found that the conf
dence in Grant was not misplaced, and
then the opinion of the people at the North
forced Congress to unloose him. The fact
of the peoples confidence i'll him gave him
power to help the South. Before that, had
he instructed his District Attorneys to dis
miss unjust Ku-Klux prosecutions or in
any way favored the South, Congress, be-
lieving that he would turn out to be an
other johnson would have passed laws re-
straining him but when he became so firmly
rooted in the hearts of the people of the
North he could
DO SOMETHING FOR THE WHOLE PEOPLE
while man without their confidence
could have done nothing. So it is in Vir-
ginia. If you want a Governor who can do
something for all the people you must have
a man who has.the confidence of the people,
and that man is James L. Kemper. Flu
rious cheering]. 1t is unfortunate that
there should be two classes in a State but
it is so in Virginia, and it remains to us to
make the best OF it, for all parties. Col.
Hughes has said that the colored people
are the best laborors. I am sorry he said
it, first, because it is not true, and second,
because even if it were true it is not pru-
dent to say it. Their Radical leaders
have given the colored people enough to
bear without raising up new enemies for
them. What is the effect of telling them
this Why only to add to the unjust pre-
judice already existing against them. Col.
Hughes tried afterwards to amend his
speech by saying they were better laborers
than are supplied from the pauper pens of
Europe. 1t is mans misfortune that he
is poor in Europe. Where he gets 10 cents
a day in the Tyrol and cents day in Nor
way and Sweden he can't well become
rich, going from village to village as I
have seen them begging not for charity but
for work. 1t is only when he struggles
away from this poverty, and comes to this
country Handing at New York as..I have
seen them, with the father carrying little
one, and the mother another and half
dozen boys and girls trudging along carry
ing others almost as large as they are, and
then going to the far west and digging up