The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-01
Mr.. Hughes's Speech.

Mr.. HugneS'S speech.
Mr.. HreHEs must have been in r very bad
humor when he wrote the speech which we
published yesterday. Hts hatred Of the
Conservative party blinded him to what he
was saving. A more vulnerable campaign
document we do not remember ever to have
seen than this same speech. We propose 10
review it in Mr.. HUGnEs's own style
ANEW TEST.
Mr.. HUGHES says:
Let the American citizen ask himself
watcher the Divine favor has been shown 10
the nation or the section IN the career OF the
American people, and the answer will leave
no room for doubt Of his duty rs Christian
patriot"
Mr.. HUGHES means to say that he and all
the rest of us who engaged in the late rebel
liou NAV know that our cause was wrong
from the fact that we did not succeed in the
af,emrt TO set up free government Of our
own. This is consoiing to the Irish, who
have been under the Divine displeasurc u
long time. according to Mr. HUGHEs's teach
ing. lie must have said this as hit at them
for trying TO nominate MCMAHON. The
teaching is equally acceptable to the Poles.
who are kept down by Russia and Austria !;
to the Jews, who are prosecuted in Rou-
mlnia; to the Christians, who are so badly
treated in Turkey, though they number
millions; and to all prosecuted people every
where. Remember, says Mr.. HUGHES, that
"the Divine favor has been shown" to
England and not to the Irish: to the
tyrsnts and not to the Jews in Roumanla !;
to the Russians and not to the Poles, In
Poland; and to the Mahomctans, not to the
Christians, in Turkey. Indeed, the neg roes
of Virginia can profit by the lesson il Mr..
HUGHES has not libelled the Conservative
party. In his own language, suppose we
say that the Conservative party has
.driycn the negroes in body from its
protection; that it is bounding them into
"their chosen refuge with all the venom OF
hatred aud that it is uSsailing their
"tricuds, because they are their friends,
"with all the engnery of political and social
"proscrption ~ and then add, but, negroes
all. "usk yourselves whether the Divine
"iavor has been shown to you or to white
"men," and the answer will leave no room
for doubt of your duty as Christian patriots !!
TIE RADICAL THE NEGRO PARTY.
We have often enough charged the Rad-
cal with being the negro party. What says
Mr.. uuGuEs: E.
Il thank God that he has put it into the
hearts Of the American people to adopt the
three amendments Of the national ConStltu.
1i0a. Whirh embody the principles Of our
party. One of these amendments gives lib
,rty to AL men in the land another gives
t!tiZenshlp The third insures equality Of
civil! rights TO all citizens IN every State Of
The Union"
Here Mr.. HUGHES says distinctly that these
three amendments embody the principles Of
lis party. The first of these amendments
freed the negroes, the second made citizens
OF the negroes and the third made voters
of the negroes. AL! the time negroes.
These are the embodied principles Of the
Virginia Radical party. Who will hereafter
have the hardihood to deny that the Radical
party is IA negro party? A negro, too, pre-
sided over the State Convention that nomi-
mated Mr.. HUGHES, and many if not most of
the delegates were negroes.
Mr.. HuGHEs's PROSPECTS.
Mr.. HUGHES says that "the Republican
party could not 60 into Il canvass with any
hope Of success without an assurance of at
least one.third of the white VOTE" He thus
confesses his weakness in advance, and ad-
mits that he has no hope of success. For
nothing can be more certain than that he
will not yet half as many white votes as the
number which he comedies to be indispensa-
bic to his success.
at Is uSCHRIsTlAN."
We have already touched Mr.. HUGHES on
this point. Here, however, it is again:
This appeal to the prcjudices o f race is
unrhristian. The spirit Of Christianity
teaches that all mankind are Of one brother
hood Under the influence of this sublime
truth slavery persisted in the Old World,
wherever Christianity prevailed; and under
this same influence it has finally persisted
here. There is Nemesis in the providences
of God, and as an atonement for 200 years Of
scrvitude He who rules all events t? the
cnds Of Justice has allowed the African
Y,
into the body of American citizenship. |
Thus the proclamation from on high is that
tie cclUred man is our fellow not only in |
the bonds of II Christian brotherhood, but
also in the bonds OF patriotism and citizen
ship. TO incite, therefore, conflict Of one |
race against a brother race is to rebel against |
the ordinations Of God, to reject the precepts |
OF Christianity, and to curse the land with |
the bittereSt of all StriteS and terceSt of all |
antagoniSlns. There must be peace between |
races for the sake of the material and moral |
welfare of the Commonwealth, and there
can be 10 peace except by the triumph OF
Republican principles"
This is perhaps the worst paragraph in
Mr.. HrGHEs's speech. "Slavery persisted
iu the Old World" This was white sIa-
very but N1r. HUGHES sees no difference be-
tween white men and black. He is always
ready TO praise Sambo.
What blasphcmy is not the assertion that
the negro became citizen Us an atonement |
for two hundred years Of slavery ?-that this
IL a ''proclamation from on high?" DC. |
What impudence in the threat that unless the |
whites consent to Radical rule there can be |
"no peace" between them and the negroes.
These are not the basty utterances of
speech accepting a nomination, but the we'll
considered words of a man who when he
peuned them we'll knew that he was writing
Il campaign document. We drop this disa'
gceeable point. It is really amazing that
any White man should dare to use such IAN