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

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to deprive them of houses or lands OF an.
right it would be different matter-thi
suspicion Of you (; but I ask you Whit
men here is there man of you that Woult
put them back into slavery if you could
[Cries of no no no !!
There is another question about
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
I advocated it in Ohio, though my party
wouldn't, and though we carried the State
for the Republicans that year, the colored
suffrage was defeated by $4,000. | held
my own meetings in advocating it, and
paid my own printers bill, but it failed.
Whether I was right or wrong, l did 1t,
and did it earnestly. 1t was afterwards
carried in the constitutional amendment,
and now we have it we must make the
best of it. 1.-THE speaker here explained to
the negroes the process by which they were
given a vote, and that the right could not
be taken away from them unless two
thirds of the members of Congress should
first agree to it and then the States after
wards, and pointed out the folly of their
apprehending that the right could ever be
taken from them No one but yourselves
can undo your right to vote. No one
thinks of depriving you of it. But there
is one thing want you to know. There
is no use hiding it that we up North are
finding out more about our white fellow
citizens of the South. We have business
correspondence with them. Our relatives
marry among them, and their relatives
marry among US. We are hearing differ
emit accounts of you from what we once
heard. AS long as you were Wronged we
sympathized with you, and came here un-
der the impression you were wronged.-
But find that you have your rights pro-
tected by law as well as any white men,
In Richmond a few days ago ajury Of con-
servative white men convicted the conser-
vative jailor of giving a colored prisoner
thrashing for running away, and a conser-
vative Judge sentenced him to fine and i'm
prisonment. find by looking at the re-
cord that Gov Walker has pardoned 30
white men and 26colored men, though there
were 234 white applicants and only 1857 COL
ored applicants. for clemency. When we
come down here and find these things, we
write them back home to our people at the
North. And the truth is the feeling is
changing there. The old cry off Rebel"
is played out. We begin to see that the
SOUTH HAS AS MUCH INTEREST
in this country as we have. The South is
fast growing into our confidence, and the
time is not far off when the colored people
will have to look around for themselves,
and reflect whether they behaved for their
own interest when they did have the ear of
the nation. The people of the North are
now investigating the matter, and are find
ing out the relations of the two people,
You colored people should remember your
children. The whites of this day are friend
ly to you because you were raised with
them and they know you, but it will not be
so with your children. They will feel no
interest in them They will have no for
mer owner to go to for advice OF aid. They
will be strangers. Beware that you do not
act now so as to leave them an inheritance
of hatred. DON'T drive from you people
that may befriend those you leave behind.
No power on earth save these white people
of Virginia can help you in this matter
If I were President today could not help
you. If had million votes I could not
help you. All your interests lie with them.
Your education comes from them. In the
States which the Hughes party rule the
school fund that is to educate your chill
dren is squandered OF pocketed outright.
In Mississippi it takes 81 10 to carry $l.OO
to the schools, and in Virginia it takes on
ly 81. 90 to carry $11.OO to the schools. In
the former State the School Directors pock
ct $4,000. Think of that-for holding
three or four meetings a year. In other
States the schools are closed. Do you want
your children to suffer that way
Nh. Hughes friends say that
CAPITAL WOULD COME IN
if they carried the State. Wendell Philips
says zone million dollars is the most cow
ardly thing in the world except two mil
lions, - and so it is. Capital don't come
without knowing what sort Of place it is
coming to. Our people up North amt go
ing to pull up stakes and come down here
just to help you. They come to help them
selves. That's what came for-to help
myself, and 1 find you Virginians are just
about as keen for half cent as we are,
and if man finds he can buy his bacon
from me in Richmond cheaper, he buys it,
and if he don't he don't, and that's all
about it. When we come down here with
capital we want to know what sort of gov
eminent you've got, and what the taxes
are. and all that sort of thing. When we
take up New Orleans paper we find bust
ness houses in scores advertised for rent
that's bad; and when we see that taxes
are so high no business can be done-that's
bad, and we don't go there sure. When we
read, as [ read in a paper yesterday, that
there are five counties in Alabama where
the people will starve this winter if they
are not aided, then that is not the State we
are going to. We amt in the missionary
business with our capital. How would
you like that sort of report to go out about
Virginia? What you want in Virginia is
such government as will guarantee peace
not only for to-day but all time. We
don't want to come down this year and
next year have bad government, and have
to pull UP stakes and go off, and so we wait
and see what you are going to do. To
give this assurance you must give such ma
jorities at this election that people at the
North will feel that the State government
will never fall into the hands of Mr..
Hughes friends, and that Virginia will be
well governed State as long as the world
lasts, that capital won't be terrorized by