Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-10-03
SOCIAL EQUALITY BILL,

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but had since given some reason for not an
| swering. forget what it was.
Colonel Withers He said it would make
him unpleasantly conspicuous. [Grea1
| laughter
General Kemper Yes, that was it, and,
since that he has persistently refused to say
whether he would veto a civil rights $50
cial equality bill, such as New York has
just passed, though he said he did not ia
vor'' mixed schools. The speaker then
read from the laws of Louisiana, where
there are mixed schools, and the penalties
prescribed for persons refusing to send
their children to them. He also read a
description of negro civil rights meeting
in Washington, endorsed by prominent
Radical leaders and from letter from Vice.
President Wilson to a negro civil rights
meeting in New York, favoring the ANAL
gamation Of races, concluding it by saying
that before his hand should sign an act
permitting such thing, it should be para
lyzed in death. Loud applause.]
Gen. Kemper then sketched the history
of the Southern States since the war, show
ing the unexampled and unparalleled fraud,
corruption and oppression in those States
wherever the Radical party had succeeded
in getting into power. He read with COM
ments official papers and other documents,
showing the robbery and degradation that
had been heaped upon white people where
ever the negro party had gotten the upper
hand. He repeated a conversation heard
byla gentleman between some negroes re-
turning from Washington where they
worked, to Alexandria where they lived
The remark of the negroes was that
DAMNED OLD VIRGINIA WAS A FAT PIG
EON
that has never been plucked, and we are
the boys that are to do it," He also gave
extracts from published speeches of leading
negro politicians in the South where Radi-
Gals are IN power, who reflected the senti-
ments and intentions of their race. These
negroes where the Radicals are in power de-
clare ''that the white man must go under
and stay under" ''That they are going to
tax and Cypress the white man until they
give up their lands to the colored people,
to whom they properly belong" and such
other sentiments. Favorite songs of ne
groes in South Carolina close every verse
with the line, Bottom rails on top, boys !;
bless God it shall stay there"
HE COMPARED VIRGINIA WITH THE OTHER
SOUTHERN STATES.
One third of Louisiana which was the
abode of christian homes, when the war
ended, is now wilderness, desolate, and
the hiding place of the fox, the owl and the
bat. Radical rule had created more debt
for the State in than white rule bad done
in so years. In Florida under Radical rule
the debt had been increased 70 times and it
was finally estimated that if all the prop
erty in the State, real and personal, had
been put up and sold, it would have not
brought enough to pay the State debs.-
He made touc ling review Of South Car
DINA, and so on through the list. Virgin
ia, he said, stands the Ararat of the south
ern States bearing aloft upon its summit
the ark of political safety, and the black
waters of Radicalism dash themselves in
vain against the mountain of Virginia con-
servatism. If any white man in Augusta,
he said, changes his party in this conflict
and joins the negro party, he has the right
to do so of course, if he chooses. But if he
does it, let him do SO boldly and openly and
let him accept the responsibility of his act.
He then took up Mr.. Hughes upon his
cry of relief, showed his claim to be author
of the relief measure to be false, and proved
by his own admission, that the scheme
originated with Critcher, a Conservative
Virginia Congressman. Said however that
Hughes might properly be said to belong
to relief party, inasmuch as he was a
member of that party, which had relieved
the treasures Of the southern States of
their last bottom dollar that relieved
poor bankrupts of their last means, and SO
on through the list. In conclusion he
quoted from letter, written by Stonewall
Jackson to an officer whose family was sick,
some dying, and he applied for a continu-
ance of his leave of absence. It was time
of great peril to the State when every man
was needed at his post and Gen. Stonewal
Jackson wrote reply concluding with the
following noble sentiment;
WHAT is LIFE WITHOUT HONOR DEG
RADIATION IS WORSE THAN DEATH"
After the applause following the conclu
sion of Gen. Kemper's address had subsidized
COL Hartman introduced Col. Robt. T.
Withers, who was received with great cheer
ing. He said he came after the distin
guished gentleman like a cleaner in the
field following up a patent reaper or mower
that had gathered upall his arguments and
| used them. He eulogized
DUCT DURING THE WAR,
when they were entrusted with the safety
of the families of those who were in the
field, and their industry in the raising of
the products of the farm for the feeding OF
the armies that he was willing to do them
exact justice-but could not consent to
their elevation to the chief places of the
Commonwealth, or to--a superior political
position over the white people !; that they
have in the past and still continue to TAKE
counsel of the dirtiest carpet-bagger oftht
tribe in preference to the most respectable
white Conservative are banded together
for the sole benefit of and by Radicals, and
that the records Of the well-known Consti
tutional Convention illustrated the ami
mus of these people and their allies in the
test-oath and DISTINGUISHING clauses Of tina
| instrument, by which no white native citi
zen of the State could vote nor hold Office