Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-08-29

President Grant, he would say that he had
no desire to condemn him in advance. He
had entered upon another term, and it will
be we'll for him and US if he rises above the
level of sections and faction and oheys the
voice Of patriotic duty SO as to secure the
welfare of every State and the whole coun.
try. But, General Kemper repeated. this
is a canvass affecting our own affairs and
homes, and Mr.. Hughes cannot escape the
issues It matters not whether we have
been Democrats or Wings before the war,
secessionists or Unionists in 1860 and 81,
whether We have been for Greeley or Grant,
for Mahomet or Mustapha, or for neither );
whether foreign or American sun shone
upon our birth, our interests are the same
here.
PARTIES ARE NOT DIVIDED AS At THE NORTH
here thinking men deliberately differing
are divided and contend for suprem scy !;
there they have no colored people worth
speaking Of It is natural that they shout
not realize our difficulties, for they do not come
home to them. In Virginia alone there are
513, 900 colored people, more than in all
the Northen States and territories combined
An uneducated race had been placed in po-
sitions to dispose Of great questions of life,
liberty, and property land grapple the great
set questions in political economy Gener
al Kemper then scathiugly reviewed the
record Of Colonel Hughes. A community
prospers in proportion as all classes work to-
gether in peace, harmony, and mutual good.
will-imposing none but equal burdens and
dispsening 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 lies in hui
man power, fulfilled these conditions. There
has been equality of rights and justice be.
tween the two races-both races living I'M
der the same laws and enjoying the same
rights with the exceptions in favor Of the
blacks. Six years before the time appoint.
ed by Radical Convention the Ccnserva.
tives had established and organized system
of free education, and to-day 266, 900 per.
sous, the great majority colored, were re-
ceiving 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 unable to
make out
"A SINGLE CASE OF VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS
| IN VIRGINIA.
Only day or two ago the African Confer
ence of the celored Methodist Church in
Virginia met in Richmond and bore testi-
mony to this effect Yet, in the face Of
these facts Col Hughes had dared in his
Lynchburg speech to arraign the people Of
Virginia for hostility to the colored race
This tipped 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 It is
simple history that as soon as the war closed
the camp-folowers, Freedmen's Bureau
agents, and others with whom Col. Hughes
is now allied, but whose populations are
now being hunted up with a view to the con-
dign punishment and disgrace of the
thieves, that these came South, got the ear
of the coored people, organized them into
leagues, and by terrible oaths bound them
TO obey their will. They taught the negroes
to believe that the land of the STAKEHOLDER of
right belonged to them, and that the white
man desired to remaud them back to slave
~ General Grant in his reports OF the
| condition of the Southern States testified to
this ate of affairs
General Kemper then spoke OF toe effort Oh
she Republicans of Virginia in the early
part of 1869, with Robert W. Hughes as
one of their number,
TO DIsFRANcHIsE NINE TENTHs OF THE WHITE
aud to deprive them even of the right to
on juries for the grave offence of taking up
arms in the cause of their own State or for
lending aid and comfort to their own flesh
and blood. By one fell blow they sough,
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 as a unit. The white
men appealed to the colored men by the
most ancient and most tender ties, but ia
vain and thus the conflict Of races was pre-
cipitated upon Virginia The negroes, I'M
der the lead Of the same men now control.
ling the party, tried to dictate to the white
worse terms than the Stab of Persia or the
Sultan of Turkey would prescribe for his
most abiect subjects. The war thus begun
by the blacks and their advisers has been
kept up, and only the ORDER day Washing
ton paper, the avowed organ of the Republi
can party in Virginia, officially proclaimed
and
Boosted THAT THE 12O, 900 coLoRBD VOTE IS
IN VIRGINIA
were so controlled that they could always be
counted on as a unit for the Radical party /;
and yet, here Hughes has the audacity to
say that the Conservatives are organized in
hostility to the colored race. Before the
God of heaven and earth I can 60 to Robert
W, Hughes and answer the question, who
originated this conflict Of races, in the sol
emn words of Nathan, the prophet of God /:
"Thou art the man. The party represent
ed by Mr.. Hughes is stepped to the lips in
this sin, and with infamous audacity seek
10 lay the fruits of their crime at the door
of Conservative innocence.
Passing to the consideration of the pro-
posed planksn the Lynchburg platform, that
which oppose! mixed schools and was with
drawn because the sentiment of the Conven-
ton was SO overwhelming opposed to it.,
General Kemper demanded to know of Rob
EFT W. Hughes whether, if elected Govern
or, he would
APPROVE OR VETO BILL ADMITTING NEGROES
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