New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-09-04
Letter from virginia.

lliCkfoRD, Va, Aug. 2 1873.
To IT,, EI.t,ss Il n.- Ee,0 National E-I st.t ottIen
GENTLEMEN Again | send you such in
formation as I have gathered since you last
heard from this portion Of the State am
not in this county daily, as | have an APP
pontment elsewhere, yet, being member
Of our county committee, am often at home.
To be brief, let me say 10 you that | speak
from experience from what | know about
our present ticket in the field. This part Of
the State is unit for the Lynchburg NOM
nations " hat We want in the State at this
time mort is able and convincing speakers
in the southwest. where our party mist have
additions to our ranks from the whites.
Let me say to you, my fellow cOuntrymen,
that in Virginia the contest is no longer u
fight as to the Improvements Of the State.
but the prctense is negro rule. OF course,
we all know that the negroes can't rule Viz
GINA, but what they feel 50 anxious about IS
that in this Democratic State 50 many COlOred
men are oficeholders, both State and Fed
eral, and that their intellect is improving 80
much that if they (thc Democratic don't
raise thi, question OF social equality, in Il few
years there will be as many COlOrcd men ia
Office ~ white according TO their number
and for this reason alone they, like our
Moses, Of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, cry,
war Of races" to fri2hten the white people
Of Virginia to vote for kemper, whose only
record is to Cypress the negro and the poor
white man Of his State, who fell while lead
ing the last-namcd 10 be murdered, that he
and his party might rule their children, and
keep them as they are now, to a great ex-
tent, uneducated. Colonel Withers saws he
don't want the negro vote. see - II, Re
publcans Of Virginia, that he don't get it.
On the fiOOr Of the Virginia House Of Dele
gates, Session -, their wOuld-be Attorney
General declared that if he had his way with
our State constitution he would wipe II out,
hip and thigh and Il. T. Daniels, in 1863.
was the first Republican to congratulate the
President Of the United states upon the
adoption OF the constitution. which, if left TO
him, he would wipe out, hip aud thigh. These
gentlemen Of Virginia are the men asking
Z the suffrage Of any one that will give 1t 10
them. Do they mean TO say, because the
negroes vote, that they will ,tarye and de;
that if twenty thousand Of us would resolve
to vote for Kemper, Withers, aud Daniels,
that they will throw down the Democratic
flag? Ifso, and they will give "a, their nate.
and the world duplicate o. the same, VIII
pledge them fifty thousand on election day.
All We ask OF you i far chance IN this
race don't stun our ballot-boKe- when we
out-yote you; don't knock down our ort,csrs
and scatter our votes IN the streets, and moi
DO able 10 find out who perpetraIed the
Gendi.h act. / hope that all Of our Virginia
Democrats will put these truths in their pipes
and smoke them.
Ny letter is already too long, or 1 should
say word about the Republicans in this
State. / should have been ahead Of Peter
II. CLARK and Booker, Of Ohio, If 1 had q
Federal posltion before now; but have just
got one, which will prevent any one from
saving that l am a sorehead.
/ will speak Of some Of the inaue ntIa
a "a ,syf MAJ