Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-10-14
NUMBER 2.
Excellent Speech by Hon. VIM. Mines.


| in Congress, delivered sensible and patriotic
speech. The correspondent, "A. j. W." of
the Enquirer, who is accompanying General
Kemper in this canvass, furnishes the follow
ing report:
cat the conclusion of Gen. Kemper's re-
| marks there were loud calls for ''Milnes," who
| came forward amid great applause. This gen.
| tleman, as your readers well know. is a North
ern capitalist. who purchased the Shenandoah
Iron Works in Page county, at the end of the
war, bringing with him to Virginia. between
800, 600 and 100000. In 1869, he was elect
ed to Congress by the Conservatives, since
which time be has been actively engaged in de-
velopirg the material interests of Virginia.
HON. wM. MILNEs
said that the Republican party of the North was
not to be compared to the Radical party of Vir-
| ginia. The party here was composed mainly of
| negroes and few whites, four-ffths of whom
were utterly without the respect of the people
among whom they lived in the North before
they came here to try and govern the native
whites. and get hold of the fesh-pots. The
other fifth were set of disappointed ofice-seek-
ers who could not satiate their ambition and
greed in the Conservative party, and hence had
gone over to the Radical party to try and gov
u.
fail In. He had been Republican In the North,
but he could not be Radical in Virginia He
was largely interested In Virginia, but if the
Radicals got into power, he aoould try and get
asoay as fast as possible
Speaking of internal improvements he said
Of Virginia how she stands forth ia all her
righteousness and all her glory when compared
with the Southern States whose money had
been recklessy squandered; while here without
increasing the debt of the State dollar, we
had progressed and built more Improvements
than any of the Radicaized Southern States
Health was never appreciated by those who
were never sick, and we, did not appreciate the
privileges of white mans rule in Virginia be-
cause we never had negro rule. He said that
negro rule once tasted it would be too late to
turn then. He appealed to the white men of
Virginia to stand shoulder to shoulder to main
tain their rights. He regretted the conflict of
race, but it had been forced upon u.s. aud we
had to accept the gauntlet thrown down by our
opponents
He spoke to the negroes, and told them they
would be better off if they were on friendly
terms with the white people of the State and
not be led by the designing white men who were
either ofice-bolders or trying to be of6ce-hold-
ers. All races and classes should work for the
interest of Virginia. As q manufacturer and a
real estate owner, it was for his interest to have
the Conservative ticket elected. Il am not
going to vote against my interest you may de-
pend on that. The reason that it is for his in-
terest and the interest of all that white men
should rule was that taxes would not be in-
creased that capital would come among US
If the negro wanted aid they would come to
their old white friends; if they wanted money
to build schools or churches the whites would
be asked for il and not their Radical brother.
When in Congress a colored man came to him
and asked aid for school of learning in Vir-
gina; he gave him something, and said, Il ex-
pect you will do very well here. Go to Charles
Sumner and get his subscription when the
colored man replied, BLESS the Lord, we have
been to Charles Sumner, and he did not gire
as cent" and thus it was with all of them.
Away with such friends; stand by the white
men of the South and not make war against
them, and be led on by the belief of getting all
the property of the whites, acIich they nerer
a0ouid Sig years ago the same story had been
told them and he had offended some of the
colored people because he told them they never
would get the forty acres of land and wo mules
without they ,0orked for them, as he had done
for all the property he had The Radicals we're
only making Cat s. paws of them. There we're
a few disappointed political aspirants who had
left the Conservative party because they ex-
pected to get office through the Radicals
Should the people OF this grand old State hand
over to these irresponsible men all her CONNER
cial interests, all her agricultural, mineral, and
manufacturing interests. aod pay these Radicals
and negroes to take them and run the State,
,olile zoe paid for at. because a0e Were little
tired of politics? Ii We succeeded this fall cap
itsl would come here to develop the many great
and varied resources of Virginia, which as yet
had only just begua to be brought to light
oh horv
vania, and they would be developed and pop
uation would flock into her borders. if we kept
the Radical party out Of power. 1t was not
likely that capital would go to Louisiana or to
South Carolina, nor would it come to Virginia
if the same party of ruin got control of the gov
erniDg power. He advised action and ouork on
the part of the Conservatives so that epery vote
should be brought to the polls aud cast against
this Radical party. He desired to see such
vote cast and such majority given that it would
forever shut up the month OF the Radicals. In
conclusion, he said not only register and vote
yourselves but see that your neighbors register
and vote, and on election day see that every
man on the registration list is voted. If they
are old or sick, lame or blind provide carriages
and ambulances to take them to the polls, but
vote them. First register yourself, then 90 to
THE POLLS AND VOTE for kemper, Withers,
and Daniel. If we could not succeed with such
ticket we never could succeed, for it was the
very strongest ticket ever offered for the suf-
frages of the Virginia people, and If aoe aoent
down aoith such ticket WE DESERVE ALL WE
GET
Mr.. Mines was listened to with profound re-
spect and attention, and was Interrupted every
few minutes with storms of applause. Such
remarks from Northern man, and from a
man so largely interested pecuniarily in Virgin
la, could bat have great weight with his hear
ers."