New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-10-16

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that the most none yed men in the State, aud
the greatest advocate, Of progression, are
these gentlemen born and raised in other
States. but who have selected Virginia as
their adopted mother.
However, there were many who simpiy
settled in the State for honorary position and
pecuniary advantages. These were the
noisiest and the most declamatory Of all our
leaders their condemnation of the native
whites was in the vilest language; and their
political instructions To colored men were
such as to stir up the most bitter prejuJces
and aniniosity
1t was in lsGs that the poor. ignorant, col
ored men Of this State we're fearfully deluded
and wonderfully deceived by these political
demagogues
do not SPEAK or write dlsparasingly OF
the Republican State ticket then in the field,
for believe that General ii. II. Wells and
Doctor J. ID. Harris were gentlemen we'll
deserving the majority Of the votes in the
State, but the incendiary speeches which
listened to in the Capitol Square aud other
w
Harris, could not but insure most di,as-
trous defeat of the then Republican ticket,
and the GROWING victory of Gilbert c. Walker
and his so-called Liberal Republicans.
If ever political defeat has caused con
sternation in the ranks Of any party, such
CONSERVATION has never been seen so plainly
as it was with the then existing Republican
leaders and Republican party Of the State of
Virginia. | survey the defeat Of 90 and the
party then existing to show to your readers
why We expect to achieve glorious victory
i'll %.
Walker entered upon the discharge of his
guhernatorial duties amid the booming Of
cannon, the rattle of mus!.etry, and the -four
ish of trunpets.
But the antcipations of the good people
Of this State were not realized in this ex-
sutter from the army, for as time rolled on,
and as the internal affairs were laid before
the thinking men Of this grand old Common
wealth, there was resolve, not a foolish
unprecedented determination, but one that
they had determined to stand to. For, when
sessed more facilities for trade and manufac-
turing than the towns and cities in Virginia,
and as they could ascribe this dormant con-
dition of things, this lack Of money and need
of activity to but one thing, the reign OF
Bourbonsm, they resolved to support the
party of progress, the party Of equal rights,
the only party calculated to resuscitate the
State--the Republican party.
The colOred men were now fully schooled
in politics; they no longer listened to incen-
diary speeches; and, in fact, political leaders
no longer INDUCED in them. For soon as
our leaders became milder and persuasive,
instead Of wild and threatening, did numbers
of the progressive white Virginians flock to
the Republican banner. Prominent among
which we see Wickam, who was general
in the Confederate army Mcmahon, a major
in the same army Judges Rives, Faetz, and
Shumaker, General H. A. Wise, Ex-Governor
of the State Major r. II. Carter, and last
though not the least among this number Of
converts, our able standard bearer, Colonel
Robert W. Hughes. l cannot begin to name
u
ranks, but name these gentlemen as exam
pies.
The new Republican party Il say new
because there is so much difference in the
make up Of the convention of Petersburg in
1869 and the one of Lynchburg in 'T3) was
fully inaugurated in the Lynchburg conyen-
ton. All the members were in some degree
representative men, both politically and
pecuniarily. Their platform, with its broad
progressive principles, their president, an
intelligent colored man, and their nominees,
natives of Virginia, and gentlemen of high
political and moral characters, were facts not
easily to be driven from the minds of the
thinking people Of the State. Thus, as the
day of election dawns, as the eventful day
approaches which is to decide whether Vir-
non progressive voters, or be carried by her
truest friends, the Republican party, every
person watches with anxious eyes the pro
gress of each respective party. And if let
tiers are to be believed, if statistics and the
presidential vote of November, -, can be
iCHCu thuo wiz Paity :,
defeated, though not conquered in '69, carry
the banner Of victory IN 'T3.
The colored men, ever true and devoted,
are unit for Hughes, Ramsdell, and Faetz.
Wickam, Wise, Rlves, Gilmer, Carter, Nc
Mahon, and host of other distinguished
Virgnians, with numbers of laboring white
men following in the rear, will, in November
next, from present indications, sound the
death-knell to the Bourbon Democrats, and
rear upon the remains thereof the victorious
banner of the Republican party. All we
need is aid from speakers and the press, and
pecuniary aid; and we believe that after
November next instead of stand still inter-
nally, our State will be grandly marching in
the ranks Of progression !; instead Of enmity
and bitterness on account of the accident of
race there will be shaking of hands across
this chasm, and white and black, young and
old, will unite upon the one thing necessary,
the redemption of the State.
WIN. &. ROANE.
From Tennessee.
Good Words OF Appreciation.