Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-09-04

State, and for this base measure the
Radical party voted almost as a unit
The white men appealed to the colored
men, but in vain; and thus the conflict
Of races was precipitated upon Virginia
The negroes under the lead of the same
men now controlling the party, tried to
dictate to the whites worse terms than
the Shah of Persia or the Sultan oil
Turkey would prescribe for his most
abject subjects. The war thus begun
by the blacks and their advisers has
been kept up, and only the other day a
Washington paper; the avowed organ
of the Republican party in Virginia,
officially proclaimed and boosted that
the 10000 colored voters in Virginia
ware SO controlled that they could
always be counted On as a unit for the
Radical party. Before the God OF
heaven and earth I can 90 to Robert
W. Hughes and answer the question,
who originated this conflict of races, in
the solemn words of Nathan, sThou art
the man" Tho party represented by
Mr.. Hughes is stepped to The lips in
this sin, and with infamous audac;ty
seek to lay the fruits of their crime at
the door of Conservative innocence.
General kemper then spoke of
Hughes speech at Lynehburg, as most
ncendiary and infatuated manifesto, with
intent to fire the hearts of the blacks.
He paints a horrible picture of the
whites, and lauds the blacks almost,
in SO many words, as second only to
the apostles Of God. As a laborer he
puts the negro far above the native and
foreign born white man. and covers
with shame and infamy that system of
domestic slavery Of which Robert w.
Hughes was for years the foremost
editorial champion. He then spoke of
Colonel Hughes career as delegate to
! the Democratic Convention of 1868,
when he voted with General Kemper
for Francis P. Blair, for Vice President
who had openly spoken in favor of de-
claring the reconstruction acts null and
void, and compelling the army to dis
annul their acts in order that the white
men might set up governments of their
own in the South. Passing to the con
I sideration Of the proposed plank in the
Lynchburg platform, that which OPP
posed mixed schools and was with
drawn because the sentiments of the
Convention was so overwhelmingly op-
posed to it, General Kemper demanded
to know Of Robert W. Hughes whether
if elected Governor, he would approve
or veto a bill admitting negroes to hotels
theatres and other places Of amusement.
entertainment, and instruction. Cries
Of 'Make him answer it." Calls for
''Hughes," Gel
He dare not, cannot, will not answer
the question. Ee defends his vote in
the New York Convention on the
ground that he but carried out the
wishes Of his constituents, will he on
the same principal approve of a social
equality bill which Lewis, Smith,
Wickhan, and McMahon were subject
to by the negroes. The negroes now
controle the party and he must reflect
their sentiments, which are known to
be in favor Of such bill Ii he opposes
them he viii be stranded, as was James
l.. Orr, Of South Carolina, an object of
loathing and scorn to his old associates;
Q political halk. IF he is represent
tative Of his party he is bound to
subordinate the white to the colored
race. General Kemper then quoted the
speeches Of leading negroslegislators in
Virginia and other southern States to
show their bitter spirit towards the
| whites, and said these negroes constitute
nine tenths of party, the other tenth
of which is composed of many not half
so worthy of respect, excepting, Of
course, his competitors in this campaign.
Col. Hughes had said his party was a
relief party. True; they had. relieved
the southern people of nearly every
thing they ever had. Referring to
Col. Hughes's record again, the General
said that during the war, when for six
teen days he fought the enemy in his
shirt-sleeves, nothing cheered him more
than the patriotic sentiments indicated
by Col. Hughes for the Examiner AS
| to the statement that we must curry
favor with Grant by. joining the
Radicals he said that the little finger Of
good old Confederate, true to his
record, was more powerful with Grant
than all the loins of million Carriers and
Chandlers.
AS to the James River and Kanawha
canal he said that the northern people
were too shrewd to entrust an enter
prise in which they are SO deeply inter
ested to the mongrel Radical party Of
the South, party which had made
every southern State as poor as rat.
| Gen. Kemper made brilliant perora