Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-09-02

and to-day 900 persons, the great
majority cOlored, were receiving its
benefits while the white people raised
the money. So fairly has the State
government in Virginia been conduc
ted and as justly have the negroes been
dealt with that the most trying eyes O
Federal office-holders and detectives
have been unable to make out sin.
gle case of violation of civil rights in
Virginia. Only day or two ago the
African Conference of the coIOreG
Methodist Church in Virginia met in
Richmond and bore testimony to this
effect. Yet, III the face of these facts
Colonel Hughes had dared in his
Lynchburg speech to arraign the peo-
pie of Virginia for hostility to the col
Ored race. This venom tipped Afri-
can arrow, shot out OF white mans
bow, he would pick up and carry it to
the bosom of that Africa in which he
Robert Hughes lives, to which he be-
longs. Who started this conflict of IA
ces? L. is simple history, that as soon
as the war closed the camp followers,
Freedman's Bureau agents, and Others
with whom Colonel Hughes is now al
lied, whose peculations are now being
hunted up with q view to the condign
punishment and disgrace of the
thieves, that these came South, got the
ear of the cOlored people, organized
them with 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 belonging to them, and that the
white man desired to remand them
back to slavery. General Grant in his
reports of the condition of the south
ern States testified to this state of af-
fairs.
| General Kemper then spoke of the
effort of the Republicans of Virginia
in the early part of 1869, with Robert
w. Hughes, as one of their number,
to disfranehise nine-tenths of the
white people and to deprive them even
of the right to sit on juries for the
grave offence of taking up arms in the
| cause of their own State or for lend
ing aid and comfort to their own flesh
and blood. BY one fell blow they
sought to degrade below the level of
the negroes nearly all the Intelligent
populations of the State, and for this
base measure the Radical party voted
almost rs Il unit. The white men ap-
pealed to the colOred men 10y the most
ancient and most tender ties, 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 of
Turkey would prescribe for his most
ahiect subjects. The-war thus 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 i'll Virginia,
officially proclaimed and bOasted that
| the 120, 600 cOlored voters in Virginia
were so controlled that they could al
ways be counted on as unit for the
! Radical party and yet, here Hughes
has the audacity to say that the Con-
| servatives are organized in hostility to
the colored race. Before the God of
| heaven and earth | can go to Robert
| w. Hughes and answer the question,
who originated this conflict of races, in
| the solemn words Of Nathan /; the
| prophet of God: Thou art the man.
The party represented by Mr.. Hughes
is STEPPED TO the lips in this sin, and
with Infamous audacity seek TO lay the
] fruits of their crime mt the door of
| Conservative innocence.
| GcneIal Kemper then spoke of
| Hughes's speech 1T Lynchburg, upon
! which he relies to secure his election,
as a most incemdiary and infuriate
manifesto, with intent to fire thehearls
of the blacks. He paints horrible
| Licture of the whites, and lauds the
| blacks almost, il so many words, as
second to the apostles OF God. As
| labOrer he puts the negro far above
| the native and foreign-born white man
and covers with shame and infamv
| that system of domestic slavery of
| which Robert W. Hughes was for
years the foremost editorial champion
of that slavery. He then spoke of Col.
Hughes'S career as delegate to the
Democratic Convention of 1868, when
lie voted with General KeEper for the
game cock of Missouria as a candidate
for Nice-President,f for Francis L Blair,
who openly spoken in favor of declar-
ing the reconstruction acts null and
void, and compelling the army to dis
annul their acts in order that the white
man might set up governments of their
own in the South In the same Con-
vention he denounced as atrOcious and
v.llainous the policy he now ap-
piauds. Passing to the consideration
of the supposed plank in the Lynch
burg platform, that which opposed
mixed schools and was Withdrawn be-
cause the sentiment of the Convention
was so overwhelmingly opposed To it,
General Kemper demanded to know
of Robert w. Hughes whether, if elec-
ted Governor, he would approve or
veto a bill admitting negroes TO hotels,
theatres, and other places OF amuse-
meut, entertainment, and instruction
Cries of Make him answer II" Calls
Tor Hughes" &c.
He dare not, cannot, will not answer
the question. He 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 principle approve OF social |
equality bill which Lewis, Amber |
Smith. Wickham, and McAIahOn were |
subjected to by the negroes. The ne
groes now control the party and he |
must reflect their sentiments, which |
are known TO bp in favor of such bill.
If he opposes them he VIII be stran-
,I..d. as was James l.. Orr, OF South
Carolina, an object of loathing
and scorn To his Old associates Pc
litical halk. Ii lie is Il representative
of his party he is bound TO subordinate
the white to The colOrtd race he is
but as a feather upon the torrent OF
Niagara. General kemper then quo
ted the speeches OF leading negro leg
is lators IN Virginia and other south
eru states to show their bitter spirit
towards the whites, and said these ne
groes constitute ninetenths OF a party:
ihe other tenth of which is composed
of many not half so worthy OF respect,
excepting, OF course his competitors IN
this campaign. Colonel Hughes had
lid lis nariN was a relief DartY. True;