Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-11-03
BARBOUR MEEr1NG.-About two huodre(

BARBOUR MEETING.-About two hundred
people, tyfve of whom were white Con
serva,ive voters, assembled at the colored Odd
Fellows Hall last night, 10 response TO an an
uouncement stating that II. Ii. Chandler, Vol.
NJ. D. Ball, and other distinguished speak
ers" would deliver addresses upon the OCCASION.
John Seatou was elected chairman, and \. w.
Harris secretary, both colored. Il. L. Mitchell,
also coored, having made speech Col. VI.
D. Ball was loudly called tor aud took The stand.
He commenced by saying tnat he bad been
asked If he was DOT afraid TO stand where he was.
He was not atraid--had been In more danger
ons positious. He denied that he had received
any money for his support OF MIR. Barbour.
He did not believe in the right of secession,
but when he saw there was 20 use TO oppose 1t he
went into the army 10 the hope that by present.
ing TO the North united Southern front that
section would be frightened into nou.cuercve
p,icv He was mistaken IN that, and hndlug
himself ouce 10 the army he remained ana
fought for his State as we'll a. he could Among
those who were original fire eating SecesSionlsts
was Gen. Eppa Huuton; lie went lnto Convcu-
ton at kichmoud determined to make the State
secede AZ all hazards, while on the other hand,
James Barbour was elected and went there as
y Union man aud acted as one throughout the
session of that body Judge Saugster, utter
ruptiug-That's so; Barbour would not vote
for secession, even though he saw 1t was lu-
evitable, uutil be had gone home, consulted his
constituents and they Instructed HIN to do
it.) Aud II was those very Uulop men who did
the fighting during the war. Gen. Hunton, to
be sure, fought nobly, but he was an exception,
for the original Sccesslonlst, as rule, stayed
at home. Those who are to-day rcvlllng and
a. ,l-,r tor ~
campaigu are the men who would not and did
net hght. The Southern men fought not only
to maintain slavery but to extend it, and the
Providence of God, not Abraham Lncoln or
any ether man, freed the negro. The speaker
is Ia favor of liberty of opiuion, and re tow
SAYS boldly, that speaking ''lu Il Business poiut
of view" the reconstruction measures were all
right Il was necessary that the Repubilcau
party should have passed them. There was no
better Virgiuian In the land than the speaker,
and vet he did not expect the North, after hav-
ing completely whipped the South, to give
everything to US and say here gentlemen We
turn the management of affairs over TO you;
take the reius and run the government for If
t;,at had beeu done there would have been more
lawIessness than there is in the South. Out
RACES have been numerous Ia the South, aud
there seems to be a determination to resist tue
laws. Virginia has not suffered because the Con-
servatives have been liberal to their opponents
over whom they galued great victory, aud he
did not want them to go back on their liberal
ity. He had seen delegation OF colored ueu
received and treated 10 Conservative cOuven-
ton with the most distinguished consideration.
(Jndge Saugster. Yes, aud at another con
yentioD YOU saw theseSame Conservatives uoml-
nate the coored mans best freud, Horace
Rrt ptpu all hat
cry is ''Virguia for Fwglniaus" white and
black" and the speaker would not uphold
those false principles. and now declares his
independence Of them. Now J. say 10 you
coored men," "a voice-"Call US coored
geutlcmeu, the Conservatives propose II
they get in power to wipe out the
constitutional amendments whereby your rights
were guaranteed; for the Democrats or CoDser-
vatves call them what you will, hold the same
opinions that they did before the war. They
are secessiouisls still Hutton does not know
the war is over. James Barbour, the States
nan, does, and had assured the speaker that
IN the distribution of the patronage he might
procure, he would regard peilher color or other
silly distinctions, but would ouly ask IT they
we're his friends. The Democrats expect to
lave majority iu the n"St Congress III SO,
where will your Civil Rights bin be ( and viii
you by your votes Tomorrow contribute to their
Succe IS? That party would seccde again II
they could, but it is impossible \ voice,
Scott township seeded. y i he speaker then
told now badly nice young man was treated
by the Payne Hunton crowd in Warrentou
when they found he was Barbour man, and
closed With story about fly 10 a stelhoscope,
the point of which was hard to see, but it was
something with reference TO the ay's buzzlug.
Judge Sangster, being loudly called for, took
the stand, aud referring to his having lately
empauuecd coIored jury 10 his court, SAID
he wanted to see the colored men have every
right white man has; that they were now CIT
liens and should be treated as such, aud that
be Intended to vote for James Barbour
ALEXANDRIA TRIUMPHANT We have the
pleasure of recording decided triumph for the