The daily gazette., 1876-07-27
TEN SOUTHERN STATES FOR TIL
DEN AND HENDRICKS.
Governor Walker Of Va, at the
Great Tammany Meeting, n.
Y" on Tuesday Night.

Tho meeting was one OF the largest
and most enthusiasts of the Cam
paign. Charles A. Dana, the editor of
the N. Y. Sun, presided. Hon John
Hancock, of Texas, was the first speaker,
who was followed by Gov. Walker, Of
Virginia, who spoke as follows:
But, cheering and gratifying as the
position of National Democracy is,
hopeful as is this unanimity through.
out the entire country, you will
pardon me If claim here tonight that
my section of the country is perhaps,
more unanimous in the support ofDemo
cracy in this campaign than any other
section. OF the eleven Southern
States, ten, in my judgment, will give
their votes for 1'ilden and Hendricks.
The eleventh, poor down -trodden
South Carolina, the carpet-bagger's 3
heaven and the negro's Paradise (great
laughter)-South Carolina the land of
Radical robbery, thievery and crime
South Carolina, which stands to-day
the purest and completest illustration
of Radical reconstruction and Radical
misrule-she may cast her vote for
Hayes. But with this one single,
lamentable exception, Mr.. Hayes, in
my judgment, will not receive an elec-
toral vote from the entire South. The
white people-when 1 say the white
people mean the people who pay the
taxes and supper the Government
the white people of the South are
almost unanimous for this ticket, and
aolArn1 E.
into line. (Cries of Good" "Good, !"
and applause.) Already in my city of
Richmond there are two fourishing
Tilden and Hendricks clubs composed
entirely Of colored men; and the color
ed people throughout the entire South,
the intelligent and better portion Of
them, are gradually discovering that
their true interests lie not in antagoniz.
ing the white people but in coalescing
and acting with them. Yes, gentle-
men, the more intelligent they become
the more they realize the duties and
responsibilities of the citizenship that
was thurst upon them, the more
sure are they to unite with the really
interested parties of the Government.
In every section of the South, the
more intelligent they become the more
apt are they to unite with the white
people. Just as fast as the scales of
ignorance fall from the eyes of the
Southern people, just go fast as they
get their eyes open to the situation of
the country, the wrongs and outrages
perpetrated upon them and the entire
people by the Radical party. just so
surely do they become Democratic
colored men.
Why, the Democratic colored men
Of the South would never have been
arrayed against the white people but
for these demagogues and carpet bag
gers, and malicious scoundrels who
went down there directly after the
war and sought to antagonize them
against the white people. And why
did they do thats They sought to
radicalize the South by fret enfran-
chislng the negro and then disenfran-
chising the white men, in order to
give the negro control, and they con-
rolling the negro, would control the
entire South. But, fellow citizens,
wherever land thi, is matter de-
sire to call your particular attention
toy wherever in the South Democratic
or Conservative rule has obtained,
there you find the colored man fully
protected in all his rights in every
respect equal to tie white man. ZAP
plause.) Did you ever hear of any
bloody rows in the State of Virginia
since she was reconstructed. Have
you ever heard of the murder of ne
groes within the limits of the Old
Dominion since she has been restored
to the Union? Oh, no; and the resson
is because her tax payers are white
citizens who have gone down there
and identified their fortune. with those
people; not carrying carpet bag to
run away as soon as they got it full
They obtained the control of the
Government, and administered the
affairs honestly and truly for the best
interests of all concerned, be their
color what it might be. [Cheers.
The other day there occurred down
in this poor State of South Carolina
land patriot can hardly mention the
name of South Carolina without drop
ping tear, for no one who is familiar
with the terrible wrongs that have
ground that people into the dust can
fail to have his sympathies intensely
aroused in their behalf-the other day
there occurred an affair within the
limits of South Carolina that every re-
spectacle and honest man must depre-
cate, which never could have occurr ed
in Virginia. II never could have oc.
CURED even in 1.-THE State of Texas; it
could have occurred nowhere except
where the negroes and their white al
lies have rule. The truth as to that
affair is not yet known, but l stand
here to make prediction, that when
the facts of that matter are known,
when daylight is let In to illuminate
the darkness that covers this transac-
ton, it will be found that it was moth
ing in the world but Radical conspi-
racy,a reinauguration of the outrages
of former times. do not stand here
in the slightest degree to palliate, it.
Had been the Governor OF South
Carolina-and l boast not of greater
courage than other men-some would
have felt hemp in mighty short time.
(Applause:) What l desire to impress
upon your mind Is this-they cannot
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