Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-10-07
A Colored Democratic Speaker.

lowing account OF the speech recently .
delivered in that city by Rev J. w. .
Dungee, the colored preacher of Rich,
mond
The Howard University swindle un-
der the arrangement of the 'plous o.
o. Howard, was ventilated, aud the
manner in which half n million was sto
len, was yividly stated. The speaker,
in passing, said that he was 4 native OF .
New Kent county, Va, was slave for
twenty-seven years; was conservative :
in principle: was in sympathy with the
people of Virginia, and would be OPP
posed to radicalsm Is long rs carpet
bag or scalawag officer held sway in the
State.
When he adverted 10 the Freedman
bank, somebody in the gallery remarked
that the Lyuchburg branch was known
as "No. l." The speaker replied: Meet
me at my room tomorrow and tell me
who stole that s90J ont OF your No. l
bank E. He gave ludicrous descrip-
ton Of the tears shed by Afford, the
president of the bank, while gobbling
the negroes money; forging the names
of corporators OF the bauk wheedlrg
poor negroes out OF their scanty earn
lngs, aud then winding up the perform
ance by stealing the last dollar OF it.
He added that every scamp who assist
ed in the theft was bawling tor Hayes
and Wheeler. He showed that Morton,
the pretended friend of the negro, was
violently opposed to negro suffrage, bnt
hugged him to his bosom when he be-
came a voter, and also that Hayes aud
the people Of Ohio were opposed to ne
gro suffrage.
The speaker said he had recently Wis
tied the State of Maine, the home OF
Blaine, and was there Missed and hooted
at, and on all sides heard the word,
"nigger, "nigger, ringing in his ears.
He didn't want to 90 back until there
was some of Tilden's reform up there.
He had been to Lowell, Beast Buffers
town, and found negroes suffering; there
was no room for them there white la
borers would not work with them, and
didn't care ii they all staryed-and that
was Just how much the Yankee loved
the negro. lie saw colored men in
Lynchburg painting houses and work
irg on streets with white men. Color
ed men were not allowed 10 paint hous-
es where he had been in the North, and
no white laborer or mechanic there
would work with negro. He discuss
ed the so-called Southern outrages,
and showed that they were instIgated
by carpet-baggers and adventures, who
had not credit, even for cake Of soap,
i'm their own sections, and who would
get the negroes into trouble and then
desert them. No colOrcd man in New
York or Massachusetts could get doc
tor to visit him without payment OF his
fee in advance.
The speaker continued to show, by
apt illustrations, that the tendency of
Virginia negroes is to 90 to their for
mer masters for favors and reciprocate
their kindness by voting against their
interests. The factories here were filled
with negroes who received their wages
every week, and yet they would vote
against their own and their employers
interests if asked to do so by any un-
known carpet bagger More negroes
are now employed by democrats in
Washington than ever were employed
by republicans.
The social equality question was ad.
verted to- The speaker said there was
no such thing among white people, and
never could be between the races. Hon
esty, virtue and intelligence were
the tests, and when tried by this rule
each found his proper level, and that no.
body bat an arrant tool would talk about
social equality. But we cannot, at this
late hour, follow the speaker further, aud
the foregoing is the merest outline OF his
mastery speech, and does not begin to
do justice even to the subjects treated OF.
His speech was at first received with
derision by few i'll hammered negroes
in the gallery, but they soon became
quiet, and listened with attention. Az
the conclusion of his speech, which was
loudly applauded throughout, Mr. Dun
gee was warmly congratulated by many
gentlemen of prominence
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