South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-10-06
A Coiored Mans Speech.

W. DunSeS, OF Richmond,
one OF that city's ablest speakers. and
best scholars among the colored class
having cut loose from tue Radical mar.
ty' has been speaking with great success
in various parts of Virginia. He spoke
at Lynchburg on Thursday night, the
other speakers being Hon. William NJ.
Caoeil, Thomas s. Flonrnoy, Hon. J. r.
Tucker and Maj. j. W. Daniel. The
Ne~s mentions the speeches OF the a.
Dove distinguished gentlemen in few
lines; but such was the high opinion {
Dunjee's address tina. it gives the fol-
lowing review Of it Fed, Herald.
When he adverted to the Freedman
bank, somebody in the gallery remarked
that the Lynchburg branch was known
ms NO. l." The speaker replied -
Meet me at my room, tomorrow, and
tell me who stole that 5000 out of YOUR
bank lie gave ludicrous descrip.
ton OF the tears she'd bv Alvord. the
President OF the bank while cobblinr
the negroes money--forging the names
of the corporators of the Bank, whecd
ling poor negroes out of their scanty
earnings, and then winding up the per.
Torrance by stealing the last dollar Of
it. lie added that every scamp who rs.
sisted in the theft was now bawlinC for
Hayes and Wheeler. He showed that
Morton, the pretended friend Of the ne
gro, was violently opposed, TO negro
suffrage, but Rugged him TO his bosom
wien he became q voter, and also that
Hayes and the people Of Ohio were op.
posed TO negro suffrage.
The speaker said he had recently Wis.
tied the State of Maine, the home of
blaine, and was there Kissed and Looted
at, and on all sides heard the word, mig.
ger Niger ringing in his ears. lie
didn't want TO 30 back until there was
some of Tilden's Reform up there. lie
had been TO Lowell, Beast Buffers
town. and found negroes suffering :;
there was no room for them there, white
iahorers would not work with them, and
didn't care If they I'll starved-and that
was just how much the Yankee loved
the negro. lie saw colored men in
Lyncaburg painting houses and working
on streets with white men. Colored
men were not allowed to paint houses
where he had been in the North. and no
white laborer or mechanic there would
work With II negro. lIo discussed the
so.c@iled Southern outrages and show
Ell that they were instigated by carpet
bagSers and advcnturers who had not
credit even for a cake OF soap, in their
own sections, and who would ee. the
negroes into trouble and then delert
them. No colorci man in New York or
Massachusetts could get a doctor te
visit him without payment OF his Zee in
advance.
The speaker continued to show. by
apt illustrations. that the tendency OF
Virgins negroes il 20 90 10 their former
masters for iAvOrs and rcoiprocate their
t'-!neSs ny ". 'ng against their inter.
csts. ihe tactDs.as here were Sled with
ncgroes 10 received their wages every
wceN, anH vet they would against
their own aud t!,ejr employers interests
.i asked 20 do so by any unkaowE car.
pet-aa ger. More negroes are now can.
D.e-ed Oy Democrats In Washington
than ever were employed by republicans.
4he social equality question was ad.
verified to. The speaker said there vas
nothing among white people, and never
could be between the races. Honesty,
virtue and intelligence were the tests
and when tried by this rule each found
his proper level. and That nobody but an
arFant fool would talk about social e.
quality.