The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-05
Co,ored Hancock Men.

| VIRGINIA on account OF their party reiat'ons'
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Colored Hancock Men.
The immense majorities given Tor the
Democrats at the elections held this week IN
Alabama and Kentucky will doubtless cause
n howl TO ascend from the Republicans oil
the North, These far.minded gentlemen
can prove every day In the week that MS
sissippi. South Carolina, Louisiana, Ala
bsma, &C., &C., are Republican States bull
dozed into the Democratic patty. How DO
they prove 1t BY the census. There are,
they say, more negroes than whites In these
States, and as all negroes are Republicans II
necessarily follows that they are Republican
States. They do not know that there are
any colored Republicans in those States.
Inasmuch as the Democratic majority in
Virginia for HANCOCK may next fall be to
the Republicans unaccountably large, we
take time by the forelock and avail our
selves OF The kindness OF number OF COL
ored voters-Messrs. GILES JACKSON,
BRANCH, BANNING, ALLEN. CLARKsoN, ana
the Club they represent,--to let the north
ern people see how Democratic negroes
they have TOO much education to object to
being called negroes) can write; what ex-
cellent reasons they can furnish for being
Democrats; and how much skill and ability
they can manifest in arraigning the Repub-
lican party for its crimes. We particularly
ask the Washington Republican, the Balti-
more american, the Philadelphia Bulletin,
the Boston Advertiser, the Providence
Journal, and the New York Tribune and
Times, to read, mark, and inwaTdly digest
the contents OF this document, and prepare
themselves to learn next November that
not forty thousand negoes in Virginia have
voted the Republican ticket for President.
The address is as follows:
HEADQUARTERS HANCOCK AND ENGLISH)
REFORM CAMPAIGN CLUB No. 1.
RICHMOND, Va, August 4, 1880.
TO the President and Members Of The Han
cock and English reform Campaign Ctub
No.
The undersigned. committee appointed
at the meeting of this Club held August =,
1880. to draft an address TO the cOloled peo-
pie of Virginia, beg leave 20 submit the fol-
lowing report:
Whereas the maintenance OF good gov
eminent throughout the Union Is for the
best interests OF all classes OF the people,
whether white or colored, and 1t behOOves
us to show our appreciation OF that fact by
so exercising the privileges OF citizenship
as to demonstrate that we are worthy to en-
10Y them, tnis Club hereby submits for the
consideration Of the coored people of the
State the reasons which induce them to
espouse the cause OF the national Demo-
cratic party. in the hope that other colored
citizens may be led TO vote for the clndi-
dates Of that party for President and Vice
President of the United States in November
next.
We are satisfied that the colored people |
cannot be benefited by governmental poll |
cy which tends t. depress the interests OF
the section in which they live, that they can
only prosper in proportion TO the prosperity |
of their own community, that the triumph |
of sectional party which basis its claims
TO success upon its secionalism, which |
seeks to keep alive the unfortunate passions |
engendered by the war, which ought long |
since TO have been buried In oblivion /; |
which sought to crush after his years OF |
eminent services one Of the n0blest friends |
OF The colored man, the Hon. Charles |
sumner, for no other reason than that |
he advocated peace and goodwill;
which four years ago defed and set |
at naught the will of the people by |
seating In tue chair once |
adorned by Washington usurper who had |
been defeated at the polls by popular ma
jority of a quarter of a million votes; which |
has Systematically and persistenty misled |
and deceived the cOlOred people for its az
and to their own undOing |
which has through its emissarieS and agents,
by Federal patronage, stirred up |
strife for years in the southern States be-
tween white and colored citizens, whose In
terests should have made them dwell to-
gether in harmony and accord; which has
been as liberal in promise as it has been par
simonious in performance; which has over
burdened byunequal and unw wise taxation the
great interests OF one section, from which
the colored men especially derive their means
OF livelihood; which has decoyed from their
homes large numbers Of orr brethren into
and uncongenial sections in
the North and West in order that their
votes might swell the ballot. boxes cOrruptly
used for the prolougation of their power;
which has by villitication. SANDER, and
abuse OF the southern States and people re-
tarded that inflow Of population aud capital
which would have increased the demand
for our labor and thus brought about con-
increase OF wages; which, instead
of teaching us those virtues which are essen
tial to people striving for their own ee.
Walton and advancement, has done all in its
power 20 divert us from worthy efforts to
the ignoble purpose of supporting political
advent1rers.
Any party which has for years the dis
pOsal OF millions OF money and thousands
Of public offices will become corrupt, and
the Republican party aas not escaped this
The interests OF the country
demand change OF administration. and
that can only be effected through the Dem
oeratie party. III that party has heretofore
given few pledges TO eGlOred men, 1t has
broken none; that they Will keep such as
they haze now offered We cannot doubt,
when We recall the undertaking devotion
which they have shown 10 their avOwed
principles through years Of defeat. That .
party is pledged 10 the mailtenance OF the
Onion; TO the preseryatiOC OF all OF the
tights and privileges OF the eolored people .,
10y the CONSTITUTIONS to the reform
u the goNernmentiR all OF its departments
% more economical admic is!ration OF
Is afirS and the consequent ABDUCTION OF
he burdens of taxatien, aud as opponents
Il it's sincerity is giving cordia.. even ell
hssiastse. support 10 one who among the
'aiaxy OF heroes and patriots wbs exposed
heir lives for the integrity of the Govern /.
nent ia us darkest hours was the noblest
4 them all. who, net seduced by the allure !
Dents OF a power which he had made posi- . |.
lie 10 himself by bis sword. Was the frst to
eclare the mission Of the soldier ended
nd to invoke the protecting @gis q the
for hia whole N0IlnlrY: E2hO