Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-23

Iuo RiauoIm ana ADDRESS Of tne NJ
publican party Of Virginia divides itself
into three parts. After announcing re-
solute antagonism to the national De-
mocracy and opposition to the present
Administration Of the President Of the
United States, 1t proclaims it's advocacy
Of twenty principles Of political action,
and then proceeds with bill Of indict-
ment against the Democratic party Of
forty-one counts with an enumeration
Of twenty good deeds, which it claims
TO have performed for the benefit Of the
people Of the Commonwealth.
The annunciation Of antagonism to
the national Democracy comes with
poor grace from party whose recog-
nized leader always acted with us until
he was rejected as Democratic csndi-
date for Governor, who claimed that he
was supporting Hancock and English
against Garfield and Arthur, and was a
better Democrat than Hill of Georgia.
The twenty political principles and
measures which the platform announces
itself to favor, apart from axioms and
specisus generalities, have always been
and are now the principles Of the De-
mocratic party. many Of which they
originated and have carried into effect.
The first Of their accusations against
the Democratic party is that we aided
in the defeat of the Blair education
bill in tie Congress of the United
States. The fact is that this bill has
not been before the House of Represen-
tatives, but has passed the Senate and
that while senator's from every State
south Of Virginia (all Democrats) voted
for it, Senator William Malone did not,
and bis political senatorial friends
Hawley, Of Connecticut, and Plumb, Of
Kansas-voted against it. When the
bill comes up again it will certainly
command, as it has already done, the
support Of the Democratic party.
AS to the charge that the national
Democracy are opposed to any tariff to
protect American productions, we would
remind them that if the internal-reve-
nue. system was abolished, which the
Republican party originated and have
kept up on US, and for a repeal Of which
the Malone members in the last House
Of Delegates voted against, as the record
shows, so much would be required for
purposes Of revenue. the tariff question
would become dead issue and mere
matter of detail, in which every men,
Der would look out for his own con-
stituents.
We desire to reply fully to the false
charge that we raised
THE RACE ISSUE
and first drew the color line, and we
charge that the Republican party COM
menced and have ever continued it,
which we can prove by the facts Of his
tory.
After the war, which had been fought |
against the doctrine Of secession, and |
proceeded upon the principle that no
State could secede, the Republican
party turned their back upon their own
principles, and by the reconstruction |
acts Of March 2, 1867, declared that
he southern States had actually Sc
coded and were out Of the Union by |
their own acts, and could not come back
except on terms prescribed by them.
Having thrown all the southern States
into territorial condition, governed by
the military, and for the purpose Of
creating a Republican party in the
South, giving the right Of suffrage to
the freedmen, their first step was to
draw sharply the color line, and by the
most violent appeals to the ignorant
passions and prejudices of the
colored race, to make them solid
for the Republican party. The first
act Of this sort was a speech made at
Orange Courthouse in the spring of
1869 by Henry Wilson, of Massachu-
sets, afterwards elected by the Re-
publican party as Vice President of the
United States. With the most violent
inyectives against their former masters.
and claiming to be their deliverers and
only friends when their emancipation
by them had been only military ne
cessity), he excited the colored crowd to
such pitch that their shouts could be
heard from the upper Pamunky to the
Rapidan. ltinerant orators went into
all the counties where the colored ele-
ment existed, exciting race preju-
dices among the colored and class
feelings among the whites. In South
Side county carpet-bagger, accompa-
MED by collector Of subscriptions for
Hunnicutt's NeT Nation, addressed a
crowd Of colored women and men-most
of the latter armed with old musketS-
and he reminded them of their having
forty years; that their labor, out Of
which they had been defrauded by their
masters, had subdued the forests, had
drained the swampS, built the houses,
and paid for the education of the
white man, and then asked them
that if their labor had done every
thing for the country, to whom does
the country rightfully belong? The
impression produced upon his hearers
was shown by the reply Of an old
darby to an inquiry as to what the
speaker said" that if that man had
his way, in five years the white man
would not have land enough to bury
himself on" This incendiary adyen-
iurer was by the colored vote, made
solid by this shameless demagogism,
afterwards elected to Congress from
he metropolitan district Of Virginia.
The object of the Republican party
ard of the Malone party ever since its
formation has been and is now to con-
solidatc the blacks against the whites,
and by such appeals to secure the un-
divided vote Of those whom the latter
once called faithful allies but now
friends and brothers.
The charge of the platform that the
Democratic party in lS6G-'G7 recog-
nizcd and assumed
THE WHOLE DEBT
of West Virginia and Virginia we deny
fatty. and will disprove their statement
by the record. The members of the
Pierpoint Legislature of that session |
were mostly originally Union men, and {