The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-15
JUDGE FLOURNOY.
HIS ADDRESS LAST NIGHT BEfUkt
POWHATAN CLUB.
IN Az ELOQUENT MANNER M
HANDLES THE VITAL ISSUES.
THE COLOR QUESTION IN DUN
POLITICS.
Large Attendan ce aud an fnthusiasti
Grecting-IIc believes Firmly In
White Mans GoNernm.nt-A
Letter From Gov Lee.

The rooms Of the POwhatan Club were
dlled last night by the gallant privates OF
the Democratic ranks 10 hear Judge
Henry W Flournoy address them on
vital issues Long before the hour for
the speaker, the various reading and
social rooms were crowded, and when
the bell sounded. calling the members TO
the main audienceroom, there were
more present than the chairs would seat
On the platform was Mayor Ellyson,
and in the audience were kinfolk OF
Judge Tlournoy aud a number Of the
wellknown city officials Of Richmond.
There were no prelimlnaries.
Promptly AZ $50 President Preston
Belyin called the meeting TO order and
introduced Judge Henry W. Flournoy.
Judge Flournoy mounted the platform,
the president yielding his table 10 him.
The Judge graceful y bowed. He re-
marked ihat he had already expressed
his thanks 10 President Belyin. but now
desired 20 express his thanks TO the
members of the club for their invitation
10 appear before them and make an adj
dress.
This club, said the speaker, starts
new era in Virginia and Richmond poll
tics-an era where q club with a large
membership have rooms for its members
10 come. dav OF night, and enjoy them
selves without any manner OF complaint
being made against them. They are
members of club who must think.
There are inte.esi now in vogue which
REQUIRE thought. There are men In this
hall who talk differently OF different
things Men think differently about
religion. Some are churchmen, some
Roman Catholics, some Baptsis, Meth
odists, Presbylerians. There are men
who differ on the tariff, on the cOntinu-
ance or repeal Of the internal revenue
system, the tobacco tax. but none of the
men present differ on the great ques-
ton OF keeping this government in the
bands of the white people. Applause
We have not the right 10
d0dre this issue vet we have the right
TO instruct the people how 10 act. The
welfare Of the people we have al heart
and it i beneficial alike 10 white and
colored 10 keep the negro in his place
/ The white man must be the controlling
power The negro never can be.
/ The speaker did not talk against the
+ Republican party because In il there are
gentlemen but they are men who don't
know that the negro is aiming 10 become
supreme, and by their consent, viii be
The time will come when every Northern
Republican will learn and believe that
the Fifteenth Amendment was uncOnsti
tulional because uncOnsiituilonally
passed and adopted
THE NEGHO's GREATEST CURSE.
The speaker. continuing, said that the
greatest curse 10 the negro was his
freedom IL was not given him for
love. 4 similar freedom could have been
given the Chinese and the Indian.
tle would ask just at this point,
Beccher said that the negro was
debascl by TWO centuries of slavery. If
two hundred years OF slavery debased
him why should not the savages of
Africa be therefore the superior of
the Southern negro. The right
of suffrage 10 those men was Matched In
the brain of men who first said the Sc
ceding States had TO come back into the
Union, and through negro votes perpei
uate a government of their own sde in /.
opposition 10 white mans rule; and, |
secondly, because they believed they
placed in the hands Of the Southern I
negro the control Of the Southern lands |
and dominion over them as conquests of /
war.
The men of Richmond and the State /
must stand together like a Macedonian |
phaanX. no matter how they may /
offer on side issues The Republican /
party ruthlessly sent the constitution 10 .
Hades, and has never, during its party .
life time, thought 1t 10 be an in
strument deserving of regard. The
last election with its cOrrup-
ton proved that fact Benjamin
Harrison was elected by minority. and
You men must remember when the great
question of negro suffrage comes up that
this, government 10y the States and for
the States, as well as government By
the people and for the people
\ Judge who sits in q Federal court
believes that a man can be carried from
Manchester TO his court, because of
that courts claim that Virginia cannot
execute her own laws.
THE COLOR QUESTION.
We have TO deal with this color ques-
ton squarely and fairly, and il can only
be settled through public sentiment. We
have seen negro suffrage, suffered from
IL, and gone on and endured il with &
patience wonderful 10 behold We have
spent half million of dollars year by
year only 20 educate the negro 10 vote
against bis friends who furnished will
ingly The money.
He referred TO the disiranchisement Of
both The white and cOlored people in the
District Of Columbia when Ben Butler
made the notion and a Republican
Senate passed ii. aud Republican Presi-
dent approved H.
No Senator has ever risen IN the
United States Senate TO advocate the {
care of importation Of Chinese, none 10 /
take care of the Indians; none 10 help {
the negro, who lives right at the doors
OF tho Northern Senator. His love
Is for The negro prOportionate 10 I
the distance he lives of. Why il I
not The sons of the Aztee's, the Mexi- /
can s, allowed she same fay0rs as the ne I
gIoes. are they not as truthful, as good 1
and energetic as the sons of Africa a
Why. therefore, could not New Mexico I
be made State like her sister Northern
States recently admitted
he read John sherman 3 utterances
recently, and asked what can be thought q
of the man who would then invite five a
millions Of negroes 10 carry the torch in l
one hand and the dagger in the other. V
prophecy hat the time is not far dis. e
iani, if these ideas he carried out. y
that the negro will be on top #
Carried 10 its fruitiOn, there
will eventually be a commingling of the
races and We will see mongrel breed,
the get OF Cauca-sians aud negroes
authorized by law He spoke of Fred =
Doughlas' welcome at the Chicago Con- =
zen ion how the white men com. I
posing Z AZ convention rose in their Il
ni4ht and cheered the negro for i've
minutes He told how that same me II
,ro' had taken white wife. and how Il
he white men Of the Republican party
iad carefully and apparently lovingly \
approved this amalgamation. 7
lie illustrate still further bv the cleo l