Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-10-02
NAMES Vr uEliCEltS.

The following gentlemen were elected per
rllauent officers ul the Association:
pEEsIpENr-inom"a I. Crupper.
VICE Observation-Disclosures WaED.-Johu
II. Grmnor, Lewis Antllotti, Thns IIardgravc,
james j. Dornin, L. ". pclnberton
MADISON WAgD.--Wm. Irving Scott, Thos.
p. August, S. B. Paul, Bernard Harris, Z. &.
Rawlings.
MoSEor WAnu-Nat Tyler, Writ Harrison,
George Dowdcn, J. Porter Wren, S. Z. Nor.
gan.
SrcrErARIEs.-W William Lloyd II. W. Starke
TREASURER Bell Bigger.
METROPOLITAN HALL.-On Friday night
this temple of true political worship was again
crowded with the votaries Of the only honest
and true political doctrines now known in all
our land, to wit those Of the States ri ghts
Democracy. Douglas men were there too,
skeptical OF, nay, disbcievins in their hearts
the programme of Douglas, and only deferred
from open rccantatlon by that pride which
prevents poor human nature from acknowledge
ing itself 10 be in the wrong Bell men, shut
ting their ears TO the claptrap clatter Of the
ding s-dong kept up on the top Of the show.box
on 18th street, filled many bench, for they
begin to recoect that they were born on
Southern soil, and begin to feel that this old
State is sovereign State, and that they would
be renegades to permit their own mother to be
whipped into degrading submission by the
tyrannical hordes Of the North.
Z. VI. L. Hunter was expected to be present,
but he failed to appear, but in his place there
appeared one younger, in years, but not un.
known to fame, and hearty and enthusiastic
hurrah summoned the Hon. Roger A. Pryor to
the stand
Mr. Pryor said he had not come to make a
speech. that he came 10 hear Mr.. Hunter. lie
assured them that he was exhausted; that he
was almost worn out; but the people replied
with another hurrah; speak he must, andspcak
he did, for the rafting cheers Of the immense
crowd seemed to revivify him.
Mr.. Pryor commenced by saying he would,
on that occasion, devote himself to review OF
the career of Bell and Everett and he did it af-
ter fashion the most Scathng and the most
annhilatins. He pulled aside the veil with
which the Bell-EverettS have been trying to
screen their candidates from public gaze, and
with the hand of powerful dclineator he point
ed out their leprous record, down unto TO the
present day.
Mr. pryor's description Of the riots in Louis
vile, during which forcgn.born citizens were
roasted alive in their homes, was iearfuly
graphic, and his appeal to foreign-born citizens
not to throw their votes on Douglas or, in
other words, not TO give them to the Know
Nothing party-in other words, 10 John Bell
who had approved Of those rlots-was splen-
did passage in his speech
Mr.. Pryor read sundry articles from The
New York Tribune and Times, endorsing John
Bell as one who might be trusted by their par
ty for the Presidency, and wound UP with
ratlling round Of grape at Douglas.
We DO hope that our citizens who heard him
will weigh the words Of Mr. Pryor, and that
they will not lend countenance TO the reckless
adyenturer who breaches one thing in Pennsyl-
vania and another thing in Virginia, and who,
knowing that he cannot be elected, still strives
to break up the Democratic party mean
that traitor, Stephen -irnold Douglas.
FATAL ACCIDENT. WIN. Trissley, dray
man. was instantly killed in Wheeling on
Tuesday last by being thrown from his dray.