The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-02
LOCAL MATTERs

BsH amd Erersu Ratification Meetinp-An
immense concourse of persons, including two
or three hundred ladies. met on the Capt. oil
Square last Saturday night to ratify the nomi-
rations OF Bell and Everett for President and
Vice President of the United States, The
great body of the people, As if by intuition,
gathered near the marble monument of Henry
Clay, and when Smiths famous Band began TO
discourse sweet music, the greatest enthusI-
asm was manifested.
AT the hour designated, Mr.. Jas. A. Scott
called TO order, and on his motion, the assem-
blage organized, by electing the following Of
dcers:
President-WM III. MAcFARLAND.
Vice Wyndham Robertson, r.
=. Daniel, Marmaduke Johnson. X. X. Howl
son, David J Saunders, Geo. X. Crutchfield,
Jas. NJ. Talbot, Luther Libby, DR.. Grattan
CabelI, Jas. X. Crenshaw, Jas. II. Grant, VIM.
II. Hargrove, Jno. W. Beveridge.
Secretaries - Robert Ridgway, Hugh r.
Pleasants, Jas. Mcdonald.
Mr.. NJ MCFARLAND the President. from the
base of the Clay Monument, presented the
following resolutions, which he prefaced with
remarks appropriate to the occasion, and
which, when put TO vote, were adopted with
great unanimity. They are as follows:
Resolved, That IN their simple and emphatic
pIedse to support the Constitution. the Union and
the Laws, the Convention whiea nominated JoHN
BELL. OF Tennessee, and EDwAsD EvERETT, of
Massachusetts, proves they we're above the isno
bic aTtlhce of designing and factlous aspirants,
to procure concert and harmony among their fol-
lowers, by employing language importing assent
and agreement, IN the face of Ireconcilabe pur-
poses and schemes and is guaranty that the
Statesmen whom they selected wilt meet every
national question they NAV be called TO con-
s der IN a spirit of broad elevated and national
conservatism; that, as errors of opinion may lie
tofsrated when resson Is lett free to combat them,
so any political question, whatever its bearing on
the Consultation and Union may be brought to a
safe and satisfactory conclusion, to the splnt on OF
which ooo' and wise Jud-ine ns are applied pene
trated by the conviction that moderation ana for
bearance Is the first duty of an American states
man
Resolved, That the sudden disruption of the
Democratic party, and the teroe crlmnatlons OF
the aliensted sections, each OF the other, dem
onstratl9ns OF the hol9wness OF platforms, and
he fearful betrayal which awaits their credulOus
votaries- That secession from party iatons,
because of 3 question of M immediate concern.
and which those who now make IL the occasion OF
fierce collisions, have respectfully adjusted and
compromised, both by statute and in convention,
Despeak prociivlty to magnify and lDflam Sec
| tional controversies wholly Incompatible with a
due reverence of the Union and Constitution,
| therefore neither Lincoln, Douglas, or Breckin-
| ridge should be supported BY Union loving men
Resolved That JOHN BELL and EDW.R RID Ev-
ERErT, for their large experience IN national af-
fairs their incorTupthe virtue. their uestIon-
| ed statesmanshlp, their profound knowledge Ui
| our institutions and laws, and, above all. their
spect and confidence Of all who would preserve the
majesty of the laws, and perpetuate our InstItu-
tlcns.
| Resolved, As the convictions of the Opposition
Party OF this CITY, that nothing is wanted to re-
deem the country from ths party WHICH has so Ions
abused and mi sled il, bar that their friends should
| coniGe IN their strength and exertit
| immediately after the adoption of the reso-
| lutions, Marmaduka johnson, Esq, was loud.
ly called for, and yielding to the solicitations
Of his friends arose and made one of those
| happy and cheerful speeches for which he is
! characteristic. K. T. Daniel, Esq. followed
| Mr.. Johnson in a speech of more than al
hours length; A. Judson Crane, Esq, fol-
| lowed Mr.. Daniel; and Robert Ridgway, Esq
also spoke in words of cheering to his party
| While the speaking was going on a party o.
| gentlemen arrived on the Square with large
! the following inscriptions: "Rally, Unior
| men-crush out disunion." BELL and Eve
| rett-we go for the Union with rush"
| At late hour Mr.. l.. Tazeweli was called
| out and enter tanned the crowd for a shor
| time and then the Convention adjourned with
| three cheers for Bell and Everett-three cheer:
| for the Constitution, the Union, and the en-
| forcement of the laws--and three cheers To-
| Bolts.