The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-01
a--s A NEW CANDIDATE FOR THE

60 A New $Mr CANDIDATE Iha FOR THE
Pssf IN TE GHaaI of The be-
loved people, | now announce myself, above
board, 20 y9ur passions and preiudices, eandi-
date for the highest seat in the STATE CONNEN-
TON
In defining my position, allow me to say, that
| confess a great deal of hypocrisy heretofore,
but now shall state to you openly my principles
and purpose.
away as far as possible. from the perils of pres
ent issues, and to perpetuate old quarreis among
yourselves over the fossil remains of dead par
ties, while your united and determined foe is
tieing the bands OF sectional domination around
you so firmly that peace and the Union must and
| shall also show you plainly that the various
Interests Of this community are split up into va
riety OF discordant fragments. That the interests
of the manufacturer, The merchant, the artizan
the working man, are all antagonistical That
one e, can be at the height Of Prosperity, while
another Is IN tho depth OF adversely. That hos
tile government, threatening and disturbing the
property and labor of Virginia, and deprving her
and prosperity the State; but, at the same time,
the very thing to bring large orders and high
wages to the mechanic and the laborer.
shall also strive to convince you that the real
Who IN SPITE Of Washingt a dsnanea a oris s
mated sectional party, IN cold blood and for pur-
poses of aggression npon, a weaker section but
are the men who resist this sectional party, and
refuse to surrender their rights and property and
system Of labort to the care and protection of the
unfriendly government, which proposes to ''place
them where they are IN process Of decay aud
tinction."
| shall also direct your attention away from the
watch which You are wont To keep over the honor
aud safety OF virginia, and absorb your thoughts
with curious questions TO the movements of
South Carolina. 1t il far more important that YOU
should abuse those who identified with you In
feeling, rights, interests aud destiny, than that
you should avow your utter detestatlon OF, and
determined resistance to Il hostile section which
asserts, that 1.-THE States cannot remain divided,
but must become all free, or all slave
You may rely upon II, that there Is no safer or
surer mode OF obtaining what we all conceive TO
be our plain rights, the common and fundamental
waiting, calmly enduring, patiently hoping for
this sectional power to become national for Afr.
can Republicanism to cast its shell. and emerge
into the light new creature, with all the ouaff-
ties OF the true American Republicanisin which
has made us united, prosperous, and powerful
people.
Peace can only be preserved by the folding
OF the arms. Your foe will not offer you any
terms whateyer. You must beg and sue, aud be
OF the Union has been crushed out by the wrong
and tyranny Of sectional strife the shell remains
with all its Invaluable emptiness ana can only
be preserved by meeting denuncistion with hl-
NIFTY, aggression with submission. and wide
awake activity with hesitation and delay. Di-
yided We stand united we fall. 80
:, ~ y nnali 20 your pleasure 10 place me In the
Norfn VIII taxa courage. fhs South will be d.
,ided, aud the grave question now disturbing
You may posAibly be handed down to plague aud
cufse Your chiidfeu or. ~ the worst, yoA Will
only he running the hazard Of hxhting. 70 redeem
yenr pledge 70 fseiat SesFslen. ou msy Issst e.
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