The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-01

/ worthy of the occasion" what benefit
is to be derived from these eulogies upon
the "gallant sons who FELL" in the
. struggle to dismember u Union
which the eulogist is now swearing he
will defend, although he insists it has
been impaired All -! he does not dare
to speak otherwise in the presence and
in the hearing Of those parlor compan-
ions, who, with blinds sealed and doors
barred, "are of the same opinion STILL
on every essential point which bound
them together ten months ago, when
they characterized Lincoln as niiny,
and those who sustained him as swind-
lers, liars and thieves. But our readers
desire to hear more of the loyalist who
cody sentenced twenty of his fellow
citizens to be hanged because they were
loyal. Lyons has reached the colored
portion of his hearers and says to them
and to the world: II would not,u he
says, restore slavery if 1 could. I
would do no injury to those who (once
our slaves have been emancipated. I
would rather see them comfortable and
happy than otherwise; and for their
sakes, as well as ours, trust that the
power which has emancipated them
will remove them from among us--that
it will transfer them to the unoccupied
lands in the territories belonging to the
United States, where they can be organ
| lied as separate people, not molesting
the whites, nor molested by them.u
Why not, while your voice is up, Mr..
Lyons, insist that the poor whites, too,
be sent out of the State and colonized
with the emancipated negro? 1t seems
to us that the req uest to remove the me-
groes ito the unoccupied lands in the
territories" is the most impudent sug-
gestion madeby any Of the orators. The
negroes are Virginians, they built the
strongest of the Confederate works, and
certainly they have as good claim to
be permitted to remain here undisturbed
as the $20,000-bond men who are now
begging for remission of sins. judge
Lyons does not see this, he does not see
that he is trying to remove the organ
lied labor of the State, he sees nothing
but the beauty of Pierpoint and the
coming of the President, to set every
patriot free, from Dick Turner, the turn
key. to Lyons, the tyrant judge. What
else did this wonderful orator say to us
last evening at the wonderful open air
meeting? He told us that if another
revolution takes place in this country, it
will begin, if it does not end, at the
North. This is stolen from an old ha-
rangue delivered four years ago by Mr..
Davis. The Judge neXtreviewed the con-
duct of those who suppressed the late city
government in Richmond, expressed
doubtsupon certain constitutional points
which he raised, and closed with per-
fumed puff for President johnson and
GovernorPierpoint, whom he arrayed be-
fore the meeting worthy of the occa-
sion," all radiant "like dish of red
strawberries smothered in cream.u Hear
him:
support with great pleasure the resolution compl-
menary TO the President of the United States because
thnk he merits at hands all the resolution expresses
anu aso support with great pleasure the resolution
IN iavor Of the Governor of Virginia because although
confess felt great difficulty in giving NV snpport No
Tuition made by fourteen men, without reference
70 te people, by which Ike great body of the people Of
virginia are ostracsed and did seek the society of
the Governor until business and duty REQUIRED H. Vel
hi nee nave become acquainted with him. have found
,ilm not only aabe and courteous but displaying so
goon sense and good feeling in the difficult sitpa
non In which he has been placed that Weld him cor.
aa support and with great pleasure say that think hs
Snia that Gar. GLUnplson with any Governor of vir
'Ae resolutions, therefore, with great cordially.
This is a pretty compliment to the
Governor and to the cons titution made
Oy fourteen men," and there is MOTH
ng at all patronizing or lickspittish in
ne allusion about not seeking ''the So
,iety of the Governor Let us turn
his picture to the wall. Farewell, old
nan. Let this be your dying declara-
ion. 1t will do to remember you by.
We next-as who constituted the great
historical mass meeting of last night,
which his Excellency did not attend, by
he wayne nextappointed committee
onsisting of William H. Macfarland. s
'harles Palmer and Robert Ridgway, to '
roceed to Washington and invite Pres p
lent johnson to visit Richmond. This 4
one, Captain Martin Meredith Lips :
omb aired his vocabulary, and we dis
'lved. Of course, we shall be on hand
gain to welcome Mr. johnson when he n
'mes. We shall have to do it; for the I'll
Dor man could not expect to sleep in the t'
ouses of those persons who would have =,
alped him six months ago. al
How was it, Messrs. Managers of the cl
eat mass meeting, that the Union " ~
eague Unionists were not represented an
your great mass meeting? Could you kr
1t endure their fellowship? How many sta sS
you, on the other hand, attended the lOl
Mon meetings of last week, at which
sneral Harris spoke? Is there much
rmony among the two sets of Union sa'
s? We think not. At any rate, we pri
we done the mass meeting justice, and No
man can complain. It was a great the
am; and neither the trickery of the a snt
chmond politicians, nor the juleps of vor