The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-19
Martin Lipecomb's Convention
That distinguished citizen, MARTIN MERE

That distinguished citizen, MARTIN MERE
plTH LIrscONB, late undertaken to bury the
Federal dead, has taken charge Of the un-
Union men Of Virginia, and
gathered them in Convention at Alcxan-
dria for the purpose Of performing those
funcrcal ceremonials preceding the death
and the artistic burial Of the members
thereof. MARTIN has for his perquisites
the movablcs found upon the bodies Of the
deceased; but We fear he will not make
much, His colleagues from this city Will
be sure to dispose Of all availablcs before
his time comes. BY the way, MARTIN is
the only delegate from Richmond "nai''e
and to the manner born," and bad at t''a'.
He SAYS there are not ten Union men III
Richmond and Henrico; and il is not sur
prising that as undertaken ne should en-
dcayor TO find larger body OF the men
whom il has become his duty TO sec de-
comfy inferred. Certainly he could not
make a support in looking after ten, and
mos, of those from the granite hills OF
New England, whose tcnacity of life is not
much inferior TO that of money.
Mr.. Boris succeeded the accomplished
and gentle WARpwGLL US chairman. In
his address he soon impaired his old story
Of the trcachcry Of other people in desert
ing him and leaving him bravcly to battle
for the grand principles Of Constitutional
Liberty which he cspouscs. He confessed
that there was some Union sentiment i'll
Culpepcr; but he was the only man in that
county who had the holiness to be seen in
that convention. There is a compliment
in that, either to Culpcpcr or to the con-
vention. But We do not know that the
world need take umbrage at the fact that
there are hardly bakers dozen in it that
have the boldncss, the hardihood, the I'M
quailing impudcnt intrepidity to do what
Mr.. Boris does. Yet it is Il happy thing
for Mr.. Boris that he is profoundly i'm
pressed with the wisdom and justice of all
that he conccivcs and does, and that the
being left so often in woeful minoritics OF
unconsdcrcd persons, in no wise wounds
his sclfconceit or reduces the volume OF
his garrulity. A thousand times would a
man less fortified in his scli-sufficiency-
less under the profound conviction that ne
was the cpitome of all knowledge and all
wisdom-have been so completely shut up
that he would never again have opened his
mouth. But such man is not Mr.. Boris.
II is a matter of concern to some OF bis
best friends that he has of late perpetrated
iudiscrctions so much i'll excess of any
that marked his previous life that he is
really little touched-a little tlighty-or,
to speak most dclicatcly, slightly Giraffe.
Some have gone so far as to style him the
late Mr.. Boris, under the cXtravagant
assumption that he is non compos. This is
extravaganza But it might be well, never
less, for MARTIN to look after him, and take
care of Revenue.
HORACE MAYNARD was kind enough to
praise General LEES father by way Of
consoling the General for sending him
down to postcrity with milestone about
his neck. HORACE is very obliging. The
General can never forget him. a
compliment from him would have almost
broken the old hero's heart. But his cen
sure is delightful. 1t was the most
agreeable thing said in the convention.
The deliberations Of this body have
about as much weight and chance of sue
cess as would political scheme OF the
lunatics of the asylum at Stanton. In
deed, the lunatics would be far more
practical, because not at all malignant
not at all animated by the corrupt lust for
office and cmolument. The people Of Nir-
ginia would infinitely prefer the govern
ment of the lunatics to these unconditional
malignants.
But it is all idle even to talk of them.
They are among the most inconsiderablc
and unprcvaling of things. Clouds, mist,
mirageS, empty noises, are potential in COM
parison. MARTIN LIrscoMD will be Presi-
dent of the United States before Mr..
Boris is Governor of Virginia. Bury
them gently, MARTIN, hut bury them
deep, especially LEWIS MCKENZIE. He is
SO tidgetty it will be hard to keep him
still even in the grave.