The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-04
4ithmond nispatrh.
SATURDAY.. AUGUST 4, 1866.
virginia-Political Action and Symp.
tOms-Thc Late Nocturnal Negro Az.
semblages. &c. DC.
RICHMOND, "Wednesday, July
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correspondence S.W ! OTh Ill@.
RICHMOND, Wednesday, July %.
Conservatism in Virginia has not lost
hope in the Philadelphia Convention, and
strange as it may appear, her hope pro-
cccdS mainly from the actfanEof her own
people. In fact, better sentiment and a
trucr conception Of the crisis is apparent
since the date Of my last letter. And this
sign of promise is the ont cropping of the
natural sense Of the people, and has not
been stimulated or encouraged by any
separate action upon the part Of the Union
men. These latter here in the city Of
Richmond, after much talking as TO what
they would do, ended as is usual with
them, in doing nothing, a Tole they are
very capable Of playing, aud one they bid
fair to play TO the end Of the drama.
No one hoils this better spirit with more
satisfaction than myself; and it tends to
strengthen me in belief that | have long
entertained, that tie people are far i'll ad-
vance OF the politicians III the sentiment
of thorough acquicScunCc III the result OF
the war that analonc lead to the rchaDlli-
tation Of the southern States. The people
at large undoubtedly regret the ISSUE oi
the war, yeneratc the dead OF their battle
fields, worship the great leaders who mar
shallcd them during the terrible conflict,
and will not ioyfully consent that any oi
them Shall be OstraciScd on that account
merely. Were they otherwise on many
of these points, they would hc some
thing more or less than men. But mau-
gre all this they can be trusted; and
now that the litful dream of southern en-
pirc is over, they wish the United States
well, and pray for the era of good feeling
throughout our domain. The people Of
Virginia are loyal TO the Constitution of
the United States, but not To Mr. Thad-
deus Stevens and this, after all, is the
main truth the people North should under
stand.
The New York mercantile and nianntac-
turing interests being more or less into
rested in the legal point involved, i my
excuse for skctChing Il recent business
transaction, promising that in Virginia
clattcl mortgage is designated as deed
Of trust. In October last a firm III this
city, opening Il "blliard temple" pur-
chased Of Phclan < Collcndcr, III New
York, nine billiard tables and other ma
tcrial, paving cash fifteen hundred dollars,
and giving 4 trust deed for the remainder,
did not appear upon record until after the
tables had been put into the building here
of which the purchasing firm were les
sfcy, not owners. Phclan X Colcndcr not
being paid, and wishing to collect their
money, took steps 10 iorccloSc the deed OF
trust and the Younger Mr.. Phclan com
iux here, makes acquaintance with Nir-
cinia law, and find, that his trust decd Is
yaluclcS> aS against the claim o!thc landlord
for rent, prov ided there was not enough Of
other Goods in the building to satisfy him.
which did not prove to bc the CASE. That is
to say. thc>, billiard table being sued under
4 trust deed 10 secure the purchase money,
the proceeds Of the sale must first he ap-
plicd to the satisfaction of the landlords
claim, he being only obliged to first exhaust
the proceeds of the sale Of the other goods
and chattcls upon the premises. II, how
ever, Phclan \ COllcndcr had taken their
deed of trust and pnt ii upon record before
the tables entered the premises, then their
lien would have been good against all
others. The landlord lien given hy tie
Virginia code i al anomaly, l. stringent
and overriding; aud hence, IN these days
ui high rents, which even the Er4h.n'r,
with i> fierce attacks upon them, has not
succeeded in reducing TO any great extent,
the information to hc derived from
Glance al a late bu>irc>, transaction Is not
! yaluclcss.
! In speaking, rs now 90 on t. do, Of the
negro as,cmhagc, un Navy Hill ot late, al
the dead hours Of night, and Of the fire.
qucut nocturnal armed paradcs this class
Of the population have lately indulgcd IN,
4 -, II ,,irit or he ala
! but a. one who sees il possible danger that
has been most scusclcSsly created, and that
! NAV require very vigorous measures 10 he
taken to avert it. Most unfortunately we
! have among us here one or two fanatics
| thoroughly crazy on what they call loyalty,
/ and worse than all, we have Il newspaper
| called the Nctr NntiOn, of the same sort.
| This journal is an obscure weekly publ
cation, rehashng in an illitcratc way the
rawlings OF Wendell Phillips and others OF
that ilk, and its existence would be OF very
| little moment were it not for the fact that
! the idle, thicving, and vicious among the
negroes are gathering the idea from it that
the time is near at hand when they must
strike for their rights. Hence it happens
that this class of negroes, and 1t Is
much more numerous than rcspecta-
bic, congrcgate at night on Navy Hill and
other out -oi-thc-way places, armed cdp-d-
pie for battle, drill, listen to intlammatory
| speeches, and parade the streets OF the
| slunbering city attcrward i'll warlikc ar
rav. These proceedings have been going
| on for some time past but OF late the ne
| grocs, grown bolder with impunitv, have
begun to display the paraphcrnalia OF war
upon the streets in daylight, many Of
| item being animated arscnals. Yesterday
one of this loating gentry, lately dis
charged from the Ballard House for steal
| ing, was met by an cX-otliccr OF the Freed
mems Bureau wearing the hat and cord
of n brigadier-general and the officer
thinking the exhibition silly, If nothing
else, adyiscd' the negro, in peremptory
manner, to take it oil, which he did. The
arms the negroes bear at night are mus
kets and sabres, but in the daytime these
| lessen down TO pistols and knives.
As vet there has been no open demon
straton of armed insurrecton, but there
is Il growing feeling among this worthless
class of the black population which makes
something Of the kind liable TO occur at
anv moment. A few months ago the ne
grocs were undoubtedly law-abiding
class, but under the teachings OF senseless
fanatics of the Wardwell and Hunnicut
stamp, the reverse is fast becoming the
fact. These frcbrands, by dint OF much
eXcrtion, have at last succeeded in lodging
| in the inert negro brain the idea that they
have the right TO vote, and that their Tree
dom is q basclcss fabric until they do vote;
that the rebels are keeping this lnalenaDle