The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-11-14
The Radical Vote Cast in the Late
Virginia Elec tons.

Virginia Elections.
The HarrisonburG Union, edited by a defeat
Cd Radical candidate for he State ConNch-
tiou wonders why we stated recently tha'
Tho .,whi.e Radical vote" cast 1T the iat"
a,nc.ions in this State numbered probably less
.h,u ono thousand "That such statements
..should be made by some OF the lying rebel
:. sheets that II wots CT would not 1t Ill
surprise that loyal paper; but that the
Dis1ateA. ..cditcd and conducted 10y men OF
responsibility and character, should under
"take to palm of such ralpable absurdity
"docs indeed seem most extraordinary 10 the
Union. at shows however, how strong pas
"sion is and how weak poor human nature
After thus picturing our character and mental
condition, the Caion proceeds 10 prove by the
figures that there is not the slightest fonn-
dation in fact for the statement.
Tho Tojou might have saved itself the trou-
~. of writinc its mgubrious editorial, and
shared its lamentations over our fali, II u
,'oa o,rafully read what we wrote. Here i
no ,,nru,re we used There We're not a
..,housand white men in Virginia who NoteG
:. ror such Garlic as HrxSIcrrT and UNDER
"woop 10 represent them in the convention
II Tho candidates whose vote the Union states
in order 10 convict us "
such cattle as HrSSIcuTT and UNDERWOOD,
then we did make an nnfounded statement
We used this phraseology Intentionally. We
meant TO imply that such men ;th NeSsFS'
LEWIS and gunner, The Republican cahdi'
dates in Rockingham, We're OF very
different kind from those chosen IN hlch-
mond We were arguing that Inc 'oie
upon the question OF calling 4 Convention
was no test of the strength OF the fadl-
Gals in this State and claiming that III"
Conservatives have the power TO vote down
Radical Constitution. Now, we know "hat
Mr.. GILMER' ideas are, because we read them
constantly in his paper; and we thinK we
know Mr.. LEWIS well enough to assume THAI
he has no sympathy whatever for such mac.
caps and marplots rs HuSHGcrTr We fee!
confident that both Of them are opposed 10
acknowledgements, 10 confiScauon, ana 10
disqualification of the old officers OF the
State. SO also are, we suppose, most OF
the men who in the west ran for the
Convention on the Republican ticket. They
are, in word, such men rs the Conservative
Republicans Of Richmond who refused 10
vote for HrHSICrTr and UNDERWOOD and the
colored negroes. Does the Union suppose there
are only fifty white Republicans in Richmond
If il does. it is very much ont in its reckoning.
We take it for granted that there are several
hundred such here. But they could not helv
their faces, nor bctray their color, nor degrade
their manhood, by supporting the Radi.
cal ticket. When, therefore, we said there
were not q thousand whites in Virginia who
voted for such men rs HUTSICrTT, We en-
ployed words which We're not intended t.
carry the meaning put upon them by tn"
Eaioa, but which implied that the Rcpuh-
licans OF the West, OF whom there are perhaps
several thousand We're quite respectable com.
pared with UUSSIcUTT < Co. Does The Eaio.
mean TO say that il endorses I!CEEICUTT Or
that MIR. LEWIS docs? Or that Mr.. GGAy
does : Or that any of the Republican candi-
dates west OF the Blue Ridge do? In som"
counties Of eastern Virginia The Radical can
didatcs received only from one to 4 Dozen
votes. No respectable man, Republican OF
other, could be induced to vote for them
They are not lit TO represent the negroes q
Africa, much les. the white men OF VIRGINIA
We trust that the respectable Republicans OF
the Valley, though also few in number, do MOI
consider themselves rs part and parcel of amy
party which puts forward such candidates or
which advocates the equality OF the white auG
credit for virtues which they do rot possess
when we declined to classify them with "Such
cattle rs HuSElcrrr and UTpEIwoop.
The Eaioa says
i" Out of the whole number of votes cast loE
the Convention by white men AT the elec'i'i
there were not five hundred Wllcn VIZ ~,
given by Radical Republicans: II tle DINF.t.'
will prove TO us that one OF those aiiriit'lN'
white votes was from any other IMAM one "h"
calls himself Il Republican, we tiihk we eau
promise him the sight OF Il white black btr".
And so of the whole State.
Considering that Colonel X. L. WITHERs,
tho Conservative candidate i'll the Lynchhurs
district was IN open advocate OF the Conven-
lion and that n number of the Conservative
papers in tho State advised the people TO vote
for It, this assumption is decidedly cool. A. II
shows, however, how strong passion is and
chow weak poor human nature" We could
easily procure certificates in this city from
Conservatives who voted for the Convention :
but il would be useless trouble to do SO. When
the work of the Convention is finished, and
its monstrous progeny submitted TO the voters
of the State, We shall have an opportunity to
learn whether the Republicans of the Valley
are 10 be included among the enemies of the
white race and herded among "the cattle
who voted for UrSEICuTT and UNDERWOOD"