The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-06-13
LOCAL MATTERS.
GRAND RADICAL CAUCUS
VISIT OF NORTHERN REPUBLICANS
BOTTS'S SCHEME DEFEATED.
A Convention Called In Richmond

We noticed yesterday the arrival in
Richmond of number Of prominent Re-
publicans, hailing from New York, Phila-
delphia, and Boston. 1t seems that these
gentlemen were delegates from the Union
League Climbs of New York and Philadel-
phia, and from the Massachusetts, Recon
| struction Association, and visited our State
upon mission Of peace; the great object
being to harmonize the two wings of the
Radical party in Virginia. The more pro-
minent persons of the party were Senator
Wilson, Hon. Charles Gibbons, Speaker OF
the House of Delegates Of Penns ylvania /;
George II. Booker, Poet Laureate of the
Loyal Leagues; and T. b. Van Buren, OF
New York.
On Tuesday evening the northern dele
CATION met their brethren OF Virginia at
the Gubernatorial mansion, and immedi-
ately resolved themselves into secret ses-
| sion to consider the affairs Of the nation.
Here most extraordinary scene was pre-
sented in the reconciliation of two long
separated representatives of Virginia Rad
calism. Hunnicutt, whose abuse OF Peir-
point it has often been our lot to record,
met the Governor so much admired by a
Richmond journal as a paragon of mode
ration in politics, and the two were recon-
ciled, shaking hands with VOWS of eternal
allegiance to the Republican party OF Vir-
ginia. They had not exchanged words
| before for more than twelve months.
This touching scene being finished, the
great business Of the evening was COM
menced; and we are informed that it was
successfully accomplished, although few
particulars were not attended to until yes
terday at a second caucus held at the
| Ballard House. At the latter gathering
addresses were made by Underwood,
Chandler, Hunnicutt, and Buckley; and
the following call for q convention recon-
mended by the State Central Committee
was unanimously agreed upon:
" To the Unconditional Union Men Of Vtr-
| gini0
"The Republican Executive State Com
mittee and the undersigned citizens OF the
State of Virginia, who here avow ourselves
unconditional Union men and members OF
the great Republican party of the United
| States, call upon all others Of like condl-
ton, as common sufferers, not to throw
away this golden opportunity to rescue
ourselves, our children, and the State,
|
nothing but ruin, desolation, want, and
wretchedness upon our land, to meet in
council at Richmond, as more convenient
than Charlottesville, on the lst day of Au-
gust next, at II NJ, in the African church,
for the purpose of extending and perfect
ing the organization OF the Repubhcan
party commenced by the convention as
sembled at Richmond on the 18th of April
hst."
1t will be seen by the above that Hun
nicutt and Lipscomb are triumphant in
the contest over Bolts and the small fac
tion which owned his leadership. The
Charlottesville Convention-Botts's pet
scheme-was abandoned, and the old war
horse yielded as gracefully as possible 10 10 a
majority which he could not control. The
cali is signed by all the members of the
Radical State Central Committee and by
about 800 Republicans hailing from various
parts of the State.