The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-06-03
GOOD ADVICE TO NEGROES.
Sharp upon Northern Democracy.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
LEEsBURG, LoUDoUN COUNTY,
lime 1857

LEEsBURG, LoUDoUN COUNTY,
June l, 1867.
Messrs. Editors,-Congressman Boutwell,
did not appear here yesterday, according
to announcement. His place was supplied
by General Farnsworth, Radical, from
Illinois. He made speech, and was fol-
lowed by others.
The party, consisting of Farnsworth !;
Lapgston, a colored lawyer from Ohio; a
General Paine, from California; Mr..
Dudley, who was temporary president of
the Soldiers Convention at Pittsburg and
two or three others, arrived at II o'clock
NJ, and speaking soon began. A very large
assembly of white and black had assem-
bled about the courthouse, in front of
which the addresses were delivered.
Mr.. William B. Downey, who is the at
torney for the Commonwealth here, was
called to the chair, and by him the speakers
were introduced. give you below an alb
stract of the speech Of Mr.. Farnsworth, as
he was the principal speaker.
General FARNswORTH said he was glad
to meet with the people Of Loudoun and
to visit their beautiful country, which he
had passed through in connection with the
United States army. He was here at the
invitation of friends to fill the place of
Governor Boutwell,, who could not be pre-
sent, and did so with especial satisfaction
to himself, as it gave him the opportunity
of seeing their beautiful scenery.
He would endeavor, if he could not pro-
cure the assent of all present, to merit
their respect by the enunciation Of princi-
pies honestly entertained and boldly and
candidly expressed. He did not expect
the South to fall in love with the North
it would be strange if they SHOULDN'T he
came with "malice towards none, and
charity for ALL" 1t was as inevitable as
fate that the principles of the Republican
party were to be maintained, and that they
in time would maintain the Gov eminent.
1t was great truth, stated by Mr.. Lin
coin in 1860, that this Government could
not exist half slave and half free-that a
house divided against itself could not stand.
The great men of your own Virginia, as
well as of the other States, did not con-
template the perpetuation Of slavery wnen
this Government was formed, and this idea
was expressly set forth in that munificent
grant of the northwest territory, out of
which my own noble State Of Illinois was
formed.
The contest which sprung up grew out
of conflicting system of labor, and extreme
parties were formed in the North and in
the South, and at first neither of these
were right or strong: the Wing and Demo-
cratic parties both catered for the votes
of these extremists. In the South
the Calhoun doctrine prevailed. In
1860 Mr.. Lincoln had no idea Of
emancipating the slaves-no party north
holding the doctrine of interfering with
slavery guaranteed under State con-
stitutions of the South. There were
some of the leaders among them
whom he would be pardoned for thinking
very guilty, while there are thou
sands Of others who he did not think
guilty, swept as they were by the
tide Of secession into the vortex of war.
Slavery attempted to break up the Union,
and the battle ragged fercely and long, and
kindred blood flowed freely, and hundreds
of thousands of the flower and chivalry OF
our land were sent to unknown graves.
The northern idea conquered in the resort
to the last tribunal. His advice was not to
sit down and gruhble but let US all coun.
sci together how best to retrieve the mis-
fortunes ofthe past, and to become greater
happier, and richer, and to secure the
rights of every min upon an immutable
basis, and to lay deeper the foundations Of
the Government.
The war determined that slavery wa.
abolished-tha.t there was no such RICH,
as that authorizing State to secede from
the Union without the consent OF all the
States-and that the Government OF the
United States was perpetual. Slavery il
now generally admitted to be morally
wrong-of no benefit to white or black
while glance at the statistics Of the coun'
try will show how it had dwarfed the pros
perity of the South. Your own State O.
Virginia, said Mr.. Farnsworth, is q ftNllus
tration of this point; she is richer, natu
rally, than New York in all that consti
tutes the wealth Of Q State; 1t has unri
vailed agricultural advantages. minera
wealth and water-power, and oright to d
the first State in the Union. Fie knew
no spot on earth more inviting to him thai
Virginia, should he leave II .linois. Th
great commercial entrep6t ( the natio
should have been at the 7 nouth of tn
James, and Albany whe re Richmon
stands; the vicinity Of that beautiful rive
should be dotted with illsees studdin
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