The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-08-03

4 am charged with having committed an Of
fence In not being present ut the Copven lion
on the 18th April. ["Ah, dat's de pint.'l ]
did not attend for reasons best known to my
self. / thought that / conld do more good 6y
working outside OF the Convention than in.
side. ..-s.rl. a.s
He next narrated the facts concerning the
call of the Convention 1T Chariottelyilln and
| the changing Of the time and place "If anv
man thinks, said he, continuing, 'that I
called this Convention ont of any opposition
to that Of the 18th of April, he is entirely mis-.
taken / have endorsed all the resolutions
and the platform of that Conyen ton though
am free TO say, while there are expressions
contained in them that l would not have
used, there is not single principle in them
that would not fully and freely endorse: and
can safely say. from the sentiments ex-
pressed In an informal meeting held on We'd
nesday evening, that there was not one mem
| ber OF the delegations present, but who had
Deen excluded from the Convention, who
would not have endorsed these principles If
we could have gained admission to the Con-
venton, from which by accident or design-I
nope accident-we were excluded, we should
have felt ourselves fully jus titled in ratifying
1 ana approving all the proceedings of that
convention. There are good many of these
gentlemen who are extremely mortified that
| they were not admitted. feel mortified my
self, especially when 1 feel convinced that
| they came here with the intention to Use their
influence for the good of the Republics Con-
fentlon party. DO not be afraid when dema-
gogues tell you that they only using their
| influence 10 get back into the Union through
| you, with the vi ltimate view of oyerthrow wing
your party. Remember that Democracy is not
| dead. No. it has more lives than 4 cat.
| haye known it to do things that ought to have
! killed it, but IL always arose like the Phoenix
from its ashes. The Democrats have L singu-
| lar knack of acting together. What one man
| does, all do and whichever way one man
goes, all follow. They are not battling
against you now; but you have got to fight
4 Z l,t, ,In u -nlS,,
spectacle and influential man away from you
who will pledge himself 10 you through.
. confess to some modification at the events
| of yesterday; but l did not lose my temper.
Some OF the gentlemen expressed mort1ica-
tion and great indignation in my room last
evening, and declared their determination to
leave at once. begged them to stay to-day,
and all would be quietcd down. As far rs l
am concerned, look upon the organization
| of the Republican party as at present per-
fected rs of more vital consequence than any
! thing that concerns us. MY liberties and those
of every other Union man depend upon our
success and do you think l am going TO stand
on non essentials. go in for principles-not
men. 1t makes no difference to me whether
address mass meeting or n convention, so
that am helping and dffusing the principles
of the Republican party.
MY friends, / hope I have said enough
| [io on j II you will indulge me, however, 1
will read a paper which ! had prepared for
the Convention. This paper was unanimously
approved at preliminary meeting on We'd
nesday. Messrs. Hunnicutt, Wardwell, and
i Underwood have also approved Of them, and
! l do not think that there is n Union man in
the whole country who will not endorse every
word of them"
MIR. BOTTSS ADDRESS.
May we not hope, fellow-citizens, that the
| time has arrived when we, the Union men of
| the State, heretofore q prescribed prosecuted
class, may address you on subjects deeply in
! teresting and important 10 yourselves and to
! us.
We have fallen upon an evil day. We have
: Just passed through long, bloody, and c0Stty
/ war, whether with reference to the destruc-
ton Of property the loss of life or the Sacri-
! flee of human happiness.
| We forbear TO enter into details TO show
! how, by whom and for what purposes, this
! war was made; it is enough to say that all
intelligent men know that it was brought on
by Democracy, whose leaders boasted that
they had labored for thirty years to pre-;
pare the people 'Jgr the 1, rich ma"'s ,oar and ma
with it are of LOO recent date, and its disas
trous termination too fresh in the minds of the
people, 10 render recapitulation necessary.
Suffice il 10 say, il was attended with q divi-
, sion of the State, by which Virginia was re-
| duced to Il ninth rate power i'll the national
councils, stripped of nearly half its territory
| and more than are one-third of its population,
| to say nothing of the thousands OF useful citi-
Zens killed or crippled OH the battle-felds,
fences and crops LAID waste, dwellings
| destroyed, the whole country Impoverished,
and our hearths tones left desoate and wretch
| ed with thousands of mourning widows and
helpless! orphans, ntil it is reduced TO this
that one Democratic paper in Richmond
boas stfully proclaimS that II they have lost all
else il cannot be denied but that they are erich
. in graves We pause here only to inquire
whe the authors of such frightful calami-
| ties are to be rewarded hereafter with the
confidence Of the people or with the, ,honors of
the State, or shall they be held to proper re-
for ,tn 1iCph of h1N
! done whether il proceeded from want OF
Judgment or an Indifference 10 all else than
! the supposed perpetuation of power in their
own hands under a sou thern contederacy. They
| found the majority was against them, and
, they had TO surrender the power that for sixty
wears they had enjoyed almost without in ter
| ruption into other hands.
After the surrender of the Confederate
! army at Appomattoy the nation took Il long
breath, and felt relieved. Men of the North
and men of the South felt if no other good
ihad resulted to the country from this terrific
struggle that a great benefit TO all would be
achieved by sloughing of the m misenievous ana
| bad men who had sought the life Of the nation
F.! in q thirty years preparation, ana 1our
years struggle of uneXampled ferocity and OF
| the most unbrdled license.
| MIR. Johnson, the President, had accepted
!. office at the hands of the Republican party,
! declaring that treason was crime 10 De pun
! iShed us follows:
"But in calling a convention said Mr..
Il
| store and re es tablish it? Shall the man who
| gave his influence and his means to destroy
the Government? Is he toparticlpate IN the
great work of reorganization? Shall he VINO
| brought this misery upon the STATE be per-
| mitted to control its destnies2 IL thls be SO,
| then ALI this precious blood of our brave sol
diers and officers, so freely poured out, will
have been wantonly spilled; al the gio-
rous victories Won by our noole armies
will 90 for naught, and all the battle
fields which have been soWn win our
dead heroes during the rebellion will have
been made memorable in vain.
+ "Whyall this carnage aud devastation! II
was that treason might be put down and trai-
. Tors punished Therefore l say that traitors
! should take Il back seat in the work or fesiora-
tion If there be but five thousand men IN len Len
nessee loyal TO the Constitution, loyal 10 lree
| dom loyal to iustce, these true ana 1altnlu
men should cont troll the work Of re-organlZa-
ton and reformation absolutely. say thtt
| The traitor has ceased to be citizen, and IN
| Joining the rebellion has become d puDlic
| enemy. He forfeited his right 10 vote WIN
/ loyal men when he renounced his cltlzenship
and sought to destroy our Government. we
sav to the most honest and industrious TO-
| rpigner who comes from England or germany
to dwell among us, ana 10 aoa 70 w .ae ";1;zsn
/ YOU must stay here five years II we gre
I SO cautious about foreigners who voluntarily
renounce their homes TO nVe Win US wa
| should we say to the traitor VINO, thousn
| horn and reared among lis, has raised parrt-
cidal hand against the Government when
always protected him? Why, my judgment is is
that he should be subjected TO aseVere ordeai
before he is restored to citizenship. a JesoW
who takes the cath merely to save his pro-
Marty and denies the validity of the oath, is
Der pteri1red man, and not to be trusted. s,od
" Before these repenting rebels can be trusted
let them bring forth the fruits OF repenlalced; C.
| He who helped to make all these WIDOWS ana
ornhans. who draped the streets OF Nashvilie
in mourning should suffer for his great crime; ne
Traa r. SON must be made odious, and the traitors
must be punished and Impoverished ,.dad theai