The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-05-29

play of both satire and humor. Hi
definition of the terms ''carpet-bagger'
and "scallawag" abounded in irony
and excited the contemptuous mirth o
the audience at the objects of his defini
ton. He made but sparing use Of the
art of anecdote, which is the chief sta
pie of the ordinary public speaker, but
when he did descend from the height O
his great argument ibis Illustrations were
most opposite and happy; as, for ex,
ample, when he compared the victim,
of he $4,000 exemption trick to an un.
ruly colt ia an old field. The exemp.
ton was the nubbin which the carpet.
Dagger held out to the foolish colt
while the Constitution was the bride
hid behind his back. Once let him be-
GIN to MUNICH the nubbin, the Bride OF
tire Constitution was slipped over his
head, and then the carpet-bagger and
the niger might ride him to death.
Space does not permit us to follow
the orator through his whitening expo
sition Of the suffrage, the taxation, the
jury system, the military system, the
hateful system Of townships-the very
name OF which was enough to damn the
Constitution-the school and road sys-
tens, BY which the property holder,
from the owner Of broad acres to him
who owned but single pallet of straw,
was to be ground to the earth by taxes
multiplied five-fold more than they are
now and levied ruthlessly by host of
negro officers. Nor can we do Justice
to the force with which he showed the
certainty Of collisions between the two
races and the absolute impossibiiity of
obtaining justice for the white man
at the hands of negro jury and a
negro judge. Here he made pointed
use Of the recent outrage in Richmond,
where negro boys have dared to pollute
the pure lips of little white girls return
ing home from school. Still less may
we hope to give just conception OF the
beauty, the cloquence and the pathos of
his peroration, in which he drew n
touching picture of the emigrant leav-
ing the old homestead, endcared BY a
thousand tender recollections, and the
grave of his father (the very memory of
which would shield him and keep him
pure in the hour of temptation) and be-
sought his hearers, as they valued the
memory of their own fathers and the
piety of their mothers, and as they hop
ed to ennoble In themselves the name
OF father, not to bequeath to their chill
dren heritage Of shame; of ebloquy, of
of slavery to slaves and serf-
dom to adventurers worse tnan slaves,
such as this unutterbly loat,some and
tyrannical Constitution would inevita-
bly, impose upon them and their descen-
dants. .=z ..t.. 5.......
He closed with single word of advice
mot 20 fear stuffed ballot-boxes, not
to give up supinely nor yield weakly to
threatened evils but to resist man fully
to the very last. Let this be done. At
each precinct, let three or more Of your
most esteemed and Trustworthy citi-
IONS be deputed to stand at the polls
Ill day long on the day Of election and
each one keep list--it no better mode
offered, let them take the old-fashioned
armer's tally-stick-and make notch
or every vote, black or white, given
turing the day. Let it be the rule, too.
'mong white and true men, to open
heir ballots and show them to their
riends just as they are deposited in the
,allot-box. This was very important,
or by such tacit agreement they |
would be enabled to reach very cor
ect decision in regard to those who re-
used to show their ballots. Finally let
ach man go home, feeling that every
hing depended on himself alone. This t
one, the defeat of the odious Constitu-
ion was sure beyond peradventure.
The Colonel sat down amid loud and
applause, and was followed
Immediately by Maj. ZEPH TURNER
whose indefatigable activity in this
anvass is deserving of the highest
raise) in an able and convincing speech,
vhich, to use the language ola dispatch
'om this place, covered and completed
ne points upon which his predecessor
AS unable to dwell at length. Thus
as the most nome itous canvass which
yer occurred in Virginia inaugurated
at Orange Court House.