The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-13

Conservative and patriot zebulon 3. Vance,
of North Carolina.
ORGANIZATION.
The vast asgemblage was called to order
at about half-past s o'clock by Raleigh L.
Daniel, Esq, chief director of the Conserva-
tive party of Virginia, on whose motion
William H. Macfarland, Esq, was called to
the chair.
The following vice-presidents and secre-
taries were unanimously elected:
Vice Presidents. Hon. Joseph Mayo, 7.
R. Grattan, P. T. Moore, Alois Rick, A.
Lybrock, John A. Belvin, Thomas R. Price,
C. C. Tinsley, R. B. Haxall, Joseph r. An
derson, Charles 7. Wortham, Jacob A.
Levy, A. Bodeker, Thomas R. Branch,
Peter Derbyshire, R. 0. Haskins, S. NJ
Rosenbaum, Joseph Augustine, Thomas
Sampson, Abner V. Harvey, David Eynon,
DR.. William A. Patterson, W. D. Blair, DR..
John Dove, ]. B. Royster, John Il. Grea-
nor, and James Evans.
SecretarieS.-JamesA A. Scott, William r.
Drinkard, Colonel &c. Shields, James r.
Fisher, P. G.. Coghlan, a. NJ. Bailey, W. d.
Wade, Isaac W. Walker, and Andrew jim
kins. ...I
GOVERNOR VANCE INTRODUCED.
Mr.. Macfarland came forward amid great
applause, and assuring the audience OF his
sense of the honor conferred upon him,
begged leave to introduce the distinguished
and eloquent young son of North Carolina,
who had already figured so prominently IN
the history of his State, and who was yet
to take rank rs one of Americas noblest
statesmen, Governor Z. B. Vance.
Governor Vance stepped out from among
the Vice-Presidents, and his appearance
was the signal for q tremendous outburst
of applause and cheers.
GOVERNOR vANCE's SPEECH.
He commenced his remarks by the state
ment that we of this generation had lived
TO see what Daniel Webster prayed he might
never see-the sun set upon States dis
cordant and bclligerent, q land torn by civil
feud and drenched in fraternal blood.
We had lived to see every precious
principle of human liberty trampled
in the dust; every imminent of free
dom fallen the General Government
LAYING violent hands on sovereign
States, degrading their people, robbing
their citizens, and almost wiping them out
of existence. The right Of habeaS corpus,
wrung from an unwilling monarchy in days
gone by, was refused to our people even in
time of peace. The right of trial by jury
nearly as old as the Magma Charta-had
been, without o semblance of necessity, de-
MED us. Men were condemned to death and
Imprisonment by military tribunals, from
whose sentence there was no appeal; and
attempts had even been made to legislate the
Supreme Court out of its jurisdiction. All
these, and many other damnable iniquitles
which could not even be enumerated with
out tiring the patience Of an audience, had
been perpetrated in the name of liberty
and of progress. The South, broken-heart-
ed, lay at the feet Of her conqueror, who
was cowardly enough to trample fallen
enemy under foot.
In Virginia the work of the military 60
yernments had not been as yet completed,
and the speaker trusted in God that it never
would.be but in North Carolina, his own
beloved State, the diabolical work wasdone.
negro government had been placed over
the people by sheer force and the power Of
bayonets. Every principle of philosophic
craftsmanship had been set aside, and in
telligence, virtue, and capacity only served
to prescribe men from Offices of trust and
honor. The more vicious, and Ignorant,
and subservient man was, the greater
were his recommendations for Office. The
power of taxation had been taken from
property holders and placed in the hands
of irresponsible yagabonds.
But with these things southern audi
ence were familiar, although it was
difficult to convince northern men Of
their truth. And what was the pre-
text for these proceedings "Because
the people were in rebellion, and the
Union must be restored" Nonsense
The rebellion ceased when General Joe
Johnston laid down his arms in North Caro-
lima. But then, in the name of progress
and restoration, did Yindictive people
commence to pour out the yials OF their
wrath upon people scattered and broken
in spirit! Any man of.common sense must
know that these things were not done merely
to bring us back into the Union. If we were
out of the Union, when the war closed,
when whipped, we were in again, and en-
titled to all the benefits of the Federal Con-
stitution, But sometimes they say we are
in the Union, and sometimes they say we
are out of it--just as it suits their purpose.
It is sort of w-you-see-it" !" and I" now
you-don't-see-it game. We ore IN for
every purpose of oppression, and out when
we want protection, We are In to pay
taxes to support some such monstroSity as
the Freedmen's Bureau, but out OF 1t when
we want representation in the body that
imposes the taxes.
This anomalous state of things existed
merely on account Of the lust Of power,
which curses all governments, more espe-
cially this of ours. AS soon as it was dis
covered that reconstruction would end the
Radical sway, that party discovered that
ANDY Johnson's policy would not do, and
reconstruction must be delayed. The lust
of power drew to the Radical ranks some
men from the South-ex-Governors of States,
ETC.. who were once such red-hot secession
lists that they glowed like q blacksmlth's 8
furnace, but who now ate dirt until they
thereby became freeholders. These men
had only to love the scent Of the African
even more than the scent Of the full-blown
rose, and they became loyal. Obnoxious
as the speaker now was, red-handed a
traitor as he had been, If tomorrow ne
would announce his adherence to Grant ana
Colfax, and swear future allegiance to hadl-
calism, he would at once be considered as
loyal a man as ever robbed hen=roost OF
stole chicken. Laughter and applause.
The speaker then continued to depict the
horrible state of affairs brought about by
Radical and military rule. How long was
this thing to last At one time ne thought
II must last forever--had almost given ur
hope. 1t seemed that the people of the
Nnnth rronld nnmnyad. see us reduced Z